Unchained Melody
By TornPrince'sSmile
Chapter nine: Snow Part III
Christmas was just around the corner, approximately a week 'til the holiday. Luckily, her father decided to take paid vacation and go to Tahiti for the week. Some may say that was unlucky, but all the students stayed on campus for the holidays—until the weekend. Petey and Juliet talked, hugged, and she even managed a 'sorry' out for him. He didn't really 'accept' it, but he told her he did.
"Juliet." A strict voice said from behind her; she was just making her way to physical education, who could that be? She turned and saw her father. Red in the face, he handed her a package and walked away.
"What's this?" she called after him. Seth, her father, turned his head slightly.
"Your Christmas present from your mother. Your grandmother just put hers in the mail along your grandfathers; mine is in your dorm." And he left, probably to the airport. Juliet hugged the package close and walked back to her dorm.
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"Ms. Kolbe!" Mr. Burton yelled out as she entered in her gym uniform. She was three minutes later. As she was prepared to explain, he ordered her to do three laps around the gym with Lola; who had been caught and ordered to attend gym. She caught up with Lola in just mere seconds and paced herself. Both of the girls didn't pay attention to other, but Lola was curious.
"So you're that Kolbe girl?" Juliet looked at the greaser girl. She was rather pretty, Juliet admitted to herself.
"So?" she asked a sudden burst of confidence in her grasp.
"That rumor… that you were related to that ass." Lola said, the words slipping off her tongue. Juliet's face flushed for some reason as she nodded her head and prepared for their final lap.
"Yeah, I'm related to the ass, he's my father," Lola opened her mouth, but Juliet bet her to it, "and don't apologize for calling him an ass, I know he is." Juliet sped up for the final third of the lap. As she finished she walked up the bleachers to the final seating area. As the girl's watched the boys wrestle, she thought of her friends. She only had two friends and they were both boys, which probably didn't look so great. Especially when she followed them around like she was a puppy. She didn't really care what people thought of her, but she still wondered. Suddenly, a panting Lola sat next to her.
"You gotta watch that perv." Lola said in a deadly low voice. Juliet looked at her with stitched eyebrows.
"What?" Lola sighed and turned to her with her fists out in her lap.
"Look, a girl like you… if you know what I mean—," Juliet interrupted her.
"A girl like me?" Juliet asked, rolling her eyes, "watta ya' mean?"
"Your figure." Lola said, the words sliding off her tongue, again. Juliet looked down at her body and back up.
"Anyways, you gotta look afta' ya' self. Mr. Burton's the biggest perv I've met… and I've met many." Juliet looked towards her gym teacher. She pointed towards him:
"Him?" Lola rolled her eyes at the girl.
"No, the otha' Mr. Burton; yes that one!" she said. As she turned back to face the gym, Juliet was confused by her words.
"Look," Lola continued, scaring Juliet, "I heard he sent a boy into the girl's dorm to collect their panties… of course, that was all before you came to this school. Ya' never know though with him. He even got a girl kicked out of the school… he's a sick bastard." Lola ranted. Juliet believed her; Mr. Burton was the type of person who didn't look at your face when he talked to you, kind of like Trent. Maybe they were related?
Soon gym was done and Juliet turned on the shower. She wanted to smell a little good, unlike what she smelt like now. Taking the bar of soap that was there, she ran it over her body. She didn't wash her hair; it was up in a ponytail when she was running.
Putting on her uniform, she walked out of the gym feeling refreshed.
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Lunch was really boring and nothing happened, until Jimmy walked into the room. Girls flocked over him, just like any other day, but then someone through some mystery mash at his head. After that, everyone went down hill. Jimmy grabbed the nearest food to him, which was mystery stew, and splashed it in Trent's face.
Thus, started a food fight; Petey and Juliet hid under the table along with some nerds and non-clique people. Girls screamed as food hit there uniforms and went flying out of the cafeteria. Juliet and Christ, along with a nerdy looking girl stayed under the table as the nerds, and even Petey got up and joined in. Green jello landed at Christy's feet and as she screamed prefects entered the room.
"This was a bad day for Seth to leave!" one with glasses screamed over the students yells as he held a boy back. Bullies, Nerds, Preppies, and Greasers flung food back and forth as Juliet was starting to get tired of waiting. Soon, she joined in the food fight; flinging food at some of the Preppies, sometimes knocking them on their backs.
Of course, people threw food right back at her. Sometimes it missed, splattering on the walls and other times it splashed on her blouse and skirt. Soon she bumped into someone; she turned around and saw Trent. She groaned, seeing him smirked made her sick. Suddenly, he pushed her out of the way. She saw some green jello mixed with mystery mash on his shirt; he pushed her under a table.
"Thank me later." Suddenly, the food fight stopped and some people were being taken out of the room like, Jimmy and Trent. She scrambled out from under the table and helped Petey out the cafeteria.
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Juliet dabbed Petey's new forming bruise with a wet wash cloth, apparently he was an easy bruiser. Petey cringed as she ran out a throbbing bruise with her hand; Juliet also cringed as she saw the colors his face was changing. As people passed them on the stone steps, just outside the main building, they whispered to each other. Juliet kept on her merry way, helping Petey. Soon enough, she was done and Petey felt better.
"Anything else hurt hun?" she asked, checking his face for any more welts or bruises. His face flushed and he turned his head away.
"Hun?" Juliet smiled lightly and laughed.
"Yes?" Petey coughed as his face invented a new shade of red.
"No, it was a question." Juliet laughed, again, and patted his shoulder lightly.
"I dunno; I just wanted to call you that, hun." The corner of Petey's lips twitched slightly as she placed his head in his lap; Juliet did the same, but with her face faced towards him. The snow was still falling, but she felt warm for some reason; Petey felt the same way.
"Wanna be my brother?" Juliet said suddenly. Unknown to her, Petey's face become flustered and his eyes were wide.
"What?" he asked shyly.
"I dunno, I've never had a brother… just wonderin'." Petey looked between his legs and mumbled a 'sure'. Juliet hugged him as he fell on his shoulder from the sudden weight.
"Sorry, sorry." Then suddenly the weight gone from his side. He sat back up, brushing the slush from his coat. He looked at her and, faintly, smiled.
"It's alright—," Juliet cut him off.
"I'm used to it and no your not! Don't lie to your sister!" she whispered deadly. Petey smiled again, his eyebrows knitting themselves together.
./…\.
Jimmy watched his two friends yelled, laugh, and suddenly hug at spontaneous moments. He felt a light tug at his heart when he saw her smile and hug Petey, but rolled his eyes all the same and shoveled the snow. Trent laughed at the pair as he watched them. Jimmy didn't know what was so hilarious when two people hugged.
"Man, I'm jealous." Trent said as he shoveled little piles of snow while Jimmy shoveled the bigger ones.
"Of what?"
"Petey." Jimmy raised his eyebrow and stopped shoveling, resting his hands on the shovel.
"Why?"
"Those two big mounds pressing against him, who wouldn't," Trent said again, pressing cupped hands against his chest. Jimmy rolled his eyes at his 'friend'.
"Wow, it's a wonder why girls don't like you Trent. You're just so dreamy." Jimmy replied dryly. Trent smirked and rested his hands on his shovel.
"I know right?" Jimmy rolled his eyes and started shoveling again.
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It had been a long day, not from the gym class or the lunch, but from the biology. Dr. Slawter wasn't the pleasantest person to be teaching biology. His favorite quote was, 'there are two sides to biology; life and death…' He almost sounded depressed from the way he talked sometimes. He even mocks people's intelligence; he likes to compare their knowledge to his. The conclusion that Juliet got from this was: he was a bastard. Yet at times, he could be a, generally, nice teacher.
"Miss Kolbe! Get your head out of the clouds and on the board!" He yelled at her from the front of the room. People snickered as they looked back at her. She quickly snapped her head up to the board and smiled, absolutely embarrassed.
"Huh?" Dr. Slawter sighed and tapped the board with his wooden pointer.
"The question of the day; what do you think of it?" Juliet scanned the board and found the question to be at the very top. Squinting she read it: What is the 'Cell Theory'? Juliet opened her mouth and spoke.
"Well, it depends…" Dr. Slawter questioned her with his eyes.
"Depends on what Miss Kolbe?" Juliet sighed and rested her head on the palm of her right hand.
"It depends if you want sentences or just short and to the point."
"Short and to the point." He requested, folding his pointer up.
"Well, the traditional 'Cell Theory' states that, the cell is the fundamental unit of life. It also states that all living things are composed of one or more cells or, even, that secreted products of those cells, such as shells." Dr. Slawter put his chin up in the air and stroked his imaginary beard.
"Go on." Juliet groaned silently and continued.
"The 'Cell Theory' says that cells arise from… what you would call 'other cells' through cell division. In multi-cellular organisms, every cell in the organism's body is produced from a single cell in a fertilized egg. The cell is considered to be the basic part of the pathological processes of an organism." Juliet concluded. Dr. Slawter slowly clapped his hands and smiled, faintly.
"Good job Miss Kolbe, looks like someone has been paying attention in my class today." After that little episode, everyone was looking at her with a sort of amazement or boredom in their eyes. She ignored them and turned to her partner.
"Hey, what page are we on?"
"Sorry, pauper, I don't talk to poor kids." Juliet, flustered, turned to her other table partner.
"What page are we on?" she looked up, her dark brown eyes framed by thick, greenish blue frames.
"Oh, we're on page hundred and thirty-nine." She replied. Juliet smiled widely and turned to the page.
"Hey, if you don't mind me asking…" the girl began, looking at Juliet. Juliet watched out of the corner of her eye as the girl squirmed.
"Yeah?"
"How'd you know that when you weren't on the correct page?" Juliet smiled, for some strange reason, she liked this girl already.
"Well, miss, I went through the same book at my last school." The nerdy looking girl smiled lightly.
"Oh, I'm Beatrice by the way. I'm in the dorm room next to yours." Juliet frowned for some reason and stared at the page.
"Oh, that's… cool. I'm—," the girl interrupted her.
"Juliet Kolbe, I know. You're the rage in the latest gossip, courtesy of Christy." Juliet groaned and was about to slam her book to her forehead.
"Great," she mumbled as she listened to Dr. Slawter. Suddenly, the boy from her other side jabbed her.
"What?" she snapped at him. He was mean one minute, jabbing her, and then he sounded… actually nice.
"You're Juliet?" he asked, his light blond hair shimmering from the sunlight.
"Yeah, watta 'bout it?" she asked, mad at him.
"Nothin', just my Pinky can't stop talking about you and your… ways." Juliet quirked an eyebrow and rolled her eyes.
"I'm guessing your Pinky must be your girlfriend?"
"And cousin…" Okay, that's gross, Juliet thought and made a disgusted look on her face.
"Okay?" The man smirked and ran his fingers through his hair.
"Anyways, just wanted to see if she was right." That got Juliet curious.
"She if she was right about what?" The man's smirk widened.
"Nothing, and by the way she was right." Juliet pouted a little, but straightened out.
"About what?" she asked in a deadly whisper.
"Nothing." Juliet groaned and made an angry face with slid down and hit her head on the desk.
"Ass."
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"So how was Biology?" Petey asked smiling at his friend. Juliet groaned, again, and slammed her biology book against her head repeatedly until Petey stopped her.
"You know that kills brain cells…" he said worriedly. Juliet laughed loudly; people stopped to stare at her, but continued to their friends or to the dorms.
"If I had any, then yes."
(A/N: Gosh, this was long. Five pages on Microsoft Word… anyways! I'll be updating later. So hopefully, you watch out and that you liked this chapter! Trent… you got to hate him… then kind of love him… and then hate him again. LOL. Anyways, review!!!)