Unchained Melody
By TornPrince'sSmile

Chapter twenty-three: Derby Harrington

Three months had passed since Gary came back to Bullworth, since Juliet and Jimmy had kissed and shared some more 'romantic' moments. But now it was what Beatrice called 'endless summer'. It was for people who either wanted to graduate earlier or failed all their classes. In Juliet's case, she had failed Chemistry 5 because of Gary's poor excuse of an 'accident' and she really didn't want to be in school when Gary tried to 'concur' the school, again, if he tried.

Today was English and Art, and English was a bore; they did some fifth grade worksheet because Mr. Galloway was too wasted to even sit up from his seat; literally. So Art rolled on sooner than expected. Since they changed partners and Petey wasn't going to be in 'summer school'; lucky for him. So her partner was someone named Derby Harrington. Juliet's heard of him; snobbish, arrogant, and mean spirited; even by Preppy standards. Usually he was paired up with Bif because that was his 'bodyguard'. There was also a rumor going around that he had a taste for boys; as in he was bisexual.

"Well come on girl." Derby said, glaring at Juliet. Now, she wasn't the most richest student in the school, but she had money; just like Jimmy.

"What?" Juliet said dryly, "you think when you say that I'm going to jump up? Why don't you go get the supplies?" Soon the argument turned into a heated discussion.

"Well, pauper, I don't want to touch anything anyone else has touched for one." Derby, 'Darby', said to Juliet, glaring at her. She noticed that his eyebrows didn't match his root hair color.

"You dry your hair or somethin'?" Juliet asked, pointing to his hair. Derby covered his hair for a slight moment and 'hmpf'ed at her.

"Harrington's never dry their hair."

"Whatever." Juliet said, snapping the gum Beatrice gave her while they were talking in English. She jumped up from her seat and grabbed times two supplies. As she sat down Derby, looked over at Bif.

"What's with the looks?" Juliet asked, raising a perfectly plucked eyebrow.

"Nothing." Derby said; a little bit too quickly. Juliet rolled her eyes and snapped her gum again, looking down at the sheet of paper. Soon she began to draw Derby.

She had gotten a B on her Art assignment and Derby had gotten a C-, which he wasn't too happy about. Juliet didn't care either way as long as she got above a D+. Soon, Juliet came to the lunch room, where the afterschool lunch was being held. The cafeteria was packed, if people weren't eating, they were talking. And some even were arm-wrestling. She searched the cafeteria for Jimmy, but came up empty handed. Instead, she sat next to Beatrice. Who was playing a game of chess with Algie; Algie was a pretty nice guy if he wasn't slapping you, which was kind of hard for him not to do… He got scared pretty easily and has a thing for wetting his pants whenever in trouble.

"Check mate!" Algie said, his voice ringing above the rest. Preps, Jocks, and Bullies looked over and stared at the Nerds with a disapproving look, unlike Juliet; who ignored the stares, Beatrice's face flushed ten different colors when Bif looked over. Juliet saw this expression and quirked a fine eyebrow.

"What's that about?"

"What?" Beatrice questioned like she didn't know.

"Nothing…" Juliet said, leaning back a bit; staring up at the ceiling. Where was Jimmy anyways?

Apparently, Jimmy forgot about his lunch date with Juliet and was hanging out with a couple of Townies: Gurney and Edgar. They seemed pretty cool so far; from what Jimmy could tell.

Gurney lit up a smoke and brushed his vest.

"So how's your girl?" Jimmy raised an almost invisible eyebrow.

"Juliet?" Gurney puffed out the smoke and nodded.

"Sure, whatever." Edgar chuckled a bit watching the two talk.

"Uh, she's fine."

"I know she is." Gurney earned a rough punch in the shoulder from Jimmy.

"That's not cool." Edgar said, patting his friends shoulder; watching Jimmy walk away.

(A/N: Okay, so it's short and not very good. Please be happy I updated at all because I was going to wait till Saturday, but couldn't. Thanks and please review!)