A/N - Italic are thoughts

Doug's POV

As Jimmy and I follow the headmaster and discuss our first day in Bullworth, I tell Dr. Crabblesnitch that it was fine and he was pleased. As we're outside the front school, Dr. Crabblesnitch looks at Jimmy and asks about it.

Jimmy: It's not difficult, but I tried.

Dr. Crabblesnitch: You seem to be making yourself quite comfortable here, my boy.

Jimmy: I'm just trying to fit in.

Dr. Crabblesnitch: By fighting? By making a nuisance of yourself? That is not the Bullworth way, boy.

Jimmy: Yeah, you could've fooled me.

Dr. Crabblesnitch: What?

Jimmy: I said you could have fooled me. This place is full of bullies and maniacs.

Dr. Crabblesnitch: Nonsense. That's just school spirit. High jinks. Why, in my day, we felt nothing of castrating the new boys.

Then I join the conversation.

Doug: Principal Crabblesnitch, bullying is not a school spirit. It's the worst of society. Do you know how many kids took their own lives because of bullying?

Jimmy: Doug's right. This case happens a lot throughout the year.

Dr. Crabblesnitch: That kind of case is nothing to be concerned about, Mr. Hawkins. When I was your age, bullying the new kid was normal.

Doug: Oh cheese, transferring to this school is a big mistake.

Dr. Crabblesnitch: Well, that's too bad because our parents already paid for your education here, and you're already enrolled here. So, learn how to deal with it.

Doug: *sigh* Okay.

Then Dr. Crabblesnitch looked at Jimmy.

Dr. Crabblesnitch: And as for you, I want you to stop this nonsense, Hopkins; I want you to behave yourself. You might learn something.

Jimmy: Fine. Can we go now? Sir.

Dr. Crabblesnitch: On your way.

Dr. Crabblesnitch walks away, and we decide to leave the school. As Jimmy and I were about to leave the school area, a bully came out of the school door.

Bully: Hey! I saw you two sucking up to Crabblesnitch.

Jimmy: What? Shut up!

Doug: No, the principal just wanted to talk to us about our first day in this school, that's all.

Bully: Yeah, right, that's what every new kid would say. Trying to find an excuse to avoid calling themselves a teacher's pet.

Doug: What?!

Jimmy then talks back to the bully.

Jimmy: Shut up, you bitch. Who asked you?

Bully: Screw both of you!

Then I notice something on the bully's hand; it turns out to be the slingshot.

Doug: Jimmy! Be careful! He has a slingshot!

Bully: This is what we do to teachers' pets around here.

The bully proceeded to aim a slingshot at one of us.

Jimmy: You better not!

Then the bully attacks Jimmy with his slingshot.

Jimmy: Ow!

Doug: Ohh That's going to hurt.

Then the bully runs away, and Jimmy begins to chase him down.

Jimmy: Come here, you little...

Bully: Yeah, come and get me.

As they both ran, I ran and followed them.

Doug: Wow, both of them are fast runners.

As I was about to stop my track to take a breath, I saw the bully knock Petey over. Petey tells Jimmy that the bully should go to the auto repair shop.

Petey: I saw him; he ran towards the fountain.

As Jimmy chased the bully down, I helped Pete collect his books and papers that were dropped from the fall.

Petey: Thanks, Doug; Davis just pushed me all of a sudden.

Doug: So that guy is named Davis. I'll tell the principal about this.

Petey: Telling the principal isn't going to solve everything. It added more trouble.

Doug: What? What makes you say that?

Petey: You know what happens when kids snitch on them, don't you?

Doug: Yeah, but I don't care. Telling a teacher is worth it, even if it hurts you more.

Petey: You better not.

Then I leave Petey to find Jimmy. As I walked to the auto repair shop, I saw bullies on the ground in pain. Did Jimmy beat them up by himself? As I walked to the front of the auto repair shop, I saw Jimmy, who had Davis' slingshot in his hand while Davis was on the ground, get knocked out cold. Then Jimmy turned around, as he was prepared to fight, but when he saw me, he calmed down.

Doug: Did I miss anything?

Jimmy: Most of it. Yeah. Let's leave this place before someone shows up.

Doug: Okay.

As we leave the auto repair shop, I talk to Jimmy about reporting this to the principal.

Doug: We should report this incident to the principal, Jimmy.

Jimmy: That's a bad idea. Because most school staff won't do anything to prevent this, plus, it caused more trouble for both of us.

Doug: But I already did this all the time back in my previous school.

Jimmy: Are you a snitch? Does that work?

Doug: No. Never. But it ends up getting worse. Principal Slimovitz hates Tattletale.

Jimmy: Then stop it. Snitching is for little kids. I mean, grow up already.

Doug: Ahhh.

As we both reached the boy's dorm and entered, we heard two voices that came from the TV room, and it was Gary and Petey, sitting on the couch and talking about something.

Gary: So it's a good idea, right?

Petey: Yeah, OK, alright, sure… I'll do it.

As Gary and Petey finish talking, they both turn their backs as they see me and Jimmy come into the TV room.

Gary: Hey, you two, what's going on?

Jimmy: Not much.

Doug: I just returned from class and am getting harassed by bullies.

Gary: Oh, that sucks.

Gary then got up from his seat and looked at both of us.

Gary: I was telling Petey here about my idea to take over the school. I mean my plan for us to take over the school.

Doug: What kind of plan?

Gary: Don't worry, Doug! It's just a little something I came up with. It's sink or swim, my friend, and if you and Jimmy are good at swimming, you've got to let the losers drown. Why don't you guys leave the thinking up to me?

Jimmy then responded with confusion.

Jimmy: What?

Then Gary made fun of Jimmy's response.

Gary: What? What? What? Dur. Can't you say anything else?

Then Gary looked at Petey and said,.

Gary: You know what, Petey, you were alright—Jimmy is pretty dumb.

Then Jimmy started to get stern at Petey at Gary's word. I knew Gary was lying again.

Jimmy: What'd you say about me?

Petey nervously gets up from his seat as he tries to explain, as Jimmy is about to punch him. I try to calm Jimmy down as he walks towards nervous Petey.

Petey: Whoa, nothing, no, no, no! All I said was that you had to be pretty dumb to get expelled from so many schools, that's all.

Doug: Jimmy, calm down. I don't want Petey to say something like that.

Gary then intervened.

Gary: Doug's right, James. All Petey said was that you must be dumb, or maybe you're all messed up because you came from a broken home.

Jimmy then gets angry and yells at Petey. I held Jimmy down to make sure he didn't cause a scene.

Jimmy: WHAT'D YOU SAY ABOUT ME, DWARF?

I tried to hold Jimmy down, but darn, he's honkin strong despite being a few inches shorter than me. Gary then stopped Jimmy.

Gary: Come on, dude. Chill.

Petey: No, no, no, no…. Gary's taking everything out of context, man.

Then I let go of Jimmy as he calmed down. I believe Petey, of course. Gary looked at Petey and said,.

Gary: Whoa, whoa, whao. Don't lie, Petey. Don't you lie. Because you know what happens to liars?

Petey: No, no, I'm not lying.

Then suddenly, Gary kicked Petey in the private area, which shocked me, as I could feel my private area hurt just witnessing it.

Gary: We kick them in the balls!

Petey was on the ground and grabbed his private area in pain. I then came to Petey's aid as Gary laughed, and Jimmy just stood there doing nothing but stare. Then Gary walked away and said to Jimmy:.

Gary: Come on, Jimmy, let's go see how good you are with this new slingshot I heard you had. Don't worry, friend, nothing escapes my notice. I heard everything. You and me, we can do things.

I was a bit creeped out by hearing what Gary said to Jimmy as I helped Petey get up and sit on the couch. Then I followed them.

Doug: What about me?

Gary: You stay here with femme boy, Doug. I hope you two get along.

As Gary and Jimmy leave, Petey is still in pain, cussing.

Petey: Goddamn, it hurts as hell.

Doug: It is. My private area was hurt by just witnessing it.

Petey: Not as much as this, though.

Then I sat on the couch and talked to Petey about Gary.

Doug: Can I ask something?

Petey: Yes.

Doug: How long have you and Gary been friends?

Petey: Ohh…

Petey was surprised by my question. I knew his reaction—he was uncomfortable with it, but he didn't hesitate.

Petey: Well… Gary and I have been friends since I arrived at Bullworth Academy; this happened two years ago.

Doug: Two years ago—that's short. I mean, my old classmates befriended each other for eleven years. And by the way, do you know anything about Gary? And what's his problem anyway?

Petey: Well, all I know is that Gary suffers from ADD and has to take his medication regularly. That's all.

Doug: Really? That's all.

Petey: Yeah, and that's what his problems were.

Then Petey gets up from the couch and is about to leave the TV room.

Petey: Now excuse me; I had to do my homework for tomorrow, Doug. Don't you have to study for your next class tomorrow?

Doug: No, tomorrow's class is art and gym.

Petey: Art is no problem since the teacher is Ms. Philips, and she's very attractive, but for gym class, it will be challenging.

When Petey warned me about the gym class, I was nervous. Will he be dangerous and insane like Coach Green back in my previous school?

Doug: Oh, I didn't sign up for this.

As Petey left the TV room and went to his room, I decided to leave the TV room as well and go to my room to study chemistry and biology since they were my favorite subjects. When I entered the room, there was Constantinos and an unknown male student who had brown hair parted to the left, had bags under his eyes, and was wearing dark blue pajamas with a small Bullworth Crest design on the breast pocket. He was sleeping and drooling on his bed. I decided to go to my desk to study.

An hour later, as I finished studying, I looked at the clock. It's already seven at night. I decided to get my towel, bathrobe, shampoo, and soap from my bag. I changed my school uniform into my bathrobe and made my way out of the door to take a bath. As I walked away from the room, I walked into the hall dorm. I was disgusted by how dirty this dorm was, especially at night. It is filthy and infested with spider webs, and some paintings were vandalized. The bathroom wasn't on the first floor, so I decided to go upstairs to find a bathroom (Pretend the boy's dorm had a top floor since the original game didn't have top floors for the boy's dorm).

As I reach the top floor, I walk to the hall to find the bathroom, and BINGO. I found the bathroom; I looked around; it was dirty and shnasty! But I looked around and found a shower. It has five showers, and three of them were used, so I took the empty one, as I made my way to the shower, I took off my bathrobe and put it on the shower door, and I took off my glasses and put them in the bathrobe pocket. When I look at the faucets, they have hot and cold sections, so I opened both of them to make them a bit warmer. As I began to shower and stroked my hair to make it wet, suddenly I heard a voice, and when I looked through the shower door, it was Davis, along with his red-haired bully friend, talking about what happened back in the auto shop. Davis then looked into the mirror and washed all of his wounds.

Davis: I can't believe that Hopkins took my slingshot! My body hurts, damnit!

Bully 1: Davis, be cool. Don't make a noise while someone is showering.

Davis: Is that what you want to say, Wade?

Wade: Yeah, what's wrong with that, dude?

Davis: If I see him again, I'm going to kick his ass, and he's going to be sorry one day!

Wade: Yeah, I never thought that new kid was a fighter.

When Davis finished washing up his wound, he looked in the mirror and said,.

Davis: Ugh, I still have cuts and bruises after that Hopkins kid threw an object at me!

Wade: Yeah, but what about...

Davis: Give it a rest, Wade. Now I know it. That Hopkins is very hard to deal with. Maybe Russell can deal with him… and that new nerd kid.

I was a bit stunned by their words. I don't even know what their friend Russell will do to me and Jimmy.

Wade: Yeah, about that nerd kid; his name is Douglas Hawkins, but Doug for short, of course. If you get rid of the letter "U," it becomes "dog"!

The bullies started to laugh. Unbelievable!

Davis: Yeah, and he's also a weirdo with those ugly square glasses. Maybe he should hang out with the nerds. Those retarded cliques suit him well.

I was disgusted by how they talked badly about me.

Douglas: That was uncalled for!

Then Wade talks to Davis.

Wade: Anyway, let's go. We'll talk about this later.

As the bullies leave the bathroom, I quickly clean myself. Once I'm done, I take my glass from the bathrobe pocket, wear my bathrobe, wipe my hair with a towel, and quickly get out of the shower.

Douglas: I better go back to my dorm to get dressed.

I quickly ran to the hall got inside my dorm room, wearing my pajamas, and went to my desk to study again. Half an hour later, as I began to feel sleepy, I looked at the clock. It's already nine-thirty at night. So, I decided to go to bed, put my glasses on the nightstand, and lay on my bed, nervous about the next day.

To be continued...