Chapter 5: Nate and Randy vs Coach John

Happiness.

That's how Nate felt while making his way towards Gym class. He never got bored of his rising popularity from other people.

But unfortunately, Nate had to cut that to an end when Gym class began and Coach John is the teacher on Thursday (Coach Calhoun, the other gym teacher, teaches gym on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, while Coach John substitutes on Tuesdays and Thursdays) and blew the whistle.

"Attention, troops! Line up for Jazzercise!" Coach John bellows to the class.

Everyone groaned.

"Oh, come on! We want to do basketball! Plus, aren't you supposed to be on treatment for 'chronic flatulence' or whatever you call it?" Randy protests.

"I am perfectly fine," Coach John assured while suddenly farting very loudly.

"Eeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwww!" The class reacted (mostly girls) in disgust.

"No, you're not," Nate replied back to his teacher.

"I AM, SOLDIER! NOW LINE UP!" Coach John roars back.

Nate complied.

Moments later, a song began playing while everyone began jazzercising. Minutes pass, and everyone began getting tired already.

Even Nate was tired (no, not tired, just tired of Jazzercise), so Nate stood up to his teacher and-

"Ahem! We don't want to do Jazzercise, we want to do BASKETBALL!"

That got everyone's attention. Even from Coach John.

"What was THAT?" Coach John responds with rage in his tone.

"You heard me," Nate replied.

"Haven't you tried to stand up to me before and it worked out for you?"

"If I do it once, I can do it again!"

Several classmates cheered.

"No way! I'm not letting you win again!" Coach John responds.

"Watch it, jerk!" Nate replied then suddenly regretted what he just said, but much to Nate's surprise, Coach John replied back with-

"Shut up, idiot!"

"Moron!" Nate quickly responded.

"Scab eater!" Coach John responded back.

"Butt sniffer!"

"Fart smeller!"

Nate couldn't respond to that insult because that's actually true at the moment. Then Coach John went on to insult Nate with-

"You eat dog crap for breakfast, geek! And you like it!"

Nate couldn't respond to that insult and just when all hope is lost, Randy steps in and insults Coach John with this insult:

"You substitute Gym like a GIRRRRLLL!"

Stunned silence.

Nate turned to Randy in surprise.

"What did you say?" Nate asks in shock.

"You heard me," Randy replied.

"Um, you do realize about half this class is girls, while your dream girl is present, right?" Nate asks dryly.

Randy turned and looked. Nate was right: About HALF the gym class was girls while Ruby was ESPECIALLY present.

Randy couldn't help but chuckle nervously.

"N...not YOU! I meant...ummmm…" Randy started but Nate finished the sentence.

"Gina Hemphill-Toms?"

"Yeah, that one...right?" Randy asks the crowd.

No one answered. Then...

"Oh, okay!" Coach John responds sarcastically. "I'll be right back. I got something for you two!"

Coach John leaves momentarily. While this was happening, Nate turns to Randy and says:

"I don't know WHAT Coach John has in store for both of us, but in case if we don't make it out, there's something I have to tell you."

"What is it?" Randy asks, not even looking at Nate.

"...I've always loved you," Nate confessed.

Randy turned his head to Nate in shock.

"So, after all, what we have been through, you confess that you love me?" Randy asks in shock.

"As a friend," Nate replied back.

And the crowd went:

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwww!"

Coach John came back with a basketball and says to Nate and Randy with a smirk:

"I'll be HAPPY to let you play basketball if you two do something for ME!"

"Make a basket from mid-court, backward, and with our eyes closed?" Nate answers automatically.

"Not quite," Coach John responds.

Dee Dee turned to Ruby and whispered:

"Nate actually did that the one time and he ACTUALLY made a basket."

"Wow. Though I am still wondering why Nate would reject me," Ruby whispered back.

"Don't give up yet. I'm suddenly wondering what Nate whispered in Mrs. Godfrey's ear that spared him from trouble," Dee Dee replied quietly.

Ruby nodded.

"I want to play against you two. The team who gets 10 points before the other team wins," Coach John explained to Nate and Randy.

"And if the other team loses?" Nate asks.

"Then you two will be jazzercising for the rest of the school year!" Coach John responds with sarcasm.

"Oh dear. What have we done?" Randy replies in shock.

"Let's begin!" Coach John announced the three made their way to the center of the court.

Moments pass, then Coach John throws the basketball in the air and…

"Got it!" Randy exclaimed, getting the ball before Coach John does and proceeded to dribble the ball to the basketball goal and making a basket.

The crowd cheered.

Coach John fumed. He knew he was gonna have to get back at the boys at some point… to which he did when he got the ball and dribbled to the basketball goal and made a basket.

But unfortunately, no one cheered much as they did to Nate and Randy.

Coach John turned to the crowd and asked very politely:

"Would you all like to run around the gym court until you all puke?"

That got someone to quickly say in response:

"Coach John, Coach John! He's our man! He's our man! If he can do it...GREAT!"

Coach John smiled.

"Thank you," he says before the game resumed.

And it was back and forth, back in forth for both teams. Nate and Randy scored points. Coach John scored points too. And the game was getting intense. It wasn't long until Coach John began to show signs of exhaustion and sweat all over and looked like he was about to pass out.

The game was tied up, 9-9 Nate and Randy were getting tired of playing basketball but they knew that if they lost, they would NEVER get to hear the end of Coach John's possible victory and JAZZERCISE for both boys. So they kept their heads together and prepared to play defense against Coach John as he dribbled the ball, but the two noticed that Coach John was about to collapse on the basketball court.

Coach John tossed the ball to the goal but didn't make it. Randy got the ball and quickly tossed it to Nate saying:

"Go! GO!"

Nate nodded and made his way to the basketball goal. And just as Coach John was catching up, he trips and falls face-flat on the court while Nate makes the last point for the win making everyone go in shock:

"Ooooooooooohhhhhhhhhh."

Nate and Randy were the ones that rushed to Coach John on the ground first. Then everyone else crowded over with the boys. Nate pushed Coach John's body over to see if their gym teacher is conscious.

He wasn't.

"Is he...dead?" Someone asks.

Coach John looked like he wasn't breathing. Then Nate turns to one of his students and orders:

"Go get help. Now."

The student nodded and ran out of the class for help. Nate then turned back to Coach John's unconscious body and put his ear to the gym teacher's chest to feel any possible heartbeats. Nate then pushed his hand on Coach John's Chest several times.

Still no response.

Everyone was beginning to freak out a bit since they feel like someone is about to die.

"I'm going to have to breathe some life into Coach John," Nate announced to the rest of his classmates.

"By how?" Randy asks.

"Well, watch and learn, young grasshoppers," Nate replied before putting his mouth to Coach John's, much to everyone's disgust.

"I know. I just don't have any reviving material, so I'm gonna have to go the old-fashioned way," Nate explained to the class before sticking his mouth back to Coach John's mouth.

Little did Nate knew that this would be the biggest mistake of his life.

Coach John was in the middle of a dream where he was fighting an evil wizard along with a fire-breathing dragon. When he was finished, he rescues a beautiful princess who exclaims:

"My hero! How can I EVER repay you?"

"Anyway possible," Coach John replied with a sweet smile on his face.

After a few moments, the princess begins to lean into Coach John in preparation for a kiss. Coach John was doing the exact same thing. The two then kiss then all of the sudden-

"EEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWW!"

At first, Coach John assumed that while he and the princess were kissing, Coach John's allies were grossed out at the two kissing.

That's when Coach John opened his eyes slowly then popped wide open to see Nate looking all grossed out by Coach John kissing him.

Then Coach John pushed Nate away quickly in disgust. The then begin spitting out any possible kisses then looked at each other for a bit then exclaimed:

"EEEWWW!"

Nate got up slowly with the help from Randy while Coach John began feeling so sick from the game (and the kiss) and began to gag like crazy.

Nate noticed and asked:

"You okay, Coach?"

Before Coach John can respond, puke made its way in Coach John's mouth and-

"BLLLAAARRRRRRFFFFF!" Coach John puked

And the class reacted in disgust:

"EEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWW!"

"Well, at least he's okay," Nate mumbled, trying to look away from the nasty sight Coach John was displaying.

Help came and Coach John was lead out of the gym while the class was also ushered out of the class too. Mr. Jenkins the janitor came and began cleaning up the puke that Coach John left behind. With Coach John absent now, Mrs. Czerwicki volunteered to substitute for the rest of the class time.

Randy went up to Nate and whispered:

"Hey, good job today. You're dominating the day. You should be proud."

"Thanks," Nate replied back.

Nate felt pretty good for himself for standing up to Coach John and Gina today. He no longer cared about starting a relationship with Ruby and began to focus more on today.

But Dee Dee was getting more suspicious of Nate because of what he whispered in Mrs. Godfrey's ear that spared him from trouble. So she waited for the right moment to catch Nate and ask what his real deal is.

"I'll probably wait after school. One way or another, I'm going to find out what Nate is really up to today," she thought.

Elsewhere, Coach John slowly made his way to his car and got in, started the car and began to drive back home.

That's when Coach John was about to get ambushed.

And he did.

Gunshots erupted to Coach John's car and several bullets his Coach John in the neck, face, and head and caused the car to crash into ongoing traffic. Coach John never made it out alive.

He was dead.

"Good job," Jason the assassin complemented to Gina, who was the one that killed Coach John.

"Thank you, thank you. Just wait, Nate. I will turn your life into a living hell and you will wish you were never born," Gina replied before vowing revenge on Nate and began laughing like a crazed maniac.

Jason chimed in too or looked like he did. He wasn't laughing as much as Gina was. Jason's laughter sounded a bit too fake and pretended to be evil.

Gina noticed this and leaned into Jason and waited until he stopped laughing but somehow managed to stop laughing abruptly when he noticed Gina leaning towards him.

"It only works when I do it," Gina said to Jason, with narrowed eyes.

"Oh, okay. Sorry," Jason responded.

"Thank you," Gina replied before turning back to the subject of revenge on Nate.

"I can see me now…" she thought to herself.

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