Chapter 6: Truth and Standoffs
Nate felt pretty proud of himself. He stood up to Coach John and won (again).
Not to mention that math class went by pretty quickly, mainly because Nate laughed along with Mr. Staples' jokes, much to his ex-friends' dismay and annoyance.
Then Science class came.
Mr. Galvin was in the middle of instructions on the upcoming field trip next week.
"Remember kids: we are NOT going to the museum to goof off, we are going there to LEARN," Mr. Galvin told to the class.
The class groaned. Randy cheered.
"YAAAAAYYY!"
Everyone looked at Randy like crazy. So did Mr. Galvin.
"Umm, Randy...why is that exactly a good thing?" Chad asks in confusion.
"Because I'm trying to make any negative situation and make it a positive outcome or occasion!" Randy replied with glee.
Mr. Galvin looked at Nate for a bit then straightened up a bit and placed his hands on his face buried in it for a moment or two, then asked Nate:
"What in the heaven's name are you talking about?"
"...well, the museum sounds like an interesting place to go to and I can't wait to see what they have there! Oh! They might have all KINDS of fossils or rocks there! I can't wait!" Randy responded.
Everyone stared at Randy.
"...you're such a jerk," Dee Dee responded with shock and disgust.
"...anyway, back to the instructions. Once we are at the museum, you will be assigned with a partner. Be sure to have the worksheet that the answers have at the museum done by the time it's time to go," Mr. Galvin announced.
After the official announcement, Mr. Galvin then assigned lab partners to the class. And you would probably guess who Nate gets assigned to.
Yup, you guessed it: It's Kim Cressly. The girl that Gina insulted earlier. Not to mention, she's a big girl and has a HUGE crush on Nate. And she made Nate ESPECIALLY uncomfortable.
"When you are done, I'm ready to cuddle," Kim said to Nate in her normal mode as if nothing happened.
"Ummm...no thanks. I have no intention of getting together. Sorry," Nate replied back.
"Let's cuddle. NOW!" Kim ordered rudely.
Nate didn't want to be bothered right now by Kim, but he had to comply with Kim's request.
And Nate did (much to his own uncomfortably).
Randy saw his new best friend getting all the unwanted attention from a fat girl that is like a thorn a the back that wouldn't go away. So without anyone looking, Randy got up, went walking up to Kim's stool while acting like he was tripping, and-
Trip! CRASH!
Kim immediately burst into tears. And Mr. Galvin rushed over to Kim, helped her up and said:
"Hang on. I'll get you to the doctor."
"My arm! MY ARM!" Kim bawled her eyes out.
Mr. Galvin led Kim out of the classroom as everyone else looked on in shocked silence.
Randy helped Nate up.
"You okay?" Randy asks.
"Yeah," Nate replied.
Nobody said a word to each other until Mr. Galvin came back a few minutes later.
"Sorry about that, guys. I don't know WHAT happened, but would someone like to tell me?" Mr. Galvin asked the class.
"I saw the whole thing," says a voice.
It was Dee Dee, who had ENOUGH of Randy for one day.
"It was NO accident either. Randy purposely tripped on Kim's stool to make her fall," she said to Mr. Galvin.
Mr. Galvin was angered by this. He turned to Randy and asked:
"Is this true?"
"Nnnnnnnnooooo," Randy replied.
"Yes, he did. I actually saw him too," Francis chimed into the argument.
"Oh dear," Randy muttered.
Mr. Galvin was furious now.
"How dare you would do such a thing! I might have to take you to the principal now on what I heard!" Mr. Galvin angrily told to Randy.
"Well, she was a pretty big fat girl, to be honest," Nate jokingly replied.
Everyone stared at Nate.
Randy burst into laughter pretty hard.
"Oh, man! That was RICH!" Randy said while pulling himself back together.
Someone cleared their throat.
It was Mr. Galvin. And he did NOT look happy.
"Mind telling me what's going on here?" he asks Nate.
All eyes then fell on Nate.
"Nothing," Nate replied quietly.
"Talk!" Mr. Galvin demanded.
"I'm good."
"You wanna end up like Randy?"
"N..noooooo..."
Mr. Galvin looked at Nate long and hard then noticed something:
A single tear was sliding down Nate's cheek.
"...what's wrong?" Mr. Galvin asks in concern.
"Just some sweat in my eyes," Nate replied with his voice shaky while wiping his face.
Mr. Galvin also noticed this too.
"What's wrong?" Mr. Galvin asked once more.
Silence. Nate knew it was time to let the truth out so he replied weakly and quietly:
"...I'm...I'm moving."
"Forgive me, Nate, but not everyone can hear you. So speak louder," Mr. Galvin requested.
"...I'm...I'm moving," Nate spoke louder and this time, everyone heard.
"To where I may ask?" Mr. Galvin asked.
"To...to California," Nate responded.
"Aaaahhhhhh. I see. Is that why you're herky-jerky?" Mr. Galvin asked.
Nate nodded.
Mr. Galvin nodded too.
"May I ask why?" Mr. Galvin asks again.
"Because...my...dad is looking for a job…" Nate started.
"And?"
"..and to no avail. Feel to ask my dad. He would probably tell you this himself."
Mr. Galvin looked at Nate like crazy and looked at all the tears pouring down his cheeks.
"I was just ASKING. You don't have to bite my head off," he quietly says to Nate.
"I never bite anyone's head off…" Nate started.
"Come on! How dare you-" Mr. Galvin started too but got cut off by Nate snapping back:
"HOW DARE I? HOW DARE YOU!"
Silence again.
Mr. Galvin looked at Nate in shock. Nate then looked at the class. Everyone was stunned. No one said a WORD to Nate or each other.
Nate also saw his ex-friends.
Francis was in shock.
Teddy was in shock.
Chad was in shock.
Dee Dee was in shock.
Randy was in shock.
Jenny was in shock.
Artur was in shock.
Even RUBY was in shock.
Nate looked at Mr. Galvin again then fumed his breath from his nostrils then began to walk out of the classroom.
"Where are you going? Nate, come back here, please!" Mr. Galvin demanded.
But Nate didn't listen. He attempted to walk out but got blocked by Mr. Galvin, who asked:
"Excuse me, but did I say that you could leave?"
"I just want to be alone right now," Nate replied back.
"Can it wait until school ends and then you can be alone?"
Nate knew he was about to lose the argument, so he gave up anyway.
"...yes sir," Nate replied and headed to the table and sat on a stool alone, while Mr. Galvin turned his attention to Randy and said:
"Young man, you are going to come along with me."
Then Mr. Galvin lead Randy out of the classroom while the class looked on in silence.
Then Jenny slowly got up and made her way towards Nate and started a conversation:
"Nate, are you okay?"
Nate had tears pouring down his cheeks pretty badly, but did give a response:
"Now you know why I'm acting like a jerk today. And you don't have to apologize, because I'M the one who needs to be sorry here."
Jenny felt pretty bad for Nate AND herself, so she got closer, but Nate immediately put a stop to it by saying:
"Two things. One: I want to be alone so please don't come any closer. And two: your boyfriend is looking at us."
It was true. Artur IS looking at Nate and Jenny, while Nate was doing everything he can to not make Jenny look like she was cheating on Artur.
"Oh, true..." Jenny replied.
Then Jenny left Nate alone, abiding with his request. Ruby tried to comfort Nate, but got the same response.
But little did Nate knew he was about to get ambushed.
And he did.
The door opened, and there stood Jason and Gina, who happened to have Randy, along with…
"Is that Kim Cressly?" Nate asks pointing at the decapitated head of Kim.
"Sure was. You're not in love with her, are you?" Jason asked.
"...no...no," Nate replied.
"That's the kid I was telling you about," Gina whispered to Jason.
Jason nodded.
Nate began to shake uncontrollably, along with the whole class, who looked on with shock and sacredness.
"Wha...what is this?" Nate asks worryingly.
"Payback," Gina replied with an evil grin on her face.
"Okay...maybe… maybe I wasn't nice when I should have. But Gina...you're really gonna kill me?" Nate asks beginning to fret.
"Not yet. That's one thing. Two: just think of it as you're being let go, that your life is going down in different direction. That your life is about to go down the drain for good," Gina responded while smirking.
"It was all a misunderstanding...right? I mean, we were just playing around…"
"We WERE… until I got caught and you didn't come in to intervene. That's why I want payback."
"You...you probably want a settlement. Name your price! It's yours!"
"I just want my revenge, and that's it!"
"I can't believe this is happening!"
"Then I bet you weren't expecting THIS!" Gina replied while pulling up one of her pant legs for Nate to see.
Nate looked agonized looking at Gina's leg, along with the class and cried out in disgust.
That's when Gina pulled her pant leg up even FARTHER, but thankfully…
"Ah-ha!" Gina exclaimed while showing her knife to Nate.
Nate and the class sighed in relief.
"Okay," Nate replied with a thankful smile on his face.
Gina snickered.
"You wanna know why I have this knife? Because guns are WAY too quick, that's why!" Gina smirked holding the knife to Nate's neck.
"What did you do?" Nate asks.
"I did what should've been done long ago," Gina replied.
"You killed Kim?"
"Yup. Sure did."
"And Kim isn't the only one who fell victim to me and Jason," Gina chimed in.
"Who...who else did you kill?" Nate asks in shock.
"My parents, Coach John, the lunchroom ladies, Mrs. Godfrey, Mr. Staples, Chester Budrick, Mr. Galvin…" Gina counted the people she killed.
"You wouldn't dare!" Nate hissed.
"I do dare. Especially Kim Cressly," Gina finished with an evil grin on her face.
"Soon, very soon, your friends and family will suffer the way you made Gina suffer," Jason chimed.
"Then, after that, we will KILL you!" Gina finished.
Nate's heart sank. The thought of losing of everyone he loves made him sick. Even the entire room began to panic.
Then Gina began slowly advancing onto Randy, who looked terrified as ever.
Nate tried to stop Gina but was stopped by Jason.
"I don't think so," Jason said with a smirk.
"Everyone, RUN! Run so that Gina-" Nate started but his mouth was covered by Jason.
Nate knew he made a big mistake. So he closed his eyes, imagining the fire of the bullets showering down on his friends.
Click!
Nothing happened.
Gina checked her gun. It was empty of bullets.
"Oh yeah, forgot about that..." Gina said.
Nate felt relieved and kicked Jason in the guts and lunged for Gina.
A fight broke out and Gina was getting the upper hand on Nate.
Nate knew this was the end.
The end of HIM.
That's when Jason got a hold of Nate and leveled him down to Gina's level.
"He's all yours, Gina," Jason said to Gina.
Gina smirked with a hint of smug on her sinister face then pulled out a loaded gun and put it to Nate's head.
"After I'm done with you and your friends, I'll pay a polite visit to your family," Gina said to Nate with evil and venom in her tone.
"No! Please! PLEASE!" Nate screamed so hard that everyone can hear it.
"Any last words?" Gina asked.
"Let him go!" demands a voice.
Gina turned to the source of the sound only to get kicked in the guts by Randy causing her to fire her gun.
Though Nate wasn't the one to get shot, it was…
"Jason!" Gina screamed in shock when she pulled herself back together and looked on at Jason, whose head just got shot at by Gina (unintentionally) and fell to the ground cold.
But neither Nate or Randy gave Gina any opportunity to defend herself because Nate then snatched the gun from Gina while Randy tackled Gina to the ground and kept her to the ground with a few students offering to keep Gina down until help arrived.
Nate then gently put the gun aside and looked at Jason.
He was dead.
Nate slowly fell on his knees and began to cry.
"What have I done? What have I done?" Nate thought to himself.
Ruby wanted to comfort Nate, but she knew he didn't want her around him right now so she leaned over to Dee Dee and whispered:
"At least we now know what Nate was going through right now, but let's just give him a few days, please?"
"Good call," Dee Dee whispered back.
*Man, that was brutal! What will happen next? Stayed tuned for more chapters! Comment on what you think of this chapter! See you soon. ;)