start to panic. Until then he felt like he could relax his fears a bit, though of course he still had to stay alert.
* * *
Brett Murphy saw Jimmy Hawthorn and that new girl Tina talking in the hallway before school ended and knew he had to interfere somehow. He had to inform this Tina girl that she was much too pretty to be hanging out with the likes of Jimmy.
A look of fear spread across Jimmy’s face as Brett approached (at least this is what Brett saw).
“Hey Jimmy, how’s it going?” Brett asked.
Jimmy and Tina swiveled around to look at him. “What do you want shitface?” Jimmy asked.
Without warning Brett had Jimmy in a headlock. Tina gasped.
“Who’s the shitface now you stupid cock sucking bastard? Who is it?” Brett looked over at Tina while holding Jimmy and said, “Why do you hang out with this loser? Don’t you know he’s the punching bag of the entire - ” all the air rushed out of him as Jimmy’s elbow connected with his stomach just below the ribcage.
His arm loosened.
“Let’s go,” Jimmy said to Tina after pulling free.
Brett, gasping for air, straightened himself and looked around. The bitch who had once reported him for using a hall pass to go get a Coke from the vending machine during class hours was looking at him. God, he hated all hall monitors, especially that one.
Before she could get close he walked away, his mind thinking about one thing: Jimmy . The bastard was going to pay for this.
* * *
“I don’t know why, but he’s picked on me ever since the first grade,” Jimmy said. “It all began with the game Four Square if you can believe that,” he added with a smile.
“Four Square?” Tina asked. “Really?”
“Seriously. When I was little, that game was all the rage during recess. The school had like five Four Square patterns laid out, yet huge lines still developed all the time at each one. I wasn’t very good at the game but liked it and always got knocked out, but then one day I started to do really good and got to the King Square and was allowed to make the rules. It was really cool but everyone ganged up on me to knock me out, which obviously is how the game works, but being that young and being ganged up on and then being knocked out right away really got to me and I started crying and ran behind a tree. After that, Brett never left me alone.”
“What a jerk,” Tina said.
“Yeah, but now it doesn’t really bother me. He thinks it does, which is why he keeps at it, probably because it used to make me cry in junior high school and he once pinned me on the ground and pushed my face in goose shit. I started working out my freshman year though since they had a weight room and now every time he tries to hurt me I just push back. He doesn’t seem to realize that I could kick his ass if I wanted to.”
“Plus you sit alone everyday so people probably think it still gets to you.”
“Well, it doesn’t, I just prefer to sit by people whose company I enjoy.”
Tina smiled which caused Jimmy to blush.
After that neither one knew what to say, but thankfully their silence didn’t last long since Alan came and joined them for the walk home, the words, “so I hear you two are going to prom together,” leaving his lips.
“Yeah,” Tina said, again smiling.
“Aw, that is so cute,” Alan taunted.
“Watch it,” Jimmy said though it didn’t really bother him all that much because the more he had thought about it, the more he enjoyed the idea of going to the prom with Tina. In fact, he couldn’t believe he had previously gone so long without even thinking about asking her, his mind fine with the idea of missing what would be such a wonderful moment for the two of them. It was going
* * *
Brett Murphy saw Jimmy Hawthorn and that new girl Tina talking in the hallway before school ended and knew he had to interfere somehow. He had to inform this Tina girl that she was much too pretty to be hanging out with the likes of Jimmy.
A look of fear spread across Jimmy’s face as Brett approached (at least this is what Brett saw).
“Hey Jimmy, how’s it going?” Brett asked.
Jimmy and Tina swiveled around to look at him. “What do you want shitface?” Jimmy asked.
Without warning Brett had Jimmy in a headlock. Tina gasped.
“Who’s the shitface now you stupid cock sucking bastard? Who is it?” Brett looked over at Tina while holding Jimmy and said, “Why do you hang out with this loser? Don’t you know he’s the punching bag of the entire - ” all the air rushed out of him as Jimmy’s elbow connected with his stomach just below the ribcage.
His arm loosened.
“Let’s go,” Jimmy said to Tina after pulling free.
Brett, gasping for air, straightened himself and looked around. The bitch who had once reported him for using a hall pass to go get a Coke from the vending machine during class hours was looking at him. God, he hated all hall monitors, especially that one.
Before she could get close he walked away, his mind thinking about one thing: Jimmy . The bastard was going to pay for this.
* * *
“I don’t know why, but he’s picked on me ever since the first grade,” Jimmy said. “It all began with the game Four Square if you can believe that,” he added with a smile.
“Four Square?” Tina asked. “Really?”
“Seriously. When I was little, that game was all the rage during recess. The school had like five Four Square patterns laid out, yet huge lines still developed all the time at each one. I wasn’t very good at the game but liked it and always got knocked out, but then one day I started to do really good and got to the King Square and was allowed to make the rules. It was really cool but everyone ganged up on me to knock me out, which obviously is how the game works, but being that young and being ganged up on and then being knocked out right away really got to me and I started crying and ran behind a tree. After that, Brett never left me alone.”
“What a jerk,” Tina said.
“Yeah, but now it doesn’t really bother me. He thinks it does, which is why he keeps at it, probably because it used to make me cry in junior high school and he once pinned me on the ground and pushed my face in goose shit. I started working out my freshman year though since they had a weight room and now every time he tries to hurt me I just push back. He doesn’t seem to realize that I could kick his ass if I wanted to.”
“Plus you sit alone everyday so people probably think it still gets to you.”
“Well, it doesn’t, I just prefer to sit by people whose company I enjoy.”
Tina smiled which caused Jimmy to blush.
After that neither one knew what to say, but thankfully their silence didn’t last long since Alan came and joined them for the walk home, the words, “so I hear you two are going to prom together,” leaving his lips.
“Yeah,” Tina said, again smiling.
“Aw, that is so cute,” Alan taunted.
“Watch it,” Jimmy said though it didn’t really bother him all that much because the more he had thought about it, the more he enjoyed the idea of going to the prom with Tina. In fact, he couldn’t believe he had previously gone so long without even thinking about asking her, his mind fine with the idea of missing what would be such a wonderful moment for the two of them. It was going
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