It was a pleasant sunny day early in the month of October; the sky was bright, but the air comfortably cool.  Halloween fever was slowly starting to creep among the students of Bullworth Academy, but one wouldn’t start seeing decorations until well near the end of the month.  Nonetheless it was a quiet, peaceful day - albeit a slow and lazy one, but quiet and peaceful regardless.  But it was this particular afternoon that an unusual location among the school found itself strangely visited by a particular scarred and brown haired presence.

Gary Smith, of all people, was standing just outside the Girl’s Dorm.  And not just standing outside of it.  The boy was hiding off to the side, lurking around the dormitory’s only side entrance.  Only a few girls who were standing in front of the dorm at the time caught sight of the modestly short boy when he first arrived glancing around and quickly making his way to the back of the building.  Gossiping and chatter stopped as soon as he was seen among the premises, and the watchful glare of female adolescent eyes followed and remained fixed on his person until he disappeared around the side of the building and out of their sight.  Instantly the chatter started up again but with far more fervor, and the topic shifted from the outlandish origins of the new kid, to the fact that a certain shifty looking boy just walked his way onto the grounds of the Girl’s Dorm.  What could Gary Smith be possibly doing here?

And so there Gary found himself, leaning against the wall and standing at the bottom of the stairs that led to the side exit of the dormitory.  He didn’t know why he had to come here.  He could just as easily see her in class the next day, or wait until he saw her walking around campus again.  But when he reasoned this to himself inside his brain as he laid impatient and fidgeting on the bed in his dorm room, somehow his body didn’t listen to his mind and he suddenly found himself outside of the Boy’s Dorm and making a bee line straight to the girl‘s.  Thinking about it now, as a few girls happened to slowly trickle out of the dormitory, one after the other, giving Gary strange looks as they walked by him, it probably wasn’t all that too great of an idea.  Especially considering the very possible and likely fact that the girl could just as well come out through the main exit of the building instead of this one.  Gary Smith was an excellent and intelligent strategist when it came to plotting against mankind.  Apparently his plans were not so fool proof when it came to girls, however.

His attention soon turned to the door of the dormitory’s exit when he heard it open again and a certain brunette cheerleader with a particularly smug and satisfied smirk across her absurdly beautiful features walked out.  As soon as she looked down and spotted the pair of dark eyes watching her from below, her face instantly dropped to one of disgust.

“Ew, great,” Mandy said as she slowly stepped down the stairs, “Another pervert hanging around the Girl’s Dorm trying to get a peak.”

Gary crossed his arms and looked around in mock confusion.  “Did something just speak?”

Mandy faked a smile and sarcastically mimicked a laugh.  “Funny, Gary!  Really.  You know I’m surprised you’re here.  With how much you like to hang over that dweeby little kid in pink, I figured you swung the other way.”

“Oh!  Ouch!  Gay jokes!” Gary exclaimed as he dramatically clutched his hands to his heart, “You really know how to get me where it hurts.  Damn you,” he sarcastically chided as he pretended to shake his fist at her.  He stood up straight.  “Really, Mandy, was that supposed to hurt my feelings?”

“Say all that you want,” Mandy sneered at him as she passed by him, “I see you undressing me with your eyes.  Just like that disgusting little Hopkins.”

Gary sneered right back at her.  “Yes, because I love bulimic girls so thin they look like a stick with ears,” he retorted back with biting sarcasm.  He eyed the few pages of chemistry notes in the girl’s hand.  “And by the way,” he continued, “No matter what you might think, walking around with Beatrice‘s stolen lab notes does not make people think you’re smart.  You have to at least erase her name off of them.”

Mandy turned around as she walked backwards slowly, “I hear you trying to insult me, Gary, but I know you like what you see,” she replied smugly as she held out her arms in a showy fashion, “I can see your tail wagging,” and she turned back around, walking off proudly.

To this, Gary lightly put a hand on his stomach and gave a sarcastic laugh as he briefly glanced upwards.  “Oh-ho-ho-ho!  That’s funny you calling me an animal, when the last time I’ve seen a face like yours it had a hook in its mouth.  Didn’t I dissect you in Biology class one time?”

Mandy then suddenly whipped back around and glared indignantly in shock at the cruel, offending boy, who merely stood pompously before her with arms crossed, faking curiosity at her awaiting answer.  Her mouth opened, ready to say something, but she immediately found that she could think of nothing, and her mouth snapped shut again.  The corners of Gary’s mouth snaked slowly across his face in an evil grin that smugly voiced his triumph.  Considering that it was lucky no one was around to see, Mandy decided to make the smart move and stormed off, escaping before things could get worse.  As he watched her walk off, Gary opted not to make another fish-face joke.  Usually he was all for going too far and taking sadistic joy in completely destroying a person, but it felt like it would be wasted with no one around, and Gary liked to preserve such insults for an audience.  As Gary continued the evil, celebratory party in his head, he hardly noticed the sound of the dorm’s door opening behind him once more.

“Gary, what are you doing here?”

Gary nearly jumped at the sound of her voice.  Nearly.  Luckily he was smooth and clever enough to suppress it at the last minute and hide his surprise behind a façade of coolness.  He whipped around and looked up as calmly as he could at her, casually sticking his hands in his pockets.

“Oh, Christy, it’s you,” he replied with fake nonchalance.  Even though he had his guard up now, it was the only thing he could think of to greet her with just off the top of his head.  He had been so consumed in reveling in his recent victory he nearly forgot why he came here in the first place.

“Yeah, it’s me,” she said smiling at him, “In the flesh,” she added teasingly as she made the short journey down the stairs.  She stopped in front of him.  “There a reason why you’re here?” she asked curiously, looking ready to hear something juicy if he decided to give it up.

Gary inhaled sharply through his nose when she came up to him, and he had to take a step back, glancing off to the side and awkwardly clearing his throat though his fist.

“Yes…as a matter of fact,” he said looking up into her face again, even though he wasn’t sure he was ready to - to which he was right, and he had to force himself to keep his eyes from shying away from her’s, which stared smiling into his own, oblivious of the act he was trying to keep up.  When Christy’s eyebrows went up in fascination, silently urging him to go on, Gary wasn’t sure he quite wanted to admit to her - or to himself - the real reason why he was here, but before he could think about it, he found himself blurting out at the last minute, “…To see you,” at the end of his statement, but he was grateful he was at least able to save himself in the fact that he said it evilly and conspiratorially to her.

Christy’s eyebrows shot up even further, and for a moment she found that her heart jumped when he said that.  It was probably nothing, she reasoned to herself, he was just probably here to share some gossip with her.  In fact, the way he said it seemed to suggest nothing but that, but she still couldn’t help but feel a wave a heat go from her chest to the pit of her stomach at the thought that Gary had come out here specifically to find her.  Probably nothing though.  But still…

“Oh, yeah?” she said, interrupting her thoughts before they went any further.  She clasped her hands together tightly and smiled widely down at Gary, letting him know that she knew what he was probably about to tell her.  “What for?” she added excitedly.

Gary smirked deliciously evil at her and rested an arm against the wall next to him, glancing secretively behind him for effect.  “I have some new gossip for you,” he said looking at her naughtily under his dark brows and that ominous scar of his (which Christy made a mental note to start a rumor about how he got it).

Christy squealed excitedly and clapped her hands in conspirational glee.  “Oh!  Tell me!  Tell me!” she exclaimed.  She clasped her hands on her knees and enthusiastically bent down to get close.

She hadn‘t thought anything of it when she did it, but she also took a step to get closer to him, and her face was immediately inches from his.  Gary actually reeled his head back when she suddenly put her exceptionally pretty face in his and took another sharp intake of air, but it was subtle and Gary immediately hid it, quickly putting his head back where it was after only moving a fraction of an inch.  Gary was extremely thankful that he possessed the ability to skillfully get back a hold of himself at a moment’s notice.

Christy may not of have noticed that slip up, but when she leaned in, she noticed that Gary’s eyes had suddenly glanced down at her lips.  Twice actually.  The first time was brief and was only caught by Christy because her eyes were directly next to his, but then his eyes did a double take and they flashed back down to those tantalizing features and lingered there for a good two or three seconds.  When Christy looked down at his own, she noticed his jaw was tightened.  It was then that Christy suddenly felt her face getting inexplicably hot.

But…she didn’t bother to pull away.

And Gary saw this.

He didn’t bother either.

“Well…” Gary finally started, breaking the brief silence, “I’ve heard some interesting things about Jimmy…” he said, look at her through hooded eyes, but still smirking evilly.  Even when awkwardly staring in the face of lust filled tension, Gary Smith’s desire for world domination and sense of contempt for Jimmy never failed him.

“Oh, yeah?  Like what?” Christy said, enthusiastically egging him on.  And even when awkwardly staring in the face of lust filled tension, Christy Martin’s obsession for rumors and gossip never failed her either.

“Well,” Gary said glancing off to the side, looking particularly proud of this one, “I think I know why Jimmy is so sexually confused.  I hear that he was once a girl and had a sex change.”

Christy’s eyes widened in amazement.  “Oh my God!  Are you serious?” she said gawking at him.

“Dead serious,” Gary said with a devious smirk, “And that’s not all.  I heard his mom slept with Dr. Crabblesnitch to get him into this school.”

Christy put a hand over her mouth and gasped dramatically, her eyes widening even more.  “No way!  That is so gross.”

Gary smirked.  “Well I guess it was the only way she could get him in here after being expelled from so many schools.”

Christy laughed.  “I know, right!  That’s probably why.  You hear anything else…?” she said smiling sweetly at him in hopes that there was one more rumor she could squeeze out of him.

“One more thing,” Gary said, fully smiling now, “I heard that Jimmy has a crush on the Siamese twins at the Freak Show in the carnival.”

“Oh my God!  Ew!  No way!” Christy practically screamed, placing her hands on his chest and clutching onto his uniform without thinking, “You were right,” she laughed, “he is sexually confused!”

Gary managed to stifle out a laugh with her, but it was cut short as his body suddenly tensed with the realization that she was touching him.  As Christy’s laughter died down, she slowly noticed Gary’s silence and caught him looking down at her hands resting on his vest.  Christy pursed her lips together and again her face grew hot.

But again…she didn’t bother to remove them.

And Gary didn’t bother to take them off.

Gary looked back up into Christy’s face.  His eyes flickered back and forth between her eyes and her lips, tending to linger more on her lips, and Christy could see Gary’s mouth twitch.  Unconsciously, Christy’s lips parted just ever so slightly and she felt herself melt inside as she saw Gary slowly graze his teeth over his bottom lip in response.  She gripped his uniform just a little tighter and the tiniest of gasps escaped Gary’s lips.  His breath was shaky and shallow.  Heat radiated through his uniform and into her hands.  She felt suffocated from just the way he was looking at her.  Christy couldn’t stand any more of it.  She had to…

Her hands relaxed and they started to slowly make their way up from his chest to his shoulders.  Gary’s heart made a sharp jump to go along with the soft gasp of surprise he emitted from her touch.  An immense wave of heat coursed through him and his hands clenched into fists.  His breathing became harder and faster.  By now, Christy had already seen that the scared boy’s rosy cheeks were just a little redder than usual, and that excited her even further.  Her hands came up to rest firmly upon his shoulders and Christy’s lashes started gradually falling over her eyes as she slowly moved her face closer into his.  Gary’s eyes widened for a brief moment as all the air in his lungs spilled out from his lips, and his breathing became slower but deeper now as his free hand reached out and tentatively touched her side.  Christy briefly bit her lip in anticipation when she could see that Gary was also parting his lips and moving them closer towards hers.

Suddenly the worst sound Gary could have ever possibly heard in that moment serrated  its way painfully into his ears and forced his brain to come violently crashing back down into reality.  Gary felt as if someone dumped a bucket of cold water onto him as he heard the door to the dormitory’s side exit swing open, and Christy immediately froze and halted all movements on him.  The look on her face as she stared wide eyed into his own told Gary that she realized who she was about to kiss and that she wouldn’t want to be caught dead with him.  Suddenly deciding that she didn’t want anyone to know about her feelings for Gary right now, she bolted and ran fast as far away from him as she could.  Just before she was about leave, Gary desperately tried to press his lips to her at the last minute, but she managed to dodge him and was out of his sight before he could even turn to look longingly after her.

Gary then heard the door close and he whipped around furiously to face whoever just dared to interrupt his courtship of Christy.  He was met with the freckled, squinting face of Jimmy Hopkins who made his way casually down the steps towards Gary, completely oblivious to the recent events that just took place before he arrived.  He paused to look curiously at Gary, who looked a bit flustered at the moment, and then spoke up.

“Hey, Gary,” he said cutting right to the chase, trying to ignore his annoyed expression, “I need to get something from Mandy’s locker.”

Gary nearly had an aneurism.  Here he was, just about to score, and his moment with Christy had to be interrupted because his ugly ass prick of a “friend” (who he was, granted, secretly plotting against anyway) needed to ask how to get some stupid shit from Mandy’s locker?!  NEVER MIND THE FACT THAT I HAVE TO BE REMINDED OF THAT STUPID BTICH RIGHT NOW!

But Gary was a master of deception, and he hid his anger expertly, willing himself not to immediately tackle Jimmy to the ground right then and there and beat him into the pavement until he was bloody pulp.  He needed Jimmy to trust him for the time being if his plans were going to work.

“I’m not surprised,” he sarcastically bit out just a little harsher than he intended and rolling his eyes.  He paused as an evil idea popped into his head.  “You know, you should put a stink bomb in there,” he smirked, “It’d be funny.  Get one from Fatty.  He knows everything about stinking.”

Jimmy smirked deviously.  “I like that idea.  Thanks.  I’ll go try that.”

“Super,” Gary said sarcastically as he turned to leave, “Have fun with that.” With my idea.

Jimmy started walking too.  “Hey, where are you goin' off to now?” he called behind Gary.

Gary glanced behind himself at Jimmy as he rested a fist in his hand and cracked his knuckles.  He turned back around once they turned the corner of the dormitory and Gary caught sight of Chirsty up head, standing with a group of girls in front of the dorm.  He saw Christy look up and spot him from afar.  They locked eyes and Christy hastily excused herself from her friends and hurriedly began walking awkwardly away.  Gary noticed that she at least didn’t dart straight into the Girl’s Dorm where real sanctuary was, and instead oddly chose to “escape” further into the campus.  Where he could easily catch her.  He smirked.

“I’ve got to be doing things…” he said dismissively to Jimmy without even looking at him, “…important people to meet.”