July 22, 2000
Argh...don't know where this came from...
They both got detentions. "My father had a *shit* fit," Duo said, to show he could say 'shit' too. Relena sighed and gazed up at her idol with a blank look of adoration. "Man, what'd your mom say?"
Wufei gave a sigh. "Nothing much. She only TOOK AWAY MY NINTENDO 64! Injustice!" He glared at the oblivious Heero, who was busy helping--sucking up to, he thought--the teacher put up colored paper cutouts of flowers. "We've got to get him back."
They sat there in silence, pondering the many things they could do to Heero Yuy.
"A bucket of Jell-O on his head?"
Too messy, they decided. Then Wufei came up with another idea.
"We could steal his lunch."
"We do that already," Duo sighed.
"D'oh!"
Finally, it was time for recess and they put thoughts of revenge on the backburner for another day.
The opportunity finally presented itself halfway into November. "Heero," the teacher said, over her original misgivings about having a 'deaf' student in the class, "has been nominated for Student of the Week!" She clapped, shooting a death glare in Duo's gang's direction as they booed.
"Come have your picture taken so we can put it up on the bulletin board." She grabbed him forcibly by the arm and dragged him into the hallway. "Smile!"
"Oh man," Duo said, munching on a pretzel borrowed from Heero's lunch, "look at the glare--! You can't see his face, what with the braces and the glasses reflecting the flash." Wufei snickered and made his final changes to the Student of the Week bulletin board. "Here comes the fifth graders! We better get out of here, man." They ran around the corner, giggling to themselves as they heard loud guffaws of laughter.
"This is going to be great," Duo sighed, hiding the black magic marker in his hair. Likewise, Wufei tucked his stapler into the back of his pants like a gun and they headed back to lunch before the monitor noticed they were missing. With any luck, none of the teachers would see the board before Heero did...
"Hey Duo," Relena said, sitting down between them with her brown paper sack lunch. "I saw the board. That was great, guys!" She handed them two brownies as a congratulatory offering, then disappeared with Dorothy.
"It was, wasn't it?" said Duo proudly.
The school day was over, and for the first time, Heero was in a relatively good mood. He had only been called 'metal mouth' twice, which was a record for him, and Treize, the boy who'd helped him up in gym class, had stopped in the hallway by the water fountain to talk to him.
He was in such a good mood that he didn't notice that people were pointing and staring at him as he passed. It was only when he turned the final corner into the hallway leading to the doors that he saw it.
The Student of the Week bulletin had been completely redesigned. His picture (while he hadn't been the best-looking boy to begin with) had been defaced and a huge, ringed mustache colored his upper lip. The red and blue border had been taken down and replaced with toilet paper. Across the background construction paper read in large, black letters:
GEEK OF THE WEEK!!!!
"Oh man, this must have been Duo and Wu...they're *crazy*!"
"He'll never live this one down..."
"...they'll be talking about it for years..."
To Heero's horror, half of the elementary school was now crowded around him, eyes vicious, smiling blankly. He wasn't sure who started it, but a rousing cry of, "Geek! Geek! Geek! Geek!" had started up. Even some of the middle schoolers on their way out had stopped to take up the cause. Frightening similar to a mob, they closed in, hands reaching out and pushing him back and forth, tearing his clothes, smashing his glasses. He was dizzy...
He was falling...
End Part Two
Ariana
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