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“…your shitting me? Right?”
“No! No no- come on hopkins..you’ll see! My plan will make US kings of the school…we’re going to be bull-worths POWER COUPLE!”
those words rung through Jimmys head and left him wearing a thoroughly concerned expression.
“…power couple?” Jimmy spoke outloud, the words perplexed him. Especially when they came from the mouth of none other than Gary smith.
“..have you been taking your..erm..pills..lately..gary?”
gary redirected his line of vision and stared daggers ahead at peter kowalski. How dare he try to offer up the fact that gary wasnt properly medicated, that his words where coming from insanity and a dishevled mind. The thought was poposterous!…but true.
“Have you been practicing how to shut the fuck up lately, petey? No? Well theres no time like the present, my friend.” Gary spit venom as he paced back and forth in front of both boys, petey was sat with his back against the arm rest and his legs outstretched on jimmys lap with his nintendo switch grasped with both his hands while Jimmy sat beside him, his arms resting over his legs with his phone in his hand, he was barely listening to garys little rant, just letting the physco get shit off his chest like usual. All untill this whole ‘power couple idea’ had been brought up.
“Right then..smith..explain this thing again then?”
Gary stopped pacing and looked at jimmy with a devilish smile, a mischevious glint in his eye as he stared right ahead at jimmy, his head angled down slightly since jimmy was sitting.
“Its simple dear Jimmy-boy! All we have to do is make it SEEM like were dating. Gaze lovingly into eachothers eyes, make people itch with how lovey-dovey we are..and hell, maybe even hold hands or something,” Gary explained, glancing at the boy in the pink shirt who was staring fearfully back at him.
“dude- Gary- no way..” jimmy murmurs, scoffing slightly and crossing his arms “no girls will wanna kiss me if they have the idea of us getting it on in their heads..make petey be your bitchboy”
Pete whipped his head round, his cheeks flushed as he shook his head, as if he was terrified of the idea of being close to gary, even if it wherent real.
“Him? This little scrawny rat? Not believeable enough..everyone knows id never stoop THAT low. Plus..i dont think petey could ever have a partner..even if they where forced at gunpoint..” he scoffed and rolled his eyes, jimmy had never noticed how prominent that scar over his eye was.. come to think about it..how did that ever even happen in the first place? Ever since jimmy had been here in his first year of bullworth, gary had had the scar..which made jimmy think it was perhaps something that happened in his childhood way back or something…he hated to admit it but he thought about it often.
“Yeah..fair enough..well..if i do comply- whats in it for me?” He asked, quirking an eyebrow and putting his phone down to show he was giving gary his undevided attention now.
“Who knows, james..but i do know that we’ll be ontop around here..”
“…why dont you just get some girl to go along with it? thatd be more ‘believable’ than ME.” Gary stared back at the strawberry blonde with a confused look as if the boy had just started speaking a diffirent language.
“Dont act like you dont swing that way james, the amount of times ive seen you with your toung wedged down that rich preppy kid Gordons throat behind the school..Your sexually confused!”
Jimmy pinched the bridge of his nose and scowled over at gary.
“First, its gord, not gordon, and who hasnt? His ass has been passed around like the entire year.hes like the male faggy version of Lola for christ sake..” Jimmy countered, laughing awkwardly and folding his arms over his chest, why was he defending him? He didnt actually LIKE gord..right? He was stupid..and a rich arrogant prick.
“Gords gay..?” Peter tilted his head, piping back up to the conversation, a certain quality of confusion to his voice as he lowered the nintendo switch that was still held tight in his hands.
“Well, Bi, actually..”
“The mans gay! No shame in it- do *not* tell me he has a thing for any girls, he wears lipgloss!” Gary exclaimed, pressing his pointer and middle fingers against his temples and staring bug-eyed at both pete and jimmy.
“This isnt a revelation..and this isnt the topic of the damn conversation!” Gary huffs, seemingly getting frustrated and hitting his palms against the sides of his head now before crouching down slightly and staring into jimmys eyes.
“James. I need you to do this ONE thing for me.” Gary spoke, desperation soaking his words as his hands rested on his own knees to steady his balance and keep level with jimmy.
“Its always *one* thing, gary.” Jimmy deadpanned before sighing and rubbing his eyes untill he was seeing white stars behind his eyelids.
“Alright- fuck..fine! Ill do your pansy-ass plan. But theres no way im making out with you or anything.” Jimmy said; holding up a finger to try and usher gary away from him. Gary had always had a weird thing with social boundaries and being too touchy with people..Jimmy often wondered if maybe it was because he didnt get enough love from his parents as a child..but that was neither here nor there.
“James! I knew youd see my way, oh my god..this is gonna be SO good!” Gary clenched his fists and excitedly waved them in the air as he began pacing again. “Alright…ive got places to be..ideas to brainstorm..ill let you two fairys have at it.” Gary spoke, weakly gesturing at them before wacking his hands down against his sides and power walking out of the room..gary always had a certain sense of excitement and Joy whenever he got his way.
“..you’re actually going along with it?” Peter asked, quirking an eyebrow as he turned his switch off, carefully removing his legs from jimmys lap and putting them off the side of the couch again, sitting slumped beside his friend.
“..yeah i suppose..i gave my word…but just untill i see what he really means..like..how far is he gonna go with this shit?” jimmy muttered, sighing as he stared down at the ground before pushing himself up with his palms on his knees and standing infront of pete.
“Look, i Gotta go too, i told vance id help him tune his bike, hes been asking since i passed shop class last month..” he chuckled slightly before lifting a hand to lazily wave at pete before walking out of the common room in the dorm.
“Alright, see you, Jim.”