Chapter 1: Blub blub blub!

Cindy's point of view…

"Now let's take a look at these complicated pronouns and…"

As my English teacher droned on and on about some kind of mathematical thing, my mind couldn't help but wander to somewhere else.

Hey, even though I'm the second smartest person in school, it doesn't mean I have to like the classes.

My eyes drifted from the blackboard and stopped at the person sitting in front of me. Jimmy.

For years, the thoughts of him had constantly penetrated my mind like a bee swarming to a field of flowers. The days dragged on as I wondered when I was about to make my confession. Every time it would go like this:

Me: Jimmy…c-c-can I talk to you f-for a sec? In p-private?

Him: Sure thing.

Well, after our usual ring of friends (Libbs, Sheen, and Carl) left us, I would be:

Him: So, Cin, what were you saying?

Me: Well, I know it's b-b-been a pretty long time since w-w-we talked privately like this, but I j-j-just wanted you to know that…that…

Him: Yes?

But before I managed to say something, the bell would either ring, or we would be interrupted by someone. Sheen, twice. Carl, once. Betty Quinlan, his annoying major fan, an infinity amount of times. Well, I couldn't blame her for staring at Jimmy all the time. Over the years, he had morphed from geeky Retrovillian to the hottest person ever to walk on the Earth. In my opinion, anyways. Now in our sophomore year of high school, all of us had changed. But Jimmy had changed the most. He had ditched his weird soft-serve-like hairdo and now had side bangs that would flop adoringly over his left eye, and—

"Miss Vortex. Would you please cease your daydreaming and pay attention? This is important! You will have to--"

"Yah, ok, but it'd really help if you stopped being so hypnotic!" I snapped back. My teacher frowned, but didn't say anything more. Well, I was his best student. I doubt he could find it in his heart to give me detention or something of that sort.

Anyway, today seemed like one of Jimmy's "goofing off days". Once in a while, he would just rake up some mischief just for laughs. Today, the victim seemed to be Carl, because he was the only person that was closest to Jimmy (in front) and falling asleep. (At this point, Betty, sitting beside him, was staring lustfully at him again, so I gave her my most poisonous death glare. She glared back, then continued looking at him…What a loser…) So Jimmy leaned forward and whispered, "Blub blub blub…blubity blub blub!" He then made some other water-like noises, so I assumed he was making Carl dream about his upcoming swim test. Carl was trying to make the swim team, despite his slightly overweight physique. He had been so nervous about it this whole week, Carl was no doubt dreaming about it now.

"There are bubbles around you in the pool…

"You're slowly, slowly sinking toward the floor…" Jimmy whispered, while Carl seemed to be whimpering and mumbling something like, "Mommy, am I allergic to water too?"

"Sinking…sinking…"

Here, Carl whimpers again and shouts, "NNOO!" which caused all of us to stare up at him, including the teacher.

I tried to muffle my laughter, but Jimmy heard it. He turned around and winked at me with those alluring blue eyes of his. I winked back, giving a small thumbs-up. He grinned widely with teeth like perfect strings of white pearls. I just about died.

Just then, the bell rung. The teacher scowled at Carl murderously, but dismissed us.

You know, I think I'm beginning to like this class.

Author's Note: haha, this is my first time writing a fanfic, but not my first time writing a story. So I hope I've done a good job. Actually the swimming thing idea came from a Ranma 1/2 manga chapter, where Akane fell asleep in class, dreaming of her swim test thing, and worrying because she couldn't swim. So in order to wake her up, and Ranma being the mean person, he whispered the sound effects to her and she thought she was drowning, and woke up crying or something.

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