Chapter Fourteen

Jimmy and Spinner sat on the school steps of their Community School after getting suspended for a week for starting a fight with Rick. They weren't super suprised at their punishment, but it still sucked major balls.

"and of course, Jay doesn't get anything but a detention!" exclaimed Spinner. "Oh well, maybe I can pick up some extra hours at work for the next week or something. Y'know, so Mother Mason doesn't freak out too much."

"Yeah... Well, maybe we should just stop picking on Rick. Don't you think its getting a little old?" said Jimmy.

"Hell no. He put our friend in a coma, Jimmy, a coma. I'm not stopping until he leaves."

Jimmy looked at his best friend and wondered when did Spinner start building up all this hate in him. Yeah, Rick put Terri in a coma, but it was starting to become old news and picking on Rick was getting a little old. Also, Jimmy had big plans once he graduated and he couldn't keep screwing up in school like this all because some nerd had a bad temper.

Then Jimmy looked at how Spinner had his fist balled up and wondered how long would it be before Spinner snapped.

Rick returned to Kellen with those delicious cherry-pineapple popsicles and an ice cream cone for himself. Kellen's vision was still stuck on the curvy girl with long following dirty blonde hair. She didn't know whether or not to tell Rick that that was her, or just to pretend she didn't see a thing.

Kellen knew she could be considered a bad friend is she didn't tell Rick that the love of his life was standing only a few feet away from him, but she also knew that maybe it was for the best that Rick didn't know that Terri was indeed still alive. She balanced the idea in her head for a few mintutes before finally Rick interrupted her.

"Uh, you okay, Kellen? What are you looking at?"

Kellen's eyes got big. "Nothing! Uh, that little boy just fell down. HAHAHAHAHA."

"Oh, shit, are his parents there, we should go see if he's okay..."

"The kid will be fine, Rick. Its life. When you fall back, you pick yourself back up and move on. And besides, his mom's right there. Everything is okay... Thanks for the popsicle." she smiled bashfully.

"Thanks for sticking up for me back there," Rick looked at his shoes. "I don't know how much more I can take from them, Kellen. It's all becoming too much..." Rick sat down on a swing.

Kellen occupied the swing next to him and hoped that Rick wouldn't be looking up anytime soon to see that Terri was here. "Maybe when we get back to school next week we can talk to Raditch about it, yeah? They can't just keep letting shit like this happen, you know."

"Yeah, but Mr Raditch never listens to me. I think... I think the next time any of them do something to me, I'm gonna have to retaliate so like, none of them will ever mess with me again." Rick said darkly.

And Kellen didn't like that, Kellen didn't like that one bit.