Chapter 6, Senior Year September Part Two

Song of the Chapter - "Where's Your Head At?" by Basement Jaxx

So its a week of hard labor later and its Freddie pushing Sam into the JC at school. He endured what to be a long harsh week of being the "Janitor's Assistant" As a "Volunteer" Deal after the "Red Baron" Fiasco on the outside. What was really was...

Hard.

Manual.

Labor.

HE was cleaning the Science halls still lightly, but soundly stenched in "The Baron's" Musk.

HE after that started on the rest of the Hallways, worked up and down the two floors of Ridgeway High, including the Basement.

Just a real, long, week.

During the week though he got closer in how he can pull off talking to Sam, oddly enough from the Janitor of all people.

Freddie was Sweeping the last of the Basement floor, he couldn't believe another missed opportunity and all because he couldn't speak up for just a moment and at least get his closure on her.

He couldn't help stop for a second and mumble to himself, "Man if I was only a little bolder"

"Kid," Ed Said in the background sitting back finished with his side of the basement looking ahead at the kid trying to finish his. "You said something?"

"Uh, no" Freddie mumbled quickly.

"Oh no, now I know you said something," Ed straighten himself up against the wall he is leaning against himself on. "Now, Spill" He orders like a teacher trying to get an answer from his student.

"Ok, might as well. Alright, so this "bully" I told ya about, well she-"

"A she? It all makes sense now"

"What?" Freddie's Jaw couldn't feel more down on the floor.

"Yea, you wanted to ask that girl out and she decides to do something like this before you ask didn't ya? Is it that girl that was with you the day you explain that bad, bad kid?"

"Yea?" Maybe it can get lower?

"Well, you feel that you not saying a word may have messed ya up? Thinking your a wuss or somehting?"

"Uh? Yea?"

"Well, then you have to get bolder, do something she would never see from you but at the same time she would be impressed at?"

Freddie's head was covered in pure thought, he felt out of those thoughts that, Ed was right. He needed to show Sam that he can get sneaky and devious and bold like her. He knew what to exactly to do.

He was wanting to pull this off ever since thinking it up in the schools basement, to take this to the craziest level he ever been in. He had a prank that if done right could be supplanted amongst Ridgeway locals "Stuff of Legend"

He set up half the English Lab, Theater (Because Sam thinks they are some snobby nubs, and Freddie tends to actually agree on that sentiment.) And Ms. Briggs Office at the same time to start a Major League Chain reaction that would end with Briggs Covered in Feathers, Tomato Juice and a concotion that is so bad, Briggs would remember the remarkably strong stench for the rest of her days.

He planned it right after finishing helping Ed with the school, Even got the go from Ed to help, (He didn't like Briggs after being denied a raise because she came to Principal Franklin about how mediocre of a job she thought he was doing.) Freddie couldn't wait to tell Sam and to ask her out in the process.

"Best. Plan. Ever." Was his thoughts while he was finishing the contraption that starts the chain in the JC.

Sam was walking towards the JC, apparently Freddie had something to talk about? Wondering what the nub was into she also ran into the memories of the last few months. The bantering, the helping, laughs and the kissing...

"That nub can sure kiss." Sam smirked at that thought.

It's was going so well before he left for Nub and Dork Camp (He calls it Technology Camp, but who cares?)

She would have been ticked off but she liked how dorky and yet at the same time he made it seem...

Cool?

Yea, she thought lately it was cool. And she thinks if she gets a chance, a time to hang out outside the walls of the JC should be arranged, just the two of them.

"Not before kissing that nerd senseless..." Sam lost her voice as she walked into the JC...

"Ah Sam!" Freddie said eagerly as he walked beside her and looked at his masterpiece.

"Think your the only pranky one here? You must have forgot the incident with you going to see the prettiest boy in school."

Sam was still Speechless.

"Well, anyway. I have made a prank contraption out of the ducts that lead from styrofoam balls would encompass the whole English Lab, towards the finish line! Ms Briggs will get the stench she will never forget!" Freddie felt so proud of himself, he wanted to yell out loud "Daddy, I'm a Man now!" But he held it back of course. But as the silent Sam was still silent he was getting bit nervous.

"Sam," he said much quieter getting more nervous about what is going down.

"This is not you," Sam mumbled,

"Huh?" Freddie asked, confused at what he heard, in more ways than one.

"This, isn't you!"

"But Sa-"

"I can't believe how you are acting, I mean not just today but the last few months, I mean being bold thing was kind of cool at first, but this? I should have known it would come to this."

Freddie couldn't believe this, the girl that does the exact same stuff that he is pulling right now is slamming in on him trying to have some fun for once? "Is this the Twilight Zone here or just me?" Freddie thought as he was about to get the brunt of a unforgettable tirade.

"I am the delinquent, the one who is supposed to get in to trouble, the one who is going to fail school, and then do dead end jobs like some troublemaker that drags through life!"

"Now c'mon Sa-" Freddie tried to step closer but suddenly a push had him on the other side of the walls Sam staying actually as far as she can from him from the other side.

"And, You, YOU! Are supposed to be the smart, calm cool collected one that knew not to do stuff like this, to keep me out of trouble, not pull of this prank!"

"Wait, you are smart too and I am still smart, you put focus into this year you can finish high school and get into a good college!"

"Freddie, you know I can't and now... I guess I can't seem to know people as well... "

"Guess, you wouldn't go out with me after this." He mumbled to what he thought himself and then Sam caught wind.

"This? This! is what you do this for to impress me? Unbelievable Freddie. So I guess your right about this, for once." She said with venom and fierceness in her voice and she swiftly and quietly stepped out of the JC's door.

"Sam, wait!" He ran out trying to catch her but not before closing the door so loud that a big bottle of bleach that was on the edge of the stand fell on the switch that starts the chain.

He got out and seen no one in the halls, he searched up and down looking for her, but nothing came of it. He blew a sigh and wanted to go back in to the JC to disarm the prank, but then...

"AAAAAHHHHHHHHH!"

He stopped and looked around as the sound of none other than Mrs. Briggs surrounded the school halls. He opened the door to see the mess that was left after the incident and seen the switch that was pressed.

He walked back out only to feel a hand on his shoulder and a strong "stench" that came through his nose.

"Mr. Benson, my office please!"

A/N: So, what you guys think? The song of the chapter really inspired this, so I really hope you guys enjoyed it. So Read and Review please?