saturday, march 24, 1984- 7:10 AM

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 As the six teens try to get comfortable, they hear a loud snapping sound. Johnson and Opal turn around and notice the girl in all black biting her nails. By that time, the other five teens were staring at her.

"You keep eating your hand and you're not gonna be hungry for lunch." Bender says. The girl in all black spits her nail at him. Opal flinches, trying not to look at anyone.

"I've seen you before, you know." Bender says. He is quickly cut off, since the principal looked into the library from his office. Opal shifts uncomfortably in her seat, intimidated by the glare of the principal.

"Who do I think I am? Who are you? Who are you? I am a walrus." Johnson says, attaching his pen to his bottom lip. Opal looks over at Johnson and giggles. Bender looks over at them with the most confused look on his face. Opal quickly covers her mouth, trying not to laugh louder at Bender's expression. Johnson laughs in embarrassment and takes the pen out of his mouth. Opal stops laughing, and puts her head down onto the desk.

Bender and Johnson start to take off their jackets at the same time. They acknowledge this, and Johnson stops taking off his jacket. Bender takes his all the way off, while Johnson rubs his hands together, pretending to be cold. Bender stares at Johnson in disgust.

"It's the shits, huh?" he snarks. Johnson laughs uncomfortably. Opal put a hand on his shoulder, giving him a reassuring look. He smiles slightly at her, blushing. Bender crumples the paper on his desk up, and tries to throw it at the redhead, missing. He then starts singing, rather badly. Opal cringes a bit, covering her ears making sure Bender doesn't see her.

"I can't believe this is really happening to me." the redhead says to herself. Opal looked over at her with a stunned face. 

'Big freaking deal, sweetie.' she thought to herself. She noticed Bender stopped his god-awful singing.

"Oh shit! What're we supposed to do if we have to take a piss?" he asked. Opal slid her chair as far from Bender as she could. No way that boy was gonna pee in here. The redhead looked at him in disgust.

"If you gotta go, you gotta go!" Bender exclaimed while unzipping his fly. The other five teens looked at Bender.

"Hey, you're not urinating in here man!" the jock exclaimed. Opal silently agreed with him.

"Don't talk, don't talk! It makes it crawl back up!" Bender said. Opal silently hoped that the jock would keep talking.

"You whip it out and you're dead when the first drop hits the floor!" the jock says, looking like he's about to punch the living daylights out of Bender. Bender gasped in a mocking way.

"You're pretty sexy when you get angry, grr!" Bender says to the jock, sarcastically. He turns to Johnson.

"Hey, homeboy, why don't you close that door, we'll get the prom queen impregnated!" Bender said. The redhead glared at Bender.

"Whoa, let's not go there, kid." Opal says, getting up.

"Hey!" the jock exclaimed.

"Shut it, new girl. What now, sporto?" Bender said, turning to the jock. Opal sat back down, feeling embarrassed. Johnson put his hand on top of her hand. 

"If I lose my temper, you're totaled man!" the jock shouts. 

"Totally?" Bender asks.

"Totally." the jock said.

"Why don't you just shut up? No one here is interested!" the redhead shouts, turning to Bender. 

"Really! Buttface..." the jock says.

"Well hey, Sporto! What did you do to get in here? Forget to wash your jock?" Bender asked the jock.

"Uh, excuse me, fellas? I think we should just write our papers." Johnson asked nervously. The jock and Bender paid him no mind. Opal silently agreed with Johnson. She was getting tired of them bickering.

"Look, just because you live in here doesn't give you the right to be a pain in the ass, so knock it off!" the jock says. Bender had a mock-hurt look on his face.

"It's a free country..." Bender said. The redhead turned to the jock.

"He's just doing it to get a rise out of you. Just ignore him." she told the jock.

"Sweets, you couldn't ignore me if you tried." Bender said. The redhead rolled her eyes.

"Wow, nice line." Opal said sarcastically. Bender looked at her in disgust.

"So, so! Are you guys like boyfriend/girlfriend? Steady dates? Lo-vers?" Bender asked the jock and the redhead. They both shifted uncomfortably in their seats.

"Come on sporto, level with me. Do you slip her the hot beef injection?" Bender continues.

"Go to hell!" the redhead shouts.

"Enough!" the jock shouts. 

"Hey, what's going on in there?" the principal shouts. The six teens go quiet.

"Scumbag..." the jock mumbles.

"You're telling me..." Opal muttered. 

After a little time went by, Bender went to the railing and sat on top of it. He broke the uncomfortable silence.

"What do you say we close that door. We can't have any kind of party with Vernon checking us out every five seconds." he said. 

"Well, y'know the door's supposed to stay open." Johnson mumbled. Bender looked over at him.

"So what?" he asked the blonde.

"So why don't you just shut up? There's five other people in the room you know." the jock exclaimed. 

"God, you can count. See, I knew you had to be smart to be a wrestler!" Bender replied sarcastically. Opal rolled her eyes.

"Who the hell are you to judge anyway? You know, Bender, you don't even count. I mean if you disappeared forever it wouldn't make any difference. You may as well not even exist in this school." the jock said. Bender looked hurt. Opal felt a pang in her stomach. She felt that exact way about herself ever since her first day at the school.

"Well I'll just run right out and join the wrestling team." Bender says, hiding his hurt feelings from the other teens in the room. The jock and the redhead laugh at what Bender just said. Opal felt a twinge of pity for Bender.

"Maybe the prep club too! Student council..." Bender says, trailing off.

"Nah, they wouldn't take you." the jock said. 

"I'm hurt." Bender says sarcastically.

"You know why guys like you knock everything? It's 'cause you're afraid." the redhead said to Bender.

"Oh god! You richies are so smart, that's why I'm not heavy in activities!" Bender says, in mock enthusiasm.

"I'm in the math club..." Johnson mumbles to himself.

"I tried to get into the dance team, but was rejected..." Opal murmurs, partially to herself, partially to the blonde boy next to her.

"See you're afraid that they won't take you. You don't belong so you just have to dump all over it." the redhead said.

"Well, it wouldn't have anything to do with you activities people being assholes, now would it?" Bender snarled. Even though Opal didn't like Bender at all, he did have a point.

"Well you wouldn't know, you don't even know any of us." the redhead replied.

"Well, I don't know any lepers either, but I'm not gonna run out and join one of their fuckin' clubs." Bender said.

"Hey, let's watch the mouth, huh?" the jock said.

"Okay, we don't need the language." Opal said at the same time.

"I'm in the physics club too..." Johnson murmurs. Bender turned to the blonde.

"What are you babbling about?" he asks. 

"Well, what I said was I'm in the math club, the Latin club, and the, the physics club." Johnson says to Bender. Bender turns to the redhead.

"Hey, Cherry, do you belong to the physics club?" he asks her.

"That's an academic club..." the redhead mutters.

"So?" Bender asks.

"So... academic clubs aren't the same as other types of clubs." she replies.

"Oh, but to dorks like him, they are. What do you guys do in your club?" Bender says.

"In physics, um, we, we talk about physics... about properties of physics." Johnson replies.

"So it's sorta social. Demented and sad, but social. Right?" Bender says. Opal widened her eyes at Bender's comment. It wasn't that demented.

"Yeah, well, I guess you could consider it a social situation. I mean there are other children in my club and uh, at the end of the year we have, um, you know, a big banquet, at the, uh, at the Hilton." Johnson continues.

"You load up, you party..." Bender inquires.

"Well, no, we get dressed up. I mean, but, we don't, we don't get high." Johnson says.

"Only burners like you get high." the redhead said in a patronizing way.

"And, uh, I didn't have any shoes. So I had to borrow my dad's. It was kinda weird 'cause my mom doesn't like me to wear other people's shoes. And, uh, my cousin Kent...my cousin Kendall from, uh, Indiana... He got high once and you know, he started eating like really weird foods. And uh, and then he just felt like he didn't belong anywhere. You know, kinda like, you know 'Twilight Zone' kinda." Johnson continues. 

"That's interesting." Opal said to the blonde.

"Ha, sounds like you!" the redhead said to Bender. The jock looked fed up.

"Look, you guys keep up your talking and Vernon's gonna come right in here. I got a meet this Saturday and I'm not gonna miss it on account of you boneheads." the jock snarls. Opal shot a glare at the jock.

"Oh and wouldn't that be a bite. Oh! Missing a whole wrestling meet!" Bender said in a mocking tone.

"Well you wouldn't know anything about it, faggot! You never competed in your whole life!" the jock shouted.

"Oh, I know... I feel all empty inside because of it. I have such a deep admiration for guys that roll around on the floor with other guys!" Bender said in the same tone. Opal let out a small laugh. Johnson looked at her. She blushed, and looked away.

"Ah, you'd never miss it. You don't have any goals." the jock mutters.

"Oh, but I do!" Bender said.

"Yeah?" the jock asks.

"I wanna be just. Like. You! I figure all I need's a lobotomy and some tights!" Bender says, feigning excitement. Johnson looks over at the jock.

"You wear tights?" he asks.

"No I don't wear tights, I wear the required uniform." the jock says, a bit embarrassed.

"Tights..." the blonde says.

"Shut up!" the jock exclaims.

"Tights..." Opal whispers to Johnson. The two snicker quietly, trying not to let the jock hear them.

The teens hear Vernon walking around in the hallway. Bender quickly sits between the jock and the redhead, in case Vernon comes into the library. When Vernon goes into his office, Bender laughs and gets up. He walks to the doors.

"Y'know there's not supposed to be any monkey business!" Johnson says to Bender. He turned around and pointed to the blonde.

"Young man, have you finished your paper?" Bender says in a stern tone. Opal stifles a laugh.

"What are you gonna do?" the redhead asks Bender.

"Drop dead, I hope!" the jock replies.

"Whoa, there, sporto." Opal says. The jock turns to her and just gives her a dirty look.