6So I accidentally uploaded chapter 2 early and unfinished and didn't notice for over a week so if you thought it ended really weird, it did. If this chapters rushed it's because I tried to put it out on the same night as re-uploading chapter two, just to avoid confusion on people following this story etc...SORRY
Zeke gasped at the person stood behind him in the boy's bathroom.
"You!"
Louise looked at him in annoyance.
"Obviously it would be me. Who else would it be?"
Zeke shrugged.
"You don't know what I get up to. There could be a whole buncha people after me, girl."
Louise groaned and dragged Zeke out into the hall, praying that he'd washed his hands, even if he didn't go to the bathroom. The boy's room was beyond gross. They stood in the empty corridor.
"Where the heck is everyone?"
"Class, dummy. It's last period but a certain someone and I have an important matter to discuss with you," Louise replied, leading him down the hall towards the gym.
"Who is it?" Zeke gasped yet again.
"Duh? Obviously Gene?"
Louise pushes Zeke into a small storage cupboard where Gene was already waiting, writing furiously on a whiteboard used for tactical diagrams. It was dark and stunk of rubber from all the basketballs and sweat from all the sweat.
"Zeke, you get clearly have a crush on our sister. And, therefore, we have decided to help you because Tina needs all the help she can get, and from the looks of it, so can you."
"But...it's impossible! I can't do that to J-Ju, no matter how much I like Tina!" Zeke groaned.
"Gene, show our friend here the plan we have orchestrated," Louise asked.
Gene moves aside to show a stick figure in a cowboy hat, sat gleefully upon a dolphin.
"That is a good plan!" Zeke exclaimed in wonderment.
"Gene! What the heck is that?"
"It's my albino friend, Ken. He's debating becoming a dolphin trainer," Gene explained, going into a whisper, "It's a midlife crisis."
Louise shoved Gene aside and span the board round to show a complex diagram, complete with bullet points and a terrible drawing of Tina in the middle, seemingly with three boobs.
"Okay, Zeke, you have just entered Phase One of 'Zekda: OcarTina of Time'," Louise exclaimed.
"And love!"
Zeke took a moment to soak all this in, like how all the basketballs around them had soaked all that children's sweat in. He really liked Tina, he had for a long time. Plus, he knew he would treat Tina right and that's what she deserved. Hell, maybe he deserved it too.
"I'm in! Tina! I'm gonna get ya, girl!"
"Yes!" Gene exclaimed, holding his fists into the air, "Mamma Mia, here we go again!"
"Mom!" Louise and Gene shouted as they walked into the restaurant, Zeke following slowly behind, "Mom, is Tina here?"
"No, sweetie, I gave her the day off. She's had a hard few days. Plus, she's got this whole self confident thing going on so I've hid some of my lipsticks and perfumes around our room so she can pretend to steal them, it's fun."
"Well, we can't work today either. We're setting Tina up with Zeke and we need the basement to do Phase One."
"It's got a whole Mamma Mia vibe!" Gene explained, with a flourish. Linda clapped her hands.
"Aw! Look at my little cupids! Bobby isn't this sweet?"
"Wait, what? No, kids I need you to work, I'm already short staffed as it is!" Bob shouted from the kitchen. Linda pulled the curtain shutter down on him.
"Quick, kids, run!"
"Bye, Mrs B!" Zeke yelled as they ran downstairs, amidst the angry shouting of Bob.
"He'll make such a good son in law!" Linda whispered to herself.
Once they were in, Louise produced a large piece of paper, covered in drawings of girls from their school.
"So, Phase One. We need to get Jimmy Jr with another girl so you don't feel bad about getting with Tina. Personally I think this Phase is redundant seeing as if Jimmy Jr has feelings, he wouldn't lead Tina on but whatever."
"Tammy is already a no go!" Gene exclaimed, colouring her face in with a big, red marker, "It can't be anyone Tina doesn't like otherwise all her attention will be on Jimmy Jr and his fantastic hair."
"How about Chloe Barbash?" Louise asked.
"No way, sister! You think her terrible dancing could keep up with Jimmy Jr? She was in my gym and she dances like a chip packet in the wind!" Gene shouted.
"Well then, Gene, maybe you should date him!"
"Well then, Louise, maybe I should!"
"Wait!" Zeke exclaimed, shutting them both up, "What about her?"
Tina was sat in the cafeteria, alone and loving it. This new 'independent woman' thing was still very new, seeing as it had been going on for two days, but it had completely changed Tina's outlook on life. Previously, eating alone would have made her so self-conscious but now, she felt empowered.
"Like, ew, why is Tina sat on her own?" Jocelyn exclaimed to Tammy and Jimmy Jr, "It's, like, so totally sad."
"She's become an independent woman," Jimmy Jr explained, looking down at his despondent mash potatoes, "She doesn't need men anymore."
"Oh my gosh! Tina's, like, totally, a lesbian!" Tammy screamed, "She's gonna look at my training bra when we get changed for gym."
Tina, who had been ear-wigging because independent women still like to hear what the boy they're totally over is saying about them, slammed her plastic cutlery down. It didn't make as satisfying a noise as she'd have hoped but it still got everyone's attention.
"Actually, Tammy, if I was gonna look at anyone's boobs, it would be mine because I don't need a training bra. I am a strong, independent, boobiful woman with a real bra."
"Y-Yeah? So?" Tammy squealed, "My bra came from Victoria's Secret, yours was like, totally, from the dollar store."
"You can't buy real boobs from the dollar store, Tammy. So if you're happy with your expensive bra and boob pads, I'll keep my real boobs and dollar store bra."
A deafening silence fell over the cafeteria as Tammy stood defeated with her boob pads and Tina remained seated with her real boobs and her victorious mashed potato. Then, there came a small whisper.
"Tammy wears boob pads."
"Tammy wears boob pads."
It evolved into a chant as every Wagstaff student who was there, joined together in one beautiful chorus, making fun at a girl who'd made fun of them, either to their face or behind their backs. Tammy excelled at both.
"Tammy wears boob pads! Tammy wears boob pads!"
"No, no, no, no!" Tammy screamed, as her reputation as the hottest girl in their grade slowly slipped away, despite her claim to that title being passive at best.
Jocelyn stood in the midst of this madness, torn between her loyalty to her best friend and the desire to be popular. Horrified, she looked from the chanting students who were behind Tina to her best friend, black eyeliner tears welling in her eyes and nervous farts escaping from her rear.
"Jocelyn! Don't!" Tammy threatened, "Without me, you'd be a nobody! The only reason you have any friends is totally because of me and if you turn against me now, I'll make sure you never have any friends again!"
"Ugh, you know what, Tammy?" Jocelyn spat back, "Id, like, rather have no friends than be friends with you! You're a total boob punch and I like totally suit a side ponytail better than you!"
Jocelyn ran into the crowd, joining in the merry chant about Tammy's lack of breasts. Tammy turned to the one person still on her end of the cafeteria, who was still looking into his somehow more despondent pile of mashed potatoes.
"You're still my friend, right?"
"No, Tammy," Jimmy Jr scowled, getting up, "It's all because you you that Tina doesn't like my anymore. Maybe you should also get some heart pads to make your heart bigger because you're just a bitch!"
The chanting ceased. Mouths silently fell open. An erie chill fell over the canteen. A bit of mashed potato dripped onto Jimmy Jr's shoe. Dread struck everyone's hearts simultaneously. Jimmy Jr had used the...b word.
"A...a bitch?" Tammy whimpered. Jimmy Jr looked down at the floor, refusing to meet anyone's discerning gaze.
"I...I didn't mean…" he began. It was too much for Tammy, who ran sobbing from the canteen.
"Oh, my god, Tin-ur you like totally roasted Tammy!" Jocelyn exclaimed as people gathered round.
"That's what independent women do," she replied.
"Well, you're, like, the most popular girl in school now!"
Tina looked round at her adoring fans, Jimmy Jr a sad speck in the background behind them. This...this was her new life. Her new beginning.
"Come on, baboons. Let's roll."
I know I promised to try and get this up last Tuesday but I didn't want to rush it and I had a load of excuses too but they don't matter haha…thanks for reading!
