5/6/06

"Ginny McLean Township"

(Tales Diluted by the Backwater of Megalopolis)

Brad Walker

Introduction

Juline Tucker strode confidentaly down the hall, greeting her fellow students as they passed. It was mid-May, student council election season was over for the year and the impossible had happened: a freshman had been voted in as student-body president for the next year at Ginny McLean Public High School. That freshman was Juline Tucker; a sweet and pretty strawberry-blonde, full of the energy of youth. As she reached the far end of the forth floor of Ginny McLean Public High School, she ran into a girl that she didn't know well. As student body president-elect, Juline felt it necessary to introduce herself and reach out to her fellow students.

"Hello, I'm future student-body president Juline Tucker. I'm trying to make acquaintence with everyone here at GMPHS and I don't believe we've met." Juline introduced herself polite.

The other girl smiled; she was standing with another girl who was also unfamiliar to Juline, but unlike her friend, she looked agitated by Juline's interruption. "Well hi there! My name's Isabelle Gagzley, but most people call me 'Oobu'. I'm a sophomore."

"Nice to meet you." Juline replied.

"This is my friend Arden." Oobu said, motioning towards her scowling friend. "She's a junior... and a Satanist... so she doesn't like anyone, really."

"Oh... that's..." Juline trailed off, unable to think of an appropriate response. "... Did I mention I'll be the first sophomore to take office as student-body president?"

"That's awesome! I've heard of you; you're the topic of all the nice gossip around the school." Oobu said. "I even voted for you."

"I didn't." Arden said.

"Oh Arden, you didn't vote for anyone." Oobu retorted.

"Damn right I didn't." The vaguely pseudo-gothic, anti-establishment Arden scoffed. "Democracy is dead."

Juline was beginning to wonder if she had opened up a can of worms by striking up conversation with these two, when a young man in a black, short-sleeved, button-up shirt and red-and-blue striped tie came running passed them.

"Hey Jules!" Oobu called after him, waving; he flashed her the peace sign with his two fingers before dashing up to a nearby open window and jumping out, to Juline's horror. Just as Jules lept to the ground below, the hard-nosed, body builder-looking vice-principle--Mr. Hickson--came running after him, drunk with power. They all looked out the window to see whether or not the young man had splattered into a pile of red stuff on the ground below. No such thing had happened however. He had first landed on the branch of a nearby tree, which had broken his fall. However, he wasn't very graceful and only maintained his balance on the branch for a second before plummitting into the stream that ran below the school and on out into the rest of the town.

"You little bastard!" Mr. Hickson screamed at the young man who was now swimming quasi-safely in the somewhat polluted water of the stream that ran from there in Ginny McLean Township onto the nearby super-city that was Megalopolis. Jules shook his head violently, shaking the water out of his hair; then he shot his onlookers his signature peace sign and a defiant grin with a rebellious glint in his eye, before begging to swim towards town.

"G'bye Jules! I love you! I'll call you later!" Oobu hollared at him, waving from the window.

"You! Girly! Where does that boy live?!" The vice-principal grilled Oobu.

"Oh gee, I don't know." Oobu rather convincingly lied. "Somewhere around here I'm sure."

Mr. Hickson turned to Juline. "What about Miss Student-Body President for the 2006-2007 school year?! You know that boy?!"

Juline tensed up. "No sir, I don't! I'm just passing through on my way to algebra!"

The vice-principal turned his sights to Arden. "What about you, Witchy-poo. Don't all you dilenquent types conversate together?"

Arden glared at him with dark eyes. "Why don't you bite my clitoris, assmunch." She snapped. "And I'm not a witch, I worship the Devil! There's a huge difference."

Mr. Hickson grew red with fury. "Who do you think you are talkin' to me like that?! What's your name little girl?!"

"Jamie-Lynn Greensboro." Arden lied. Jamie-Lynn Greensboro was actually the name of a relatively unpleasant cheerleader girl, with wealthy parents.

"Well, Miss Greensboro, you just got yourself a week's worth of in-school suspension!"

"Ooh, I'm fuckin' shaking."

Infuriated, Mr. Hickson stopped off to his office to write up a disciplinary referral.

"Oh dear... you just got a week of in-school, Arden." Oobu sympathetically pointed out the obvious.

"No I didn't. Jamie-Lynn Greensboro did." Arden replied.

All of this had left Juline in somewhat of a daze. "... Who was that boy who jumped out the window?" She asked.

"That was Julius 'Jules' Adderly." Oobu replied. "He's one of my dearest friends and one day we will be wed."

"Oh... So he's your boyfriend?" Juline asked.

"Pff, hardly." Arden huffed. "Oobu's too much of a pussy to tell him she likes him."

"HEY! ... The time hasn't come yet." Oobu retorted.

"... Why was he trying so hard to get away from the vice principal?" Juline asked. "No matter what kind of trouble he's in, it couldn't worth jumping out of a forth-floor window to avoid."

"Sure it could." Arden replied.

"If Mr. Hickson touches him or looks him straight in the eye it will be the end of the world." Oobu explained, rather matter-of-factly.

"... It'll what?" Juline thought for sure she'd heard wrong.

"Jules is cursed." Oobu clarified. "If he and the vice principal come in direct contact with eachother, it will bring about the Apokelypse."

"Oh... oh my..." Juline stuttered. "... Care to explain?"

To Be Continued...