Reggie Peters And Brittany Mercer

1994 Wednesday

"Bobby, I like you," Brittany says. "I think I have since you told me you like me. I honestly don't want to hurt Reggie but I just can't hide how I feel about you."
"I'm glad you told me," Bobby says. He walks closer to her and puts his hands on her face. He rubs her cheek with his thumb and puts his lips against hers. She wraps her arms around his neck and he moves his hands to her hips. Bobby picks Brittany up and throws her on her bed. He takes off his shirt and lays on top of her.

Brittany wakes up and wonders what just happened.
"Well that was new," She says to herself. "I've never had that happen to me before. What does it mean? Whatever it means, I just need to avoid Bobby tomorrow." Brittany lays back down, closes her eyes, and slowly drifts off to sleep.

….

Brittany wakes up and looks at her alarm clock. "Shit!!" She says. She gets out of bed, goes to her dresser and grabs some clothes. She takes off her pajamas, puts on the clothes, and grabs her backpack and shoes. She runs out of her room, down the stairs and out the door. She runs to her car, gets in and throws her stuff in the passenger's seat. She closes her door, puts the keys in the ignition and drives off. "I can't believe I slept through my damn alarm. And why didn't Alex wake me up? That's just plain rude." She comes to a stop light and starts putting on her shoes. The light then turns green and she continues to school. She thinks about the dream that she had last night.
'Does this mean that I like Bobby?' She thinks to herself. 'I hope not because I really do love Reggie, even though he isn't the brightest sometimes. Sometimes he is smart though.' She pulls into the driveway of the school, parks and gets out. She runs into the school and all the way to her first class. She grabs her watch out of her backpack and looks at it. "Seven fifteen. Dang. A new record, ish." She puts her watch on, tries to fix her hair with the brush in her backpack and goes into class.
"Brittany Mercer," She hears her teacher say.
"Here," she says as she gets into class.
"You're late, again."
"Technically, I'm not because you are just taking roll. So, I'm right on time." She sits down next to Luke and puts her backpack on the floor.
"Okay, just please don't make this a habit."
"I won't Mr. Bander."
"Where were you?" Luke asks her in a whisper.
"I overslept," Brittany replies.
"Did you not set an alarm?"
"I slept through it!"
"Dang. You had a rough morning."
"Tell me about it!"
"I really don't know what happened but okay. So-"
Brittany smacks Luke in the arm and rolls her eyes at him. "What? You told me to tell you about it and I was…. Oh! Nevermind." Brittany faces the front of the class and goes through her dream that she had last night. 
'What the hell does this dream mean?' She asks herself. 'I want to know really badly.'
"Alright class," she hears her teacher say. "Partner up and work on your collages." Brittany jolts up and touches Luke's arm.
"You're my partner," She tells him. When the person in front of them moves, Brittany sits down in her seat. She grabs out a piece of paper and a pencil. She just starts moving her hand and draws something. She doesn't know what yet.
"So," Luke says. "If you slept through your alarm, then why didn't your brother wake you up?"
"I was wondering the same thing this morning. I'm still wondering why he didn't wake me up."
"Okay. Hey, whatcha drawing there?" Luke grabs the paper Brittany is working on.
"Come on Luke! Give that back!"
His eyes widen and he looks back at Brittany. "Why the hell are there hearts around Bobby's name?" Some of the students look up from what they are doing and look at Brittany.
"Could you be any louder?!" She snatches the paper out of Luke's hands and continues to draw on them.
"Why did you do that Brit?" He asks her in a much quieter tone.
"I don't know. It's just what my muscles wanted me to do. I'm an artist. I can't say no to the muscles Luke!!" She drops her pencils and lays her face in her hands. "If you have a dream of kissing someone-"
"You had a dream-" Luke starts to shout. Brittany places her hand over his mouth and shoots him a dirty look. She places her finger on her lip to signal him to shush. She removes her hand from his mouth. "You had a dream that you were kissing Bobby?!"
Brittany takes a big deep breath in and let's it out. "Yeah. I'm gonna try and avoid him today, but I did tell him that I would go to the principal's office with him. So now I don't know what I'm going to do."
"Did you promise him?"
"No…. I didn't."
"Then don't go! Simple as that."
" I know it's that simple but I told him I would go with him and I just can't bail on him like that." Brittany smiles and starts fiddling with her pencil.
"No! Don't do that. Snap out of it Mercer!"
"You're right. I'm still gonna go to the principal with him. I just need to avoid him until then."
"Yeah. It's going to get hard by third period. Which second period starts in…." Luke looks at his watch. "Eight minutes! Guess we need to start cleaning up."
"Yeah but I don't want to go to pe. Alex, Reggie and…. Oh god!"
"What?" Brittany moves back to her seat and turns to face Robby.
"Please don't tell anyone about this. Especially Reggie and Bobby."
"I won't," Robby says. "I promise."
"Thank you!"
"Okay class," Mr. Bander starts. "Please start cleaning up. The bell is going to ring-" The bell rings. "Right now. Have a good day!" They all get up from their seats and walk out the door. Brittany walks to her locker, unlocks it and puts her lunch in her locker. She grabs her chapstick and her other binder. She grabs her lock to her locker and puts it on after closing her locker.
"Hey," she hears someone say beside her. She freaks out and hits the person. When her land leaves the face, she sees Bobby wincing over, in pain. "And there goes my eye."
"Oh my gosh! I am so sorry!" She starts laughing and she grabs Bobby's face. "Are you okay?" She rubs his cheek with her thumb and is still laughing.
"Yeah. I'm fine. Why are you still laughing?"
"I don't know! Come here." She pulls him in for a hug. He is taller than her so his head is in the crook of her neck and Brittany is on her tippy toes.
"Are you still going to the principal with me at lunch?"
"Yeah. Of course!"
"You promise?"
"Totally. I promise." He nods and then walks away, still in pain from the punch he just received from Brittany, by accident.
"Hey!" Someone said from behind her.
"Jesus! Can people stop sneaking up on me today?"
"Sorry babe. I didn't mean to frighten you."
"It's fine Reg. Just hurry so we aren't late to pe okay."