The Freak

1:21pm

It had hardly been six minutes since Bender had been dragged off to who knows where.

Claire was still asking questions about why he would've put himself in more trouble, just to keep them out of it.

"Look, I don't know, okay?" Ace snapped, half rocking in her chair, "I can only understand people to a certain degree, and with Bender that's not enough to understand why he'd do it!"

The room went quiet, before Claire sighed, "I'm sorry."

"Shhh," Ace hissed, turning around in her seat, "Allison do you hear that?"

"Sounds like mice in the ceiling." She responded.

Almost on cue, one of the ceiling tiles seemed to shatter, a blur of red and balck plaid falling through, "OHHHHH SHITTT!!!!"

A moment later, Bender appeared, coming down the stairs from the upper level of the library with a shrug, "Forgot my pencil."

Ace began to laugh, rocking in her seat more as he went to pluck the pencil off his table.

"God damn it! What in gods name is going on in there!?!"

Bender all but shoved Andrew away from his table to hide under it as Vernon stormed in, "What the hell was that noise? Why are you out of your chair?"

"I was just stretching my legs sir." Andrew said, quickly sitting back down.

"Then what was that ruckus?"

"Uh, what ruckus?" Claire asked.

Vernon glared at her, "I was in my office and I heard a ruckus!"

"Could you describe the ruckus sir?" Brian asked.

"Watch your tongue Johnson!"

Bender's head smacked against the bottom of the table, and he groaned, Andrew quickly hitting the top of the table with his fist, only for Bender to pound back a response.

"Did it sound like that, sir?" Brian asked.

"No, it wasn't. Now I may not have caught you in the act this time, but I will!"

Allison laughed, and he glared back at her, "You can count on that missy! I will not be made a fool of!"

As he turned to storm out, they saw the long line of toilet paper stuck to his pants.

Laughter filled the room as the door closed and Bender climbed out from under the table, "Well that was a shitty cover up."

"Well, he didn't find you, did he?" Claire snapped.

He rolled his eyes, going over to Brian, "So... Ahab, hows the dope?"

Brian sighed, pulling out the wad and handing it to him.

Bender wandered toward the couches in the back, Andrew calling after him, "Wasteoid, you're not lighting up in here!"

He got no response.

Claire sighed, contemplating for a moment before getting up and following him, Brian following her.

Ace shrugged, standing up.

"You too? Seriously?" Andrew asked.

"I don't smoke," She shook her head, "But seeing those two get high for the first time, sounds funny as shit Sporto, admit it."

He sighed, watching as she headed back toward the others, before reluctantly getting up. Allison had already disappeared to who knows where.

Ace found a seat, not too far from the others, watching as Claire took her first hit of the joint. She coughed, sputtering on the smoke.