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11. beginning of problems

George POV

"Here's another one about the human body...", the teacher began, "How many muscles do we need to frown?"
Clay leaned in again. "I think about 40 or so. I don't exactly know it."
"What? Clay doesn't know something? Wow!", Carson said, playing upset. Then Clay starred at Carson with this expression where you really get scared for your life. Carson's smile immediately faded. "Sorry."

"So, what will we say?", I stepped in.
"Let's just say around 40", Clay meant.
"Alright."
The teacher made his round again and Clay answered for us with the 40. When the last 2 groups after us told him their answer too, the teacher said: "It's not 'around' 40 Mr. Frey, it is 40."
Frey? Clay's last name is Frey. Clay Frey. (this combi actually sounds kinda weird XD)
Wow, he was my bully for fully 2 years and I never knew his last name. Did he know mine?
Clay didn't flinch. He just nodded.

"Alright, new topiiiiic", the teacher said, almost singing and stretching the i incredibly annoying.
"First question to that would be....", he began, "Why are flamingos pink?"

"Because they were born like this?", Carson asked confused.
Of course Clay had a word again.
"They are actually not pink at all from birth. They turn pink because they eat algae, larvae and crabs every day."
"What? I didn't know that. Interesting", I said.

We told the teacher the answer again and this time almost everyone except 3 groups knew the answer.

"Okay, this was easy", the teacher said, "now we'll make it more interesting..."
Clay looked over to Carson and me and gave us this 'don't worry' look, like he would want to tell us that he would know the answers. We'll see.

"How do jellyfish breed?"
"That's simple", Clay began, "The males excrete their sperm from their mouths into the water. The female jellyfish then simply swim through the sperm. The egg cells are fertilized in the stomach or in special pockets in the mouth."

"God, why-...", Carson wanted to say, but stopped and let his head fall on the table. I exactly knew what he thought and started to giggle slightly. I looked over to Clay then and saw him watching me with a small smirk. When he noticed me, he immediately stopped and looked away.
"So, your answers again please", we could hear the teacher saying.
Clay told him the answer again and we got a point. As usual.

Then there were another 3 questions that were normal and reasonably easy.
"Last question for today", he then said, "I'm gonna make this one a little bit more special."
So, we won't know it?
"Which prints on our body are unique?"
I just tried it. "I know fingerprint and lips."
Clay nodded at me before saying "The tongue also has a unique imprint."
"I once heard somewhere that the butt print is too", Carson mentioned with a small laugh.
Clay shrugged his shoulders.
"Possible," he said.

When time was up, we told the teacher our answer again. Fingerprint, kiss print, tongue print and also added the butt print. We were the only group who said butt, but it was right.

Obviously we were the group who won in the end. Carson was so happy about our win. He yelled "Yeeeeeees" and put his fist in our midst and waited for us to hit. I smiled at him and knocked my fist lightly against his. Then we both looked over at Clay, who alternately looked at us and our fists.
I don't think he was interested in joining us. He stood up and walked over to his seat without any word or expression in his face.

When I looked over at Carson, I saw his sad face. When he looked at me, however, his expression quickly changed again. "We won! We are so cool!", he screamed happily while standing up and walking over to me. He leaned down in front of my chair and gave me a huge hug. He was such a cute boy, like he was 12 years old.

Then I went over to my seat too.
I wanted to look back at Clay and see how he felt from the expression on his face, but I decided better not to. The rest of the class went flawlessly. The only thing that irritated me so much was that the two guys from Clay's crew kept looking back at me. Often I couldn't tell whether they were looking at Clay or me, but one of them tried, I think his name was Will, to establish communication with me with his eyes and hands.

One time, Clay tapped my shoulder and said "Just ignore him". I didn't turn around to look at him, I just nodded quickly and tried to focus on the teacher again. A few times, in the corner of my eye, I saw this guy waving at me and grimacing, but I kept looking over at the clock to see when this would finally be over.

Finally the bell rang and I packed my stuff, stood up and walked out of the classroom. You know this feeling that someone's following you? I had it again. I looked back and didn't see one or two of Clay's friends. There were everyone of them. Everyone except Clay and another guy.

I started running so fast, I think I never ran that fast before in my life. Obviously they were chasing me. When I reached the entrance, I ran around the corner and searched a place to hide, but I wasn't fast enough.

They started forming a circle around me and laughed. "No one will help you this time buddy. Clay just got so tired of you, but we didn't. Don't think you could get away from all this just because our leader doesn't want to beat you up anymore. Whatever the reason for this is", one of them said.

Nick POV

When class was over, Clay and I met at the entrance of the classroom and walked out together.
"Where is everyone else? Will, Brian, Alex,...", Clay eventually said.
That's when I saw all of our friends running towards the entrance of the building.

"What the heck?!", I said, pointing there. Clay followed my finger and his eyes widened.
"Where is George?!", he screamed at me.
I blinked at him. We both knew exactly why our friends were running that way. And with Clay's little change of mind about George, that wasn't a positive thing for him.

"Fuck", Clay said

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