layers | john bender

[11] "I'd do it."

11. "ʜɪɢʜ sᴄʜᴏᴏʟ" ʟɪᴛᴇʀᴀʟʟʏ

Andrew had walked into a separate room while the rest of us minus Allison sat in the circle laughing hysterically. At what? We had no clue but the whole world seemed to be so funny. Bender lit up the joint that was in my mouth. I took a few puffs before handing it over to Claire who almost instantly coughed out the smoke. Brian laughed at her while trying to eat the smoke he just exhaled. I moved over to Bender and placed my head on his lap as Brian spoke weirdly.
"Chicks, cannot hold der smoke! That's what it is!"
"Hey, not true! I held it." I laughed at his obnoxious voice. Claire seemed to be in her own world and Bender just leaned back slightly while brushing his fingers through my hair.
"Do you know how popular I am? I'm so popular, everybody loves me so much, at this school." I looked up at Bender who raised his eyebrow at her and I looked back at Claire and shook my head. "Poor baby." I got up from Bender's lap and sat next to Claire. She gave me a big hug as we both laugh hysterically once again.

Brian fell over trying to wave Claire over to him as Andrew walked out of the room he was in. The room is practically covered in smoke, he inhaled another puff before dancing to the music he played from the smoke filled room. We all began to applause him for his amazing dancing then he ran back into the room and screamed which caused the glass door to break. We all shouted 'woohoo' before laughing once again.

I got up and walked over to the smokey room trying to see what I could find in there. I didn't find anything but a full joint that Andrew left. I took it in between my index and middle fingers and walked out the room through the broken glass door. Andrew, Brian and Allison were over in some other area of the library, Bender stood in the same place we were sat at and Claire was up on the second balcony. I decided to walk over to Bender and hand him the blunt. He took it and placed it in his pocket, seeing as everyone was already as high as a kite. He motioned me to come closer, doing so, he pulled me down to his lap. I sat comfortably as Claire came back down with her purse. She walked over to us and I moved over onto the chair besides Bender.

I grabbed her purse, admiring the exterior. "God, this a gorgeous purse, Red." She smiled and thanked me. Bender felt left out and took out his wallet handing it to Claire. "That's a nice wallet, Johnny. Got any lipgloss like Claire?" Claire looked back at me as I grabbed out her small makeup bag. She took that as a 'let's go through each other's things' and went over to my chair and grabbed my bag handing it to Bender. Claire opened up his wallet to find maybe 20 pictures—that's 10 on one side and 10 on the back—I widened my eyes at the pictures before grabbing Claire's pink lipgloss out her bag and turning to Bender who was brushing his teeth with a cosmetic brush. I pointed at the pictures while still looking at him.
"Are all these your girlfriends?" I smirked at him then looked back at Claire who was looking at all the photos.
"Some of them."
"What about the others?"
"Well, some of them I consider my girlfriends and some, I just consider..." I looked at him with a face of confusion, not wanting him to point out the fact that I was hiding the small, tiniest bit jealousy.
"Consider what?" He looked at me with a smirk. I figured he knew why I was so curious about his personal life but he played the game.
"Whether or not, I wanna hang out with them."
Claire stopped on a photo, placing her finger on it and looked up at the both of us, finally having a question of her own. "You don't believe in just one guy, one girl?" I pointed at her, shaking my finger as a way of saying I agreed.
"Do you?" Bender points at the both of us, asking our opinion. Claire nodded her head and looked at me. "Well, yeah...that's the way it should be." He simply sighed at our responses. "Well, not for me."
"Why not?" Claire and I spoke like twins and Bender acted all defensive, not answering the question and attempting to switch the subject.
"How come you got so much shit in your purse, Rhiannon?" I smirked at him, he fell right back into the trap as I placed Claire's bag down onto her lap. "How come you got so many girlfriends?"
"I asked you first."
"I don't know, I guess I never throw anything away. Imagine my closet." I rolled my eyes at him and shrugged. "Neither do I." I realized that what he meant and Claire seemed to as well as she handed his wallet back to him and gave him a simple 'oh.'

After a short moment of silence, I told to the two that I was going to sit down over in an area away from everyone. I wasn't expecting them to follow but they did and soon everyone was sitting around in a circle. Brian asked us all what we'd do for a million dollars. Andrew decided to answer first.
"What would I do for a million bucks? Well, I guess I'd do as little as I had to."
We all looked at him and I could tell Claire was bored of it already. "That's boring."
"Well how'm I s'posed to answer?"
I laughed lightly from in between Claire and Bender.
"The idea is to like search your mind for the absolute limit, man." Claire told him and I decided to add on. "Oh like would you drive to school naked? I'd do it."
I shrugged nonchalantly and Bender's eyes widened at the thought. I laughed at him as no one else cared to notice.
Andrew laughed at Claire and I before answering.
"Um, uh...would I have to get out the car?" I nodded and Claire spoke up. "Of course."
"In the spring or winter?"
"It doesn't matter, spring."
"In the front or in the back of the school?"
"Either one."
"Yes." I laughed at his game of 21 questions before finally answering. "I'll do that!" Allison smiled as we all looked at her. "I'll do anything sexual, I don't need a million dollars to do it either." I widened my eyes at her. I knew she was an attention junkie but I didn't think that would be true.
Claire stared at her in disbelief and I didn't blame her. "You're lying." I shook my head, getting the image out my head but Allison made it worse.
"I already have. I've done just about everything there is except a few things that are illegal. I'm a nymphomanic."
"Lie!" Claire rolled her eyes as I looked at Bender who looked back at me, mouthing 'what's even going on?' I smirked and shrugged.
"Are your parents aware of this?" Brian sounded like an concerned adult. Claire just looked at him with a smirk. Allison contained her laughter and I just knew she was lying. "The only person I told was my shrink." Everyone besides me seemed interested in her conversation, thinking she was being truthful. "And what'd he do when you told him?"
"He nailed me." I held in my laughter as I toned out the rest of the conversation. I pushed myself over to Bender, breaking the small circle and I leaned on his shoulder as he placed his hand on my waist. I tuned out their conversation until I heard Allison ask Claire if she's ever done it before.
"I don't even have a psychiatrist."
"Have you ever done it with a normal person?"
Claire moved uncomfortably where she was sat and I could tell she just about tired of the conversation of her having sex.
"Now, didn't we already cover this?"
"Uh, you didn't answer-" "You didn't answer the question." Bender spoke over me a bit but I didn't care. I just nodded my head and Claire looked down.
"Look, I'm not gonna discuss my private life with total strangers." I understood her. I mean this was private but hey, we weren't complete and total strangers.
"It's kind of a double-edged sword, isn't it?" I stared at Allison in confusion and lifted my head off Bender's shoulder. "What do you mean?"
"Well, if you say you haven't, you're a prude. If you say you have...you're a slut! It's a trap. You want to but you can't but when you do you wish you didn't, right?" I knew exactly what she meant because I have been in many of those situations. "You're right, Al."
Claire seemed embarrassed and defensive as she replied with 'wrong.' As much as I wanted to tell her that Allison was right, I let Al continue.
"Or, are you a tease?"
I looked back at Claire waiting for her to respond but instead Andrew does.
"She's a tease." I rolled my eyes at him.
"How would you know Sporto?"
"Oh why don't you just forget it?" Claire had enough, I had enough but Andrew didn't.
"You're a tease and you know it, all girls are teases!" I scoffed, shocked that tights here even thought he had an opinion on the topic of girls.
"They are only a tease if what they do gets you hot." Bender finally spoke up and I thought about what he said and shook my head. "No, that's not a tease."
"I don't do anything!"
"That's why you're a tease." I saw Al's point but I just couldn't help but feel so bad that Claire had to be out in the middle of this. Why Claire? I'd be fine if they asked me and not her.
"Okay, lemme ask you a few questions." I stared at Allison as I moved over to where I was sat before. She got defensive fairly quickly as soon as I looked at her.