The Bully Plan

Chapter Seven: The Shame, The glory and the failure

SEVEN: The Shame, The glory and the failure

They all walked home from the park in a grouped mess. Most of them were bleeding. Caitlin was crying. Castielle was fighting back tears while trying to comfort Caitlin. Jonathan looked around, paranoid of another attack, deep down feeling such sorrow and shame. Darcy had badly bruised ribs and a large lump on his head. But he seemed to be the only one keeping it together. But deep down inside he felt defeat. Jasmine was walking with a limp and her eye was bruised. Tabitha just stared at the ground. She was ashamed of herself. She had failed her friends. Why had she been so stupid to think that Joseph didn’t know where they were going? Why had she let her friends get hurt? Why didn’t she take the bullet? Why? Why, why, why, why, why, why?! She burst into tears. She was in intense emotional pain and physical pain. Hatred for Joseph was growing rapidly inside her. Almost as fast as the hatred for herself was expanding. Darcy walked over to Tabitha, patted her on the shoulder. “I’m sorry.” He said.

“Why? Sorry for what?” she sobbed.

“Sorry that the Bully Plan didn’t work. You’re a visionary, Tabitha. It was the best Idea. And the bravest.” Darcy said.

“It can’t be over. An even bigger fight happens tomorrow. We have to find a way out of it. But… it’s too late isn’t it?” Darcy nodded his head. The bullies wouldn’t back down. Tabitha new this well. Darcy nodded his head with a sigh.

Victory. They had beaten the nerds. They would do this again tomorrow. Jake smiled a shark grin. They had all been injured in the fight. But the feeling of glory had over-taken their nerves. Jake couldn’t keep the smile on his face. He had beaten Darcy. Ha! Darcy had lost the fight. And Jake scored a picnic basket full of food to, which was a huge bonus. He pulled off a greasy chicken-breast and ate in two bites. He looked at Sage. He didn’t have the same smile on his face.

“Dude, why aren’t you smiling? We won.” Jake asked, then saw a single tear run down his cheek.

“Daelyn dumped me. She walked up to me and said ‘It’s over.’” Said Sage. Jake didn’t really give a damn. They were friends but… Sage should get over himself, right? Just a stupid girl. Jake rolled his eyes. Sage saw the facial expression and left Jake to gloat in his victory by himself. This struck Jake a bit. Jake never considered Sage to be one to fell strong emotions about things like that. He had all ways assumed that he didn’t care about girls, which he just wanted to have as something to make him look cool. Daelyn was perfect for that. She was hot and popular. So I guess Daelyn, like most popular girls, would be good for improving the amount of people that liked Jake. So tomorrow, or sometime later, Jake would see if she would be his girlfriend. Sage said to Jake that Daelyn was great at kissing as well so that would be a huge bonus. Sage would probably be upset once he finds out, but who cares? He is just Sage. He will get over it. Hopefully tomorrow when the fight happens he could save Daelyn from the Nerds. That would be cool. Jake approached Daelyn.

“Hey, heard you dumped Sage. What happened there?” said Jake.

“He didn’t protect me well enough during the fight.” Snarled Daelyn.

“Yeah. Me? I would have protected you. Too bad that jerk Darcy was holding me up. They will get it tomorrow.” Jake tried. Daelyn rolled her eyes. But to Jake that was good. Everybody new that Daelyn had a strange way of flirting. For all he knew Daelyn rolling her eyes could be like a normal girl twirling her hair. “Yeah. He is a total jerk. I mean, both he and Parish are such losers. They got beaten by Lincoln. That handy-cap retard kid. How does that work?” laughed Daelyn.

“Yeah. They are such retards, aye?” agreed Jake.

“Yeah. My back really hurts. I can’t believe Sage let this happen!” Daelyn complained.

“Yeah. If I was in his position I would have protected a fine girl like you.” Flirted Jake. Daelyn blushed.

“Okay fine. I will be your girlfriend. Don’t tell me you weren’t going to ask I could see it in your eyes. But there is one condition. Beat up Sage and Parish. Then my answer is sure to be yes.” Bribed Daelyn.

“Fine. I will tomorrow.” Confirmed Jake.

“Then me and you are together. But as soon as I hear that neither of their arses have been kicked, you are out of here.” Said Daelyn jerking her thumb to the road. Sage and Daelyn didn’t last that long. Only about a week at most. If he beats up Parish and Sage and then Daelyn dumps him, Jake would be out of the popular group. He might fall so low to have to hang with those nerds. He needed to think of a back-up plan for if that happens but those things weren’t going through his mind right now. He was going out with a hot as girl.