Losers Never Win

Chapter 11

Late Monday morning after 4th period, Cain and Serena were sitting in the cafeteria eating lunch. The two sat facing each other at a table by their selves. Enjoying each other’s company, the pair was in their own world.

            “Aye, check this out,” Cain said, placing a pea in a spoon. He bent the plastic utensil back by the head and let it go, launching the pea in the air. Serena watched as the pea came back down and landed directly on his tongue. She covered her mouth, laughing at his little trick. “I can do three at once too,” he bragged.

            “Yea right,” Serena doubted. Cain sucked his teeth and grabbed his spoon again. He performed the same act, but this time with three peas. Serena lightly applauded him, smiling brightly.

            “Your turn,” Cain told her. Serena’s eyes grew wide and she shook her head.

            “Your crazy if you think imma do that,” she refused.

            “Com’ on, I did it twice. You can’t do it one time?” He reasoned.

            “Nope,” she replied.

            “I’ll help you,” Cain added, taking a pea from his plate and putting it on the spoon. “Com’ on. Open yo mouth.”

            Serena looked at Cain with a small smirk on her face. “Alright...” she gave in. “But don’t laugh.”

            “I got you,” Cain replied. Serena sat straight in her seat and opened her mouth wide. Cain bent the spoon back, aiming it at his buddy, and flicked the pea into her mouth. She swallowed the pea whole and broke out laughing. “Was that hard?” he asked, grinning at Serena.

            “Yea,” she playfully joked.

            While Cain and Serena laughed with each other, Jenifer was sitting at a table with her friends across from them. Her boyfriend Jake, and Eliza sat by her side. They were all watching Cain and Serena have fun, hating every moment of it.

            “How lame can you get?” Jenifer snarled, seeing the constant smile on Serena’s face.

            “Aye you know the sayin’, losers of a feather, flock together,” Eliza added, making the whole table snicker. The smirk on Jenifer’s face faded as she looked back at Cain and Serena. Her mind browsed through different thoughts on how to ruin they’re day.

            “You know, we should do somethin’,” Jenifer stated. “Like teach them a lesson.”

            “What you got in mind babe?” Jake asked, looking at his girlfriend. Without responding, Jenifer snatched Jake’s chocolate milk from his plate. She opened it up and poured a little bit out, to make room for other ingredients she planned to add.

            “A bomb,” She grinned while putting mashed green beans in the carton. “Aye someone get some hot sauce.” One of the other kids at the table got up to fetch the sauce.

            “Put rice in there too!” Eliza exclaimed.

            Jenifer scraped the remainder of the rice off her plate and into the milk. “Good one,” when the kid came back with the hot sauce, she took it and added it to the mixture. “This is going to be too funny,” Jenifer said, imaging the results of her prank. She shook the milk cartoon up and handed it to Jake. “Don’t, miss.”

            “Dude,” Jake said cracking his knuckles. “I never miss,” he grabbed the carton of milk and aimed at his targets. Jake flung the milk over two tables of students and watched it crash in front of Serena and Cain.

            The carton basically exploded upon hitting their table, covering both Cain and Serena with a disgusting, mushy liquid. Half of the cafeteria witnessed them get soaked in contaminated milk and burst out laughing. Serena closed her eyes tightly and wiped the slop from her face. She didn’t know what happened; Cain on the other hand was a bomb about to go off.

            The entire cafeteria was staring at Cain and Serena laughing and making jokes seconds after the prank. Cain’s short fuse already burned out, and he searched the crowd for the one responsible. His eyes floated from face to face, until he saw Jenifer and Jake. The mocking expression they had told the whole story.

            Jake high fived one of his partners. “Nice bro!” Jake’s teammate chuckled. Jenifer sat back and enjoyed the commotion with an evil grin on her face. But when she saw Cain storming toward them, her smile melted away.

            “Dude, check it out,” one of Jake’s buddy pointed to Cain who made his way over to their table. Jake got on his feet and eyed Cain down.

            “My bad bro, did I do that?” Jake mocked. Instead of responding, Cain struck Jake across the face with his fist. The whole table got quiet when he was punched again.

            Cain grabbed Jake by the shirt and flung him to the ground. Before he could continue his assault, two football players snatched him up. They shoved him away from the table, almost making him fall. Cain clenched his fist and rushed the jocks, knocking Jenifer to the floor while doing so.

            Serena jumped up from her seat and ran to stop Cain, but the School’s security got there first. One guard tackled Cain to the ground while the others restrained Jake and the Jocks. Eliza helped Jenifer off the floor, shocked at Cain’s reaction. Jenifer brushed her self off, seeing Cain being dragged away by security.

            “Get off me!” Cain growled, eyes boiling with rage. The two guards that held him tightened their grip, fearing he might break loose.

            Serena was speechless as she watched her only friend be carried away. “Next time, keep your ‘retard’ boyfriend on a leash!” Jenifer snapped, angry that Cain knocked her to the floor.

            Serena glanced at Jenifer and then down to her clothes that were a mess. The cafeteria remained in up roar after witnessing the brawl, and some students were still laughing her. With no real reason to finish the school day, Serena stormed out of lunchroom, heading home.