I'm Not Crazy

~3~ One get out of jail free card.

I don't care if it hurts,
I want to have control,
I want a perfect body,
I want a perfect soul,
I want you to notice,
when I'm not around...

Radiohead ~ Creep

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11:05 AM

During the next class period post my meltdown, the school rumor mill is in full force. Word has gotten around, that I had to be escorted to the nurse's office, and that things didn't look good for me. The prevailing theories are, that either I had a full-on Grand Mal epileptic seizure, or that I am on some really bad drugs? This last theory is thanks in no small part to Sam Fu, aka Snafu.

Snafu was in his normal place at the back of the class next to the door, trying to maintain his haze. When Mrs. Anderson opened the door to check on the disturbance in the hallway. Through the crack in the door, Snafu got a perfect view of me crawling on my hands and knees keening over my broken brain, as Mrs. March looked down at me horrified.

Snafu of course, immediately and incorrectly assumed it was because of drugs, as well. At which point, he proceeded to pass that theory along to pretty much anyone who would listen. So within a class period, the entire school had heard all about the bad drugs going around. About the girl who was "whacked out of my mind, bad trippin' balls in the halls and freaking out like a spastic nutter on bad brown acid."

By the third period, Billy McCray is still sitting in math class. Hating the clock as it steals a little more of his life. Which is when he receives a mission from God. The message comes to him in the form of an envelope delivered respectfully to his desk by "Teacher Math". Who hates him, but is far too afraid to make eye contact, lest Billy take offense at this and consider this a challenge. Resulting in Teacher Math getting shanked in the neck with a No. 2 pencil, for "looking at him wrong". Which is something that most of Billy's teachers fear, so therefore this fear is not too totally irrational on Teacher Math's part.

Inside the envelope, Billy finds a single business card from his father, Sheriff Bud D. McCray. Billy flips the card over and scowls deeply down at the message that his father scrawled for him on the back.

BAM - Sam's gold wings necklace were stolen out of her locker. Go forth and find them! 1GOOJF

After reading through the message twice, Billy thoughtfully rolls the card around his fingers several times. Contemplating what this 1GOOJF could mean to him going forward?

"One get out of jail free card, huh?" He mugs appreciatively solving the hidden message.

In the House of Crazy, such a "get out of jail free" card or GOOFY is worth its weight in gold. For the possessor of such a card can cash it in once a year, to slide on any one single occurrence of trouble ...no questions asked. In Billy's experience trouble always comes to the House of Crazy, whether they like it or not? Truth be told, he usually liked the trouble that was dumb enough to come his way. Still a GOOFY is a good thing to have handy, just in case someone needs to get hurt worse than usual.

To Billy's knowledge, there have only been six such free passes issued in his lifetime. Four at their mother's funeral, to each of the McCray brothers for "at least trying to be good" after his mom got sick with cancer. One to the eldest Crazy brother, Connor, for a state championship football appearance. Where Connie had the game of a lifetime and left it all out on the field. But somehow his team still went on to lose to the hated Falcons of San Fall. And a secret one that no one is supposed to know about. That went to Stevie for "not coming out hello glee gay" to their mother before she died. Even though his mother already knew who Stevie was way gay before anyone else did ...because after all a mom knows these things.