Seduce and Destroy {Septiplier}

Gifted Bubblegum

The next day was spent loping in Robins bed while they occasionally played video games until Robins mom kicked Jack out. Now he was at school. Sitting in Math class and waiting for Mark to walk through the door. Felix had already taken a seat, across the whole room from Jack I may add. Jack noticed that he had a massive black eye and he smiled at the thought but he quickly hissed it away.

"Excuse me Jack?" Mrs. Guen tapped on Jacks desk to try and get his attention.  He whipped his head up and looked right at her.

"Oh yeah?" He asks startled. She laughs and rolls her eyes a little bit.

"Is your friend Mark coming in today. I saw him yesterday and was really beaten up," Jacks narrows his eyes, he was here yesterday?

"He was here yesterday?" He asks aloud this time. She nods her head confused.

"Sure was but I didn't see you. Everything alright you seem jumpy?"

"Umm sorta just its uh nothing," Jack stumbles over his words. Mrs. Guen smiles sympathetically and brushes away a piece of her orange hair.
"Here," she says going back to her desk and retrieving a few papers. She places them on his desk and pushes them toward him. Hesitantly he reaches for them, but then he sees the big black bold words reading, 'Gifted and Talented'. He freezes and looks up at her. "Why don't you go to the media center or someplace and read these. Then get back to me okay? I honestly think you're perfect for this," Then she walks off leaving a confused Jack with papers that say 'Gifted and Talented' at the top. Practically screaming it at him that he was gifted and talented. From her desk Mrs. Guen motions at the door and without a second thought Jack grabs the papers and leaves.

'Congratulations Sean Mcloughlin! You have been selected by the Academic University Scholars of America to attend a talent search in Stanford University'. Jacks body stiffens as his eyes read the first line of the five page paper. Talent search in Stanford. The words roll in Jacks mind as he continues to read.

'We found your teachers submission letter exceptional and found you just the perfect candidate for our six year program. We are excited to hopefully see you with our other twenty, carefully selected, students this summer to begin training to prepare you to explore, and pursue, top jobs in your country' Jack stops and puts the letter down.

Top jobs, six years, Stanford.

Jack intakes a deep breath and covers his mouth as a half choked sob comes out. He could finally leave. He could leave this godforsaken town and run. He could purse a career in government, academics, he could do anything. He could be away from this town and he could be something. Tears press at his eyes that he swallows back. He wouldn't cry.

Standing up of the music room steps he puts his hands above his head and cheers. He was finally going to leave. Jumping up and down he feels like he's flying. Nothing mattered anymore because by summer he would be gone off to fucking California. Sitting back down Jack immediately became eager to know more about his future. He grabbed the pages and flipped to the second one reading the heading, 'What it Takes?' Jack rolls right past that page, if he had to cut of his hand to go, he would. Then he freezes as he sees the last page. '$120,000 to attend'. 120,000 dollars to attend this six year program. Jacks head repeats that large number for a while before he folds up those five pages and stuffs them in his pocket. His stomach suddenly weighing pounds. He didn't have 120,000 dollars. He was going to be staying in this town forever. He was going to be watching his mother grow saggier and saggier by the day. He was going to be working at that liquor store that underage kids stumble into. He was going to be doing nothing forever.

"You have to much of a future"

Jack avoids looks down the hall as he stumbles his way through. At this point everyone has heard about the Felix and his fight. Also at this point the story has been mixed around millions of times. Jack heard someone whisper that Felix was winning but then Jack snapped his arm, which obviously wasn't true. Another said they were fighting because of weed, another that blonde Jack was seen with. But the most popular was that they were fighting because Jack was gay and was protecting his secret. Which I guess you could say was accurate, but not even really then.