Exhilaration | Shawn Hunter [Boy Meets World]

The Beard

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At school-

"So what's Hamlet supposed to do?" Mr. Turner asked. "His uncle offed his father, his mother's sleeping with his uncle, his girlfriend is completely schizoid, and people are dropping left and right."

"Sounds like Thanksgiving at my house," Shawn said.

"So Hamlet is faced with a terrible dilemma, and he freezes like a bunny in the high beams."

I see Cory pass a note to Shawn. "Whose that from?"

"I don't know. Cory told me to give it to you," he answered, handing it to me.

"For me?" I ask, looking at it.

Oh, I understand. 

***

In Mr. Feeny's class. "October, 1962. Young President Kennedy is faced with a seemingly impossible dilemma. Mr. Hunter, what were his options?"

"Marilyn Monroe or his wife?" Shawn asked, getting me to chuckle.

"You never disappoint, Mr. Hunter."

"Thank you."

"Ah, a note for me," Cory said. "See, Betty, you're not the only one-"

"Pass it to Betty."

Cory slams it on my desk.  "Do I have an unlisted desk or something?"  

***

At lunch, I found my brother. "Hey," he looked up from his lunch tray. I place the notes on his tray. "Those are Stacy and Linda's notes, they told me to pass to my 'hot brother'."

"Hot?" he smirked, opening them.

"Wait, those notes were for Zack?" Cory asked.

"Yeah, they think he looks good now that he's got glasses," I answer.

"I do look good," Zack spoke, following me and the boys to our table. Stacy, Linda. Linda, Stacy. Two girls want me." He slouched. "I've never been so depressed in my whole life."

"I know. Two beautiful girls both want you, poor guy," Shawn told him.

"There's gotta be a hot line you can call," Cory said. "Of course, with your luck now, a girl would answer and she'd want you."

"Gross," I mutter.

"If I reject Linda, she'll get upset, and there is no way I would ever want to see a pout on those beautiful full lips," Zack sighed, looking dreamily. "Actually, it looks pretty good."

Cory and Shawn looked where he was looking. "Where do you see that?"

"But-But what if I reject Stacy and she flips out, gets a sex-change operation and comes back as a really angry man seeking her revenge?" I sent him a look. "Hey, I've seen it happen on TV."