The Rebel and The Criminal (The Breakfast Club Story)

Chapter 9) Fuck you Dick

I know I promised longer chapters. But I have to get a few smaller ones out before the longer ones. I am sorry that this one is also short.

Chapter 9) Fuck You Dick

Bender opens the doors to the library and leans out to make sure the coast was clear. To my surprise it was. What happened to Vernon? Did he leave? So much for being 'right across the hall.' Bender grabs my hand and we leave the library. "Where are we going?" I just wanted to know what was going on.

"It's a surprise." John says and then turns and gives me a smile. We are about halfway down the hallway when we see the rest of the group right behind us.

"Where are you guys going?" Brian asks from behind. But we just ignore him.

"How do you know where Vernon went?" Claire asks as she walks right next to me and Bender.

"I don't" Bender responds.

"Well then, how do you know when he'll be back?"

"I don, being bad feels pretty good huh?" He looks over to me and smiles. I can't help but notice that he is still holding my hand. I have done some thrilling things in my life time, but this, being here with him, was making my heart races extremely fast.

I hear the boys behind us talking, but I just ignore them. We turn down the next hallway over and soon we stop at a locker. By the looks of it I am guessing that it is John's. It has a noose dangling from it and a very threatening warning. He lets go of my hand and opens the locker. A makeshift guillotine comes crashing down and cuts off the tip of a shoe that was in his locker.

"Slob." Andrew remarks.

"My maid's on vacation." Bender snarks back. He then continues to shuffle through what feels like 20 bags. He finally pulls out a baggie full of what I am guessing he calls 'extracurricular activities.' But a normal person would call it marijuana. I wasn't against drugs, but I didn't know how I felt about having them in school.

"Drugs..." Brian says.

"Screw that Bender, put it back!" Andrew is fighting for him to put it away.

Bender ignores both of them and walks away. I might not have liked it being in the school building, but after how today has been I am not against taking some of the edge off. I follow after Bender. I look back and see the rest of them, they stand there for a minute until they finally follow along.

"We'll cross through the lab, and then we'll double back." Bender explains the route we are going to take.

"You better be right, if Vernon cuts us off it's your fault, asshole!" Andrew argues with him. Bender grabs my hand again and we are off down the hallways of this massive school.

As soon as we turn the corner we see Vernon with his back to us. We all run away. We thought we got away but it feels like every hallway we go down, there he is again. My heart is racing from the adrenaline and also these like 50 million flights of stairs. We finally stop for a brief second.

"Wait! Wait, hold it. Hold it! We have to go through the cafeteria" Bender explains.

This time Andrew argues with John about where we should be going. "No, the activities hall."

"Hey man, you don't know what you're talking about"

"No you don't know what you're talking about. Now, we're through listening to you, we're going this way."

Andrew walks away and Brian and Claire follow him. The quiet girl gives Bender and me a look but then she soon follows. Bender and me look at eachother and shn but we eventually reluctantly follow him. After a minute of running we run into a hall that is closed by iron gates.

"Shit!" Andrew exclaims.

"Great idea Jagoff!" Bender snaps at him.

"Fuck you!" Andrew addresses Bender. Excuse me, this was his idea.

I look over to Andrew. "Fuck you! Why didn't you listen to John?" I snapped at him.

"We're dead" Brain mumbles. I can see the look of sheer terror on his face.

"No, Just me!" Bender says.

"What do you mean?" I ask Bender. He looks me in the eyes. What was he doing? He didn't have to sacrifice himself for us. He was already on Vernon's shit list. This for sure was going to get him expelled. He squeezes my hand, in a way to tell me that everything was going to be okay. I decided to believe him.

"Get back to the library." He then looks over to Brian. "Keep your unit on this" He continues to put the bag of marijuana in Brian's underwear. He then runs off down the hallway singing about wanting to be an airborne ranger. We all book it back to the library.

As soon as we get back in we all rush to our seats. It would only be a couple of minutes before the both of them come barging into this room, and we don't need any more of us to be in trouble right now. My could feel that I was out of breath, but all I was concerned about was John. I could only imagine what was going to happen when Vernon finally catches up to him. I looked down at my hands and thought back to him holding my hand. Did he realize what he was doing? Or was he just doing it to get me thinking? Was this what he wanted? Me thinking that he likes me? Oh god, I sound like a typical girl. Looking too much into someone holding my hand.

The doors to the library wake me up from my thoughts. Vernon was livid. Bender was right in front of him. Vernon pushes him into his seat, and Bender sits down. "Get your stuff, let's go!" He looks around the room at everyone "Mr. Wiseguy here has taken it upon himself to go to the gymnasium. I'm sorry to inform you, you're going to be without his services for the rest of the day."

"B-O-O H-O-O!" Bender spells out.

"Everything's a big joke, huh Bender? The false alarm you pulled, Friday, false alarms are really funny, aren't they. What if your home, what if your family, what if your dope was on fire?"

"Impossible sir, It's in Johnson's underwear" Bender responses. I could see Brian get nervous, but then Andrew laughs.

"You think he's funny? You think this is cute? You think he's bitchin, is that it? Lemme tell you something. Look at him, he's a bum. You wanna see something funny? You go visit John Bender in five years! You'll see how God damned funny he is!" I can see John getting extremely upset. I wish I could hold his hand and tell him it was okay. I notice that I might actually be able to do just that. I lean over my table and put my hand under the table and am able to reach Bender's hand. I can tell it takes him off guard, but it looks like it calms him down a bit. I give it a squeeze and he squeezes back. Vernon looks at Bender. "What's the matter, John? You gonna cry? Let's go!"

Vernon grabs Bender's shoulder. Bender shoos him off. "Hey keep your fuckin hands off me! I expect better manners from you, Dick!" Bender stands up and begins walking out of the library he stops and puts his sunglasses right in front of Andrew. "For better hallway vision." He continues out of the library but he makes sure to push everything off the counter on the way out. I feel my heart sink in that moment. I wish I could be there for John Bender.