-:- Broken Smoker -:- John Bender - Breakfast Club

Like Twilight Zone Kinda

Nicky’s Pov.

“So… So! Are you two like boyfriend, girlfriend?” I pressed the populars once I became really bored.

“Steady dates?” Bender added.

“Looooovers?” I dragged on. 

Bender winked at me. Oh boy.

“Come on sporto, level with me… you slip her the hot.. beef, injection?” He punciated the last part

“Go to hell!” “Enough!” Both the populars yelled as I burst into laughter. 

I leaned against Bender and he wrapped his arm around my shoulder.

“Hey! What’s going on in there?” We heard Vernon yell from his office. 

I calmed down and just kept my head on Bender's shoulder. He smiled and ran his fingers through my hair. This was pretty normal for us, being best friends and all. Best friends… ouch. Eventually I got up sitting on the railing beside the tables.

“What do you say we close that door? Can’t have any kinda party with Vernon checking us out every few seconds?” I questioned. 

“Well you know the door’s supposed to stay open” Brian reminded me.

“So?” Bender questioned getting us and leaning against the railing.

“So why don’t you just shut up. There’s 4 other people in here beside you two” Andrew exclaimed.

“Good you can count. See I knew you had to be smart to be a… wrestler” I stated.

“Who the hell are you to judge anyone anyways?” He defended.

“Really” Queenie added, rolling her eyes.

“Ya know Newman you don’t even count. You know if you disappear forever it wouldn’t make any difference. You may as well not exist at this school” Andrew scoffed.

The fucking prick. I was hurt internally, but I kept my cool on the outside. Bender put a comforting arm around my shoulder, knowing I was hurt.

“Well… I’ll just run right out and join the Cheerleading squad” I fought back.

The two poplars snickered at each other.

“Maybe the prep club, student council,” Bender added.

“Nah they wouldn’t take you two” Andrew shook his head.

“I’m hurt,” I said with a phony frown. 

“You know why weirdos like you knock everything” Queenie piped up.

“This should be stunning” I mumbled.

“It’s because you’re afraid”

“Oh God you richies are so smart that’s exactly why we’re not heavy in activities!” Bender exclaimed.

“You’re a big coward” Queenie said straight to Bender, then turned to me. “See you’re afraid that they won’t take you, you don’t belong so you just have to dumb all over it” 

I looked around theatrically.

“Well… it wouldn’t have anything to do with you activities people being assholes now would it?”

“Well you wouldn’t know. You don’t even know any of us” She reasoned.

I let out a deep sigh.

“Well I don’t know any lepers either, but I’m not gonna run out and join of a their fucking clubs” I exclaimed.

“Hey let’s watch the mouth huh” Andrew glared at me.

“I’m in a physics club to”

We heard Brian mumble from the back of the room.

“Excuse me a sec” Bender mumbled to the populars, redirecting his attention to the nerd “What are you babbling about?”

“Well what I said was, I’m in a math club, a latin club, and the physics club” Brian explained.

“Hey, Queenie… Do you belong to the physics club?” I questioned.

“That’s an academic club,” she grumbled.

“So?”

“So academic clubs aren’t the same as other kinds of clubs,” she explained.

“Ah, but to dorks like him, they are” I finished.

“What do you guys do in your club?” Bender asked.

“Well in physics club we uh, we talk about physics, uh properties of physics” Brian explained.

“So it’s kinda social… demented and sad, but social right?” I reasoned.

“Yeah well I guess you could consider it a social situation. I mean, there are other children in my club. And uh, at the end of the year we have um, ya know a big banquette at the hilton” Brian said.

“Ya load up ya party” Bender added.

“Well no, we- we get dressed up but uh, we don’t uh, we don’t get high”

“Only burners like you two get high” Queenie was looking at me though.

I smirked. I was the school smoker. It was my escape. I skipped at least one class a day so I could smoke weed or something else. I never drank though. After dealing with my step dad for 5 years, and my real dad dying from a drunk driver, I vowed to never drink anything. So I resorted to smoking, and I loved it. 

“... kinda like Twilight zone kinda” Brian finished.

I turned back into the conversation.

“Kinda like you two” Stated Queenie. 

I glared at her again. Andrew started to get frantic.

“Look, if you guys keep talking, Vernons gonna come right in here. I gotta meet this saturday I’m not missing it on a count of you boneheads” he grumbled.

“Oh and wouldn’t that be a bite huh, oh, missing a whole wrestling meet” Bender was bugging Andrew again.

“Well you wouldn’t know anything about fagot! You never competed in your whole life” he insulted.

Bender had a weird smile on his face, he started mock crying.

“Oh I know. I fell all empty inside because of it. I have such a deep admiration for guys who roll around on the floor and other guys” he exclaimed.

I chuckled at that.

“Ah you’d never miss it. You don’t have any goals” Andrew mumbled.

“Oh but I do! I wanna be just like you. I figure all I need’s… a lobotomy and some tights” He smirked.

I burst out laughing almost falling off the railing, but Jay caught me. I smiled at him as he steadied me.

“You wear tights?” Brain questoned.

“No. I don’t wear tights… I wear the required uniform” Adnrew retorted.

“Tights” I clarified.

“Shut up!” Andrew yelled at me. 

I rolled my eyes going back to sit down in my original seat. 

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