Pondovadia: World I Love, Tears I Drop

Chapter Ten: I'm Just Playing Games

A loud roar echoed outside the cafeteria, bouncing against the walls like a rubber ball.

"What the-- what in the heck is going on?" Jennifer asked the boys. She looked around at the cafeteria-- some of the kids huddled close together while others were spread apart in case it was a shooter.

Ponce gulped and explained to Jennifer. "One of the livestock just went crazy and snapped the fence, and now it's trying to kill us"

"Went crazy?" she asked him. "Like how?"

Benjamin shrugged. "Well, it's mouth is all foamy and it's acting completely aggressive to us for no reason"

Jennifer shuddered and her stomach felt queasy. She had dealt with this before back in Oakland-- her dad's good friend Gouda had a whole outbreak in his sky livestock farm and he had have her help euthanize every single specimen by snapping their necks one by one.

"What's wrong?" Ponce asked her.

The donkey's light green eyes widened. "Rabies..." she muttered under her breath.

"Come again?" the octopus asked.

Jennifer cleared her throat before yelling. "Rabies! Ponce! That livestock out there has rabies!"

Everybody turned around to face them. Some animals looked apathetic while others felt the horror shake their entire bodies. Nobody aside from Jennifer had dealt with rabies upclose before in their lives.

"Ponce, you fucking idiot of a mutt!" someone screamed in the crowd, causing everyone else to gasp.

"What the fuck did you call me?!" Ponce hollered back. His eyes narrowed and his fists were shaking. He began to growl in fury.

Beatrice stood up from her table and stormed over to the door. She stomped the heel of her boot harshly and hollered.

"Are you fucking deaf? You're trying to get me killed!!"

Jennifer walked away in intimidation. The last time she tried to confront Beatrice over her aggressive personality, the mongoose called her a backwards redneck hick and slammed the door in her face, leaving a bandage on her nose for a week.

Benjamin, Kevin, Geddy, and Thomas ran into the corner of the lunchroom. If there was one thing they all collectively feared, it was Beatrice Neruda. She could cry her way into getting everyone else in trouble thanks to her toxic parents...

"Me?!" Ponce snapped. He stood up and stared down the snotty mongoose, his hands raised slightly to look innocent. "Why are you taking it out on me, you asshole?!"

"Oh geez, I don't know" Beatrice scoffed. "Maybe because you're the one who brought the rabid livestock here, you stupid mutt?"

She pulled her paw back to her face and harshly slapped Ponce across the face. He flinched and sharply yelled as he clenched the left side of his face. His nose and cheeks were faintly tinted red and he was fuming in anger. The crowd was stunned from what she had done. Oh, she's screwed.

Bell and Toshi got up from their respective tables and sprinted towards their friend. Toshi pulled out a wet wipe and held the cooled sheet of cloth to Ponce's cheek, while Bell grabbed Beatrice by her arm and glared at her.

"Really, Beatrice?! First off, you don't fucking call chimeras the m-word" Bell hollered at her in fury. "Also, why would you slap my friend over something he can't control, you disgusting asshole!"

Beatrice pushed the beaver's arm off her with a sneer. "Hey stay out of this Bell! And it was his fault anyways"

Bell yanked Beatrice by the collar of her shirt and gritted her teeth.