(Character build up, not to be sexy, read if you want or otherwise, skip to next chapter.)
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The bell rang, school was over. Kid's rushed out to get to their buses, their parents SUV's, or to their friends waiting for them by the fences enclosing the school. The bell was loud, long, and when finally over, I was relieved. Principal Cleary hadn't come by my office, so I knew we were in the clear. No one had ratted us out over the weekend.
"D" and Donny had come up to me during their classes study session towards the end of the period, making sure I was ready. I told the janitor to keep my hall and lining classes for last on his rounds. I said I was going to be filming projects with students for their college entrance projects and needed the hall empty and quiet so the camera wouldn't pick up any extra noise. He nodded and said "Alright, Mr.Tripp. I'll get to your classes around 8 p.m. for ya."
I finished clearing off my desk in my office and closed the door behind me, I sat at my desk, waiting for the boys and girls to show up. Within five minutes, Donny, "D", and some of their friends from their club started to come in.
One of their friends, Bill, is bit of a big Star Wars freak. On his 18th birthday, Donny, "D", and the other friends all went out for a Star Wars duel at a paint ball park. Strapped in their Jedi and Storm Trooper apparel, they fought it out until way after midnight. I know this, because I was invited but couldn't make it, so they brought in a video and we watched it the next week during lunch. Bill is tall, has dark hair that he lets fall into his eyes, and he says he spends most of his time at home reading or on the net chatting with his many net-buds.
Two more guys came in, twin brothers, Carl and Lance. They are both Italian, and dressed in dark clothing. They are the "goth" ones of the geek club. Ever since Columbine, it became the un-hip thing among students at the school to be gothic and it seemed as Carl and Lance were the only ones who not only didn't give a fuck, but wanted to make a point. "Clothes do not make the person!" as one of them would say at some of our debates over the dress code.
Carl is on the chess club, math club, drama club, science and theories club, and is the founder of the movie club. If he was white, had blonde hair, and wore high waters, he'd be just like Brian from the breakfast club.
Lance on the other hand makes it a point to only be in the geek club. He has a girlfriend and does his best to try to be "as normal as you can be all dressed in black" as he says. He is like an Italian Johnny Cash, which is funny, because if you say something like that to kids at my school, they would say, "That guy that movie was about with Reese Witherspoon?" Lance is tall like his brother, with black hair as well, but keeps it held back from his eyes with a backwards cap with ICP on it.
Knowing that Terri and her friends would be coming in soon, I started to prep the boys. I filled them in with what I had in mind on what to do for their "study sessions" with the girls. "You are to tutor the girls for fifteen minutes every forty five minutes. Find out from the girls what classes they are having trouble with, or what their homework is. Do what you feel with help them with learning, not just punish them. Okay? We want them to learn a lesson, not hate men.
"With that, 'Rule number 1' -- " I started but was interrupted by "D."
"What is this, Fight Club?" he asked, and the guys all laughed.