the losers club | completed

15. jeremy had a gun

in which more deep truths are revealed.

✦

CHOSEN LOOKS OVER at Sophia, shocked at how she responded.

"That's a real nice attitude, Sophia!" He exclaims and Sophia sighs.

"Oh, be honest, Chosen... if Jeremy came walking up to you in the hall on Monday, what would you do? I mean, picture this, you're there with all the sports. I know exactly what you'd do, you'd say hi to him and when he left you'd cut him all up so your friends wouldn't think you really liked him!"

"No way!" Chosen denies. Jaeden stares at him with a hopeful look in eyes.

"'K what if I came up to you?"

Sophia shakes her head. "Same exact thing."

"You are a bitch!" Finn yells furiously.

"Why? 'Cause I'm telling the truth, that makes me a bitch?"

"No! 'Cause you know how shitty that is to do to someone! And you don't got the balls to stand up to your friends and tell 'em that you're gonna like who you wanna like!"

    "Okay, what about you, you hypocrite? Why don't you take Jaeden to one of your heavy metal vomit parties? Or take Jack out to the parking lot at lunch to get high? Or Wyatt, or Chosen for that matter, what about me? What would your friends say if we were walking down the hall together.

    "They'd laugh their asses off and you'd probably tell them you were doing it with me so they'd forgive you for being seen with me."

    "Don't you ever talk about my friends!" Finn spits as he screams madly at the red head.

    "You don't know any of my friends, you don't look at any of my friends and you certainly wouldn't condescend to speak to any of my friends so you just stick to the things you know, shopping, nail polish, your father's BMW and your poor-rich-drunk mother in the Caribbean!"

    At this point, Sophia had tears streaming down her cheeks. Jack starts tearing up, too.

    "Shut up!" Sophia sobs. However and unfortunately, that doesn't stop Finn from continuing.

    "As far as being concerned about what's gonna happen when you and I walk down the hallways at school, you can forget it! 'Cause it's never gonna happen! Just bury your hand in the sand.. and wait for your fuckin' prom!"

    "I hate you!"

    "Yeah? Good!"

    There came another brief pause. All you could hear was heavy breathing and sniffling. Jack glances over at Jaeden, then at Wyatt, then at Jeremy.

    "Then I assume Jaeden and I are better people than you guys, huh? Us weirdos.. I mean, Jeremy and Wyatt, too," Jack looks back over at Jae. "Do you, would you do that to me?"

    "I don't have any friends..." Jaeden says. Jack nods and wipes away a tear while laughing.

    "I don't either," he pauses. "But, well, if you did?"