Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 20:49:57 -0400
From: Ronyx <ronyx@woh.rr.com>
Subject: Mark's Revenge  Chapter 8

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Mark's Revenge Chapter 8



School begins next week. I don't know where the summer went. I'd been
so busy with Bobby and keeping my customers happy that I'd lost track of
the days. It really didn't hit me until Mom told me that she was going
to take me shopping for school clothes.

"God, No!" I screamed as I fell on the couch moaning. "I don't want
to go back to school. Please let me drop out!" I begged. I really
didn't want to go back. If she had said I could stay home, I would have
very happily done it.

"What do you expect me to do?" She said. "Take care of your sorry ass
the rest of your life. I don't think so." She looked at me and laughed
while I continued crawling around on the couch.

"No! Please Mom!" I cried. "Shoot me! Put me out of my misery!"

"Bang! You're dead!" She pointed her finger at me and pretended to
shoot a gun. Then she raised it to her mouth and blew it off, like some
cowboy in a cheap western movie.

"Go call Bobby." She told me. "He's going with us."

"You got to be kidding?" I gasped. "All he's going to want is white
shirts and black pants. He's the school geek, you know."

"Not this year." She smiled. "I talked with Nancy and she wants me to
help Bobby pick out a new wardrobe. That's why I'm taking him shopping.
She'd give in and end up buying him what he wants."

"Yes! He's not going to look nerdy this year!" I pumped my hand into
the air. It didn't bother me the way Bobby dressed for school, but I
knew it would hurt me to hear other students laughing at him behind his
back. Besides, I had gotten used to him running around in a tee shirt and
shorts all summer. He looked cute when he dressed like a normal teenager.

Shopping with Bobby and my mom was an adventure. He whined every time
she'd hold up a colorful shirt or denim shorts. Whenever he'd head to
the business men's section, she'd drag him back to the normal clothes.
After a few episodes like this, she wised up. She only took him in shops
that only offered teen wear. He had no choice but to select clothing more
suitable.

He kept insisting he'd wait and go shopping with his mother, but my mom
told him he couldn't. At one point he called his mother on the cell
phone. She told him that if he didn't buy his clothes today, then he'd
be going naked to school. When I told him that would be alright with me,
he called me a perv.

Shopping for shoes was another experience. He wanted black shoes like his
father would wear to work. My mother absolutely refused. She told him he
was not going to school looking like an old man. After throwing several
temper tantrums, he did end up buying a nice pair of Nike's and leather
sandals. He looked cute in the sandals with his little toes showing. I
liked them so well, I talked my mother into buying me a pair.

When we took him home, his mother was ecstatic. She made him model
everything he had bought. She oohed and aahed over everything he put on.
After changing into several outfits, he began to pose like a model. He
had us all laughing. His mother grabbed a camera and began taking
pictures. She later gave me copies which I put up on my bedroom wall. I
look at them before I go to bed each night.

"Mark! Get out of bed. You have to go to school." My mother shouted
down the hall. I groaned and put the pillow over my head. Maybe if I
pretended not to hear her I could avoid the inevitable.

"Amy, you too. Get out of bed." I heard my sister groan also. I began
laughing. She hated school as much as I did. She loved going and being
with her friends, but she didn't like going to classes. If she could
spend the day sitting in the cafeteria gossiping about other students,
she'd love it.

"Mark! Amy! Get your asses out of bed. Now!" We both knew this was the
last time she'd call us. She didn't curse unless she was angry. It
wouldn't be but a few minutes more before she'd come in and drag us out
of bed. Then she'd ground us for a week.

In the past it didn't bother me if she put me on punishment. That would
always give me an excuse to stay in my room and play with my Playstation
or watch porn on the computer. But now I wanted to hang with Bobby and I
couldn't if I was grounded.

I jumped out of bed and ran down the hall to the bathroom. If I didn't
beat Amy, she'd be in there until it was time for us to leave. I don't
know what she does in there. She never looks any better coming out than
she did going in.

Just as I slammed the door shut, Amy began banging on the door.

"Get out of there, fag!" She screamed while hitting the door.

"One week, Young Lady." I heard my mother shout out angrily. This was
the third time this summer that Amy had been punished for calling me a
fag. Sooner or later she'd learn that Mom didn't want her calling me
that.

"You`re still a fag." She whispered through the door. She then stomped
angrily back to her room.

I looked in the mirror to see how my forehead looked. The swelling had
gone down, but there was still a visible bruise. It wasn't as dark as it
had been last week, but you could still see it's yellowish color. I
could always say that I ran into a tree or something.

Bobby, on the other hand, looked far worse. The jab Scott had given him
had left a pretty bad shiner. My mother got upset every time she saw him.
Last night she had put some makeup on him to see if it would cover up the
bruise. I almost peed my pants laughing at him. She ended up having to
put it over his entire face to make it blend. He looked like that
preacher's wife who I see on television sometimes.

My mother took us to school the first day. She had to make sure that Amy
was properly registered and she wanted to meet her teachers. Amy wasn't
very cooperative in class, so she wanted to make sure that they had her
number so they could call her if they needed to. They'd be calling
often. Amy stayed in trouble. Last year she cussed out a teacher and was
suspended for a week. Surprise, surprise!

"You boys have fun." She leaned over to kiss my cheek, but I quickly
opened the door and jumped out. That was all I needed was someone seeing
my mother kiss me goodbye. She started laughing when I jumped out. She
may have found it cute, but I didn't. Bobby got out and we walked into
school together.

Since we'd already received our schedules in the mail two weeks ago, we
didn't have to join the lines that were forming for new students or
those who had moved during the summer. We walked through the cafeteria
line and got the usual nutritious breakfast offering, a carton of 2% milk
and a hard donut in cellophane. I felt sorry for those students who had
to depend on this crap to hold them over until lunch. I usually ended up
giving my donut to one of my friends.

"Look what we have here." I didn't even have to turn around to know
who it was. I could recognize Scott's sexy voice. "You two look real
pretty. I like my work." His usual band of followers was with him. They
circled behind us.

"What do you want, Scott?" I said angrily. He sat down across from us
and leaned across the table, staring into my face.

"We have some unfinished business." He sneered. "You still haven't
sucked my dick. Your boyfriend has." I looked into his face and hated
what I saw. I don't know why I had found him so cute. He was an ugly
person to me now.

"Fuck you, Scott." I spat. I knew he could hurt me if he wanted, but at
that moment I really didn't care. I was tired of him thinking he could
have anything he wanted. He definitely wasn't going to have me.

"No, Mark. I'm going to fuck you." He threatened. "Your sweet ass is
going to be mine." I looked into his eyes and knew he meant it. I felt a
cold chill go down my spine.

"Then when I'm through with you, I'm going to fuck your boyfriend's
ass too. I'm sure you've got it stretched real nice for me."

"Touch him and I'll kill you." Anger was shooting from my eyes, but he
paid no attention to it. I wanted to reach across the table and strangle
his neck.

"Oohh! I'm so scared." He began laughing. "When you least expect
it." He got up from the table and walked around and pushed his hard cock
into my back. "This is yours, Sweet Thing." He then started laughing
and walked away.

"I'm scared." Bobby's voice was shaking. "He's going to hurt us. I
know he is."

"We're going to have to move fast if we're going to stop him." I
said. "Maybe we should put our plan into action."

"I don't know. He'll know it's us." His voice still shook. "He'll
kill us if we do."

"Give me one of the posters you made." He reached into his book bag and
pulled out one of the wanted posters he'd downloaded weeks earlier. I
took it and shoved it into my book bag before anyone around us could see.

"What are you going to do with that?" Bobby asked.

"Nothing." He looked at me skeptically. "Alright. I'm going to put
Plan A into action."

"He's going to hurt us." Bobby seemed scared to death. "Maybe I
should tell my dad. He'll know what to do."

"Look, Bobby. We can't go running to your dad every time something goes
wrong. We have to learn how to handle our own problems." I was trying to
sound brave. "Scott picked this fight, we have to finish it. I want
revenge." I threw up my hand for him to hit it.

"Revenge!" Bobby raised his hand and I high-fived it, but I could still
see the fear in his eyes. I'm guessing mine probably contained the same
look.

We left the cafeteria and went our separate ways. I really wanted to stay
with Bobby, but we didn't share any classes together. I wouldn't be
seeing him again until lunch. At least we both ate at the same time.

I walked down the hall and tried to avoid eye contact. I didn't want to
see if other students were staring at me. I was pretty sure that the
whole school knew about me and Bobby. Besides, it wasn't unusual for me
to walk quietly through the halls. Most students had become familiar with
my aloofness.

My first period class was my favorite subject- American Literature. I
wasn't an avid reader at home, but I loved the way the teacher could
make stories jump off the page. Mr. Allison taught the class. I had had
him last year also. He had quickly become my favorite teacher when he
called me by name the second day of class. He didn't even look at the
student list. He had remembered it.

"Good morning, Mark." Mr. Allison smiled at me. "Nice to have you in
class again this year. I'm expecting good work out of you like last
year." I was grinning ear to ear as I walked to a seat in the middle of
the room. I don't like sitting in the front rows because teachers
usually called on students to answer questions. The lazy and talkative
students sit in the back. The middle suits me fine.

I scanned the room to see the familiar faces I'd seen over the years.
Everyone seemed to have grown quite a bit over the summer. The boys
appeared taller and the girls' shirts filled out a little more in the
front. I felt like the same person I was last year.

The bell rang and Mr. Allison stood in the front of the room to take
attendance. Scott came running in breathlessly. Mr. Allison gave him a
stern look.

"What's up, Teach?" He said as he hurried past him.

"Mr. Allison." The teacher said sharply.

"Whatever." Scott shot back.

"That just got you a night's detention, Mr.-" He scanned his list
quickly. "Olsteen."

"Bitch." Scott muttered under his breath. He scanned the room for an
empty seat. Unfortunately, the only empty seat was the one in back of me.
He walked past me and brushed my shoulder before sitting.

"Hey again, Sweet Thing." He whispered as he sat down. "This must be
my lucky day. I get to look at your ass for an hour." He then made a
kissing sound. "Yeah. All mine."

I buried my hands in my head and groaned. Why me? Of all the classes in
this school, all the seats in each class, and he has to sit behind me. I
jumped when I felt his bare foot touch my ass. I let out a startled
scream.

"Something wrong, Mark?" Mr. Allison asked. My face was beet red. I was
not used to being noticed in class. I could hear Scott giggling behind
me.

"No, Sir. I'm alright." I lied. I had already decided to ask Mr.
Allison if I could change seats after class. I just didn't want to do it
in front of the whole class.

"Today class, I want to see what you forgot over the summer." Several
students began to laugh. "I have a small test to see what you know about
American literature." The entire class groaned.

"It's not that bad." He laughed. I remembered that Allison liked
students to work together. He believed that students who were better
academically could help those who struggled. Fortunately, last year I had
worked with a shy girl who only passed the class because of the help I
had given her. Now I was afraid of what was about to happen.

"You may work with a partner on this assignment." There it was. The
words I didn't want to hear. He began passing out the worksheet. I felt
Scott grab the back of my desk and pull it along side his.

"Me and you are going to be partners, Sweet Thing." He looked over at
me and grinned. Last year I would have died to have been able to work
with someone like Scott. He was every gay boy's wet dream. Now, however,
I felt like I was going to throw up.

"I don't think so." I gathered my notebook and walked out of the
class. I could hear Mr. Allison calling my name as I left. I didn't
care. There was no way I was going to work with that asshole, even if it
meant failing the class. I would talk later to Mr. Allison and try to
make up some excuse for leaving.

I didn't know exactly where to go when I left. I'd never cut a class
before. I'd heard students talking about their favorite places to go,
but those were usually make-out spots. I was afraid if I went to one of
them I might interrupt someone trying to have sex.

I went to the library, but the librarian refused to let me in because I
didn't have a pass from a teacher. I tried hiding out in a boys'
restroom, but it seemed like other guys had the same idea. Everyone I
entered was occupied by two or three guys smoking. I definitely didn't
want to get caught with them. Smoking on school grounds was a five day
suspension.

Out of desperation I decided to go to the counselor's office and pretend
that I had a problem with my schedule. Even though I liked Mr. Allison's
class, I was going to ask for a transfer. When I got there the place was
crowded with other students. I quietly took a seat and decided to wait
out the rest of the period. At least it would appear that I was not
skipping class.

After about twenty minutes the bell rang for second period. I looked at
my schedule- Algebra II. Oh God. Who decided that it was important for
people to have to take a subject like algebra? I decided that if I lived
to be a hundred, I'd never find a practical use for it. The teacher
always said we learn it so we can think logically. Surely, there has to
be another way to master that skill without having to endure nine months
of equations.

I made my way to Mrs. Bowen's class. As I approached, I saw Scott go
walking in. He was with Richard. I was doomed. Not only did I have to
tolerate Scott, I had to deal with one of his loyal followers. I entered
the room and looked around. They had taken a seat in the back. I hated
sitting in the front row, but when faced with the alternative, it was an
easy choice. The teacher had not arrived so the class was rather rowdy.
As I sat there, I felt something hard hit my back and explode. Within
seconds water was running down my back. The class was roaring with
laughter. Someone had hit me with a water balloon.

"Aw. Look everyone. The fag got wet." It was Scott's voice. This made
everyone laugh even louder. I was angry. That was the last straw. He may
be bigger than me, but I wasn't going to sit here and take this kind of
abuse the rest of the school year.

I rushed to the back of the room and tackled him to the ground. He
wasn't expecting me to react in a violent manner, so I had caught him
off guard. I began pounding on him. I don't even know where I hit him. I
was just blindly swinging.

"You stupid Mother Fucker." I screamed as I hit him. He was shielding
his head so I wouldn't hit him in his face. "I hate you."

I could feel students trying to pull me off. Suddenly I was lifted to my
feet and slammed against the wall. I was looking into the angry face of
Dean Snow. He was the dean of boys and never tolerated students fighting
in school. I knew I was in serious trouble.

I looked down and saw Scott looking up at me with a stupid smirk on his
face. He knew he was not in trouble since he had thrown no punches.
Suddenly the smirk turned to a look of anger. He mouthed the words,
"You're dead," to me.

Dean Snow took me and Scott to his office. After playing the innocent
victim, he was given a pass and was allowed to return to class. I, on the
other hand, was given a five-day suspension for fighting. I was told to
wait in the outer office until my mother arrived.

When the bell rang ending the period, I watched as students walked by. A
few pointed at me and laughed. Suddenly, Bobby burst through the door and
sat down beside me.

"I heard what happened." He said breathlessly. "Are you alright."

"Five days." I held up my suspension paper and showed it to him. A sad
looked appeared on his face.

"Damn, Mark." He frowned. "This is just the first day of school."

"This is how the rest of the year is going to go. Scott's in almost all
my classes. I can't deal with him." I said dejectedly. I don't think I
had ever felt so helpless in my life. This school year was going to be
even worse than I had expected. In nine years of school, I had never once
been in trouble. One day with Scott and I was being suspended.

"Listen. I gotta get to class before the bell rings." Bobby stood and
looked sadly down at me. "I'll come by your house when school's out."

"If my mom let's you in. I'll probably be on punishment until I'm
twenty five." I knew she was not going to take this news lightly.

"Bye, Mark." He turned and headed out the door. Five minutes later my
mother walked through the door with a very angry look on her face. I
couldn't tell if she was mad at me or disappointed. It was probably a
little of both.

She didn't say anything to me. She just grabbed my hand and led me out
the door. I thought we were going to the car, but instead she took me to
Dr. Johnson's office. She was the principal of the school.

"I want to speak to Dr. Johnson." My mother said angrily to the
secretary.

"She's in a parent conference. She can't see you right now." The
secretary said sharply. I could tell that she had had experience dealing
with angry parents.

"Fine. We'll wait." My mother lead me over to some chairs against the
wall and we sat down. She still hadn't looked at me or said anything. I
figured she was really mad at me. We sat there for about forty minutes
until Dr. Johnson walked out of her office with a parent. She looked over
at my mother and smiled.

"Rita. What are you doing here?" She said as she approached my mother
and gave her a hug. I was astounded. My mother knew the principal! I
found out later that Dr. Johnson and her husband were frequent diners at
the restaurant where my mother worked. She was their favorite waitress
and always asked for my mother when they ate there.

"I need to talk to you about my son. I think he was unfairly suspended.
I talked to Dean Snow on the phone and my son was never asked to give his
side of the story. I think he needs to tell you what happened." I felt
my stomach begin to knot inside. I would rather have taken the suspension
than have to deal with the embarrassment of telling her about my problems
with Scott.

My mother had put me on the spot. I knew she would be disappointed in me
if I didn't stand up for myself. So I spent the next fifteen minutes
telling her how Scott had outed me during the summer and how he was now
treating me at school. I even told her how he had sexually threatened me
and Bobby. It was embarrassing, but my mother held my hand the entire
time.

Dr. Johnson said she understood, but was bound by school rules to uphold
the suspension since I was the one who had initiated the fight.
Considering the circumstances, she did reduce it to three days. She said
she would talk to other students and see if any of them would confirm my
suspicion that Scott had thrown the balloon. If so, he would be suspended
as well.

As for the sexual threats, she was going to ask for a parent conference
with Scott and Mr. Olsteen. I cringed when she said this. I knew that
nothing but more trouble could possibly come from this. He would only
deny it and his uncle would back him up. Dr. Johnson did assure me that
the school had zero-tolerance for sexual harassment, and if it continued
she would have no problem removing Scott from school.

I felt a little comforted knowing that the principal had believed me and
didn't doubt anything I had said. She was also going to talk to Bobby
and assure him as well. When my mother and I stood to leave, she even
gave me a hug. At least I knew I had one person in school on my side.

As we left the office I stopped suddenly and gasped when I looked down
the hall. On every door was a picture of the wanted poster of Scott's
father and mother. I began laughing hysterically. Bobby had decided to go
to Plan A.

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