Chapter 16 Food Fight

The whole morning during class, I avoided making eye contact with them. It was embarrassing and awkward at the same time. Luckily, they didn't bother to talk to me. I guess it was because of their promise not to speak to me unless I initiate the conversation. And I can't say that I am not happy about that.

When lunch came, I was afraid to go out and eat at my spot under the tree in fear that they would be there. So instead, I went to eat at the cafeteria at my reserved table. I, of course, brought my own lunch with me. After the soup thing on the first day, I don't trust the cafeteria for edible foods anymore.

As usual, I was alone at my table as I silently and slowly ate my lunch, chicken sandwich, and an apple. 

I heard a crash and I immediately looked up to see where the noise was coming from. It was coming from the nerds’ table. Apparently, there was a commotion going on as a group of jock guys stood by their table and were laughing. They were laughing at one of the male nerds in the group who had a bowl of something on top of his head. The weird something from the bowl - I don't know what it is or if it is even edible - dripped down the boy's face and onto his checkered polo.

"And that's what happens when you don't make my physics report, nerd." Said one of the jocks as he knocked the bowl off the nerds head. The jocks continued to laugh and tormented the other nerds on the table.

I huffed and rolled my eyes at the scene. On usual occasions, I would have intervened just for fun, but since I wasn't in the mood for such, I just went back to my business and finished my food. Seriously, you'd think that kind of scene happens only in movies, but nooo, even mean girls exist. I don't know what's happening to Waynard High but there sure is a lot of drama here in the school cafeteria. It sure is pretty annoying. 

Do you think it's too late to transfer schools?

There was a screech and a crash as a chair fell on the floor. When I look up, I saw one of the nerds - a guy with shaggy brown hair and silver eyes - looking pissed as he got off of his seat. One of the jock stepped in front and looked at the nerd with a smirk on his face. It was Tyler. "Look, guys. I think we might have pissed him off." Mocked Tyler as his friends laughed.

"Please leave." Said the nerd.

"Oh no, I think he's gonna cry and tell his mommy." Tyler pinched the nerd's cheek and pushed him back. The nerd faltered but he was able to recover by leaning on the table.

"Enough, Tyler." Nerd said, looking at Tyler straight in the eye. I have to give it to him, that was a pretty bold move. "You've been tormenting us for years! Haven't you had enough?!"

Tyler grinned and pulled the nerd by the collar. "Nope. Things are just about to get real." It all happened too fast. Just as Tyler pulled his fist back for a punch, the nerd acted fast and grabbed the nearest tray and threw it at Tyler. There was a clatter as the tray fell on the floor and all its contents now on Tyler.

There was a dead silence that followed that you could even hear a pencil falling on the floor. They were starring wide eye and nervously at the groups on the nerd table, anticipating what would happen next. I, on the other hand, found myself grinning in amusement at what I have just seen.

Cool!! Real-life action! I take it back. I love this school and I was so stupid for even thinking of transferring.

"Now," The nerd panted. "You know what it feels like to have someone's food thrown at you." As soon as he said it, only one thing came to my mind. The thing dripping from the other nerd's head is food? I thought it was goo.

"Yes." Agreed Tyler, as he wiped some of the goo off of his face. "And now you'll feel what it feels like to get beaten up." The next thing that happened was so awesome that I wanted to laugh out loud and clap my hands in amusement as the jocks started to attack the nerds, but the nerds threw their food at them. Some hit the jocks, but the others have a bad aim that it hit the other tables. Soon, there was a full-on food fight in the cafeteria, and foods were flying in different direction.

I love this school so much!!! Waynard High is love, Waynard High is life!

"Students!! Enough!!" Someone yelled but no one seemed to pay attention to him, except me who was probably the only one sitting at my table and minding my own business. 

Standing at the entrance of the cafeteria, stood the student council. Leo was shouting and ordering to students to stop, Xander was helping him, Sheen was looking amused while Sandy looked shock.

Oh well. Here comes the killjoys. 

I watch in dismay as they started to go deeper into the battlefield to try and stop the war. But whatever they were doing seemed futile seeing as how the students seemed to ignore them. I even saw Xander trying to break up two girls from pulling each other's hair out while Sandy was holding a tray up as a shield and tried to coax them to stop. On the opposite side corner, Sheen and Leo were pulling two boys apart as they tried to brawl.

Whatever I was seeing at that moment was unexpected and certainly unrealistic. Is it me or are the students ignoring the beloved student council? If they are then......BEST.DAY.EVER!! 

I almost choked on my apple when I saw how pathetic they looked in the situation. One of the female students threw a pie in the air and landed on Sandy's hair. She let out a shrill of horror and as she touched her hair. 

"My hair!!!" She shrieked.

Sheen turned to Sandy and barked a laugh when he saw her."Haha!! Nice hairdo, San. Where'd you get it? At the bakery? Pft!!" Sandy glared at Sheen and grabbed a ketchup bottle and squirted the contents on Sheen.

Sandy and Sheen are out. That only leaves Leo and Xander to take care of the matters then. But looking at the president and his vice, I could say that they weren't exactly handling it well. 

SPLAT!!

I felt something cold drip down from my neck and I froze and felt the thing behind me only to find out that it was spaghetti. 

Ugh!!! 

I started to check myself only to find out that my uniform was stained red with spaghetti sauce. A vein popped on my head and I could feel my cool self taking over.

WHAT.THE.HECK!?!?!? This is so not fun anymore!!

"ENOUGH!!!" I got up from my seat and screamed at the top of my lungs. My voice lacing with fury as I looked at the commotion in front of me. I picked up and slammed a random frying pan on my table to get their attention. 

Don't even ask me where I got the pan since I could think of plenty of reasons where this came from. But let's just assume that the cook saw the fight and decided to join. 

Heck, I wouldn't be surprised if I find a knife somewhere.

Almost instantly, the fighting seized. It was like someone hit a pause button as they all froze and looked at me. As soon as they saw me, their eyes widened in fear and I could hear a few collective gasps in the background. 

My hands were still balled into a fist in anger at being hit by pasta. I mean, don't get me wrong I love food fights as long as I am not part of it. "WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU ARE!? ANIMALS!? CLEAN UP THE CAFETERIA AND HEAD BACK TO YOUR SEATS. NOW!!!" The students didn't hesitate as they all scrambled to their feet and started to clean up. I even saw one of the cooks pouting to help the cleanup.

Meanwhile, I turned around to look for the culprit who threw the pasta at me. Tyler was looking at me nervously and I suddenly knew that it was him. Frowning, I marched towards him and grabbed him by the collar before he could escape. "H-Hailey, I'm s-so-sorry. I didn't mean it. I swear!!"

"I didn't even ask anything yet." I said coldly. "But hearing that from you only confirmed my suspicion."

"I really didn't mean it!! I'm so sorry!!" The look on the bully's face was so pathetic and helpless if you compare him to the way he acted earlier. It was embarrassing that I couldn't stomach him.

Grunting, I let him go with a push. "Go and help with the clean-up."

"Y-yes ma'am!!" I turned around and started to head back to my table. I didn't need to look back to know that Tyler was helping with the clean-up after seeing the look on his face. 

Heck, if he doesn't want any trouble then he'll do as I say. Wimp.

I started to grab my things and was just about to leave when I saw the student council members blocking my way. They looked ridiculous with a bunch of stains and greases on their uniform, face, and hair. I think I even saw a plastic spoon perched on top of Xander's head. If I wasn't pissed right now I would laugh."What?" I ask, not bothering to be polite or anything.

I watched as Sandy took a step towards me and grabbed my hand. "You look like crap. Let's clean up. I have extra uniforms with me back in the room."

"No thanks. I can go home." I started to walk away put Sandy's grip on me was firm. I turned to give her a warning look in which she countered with a sweet-sinister smile on her face that sent shivers down my spine. 

You know that smile your mother gives you that says that she's going to kill you but you’re in public so it'll have to wait till later? Yeah, that's the one. I swear, I think she's even scarier than the cool Hailey. 

I gulped. Without thinking. "S-sure. I don't want to be late anyway."

With that, I followed them out of the cafeteria and back into the SC room.