Jeremy's School Bully

It was the first day of school and Jeremy was on the lookout for any big boys that could be potential bullies. After all, the main reason he was here at Granger High School was because he'd had a bully at his old school that made his life miserable each and every day for his entire time there. The bully was named Billy Thornton, but all of his victims called him BB for 'Billy the Bully'. Goofy? Sure, but accurate. Billy had caught wind of his nick name through one of his cronies who thought it was a reference to B.B. King, the great blues legend. So after the crony related the story to Billy, Billy roamed the hallways as though he were a superstar while searching for one of his usual victims.

"Hi, I'm Barbra." A chipper voice said from behind Jeremy's locker door, causing him to jump. "Sorry, I didn't mean to startle you." The voice said as he peeked warily around the edge of the door to see a rather cute brunette smiling at him.

"That's Ok, uh...I startle easy. Comes with the territory, I'm Jeremy" He replied with a sheepish smile and awkwardly stuck out his hand. Barbara took it and smiled broadly as she said,

"Hopefully we'll have some classes together since the freshman class is kind of small this year."

"Maybe," Jeremy said, "but I'm a senior so it's not too likely."

"Oh! I'm sorry, I just assumed that since you were down here with me you must be a freshman." Chagrined Jeremy looked at the floor and replied,

"Yea, well I transferred into Granger kind of at the last minute so I'm down here with the freshmen I guess."

"I didn't mean anything by that, I don't care if you're a freshman or a senior, I still think you're cute!" She blurted out. Then she turned red and hurried off down the hall and up the steps. Jeremy stood in the quickly emptying hallway with his mouth hanging open. After a few seconds a big goofy grin spread across his face. He was only 20 minutes into his first day and this was already shaping up to be a much better year than last year. He grabbed is books, slammed the door on his locker and pelted up the stairs behind Barbara.