A Lost Oportunity

Logan and Dustin calmly walked down the hallway to their next class along with Ashley, Heather, Victoria, Alice Philips and Tanya Jones. They had a 15 minutes break between second and third period classes and the girls were still gossiping about school field trip on Monday, Victoria coming out on TV, who broke up over the summer, who were the new couples, and everything else. Logan silently plodded along, still wrapped up in his own world thinking about Sharon and the advice Charlie had given him. He barely noticed how pretty the girls looked bouncing around him in their tight cheerleader uniforms or the concerned looked Heather would give him from time to time has she clung to his arm.

"Hey Logan!" he heard someone call out to him and he looked up.

"Hey Logan!" he saw it was Dylan and swore under his breath has his childhood tormentor backpedaled ahead of him making faces. "Heard you were joining the Cheerleaders? Or is that too manly for you?" bending his wrist mimicking an exaggerated gay pose.

Logan felt his anger rise inside him has he clenched his fists but before he could do or say anything, he felt Ashley and Heather grab his arms.

"Don't do it. He's not worth getting into trouble." Ashley said.

"AAWW" That so sweet Logan. Keep hiding behind the girls' skirts you wussy!" Dylan taunted him while he hurried down the hall.

"Get back here so we can kick your ass!" he heard Heather yell at him. Dylan flipped her the finger before bouncing around the corner.

He's gotten so much worse." Ashley said. "Someone has to do something."

"Yeah but what can we do? " Vitoria asked. "How do we stop him if the teachers won't do anything. You saw what happened Monday? If Logan's aunt wasn't there those kids would be in trouble instead of him."

"You're right. Somebody has to stop him before he gets someone hurt" Logan said.

"You'll figure it out." Heather said rubbing his arm. "And then we'll kick his ass."

They laughed their way down the hall but not two minutes passed when they heard a commotion, someone screamed and then they heard people yelling and running.

"What the hell?" Dustin said and both boys started running to the sound with the girls behind them.

Logan and the girls pushed their way forward to see two separate scuffles going on in the hallway and Mr. Eric Jacobs, the history teacher, trying to break up the fight. But what really struck him was the smug smile on Dylan and Shawn has they high fived each other and cheered from the side. 'They set this up' he realized. 'They made them fight each other. If I had punched Dylan this wouldn't have happened.'