Opening Moves

Logan watched as Ashley led the way over to the table. Vicky was already there, asking questions and writing down some memos on her notepad. He saw Ashley greet Bishop and touch the bruise on his cheek before resting a sympathetic hand on his shoulder.

"Hi Bishop." Logan said smiling to the kid while he stood at end of the table with Ashley on one side and Heather on his other side with the rest of the Inner Circle around them.

"Ravers" he answered back when he looked up at him.

"Sooo," Logan started, he was suddenly unsure of how exactly to go about it. "Emm, I heard about the fight you had yesterday and I wanted to ask you if we could team up against Dylan, you know make an alliance or something."

"The fight yesterday was with Brandon not Dylan." he said after a moment. He had a wary look on his face.

'This was so fucking easy 5 minutes ago.' Logan thought while his rehearsed speech seemed unravel but he pressed on. "Yeah I know but... I just know that Dylan put him up to it. I saw Dylan and Shawn gloating while you guys got into the fight. I Don't know how but I'm sure he put Brandon up to it." Logan paused for a moment has he looked around the table, mostly he saw some confusion and curiosity on the other kids. "Look, I've been having problems with Dylan for a long time. I know he's a sneaky bully, and now I see him picking on you and your friends and... Well... all I'm saying is that if we team up we can stop him. What do you say? Want to be Partners?" Logan said extending his hand.

He saw the kid tense up a bit and look around the table to his friends. To Logan, it seemed like the tension in the table suddenly got cranked up.

He looked back at Logan and glanced up at Ashley. "Sorry." He said softly, more to Ashley than to him, "I... we can't..." he said and it seemed to Logan that a lot of tension was suddenly lifted off the table, "Look, we don't like Dylan and his group but... I'm sorry but... we just can't help you... it's... complicated and well.... good luck, maybe... maybe some other time."

Logan felt his heart sink. "Yeah I understand." he said "Still If you change your mind... call me."

"Sure." he said.

"Ok, so... see you later then." Logan said.

Logan turned around and walked away wondering what went wrong "Why doesn't he want to join us?" Logan said out loud without knowing it.

"Who cares." Heather said. "We can do it without them."

"They look scared." Ashley said before looking back and waving at Zack.

"So what now?" Dustin asked.

"Oh we're are still going to take them down. This changes nothing." Logan said "You girls start writing on the walls. We'll start digging it in on Monday."

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Ashley and Victoria giggled has they wrote 'Dylan has a small dick.' on the bathroom walls.

Sharron pulled out the sharpie and wrote 'Dylan has a small dick.' on the bathroom wall. She looked at the words and then she smiled and added 'Logan has a big one'.

Heather smirked has she wrote 'Cheetos are bigger and taste better than Dylan's dickie' and wondered how Logan planned to make this stupid idea work.