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"You'd better hurry, Bender. The dragon is on a rampage. '' Evelyn called over her shoulder while turning the corner with Allison.

Bender grinned and sped off in the other direction towards the library.

Allison and Evelyn quickly rejoined their classmates near the bathrooms.

Claire eyed them suspiciously. "Well?"

"Well, what?" Evelyn asked, enjoying teasing Claire.

"Well, did you find Bender?", she huffed, throwing her hands up in annoyance.

Evelyn laughed. "Yes, we found him in one of the old storage closets. That asshole, Vernon, kept him caged like an animal."

"What's your point?" Andrew snickered. Allison rolled her eyes.

"Oh, c'mon, Andrew. Lighten up. You never know, you two could be best friends by the time this detention is over." She gave him a soft punch on the shoulder. Now it was Andrew's turn to roll his eyes. Meanwhile, Brian was off to the side looking visibly uncomfortable as Allison stared a hole right between his eyes. He gave a nervous laugh and coughed, clearly not knowing what else to do.

"I don't know about you guys, but I don't want to keep waiting around here for Vernon. Let's just go back to the library." Claire checked her watch, annoyed that they had been standing outside the bathroom for a solid 20 minutes. The girl did not have any patience for anything she deemed unimportant.

As everyone turned around to head back to the library, Brian grudgingly followed, trying to be the voice of reason. "I don't know, I think we should really wait here for Vernon. I mean, he did say…" Brian was cutoff as Evelyn grabbed him by the arm and hauled him back with the rest of the group.

They shuffled in through the double doors and stopped dead in their tracks. The library was absolutely silent and nothing seemingly out of place. They looked around, confused.

"Where is he?"

"I thought you said you guys got him out!"

"Oh god, we're in so much trouble!"

"Well, that was useless."

"Everyone, just relax!" Evelyn half-shouted. She scanned the library, her brow furrowing in concentration. At the top right corner of the library on the balcony, she saw his discarded jean jacket. She grinned.

"Don't worry, he's here,'' she said pointing to the direction of his hiding spot.

"Whatever", Andrew grumbled as everyone took their seats.

Evelyn and Allison shrugged and gave each other a high five before they also went back to their respective tables.

With nothing else to do, Evelyn pulled her essay back in front of her and tried to focus on her work. She assumed Bender knew that Vernon would be back soon, so he wouldn't make an appearance until later. Might as well get something done on this stupid essay while I can, Evelyn thought. No one else except Brian shared her train of thought.

A little while later, the double doors to the library banged open and in stalked the devil himself.

"What the hell is going on here?" He stomped to the front of the desks and waited. The routine was already old and the students looked at him in disinterest.

"Why aren't you where I told you to stay? You disobeyed my instructions." He waited with a sneer and his hands on his hips.

"Sir, it's been 45 minutes. We figured we would come back to the library to work on our essays that you assigned to us." Claire shrugged. "It would be a good use of our time." She gave him a small smile, hoping to drive home her point.

Vernon huffed, clearly upset that there was logic to that statement but not noticing that the majority were not working on the essay. "Fine. But if you disobey my orders again, you will all be seeing me here next Saturday. Do I make myself clear?"

A chorus of a bored "Yes, sir" was uttered from the group. Vernon glanced at the clock.

"Alright, you've had your bathroom break. Now eat your lunch." He glared at them a second longer and stormed back out of the doors to his office.

"Hey, what about our drinks?" Andrew cried, visibly upset. Claire rolled her eyes and started taking out her lunch as did the rest of the students.

Evelyn was so engrossed in unpacking her sandwich that she nearly had a heart attack when Bender snuck up to her on her left.

"Christ, Bender! Don't scare me like that!" Evelyn shrieked, clutching a hand over her heart. Bender snickered and promptly sat down next to her, looking over her shoulder.

"What's for lunch?"

"Turkey sandwich and an apple. You?" She took a bite out of her sandwich and waited for Bender to answer. He didn't. Instead, he strolled over to Claire and Andrew to interrogate them on their lunches, finally making his way over to a stressed out Brian. Evelyn grabbed her Walkman to tune out their banter while she enjoyed her lunch. She picked up her pencil and scribbled a few sentences to add to her essay.

She was completely lost in listening to her music until the noise in the library got substantially louder. She turned to see that Andrew had Bender in a headlock on the floor. Evelyn whipped off the headphones to her Walkman and looked at Brian for clarification, completely aghast at the scene before her. He had moved to Bender's desk and was generally looking lost and hurt.

What the hell did I just miss?

Allison was off in her own world and when Evelyn looked to Claire, she just shrugged, threw her hands up in defeat and turned back to her lunch.

Andrew was now sitting back next to Claire, tearing into his sandwich with a vengeance. Bender had stalked off to one of the open stairwells and was currently muttering under his breath, cursing up a storm. No one paid any attention to him, except Evelyn. She glanced around at the rest of her classmates eating their lunches and then back to Bender. With a slight pang, she realized that he didn't have anything to eat. Evelyn looked at the uneaten half of her sandwich and made a choice. She gathered up the sandwich and apple and quietly made her way over to Bender.

She climbed the stairs and took a seat next to Bender. He didn't acknowledge her presence. Evelyn held out her apple and sandwich to him, waiting for him to take it. He slowly turned his face to her, a nasty grimace messing up his features. He scoffed at the offering, but took it from her roughly.

"Thanks, Sweets, but I don't need your fucking charity." With that, he stood up, and chucked her sandwich and apple as far as he could throw it. The sandwich landed with a splat onto the nearby atlas podium below, a mess of deli meat and mustard, while the apple exploded onto the closest wall, it's remnants dripping from the target. The rest of the group whipped their heads around collectively to see the display between the two.

Evelyn was stunned, anticipating a response from him but maybe not to that degree. She knew he was a rough kid, but she figured it was something nice to do. She suddenly realized with another pang that Bender clearly didn't want any pity. Her offering must've seemed like a huge slap in the face to him and he was trying to preserve whatever dignity he had left.

That's fine, I won't take it personally. Still, that was a fucking good sandwich, Evelyn thought dejectedly. She stopped, realizing she was being selfish. She didn't meet his eyes as he stalked back to the top balcony corner of the library, flipping everyone off nonchalantly as he went. He sat down in a huff, with his back to the group.

It was silent.

She got up from her position on the staircase and cleaned up what was left of her lunch and threw it in the trash. Evelyn could feel all eyes on her as she quietly cleaned up the mess. She knew that he was just trying to save face, but damn, his actions still hurt her.

She made her way back to her desk and stared at that stupid essay. She heard a rustle to her right and saw Andrew place a small bag of chips and a banana from his stash onto her desk. Evelyn gave him a small smile that he returned and she reached for the food. While she munched on the banana gratefully, she put her headphones back on and closed her eyes, wanting to be completely engulfed in the escape of music.

John Bender was an asshole. But there must be more to him than that.

Sorry for the short chapter! I figured this would be the best place to stop to set up the next chapter nicely.

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