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Johnny and his fellow snake men are being silly and joking around. They're currently at Jimmy's house just talking or whatever and eating all of his snacks and shit.
"So like,, Ali said that uh. We should stop beating the shit out of Larusso." Johnny says. Everyone except Bobby frowns at that.
"But… why?" Tommy questions. Johnny shrugs.
"Listen, I thought she was joking at first but then she got mad I think when I giggled!" Johnny says, frowning as well.
The guys all look at each other as if this is something that doesn't have an obvious solution.
"Maybe we should leave Daniel alone. He didn't do anything to us, right?" Bobby says "I mean, he's annoying as shit but that doesn't mean we should beat him half to death.." Everyone stares at Bobby for a good 20 seconds.
Johnny stands up. "I'm going to talk to that one guy. And I'm not going to beat him up. And we will talk. About stuff." He puts his hands on his hips. The guys look at him in awe like he's the most inspiring person to ever exist.
They're all like "wow… that's so cool of him,,," and "wooow i totally didn't think that he could do that but he can and that's inspirational i think!!" or "no waaay I love that guy."
Like two minutes later they go back to talking about other dumb shit and eat the rest of Jimmy's snacks.
Jimmy misses having loads of snacks. Jimmy mourns.
The next day, Johnny goes to school to find Daniel in the hallway next to his locker. Obviously. Johnny walks up to him. He decides it's best to stand real close. Like two inches away from him.
Daniel looks up at Johnny and frowns. "What do you want?"
Johnny grins. "uh," He stops grinning. He didn't think about what he was going to say. Johnny leans against the locker and grins again. It's a nervous grin but Daniel doesn't know that because he isn't paying attention.
"..Wha-What brings you around here?" Johnny asks. Daniel looks at him like he's stupid. Johnny sweats.
"....My locker." Daniel says flatly, narrowing his eyes.
Johnny stares at Daniel with that stupid grin for a few seconds, kind of frozen. Daniel is visibly confused. Johnny makes some nervous ass Spongebob sounding laugh. "oh…" He sighs.
Daniel looks concerned now.
Johnny runs away.
During class Johnny thinks about what he should say to Daniel. Obviously, he doesn't notice the teacher calling on him fifteen times.
Dutch smacks him. "Dude!!! The teacher!"
"...What about her?"
"You fucking dumb ass stupid little shit idiot stupid fucking dumb DUMB FUCKIN' bitch ass stupid smooth brained dumb blonde she called on you."
Johnny frowns and turns to the front of the room, to the teacher whom he forgot the name of.
"What was the question?"
"What were you thinking about that was so important that you didn't hear me say your name fifteen and a half times?" She questions, earning an 'ooooooh' from the class because they all act stupid.
Johnny frowns even more.
"uh….. do you actually want me to answer that or are you trying to like, make me upset or something?" Johnny asks. Dutch facepalms. It's a genuine question! He doesn't even understand what's going on right now.
"you know what- just answer that question.. I'm curious now." the teacher says.
"uh… y'know… boys…. like any other teenage girl would…" Johnny replies, batting his eyelashes.
silence.
"You aren't a teenage girl, Mr. Lawrence."
"can you just go with it??" He crosses his arms with an angry pout. Dutch slams his face against the desk repeatedly.
Johnny gets detention. Johnny mourns.
After class, Johnny goes to find Daniel again, which was easy since they have the next class together. He sits next to Daniel and he stares at him. Daniel looks around the classroom to try to find a different seat. And because Daniel is the most lucky boy in the world, there were no other free seats except for the one next to Tommy. Daniel doesn't want to sit next to him. But is that better than sitting next to Johnny?
oh, wait no– Jimmy's sitting next to Tommy now. Since when was Jimmy in this class?
Daniel tries to avoid looking at Johnny, but he pokes him. Daniel looks at him angrily.
"We should hang out after school." Johnny says, grinning again. but then he stops grinning again after a few seconds. '..Why did I say that?' He thinks. Johnny frowns at himself.
Daniel once again stares at Johnny like he's stupid. "Uh, no thanks." He says.
Johnny puts his face against the table. He just sits like that with most of his body facing away from Daniel. Johnny crosses his arms in front of himself as well.
"......Are- Are you pouting?"
"Yeah."
Daniel stares at Johnny and he decides to stare back with a pathetic, sad face.
Daniel groans. "I'm not hanging out with you!" He yells. The class looks at the two.
Johnny groans.
During gym, Johnny slams Daniel against a locker. At first, Daniel gets scared, but then he starts looking at Johnny like he's extra stupid.
Once again, Johnny is grinning like an idiot. "Can we hang out tomorrow instead?" He asks and his grin just grows wider.
"Why the hell do you want me to hang out with you? Are you trying to lure me somewhere so you can beat me up again? Are you gonna kill me instead? Can you let me go? What if I'm busy tomorrow and the day after and every single day after that? This is hurting my back. What are we even going to do if we hang out? Are you planning on torturing me or something? Is this some kind of joke? Please put me down. Why are you looking at me like that? Stop looking at me like that, it's weird. I thought you hated me, why are you asking to hang out? I don't like you. Let me go please."
Johnny looks conflicted, upset even. "That's too many words." His eyes drift to something else. Does he really get distracted that easily?
One of Johnny's hands reaches up to Daniel's hair and he plucks out a small, tiny little singular strand. Daniel yelps.
"what the fuck did you do that for!?" Daniel angrily squirms and kicks a little, trying to get away from Johnny.
Johnny just shrugs. "It was bothering me," he answers, letting Daniel go. Daniel just flat out falls to the floor, groaning in pain.
Dutch walks over to Johnny and puts a hand on his shoulder. "Why are you asking him to hang out? Is the blond getting to your head..?" He asks. Dutch grabs Johnny's face and examines it as if that would magically tell him how dumb Johnny is.
"But… You're like, bleach blond. You can't call me a dumb blond if you're a…. Genre.. Of blond." Johnny retorts. Dutch shakes his head, turning towards Daniel.
"Poor Johnny's already getting dumber by the day… by next week his brain cells will disintegrate…." Dutch says with obvious fake sympathy. Of course, Johnny glares at Dutch.
Daniel just stands back up and slowly backs out of the locker room.
Outside, Daniel sits with Ali, Susan, and Barbara.
"...You're telling me you tried to get Johnny and his uh… Friends to stop beating me up? And this is the outcome??"
"Yeah. Uh.." Ali pauses. "He just.. Gets dumb sometimes! He isn't like that all the time.." She brushes her fingers through Susan's hair. Susan rolls her eyes.
"Johnny's always dumb, what are you talking about?" She groans and smacks Ali's hand when she accidentally tugs.
"No he isn't! He just is right now!" Ali frowns, crossing her arms. Susan makes some remark about him being blond and Ali gasps dramatically. They start to argue.
Daniel frowns again. There's been a lot of frowning today. He hops off of the bench he was sitting on and lies down in the grass in front of him. Then of course, since it's just his luck, someone grabs him by the ankle and starts dragging him away, somehow managing to make him hit every rock and hard bits of dirt possible.
And of course, it had to be one of the Cobra Kais. This fucking dude drags Daniel all the way across the field to where Johnny and the others were sitting. Now it's Daniel's turn to put his head down and pout. except he's still lying on his back in grass.
Johnny looks at Tommy. "Why did you have to drag him!?" He crosses his arms. Tommy just shrugs like it's no big deal. Now, Johnny looks down at Daniel and stands over him.
"Larusso…. What if.. We hung out on the weekend?" Johnny asks and gives Daniel his best attempt at puppy dog eyes.
Daniel stares at Johnny until he stops looking at him like that. He crosses his arms, looking away from Johnny and his ass is STILL pouting. "If I hang out with you will you leave me alone..?" Daniel asks. Johnny grins widely and nods while Daniel sits up.
They end up choosing to hang out at Johnny's house on Saturday.