legs. Katie started to panic! She was bleeding! Oh, God!
Jason, clearly seeing the horror spreading quickly across her face, leaned over to her and said calmly “Don’t freak out. You just started your period.”
Katie closed her eyes in relief and sighed, “Oh thank God!” under her breath. But then a new thought occurred to her, setting off a fresh wave of panic. How was she going to get out of the cafeteria without someone seeing her blood-stained attire? She didn’t even have her backpack to try and hide behind.
If anything, she thought that she might be more scared about this scenario than she was when she thought she was dying. After all...the only thing at stake there was death. Now we were talking about HUMILIATION!
“Jas, what am I going to do?” Katie said in a desperate whisper, “I can’t get up without someone seeing me, and I need to go the nurse’s office to go home.”
Jason looked straight into Katie’s eyes and said, in an authoritative tone she had ever heard come from the joke-a-minute Jason, “I’ve got a plan. Just follow my lead, okay?”
“Okay,” Katie agreed shakily as she tried to hold back tears of embarrassment.
The next thing she knew, Jason was on top of the lunchroom table pounding his chest, letting out a series of primal screams, and yelling “Me Tarzan, me Tarzan!”
Her eyes widened as she witnessed the scene. She felt nothing but shock, which quickly led to despair as she realized that Jas wasn't going to help her after all. He had gotten distracted by starting to pull one of his crazy pranks. But what was the point of this one? It wasn't even funny. It was insane!
Just when she thought he had completely lost his mind, he took off his shirt, throwing it to her and yelling, “Me Tarzan! You Jane!”
Relief flooded through her as she realized his plan.
He started jumping from table to table, making the rounds of the entire cafeteria via tabletop, as he yelled, “AHH AHHEAEA.”
Taking advantage of the distraction, Katie slipped into his shirt, which fell almost to her knees. As every eye in the cafeteria was focused on Jason's shenanigans, she escaped the cafeteria completely unnoticed. She made a beeline for the nurse’s office and said that she had a horribl e stomachache, then called her mom to come and pick her up.
Pam arrived within ten minutes and Katie gratefully piled into the car, desperately wanting to get as far away from th e school as possible. When her mom looked at her with concerned eyes and put a hand to her forehead to check her temperature, Katie began to sob and spilled the entire sordid story of humiliated woe in one long, tear-filled rant.
She didn't know what her m om's reaction would be. She might be sympathetic, or she might be annoyed with Katie for lying about the stomach ache. Katie just didn't know. She wasn't sure what it meant when Pam just smiled the tiniest of grins as she pulled away from the curb and commented neutrally, “That Jason sure is a great guy.”
Katie didn’t really think anything of it at the time because she was so busy wallowing in mortification at what had transpired. But after school, Katie had gone to return Jason’s freshly laundered shirt to him. When she knocked on the door, Seth - the eldest Sloan brother - opened it and said that Jason was still at school because he had detention. When Katie asked what he had done, Seth said that he wasn’t really sure, but that it had something to do with a stupid stunt he had pulled at lunch. He also added that their dad was going to “rip him a new one” when he got home.
Katie’s head began to spin. She never, even for one second, had thought that Jason would get into any trouble for helping her. God, he was always doing crazy things and usually people just laughed! Sometimes adults would shake their heads, but they always looked amused. He never really had suffered any repercussions because of it.
Now he was in detention and he was going to get in trouble
Jason, clearly seeing the horror spreading quickly across her face, leaned over to her and said calmly “Don’t freak out. You just started your period.”
Katie closed her eyes in relief and sighed, “Oh thank God!” under her breath. But then a new thought occurred to her, setting off a fresh wave of panic. How was she going to get out of the cafeteria without someone seeing her blood-stained attire? She didn’t even have her backpack to try and hide behind.
If anything, she thought that she might be more scared about this scenario than she was when she thought she was dying. After all...the only thing at stake there was death. Now we were talking about HUMILIATION!
“Jas, what am I going to do?” Katie said in a desperate whisper, “I can’t get up without someone seeing me, and I need to go the nurse’s office to go home.”
Jason looked straight into Katie’s eyes and said, in an authoritative tone she had ever heard come from the joke-a-minute Jason, “I’ve got a plan. Just follow my lead, okay?”
“Okay,” Katie agreed shakily as she tried to hold back tears of embarrassment.
The next thing she knew, Jason was on top of the lunchroom table pounding his chest, letting out a series of primal screams, and yelling “Me Tarzan, me Tarzan!”
Her eyes widened as she witnessed the scene. She felt nothing but shock, which quickly led to despair as she realized that Jas wasn't going to help her after all. He had gotten distracted by starting to pull one of his crazy pranks. But what was the point of this one? It wasn't even funny. It was insane!
Just when she thought he had completely lost his mind, he took off his shirt, throwing it to her and yelling, “Me Tarzan! You Jane!”
Relief flooded through her as she realized his plan.
He started jumping from table to table, making the rounds of the entire cafeteria via tabletop, as he yelled, “AHH AHHEAEA.”
Taking advantage of the distraction, Katie slipped into his shirt, which fell almost to her knees. As every eye in the cafeteria was focused on Jason's shenanigans, she escaped the cafeteria completely unnoticed. She made a beeline for the nurse’s office and said that she had a horribl e stomachache, then called her mom to come and pick her up.
Pam arrived within ten minutes and Katie gratefully piled into the car, desperately wanting to get as far away from th e school as possible. When her mom looked at her with concerned eyes and put a hand to her forehead to check her temperature, Katie began to sob and spilled the entire sordid story of humiliated woe in one long, tear-filled rant.
She didn't know what her m om's reaction would be. She might be sympathetic, or she might be annoyed with Katie for lying about the stomach ache. Katie just didn't know. She wasn't sure what it meant when Pam just smiled the tiniest of grins as she pulled away from the curb and commented neutrally, “That Jason sure is a great guy.”
Katie didn’t really think anything of it at the time because she was so busy wallowing in mortification at what had transpired. But after school, Katie had gone to return Jason’s freshly laundered shirt to him. When she knocked on the door, Seth - the eldest Sloan brother - opened it and said that Jason was still at school because he had detention. When Katie asked what he had done, Seth said that he wasn’t really sure, but that it had something to do with a stupid stunt he had pulled at lunch. He also added that their dad was going to “rip him a new one” when he got home.
Katie’s head began to spin. She never, even for one second, had thought that Jason would get into any trouble for helping her. God, he was always doing crazy things and usually people just laughed! Sometimes adults would shake their heads, but they always looked amused. He never really had suffered any repercussions because of it.
Now he was in detention and he was going to get in trouble
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