「故事·听力」My Girlfriend Sold Me Out To My Enemy
My Girlfriend Sold Me Out To My Enemy
Hey guys! I’m Stan. I wish I could say that I am the most popular guy at school because I’m good at sports or good with girls, you know. But the truth is that the whole school now knows me for my underwear. Nevertheless, this is gonna be a love story, so to speak. Here's how everything happened.
My life at school has never been simple. I’m too skinny and small for my 12 years of age and look like a weirdo, instead of a smart guy, in my glasses. That’s pretty much why I have always been an object of ridicule on a pretty regular basis for my enormously huge and definitely not very smart classmate, Erick Patterson. I don’t know why he decided to pick on me, but his favorite thing to do was to lock me in the janitor’s closet, for example. And when I was finally found and let out, it turned out that I’d missed something like a math pop-quiz. He probably thought it was funny.
Or I remember another “interesting” experience, when I went up to my locker and tried to open it, and found out that my hand got stuck to it. Somebody (try guessing who it was) covered it with glue. It was strong glue too, by the way, because when I finally pulled off my stuck hand, the door of the locker was still glued to it. Everybody laughed and I got detention for damaging school property.
You’re probably wondering why I didn’t tell anybody about my troubles. Well, I tried once, to talk to the principal, but Erick happened to be the son of his close friend or something, so he kinda managed to escape from everything scot-free. And I, on the other hand, had sort of been on his radar ever since then. Everything that he did to me was really offensive and sometimes even humiliating, however, at some point I sort of started getting used to it. I knew it was the only way for me to survive at school. But then a new girl was transferred to my class, and everything became even worse.
Her name was Jackie Banks. I clearly remember the day I saw her for the first time. After the PE class, I couldn’t find my belt anywhere. I knew it should have been there, ‘cause without it I would definitely lose my pants. Anyway, I needed to rush to the next class without it, since I was next in line to present my homework in American History. So I was left with nothing but to hold my pants up with my own hands. Jackie entered the classroom right when I was at the blackboard getting ready for my presentation. She looked so amazing to me, that I even messed everything up and forgot the major part of my speech. Even my teacher Mr. Clarke was confused with what I’d said about Tomas Jefferson. On my way back to my desk, I’d completely forgotten about my missing belt. And at some point, my pants had fallen down, revealing my Harry Potter underwear to the whole class. So yes, my meeting with the first girl I really liked was a true disaster.
I guess it’s needless to say that on the next day the whole school was aware of the incident. Everybody was laughing and making fun of me using jokes about Quidditch when I was passing by. Of course, somebody had even put a corresponding poster on my locker. I was pretty sure it was Erick Patterson, and it might have been him who had something to do with me losing my belt. It was an embarrassing situation on its own, you know. But what was really unbearable for me was that now my chances to associate with Jackie Banks were literally slim to none.
But one single biology class changed everything. Erick Patterson was presenting his project to the whole class. It was not even his work, actually – he just brought his piranha aquarium and showed us how the fish were fighting for a piece of meat - it was a poor, bloody, and creepy presentation in my opinion. Everybody else in the class, by the way, was also not very impressed and busy with their own stuff. Anyway, I suddenly discovered a piece of paper on my desk. I looked around and found that Jackie Banks was non-verbally trying to explain that I needed to unfold it. This really surprised me and even made me a little bit excited. I mean, what could she have written to me... “What a muggle, huh!?” the note said, apparently about Erick’s presentation. I couldn’t believe my own eyes. She also happened to be a Potterhead like me! I turned my head to look at Jackie, but she didn’t look back at that time. However, I did notice the shadow of a cunning smile on her lips.
We’ve sort of become friends since that note. We weren't sitting together in the cafeteria still, because, you know, she was busy with her girlfriends and I was too shy to bother her. But we always tried to sit together during team projects in our classes. She was not very good at studying, but it didn’t matter.
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