Humiliation

It was now the beginning of November and Scott, Jim, and Dwayne were chilling at Jim's place at the coffee shop.

Scott took a sip of his espresso next to Dwayne consuming a vanilla latte. 

"Wow, that's a great espresso Jim. How did you manage to brew such a thing?" 

"Oh, well after living here for a while. I read some of the books that were here and found a book all about making different kinds of coffee."

"And you are such a fast learner." Dwayne enjoying his latte 

"Well, I'm gifted for a reason."

As Scott finished his espresso, he put aside his small mug and put his hands on the table.

"Alright guys, I think you guys know why we're here."

Dwayne put down his latte. "To enjoy the coffee?"

"No, because a few weeks ago, I had an idea of how we could expose Troy's abuse."

"Oh yeah I forgot about that. It's been a while."

"Yeah, same here." Jim joined the conversation.

"Right. So ever since we all agreed that Troy has done atrocities against us, we need to find out how the school can see his true color. The reason why the school doesn't suspect him is because he's one of the best football players on the team."

"Yeah. He took my quarterback position for no reason."

"And his abusive behavior towards me for being a 'nerd'."

"And of course. Ashley's death."

Scott then felt melancholy.

"Wait. The girl who you were with during the dance died. I'm sorry to hear about your loss. I bet she was a really nice person when I first had a glimpse of her." Dwayne empathizes with him.

"Don't worry Dwayne, I know Ashley is proud of me for what I'm doing. I think she's in a better place than this hell hole."

"Anyway back to this, I think I found a way to expose Troy's true self, which is his pride."

"His pride?" Jim and Dwayne questions Scott. 

"Yes, his pride. When coming to Sunshine High, I realize that whenever I see Troy, he blabs about his accomplishments and looks down on others as he believes that he's better than everyone else."

"Yeah you're right about that. But what does pride has anything to do with exposing Troy."

"Well let me get to the point Jim and Dwayne. If Troy relies too much on his pride that he's better than others, what do you think would happen if he was humiliated?"

"Humiliated?" Jim spoke out.

"Yeah so I was thinking. What if we try to humiliate him, making him feel humbled?"

"Scott. I think I know where you're going with this."

"Yeah. If we get the chance to humble him, the school and people around him will see his true color stripping away his pride, turning him into what he truly is."

"I think it's time for the people to see who John and his friends truly are. Always thinking that they are the main characters of a fairy tale and believing that we are nothing but side characters."

Dwayne questions Scott's idea. "But how are we going to humiliate Troy? He'll just find a way to make many excuses to cover his humiliation."

"Don't worry Dwayne. I figured it all out." Scott showed Dwayne and Jim a phone.

"A phone?" Jim looked at it.

"It's not my phone, but it's instead yours Jim. I thought you would need it so we can contact each other more."

"And what about you Dwayne, do you have a phone?"

"Actually Scott, I don't have a phone. I don't think anyone in the school besides you and Jim has a phone."

"Actually Scott, come to think about it. Not many people use phones or modern technology in our school. Most of our tech is really old from late twentieth century computers to using old vhs televisions."

Scott started to realize. "Yeah I also realized that."

"So anyways here's the plan."

For the whole evening, Scott, Jim, and Dawyne were hearing out the plan set to expose Troy's true nature. It took them a couple of hours to understand the plan, but now everything is starting to connect as well as their plan.

The next day after school, the hallways were crowded as Troy was showing off his trophy when winning against another school team. "That's right, people. Me, the best football player and captain of the football team, has given this school another win and someday we will make it to the state championship."

Troy kept flexing his trophy until a student questioned him.

"Troy, if you won the trophy, shouldn't you be celebrating it with your other teammates. I don't see any of them around you."

Troy then looked at the student. "Well that's because I'm the captain and I should be carrying this trophy. Don't worry my friend, they will receive credit."

Troy then walked away from the student.

"Troy Troy Troy. Can we get a photo for the school paper?!" Andrew having his camera on him.

"Of course." Troy then flexed his big muscles for the school paper letting his muscles be shown under his football jacket.

"Alright Troy. This will bring people to reading the school newspaper with your picture on the front page."

"Awesome Andrew. Keep being the photographer for Sunshine High." Troy then walked away from Andrew.

As Troy started to distance himself from the students, he then went into the boys locker room putting the trophy down on the bench.

When Troy went to his locker and got ready for football practice, another one of his teammates came towards Troy.

"Hey Troy, what the hell were you doing out there. Pretending that we won that game even though we didn't actually win that game."

Once Troy heard what his teammates were saying, he slammed his locker closed stomping towards his teammates.

"What do you mean? We won that game. Don't you remember when we had that touchdown?"

"Troy what touchdown. We didn't hit a touchdown. The other team won against us by six to seventeen. And that trophy isn't a real trophy. It's just a piece of junk that you brought from your so-called house."

"You want to disrespect where I live?" Troy clenching his fist.

"Yeah why can't I? You're nothing to him but a slave."

After what his teammate said, Troy then looked away. Then he punched him in the face. With all his might, Troy kept beating him up until there was so much blood splattered on the floor.

"YOU WANT TO DISRESPECT ME!" Troy then punched him in the face again.

"I thought of you as a teammate and you want to betray me?"

"Troy, I wasn't trying to betray you. You've been acting differently ever since midterms ended. Like you've been more aggressive to us. You broke one of our teammate's legs, been abusive towards us, and now you broke my nose. Why are you like this?"

Tory heavily took a breath. "Why do you ask? BECAUSE I'M THE DAMN CAPTAIN OF THE FOOTBALL TEAM AND IF YOU DON'T GIVE ME THE RESPECT I WANT, THEN YOU DON'T DESERVE TO BE ON MY DAMN TEAM."

"But what about Dwayne? As I remember, you framed him just for his body type. You ignore the fact that he was a great football player better than you'll ever be. All you care about is your damn reputation. Without it, you're nothing but like the rest of us. You don't even deserve to be the captain of the team. You fucking fraud!"

With what his teammate said. Troy punched him again so hard that he got knocked out leaving him unconscious.

"Fuck you." Troy walked out of the boys locker room leaving his teammate unconscious with blood remaining on the floor. 

"You suck. All of you suck. You can't even respect your damn captain and now you want to disrespect me. Me as a fraud. ALL OF YOU ARE FRAUDS. MY TEAM IS NOTHING BUT FUCKING FRAUDS!"

Suddenly, an egg was thrown at Troy's head leaving the yolk spilling over on Troy's right side of the head.

"Hey Troy. That's what you get for calling me a nerd and messing around with me." Jim waving his arms grabbing Troy's attention.

Troy then looked towards his right. "YOU!"

Troy then ran towards Jim. As he ran, Jim also ran heading to the nearest fire exit door with nobody around them. Jim headed to the door and exited the school building causing Troy to also exit the door chasing after Jim. As Jim and Troy ran, they were far from the school and headed to the plain field that was behind the school. As they ran, Troy finally caught up to Jim and tackled him to the ground.

As Troy grabbed Jim, he held him tight to the ground. "Son of a bitch. Why'd you run? COME FACE LIKE A MAN YOU NERD!"

Jim looked at Troy while being on the ground. "Why? That's what you get for stealing my car, My chance to see my family, and for insulting me for being a quote on quote 'nerd'."

"That's what you always are Jimmy Wilson. A NERD. You are nothing but scum. So weak and frail. Why do you think you're just someone to be messed around with?"

"I didn't ask to be like this. You made me nearly starve to death in a broken shed, framed Dwayne just because of your envy, and murdered Ashley just for John's desire."

Jim then looked at Troy's fist. "What's that covered on your hand?"

"Oh this. My teammate decided to disrespect me and as a result, I turned his face into tomato paste. And the same goes for my fucking teammates. Bunch of useless fuckers, can't even listen to my damn rules and I'm the captain. And with Dwayne, he's just a fat fuck who deserves to be kicked off the team. That's why I framed him. And Ashley was nothing but a slut who didn't shut up. As a result, I had to slit her throat in the newspaper room."

"But as a captain, shouldn't you be leading and helping your teammates, not have violent tendencies towards them."

"I don't give a shit. The school will always love me no matter who they listen to. And you're just a nerd that nobody likes you, freak."

Jim then started to smirk. "Fine then, how about we meet in the hallway tomorrow afternoon and finish what we started last spring. Don't you want to beat me up because I'm a nerd."

Troy then let go of Jim. "I like that idea."

Troy then stood up. "I'm going to beat the shit out of you tomorrow and let the whole school see you as you cry like a nerd. Nobody cares about nerds as they are just a disease to our school."

"Fine, I'll see you tomorrow Troy."

"Yeah, get ready to be beaten to a pulp." Troy the. Walked back to the school.

Jim then stood up and saw Troy walking back to the school.

Suddenly, a phone rang under Jim's jacket. He then took his phone out of his pocket and answered the phone.

"We got him." Jim answered the phone and also walked back to the school.

It was the next day in the afternoon and everyone was doing their usual business getting ready for their class. 

However, Jim and Dwayne were in the hallway as they were waiting for Troy's arrival.

"Are you sure the plan will work?" Jim looked at Dwayne.

"It should. Scott thought this through and I know he's a smart guy to pull this off."

Soon, there were sounds of stomping in the hallway as Troy was approaching both Jim and Dwayne.

"Here he comes." Jim took a big gulp.

Troy then approached Jim and Dwayne. "Well we'll well, it's finally the afternoon and we are meeting exactly where we should meet. And you also brought Dwayne with you."

"Remember me Troy. You took away my position on the team and-"

"Shut up fatso." Troy silenced Dwayne.

"Now Jim, where should we start?"

"Whenever you want Troy. This is what you want right. Beat up a nerd and let everyone humiliate me."

"Of course you nerd and it looks like I brought everyone's attention." 

People were then gathered to see what was going on.

"What's happening?"

"Why is Troy in the middle of the hallway with the school's nerd?"

"Is the captain of the football team going to beat that loser up?"

People around them questioning as the crowd surrounds Jim and Troy.

"Well Jimmy, it looks like we're making a show for them to see. It makes it better for me to beat you up." Troy makes a haunting smile towards Jim

Troy then grabbed Jim on the arm, clenching his right hand.

"Well Jim, anything you have to say before we start this show."

Jim looked at Troy smiling at him. "It's been great meeting you."

"Yeah you too you nerd."

As Troy was getting ready to punch Jim. The intercom started to turn on. It made static noises until it started to turn on.

"You made me nearly starve to death-" 

"What?" Troy looked at the intercom.

"-Framed Dwayne just because of your envy, and murdered Ashley-"

"What is this?" Troy started to shake.

"-with Dwayne, he's just a fat fuck who deserves to be kicked off the team. That's why I framed him. And Ashley was nothing but a slut who didn't shut up. As a result, I had to slit her throat in the newspaper room-" Troy's voice being on the intercom.

With Troy's voice on the intercom, it caught John's attention while he was in his computer science class as well as Laura's attention while she was doing her makeup in her locker door.

"What is this?" John looked at the intercom.

"Why is Troy's voice on the intercom?" Laura also looked at the intercom.

"-My teammate decided to disrespect me and as a result, I turned his face into tomato paste. And the same goes for my fucking teammates. Bunch of useless fuckers, can't even listen to my damn rules and I'm the captain."

"I don't give a shit. The school will always love me no matter who they listen to. And you're just a nerd that nobody likes you, freak-"

The intercom then stopped and Troy looked back at Jim.

"What is it Troy? I thought you were going to beat me up." Jim is now smiling at Troy.

Troy then looked at the crowd around him. The crowd started to give Troy a bad look as what they heard on the intercom was true.

"Did he really murdered a student?"

"Does he only see his teammates as nothing but trash?"

"Is Troy really someone who he actually is?"

"Is Jimmy really a victim of Troy's abuse?"

"I think we're treating Jimmy too harshly. Troy is the real monster here."

"Come to think about it, he really is a monster."

"Yeah, let's get out of here. Troy is nothing but a fake."

The students that were surrounding Jim and Troy were now leaving the scene as they finally saw who Troy really is.

"Wait guys don't go. What you saw on the intercom isn't true. That's just a fake. A fake!"

However, nobody listened as people only saw Troy as a murderer and an abusive captain.

Troy then looked at Sunny. "Sunny, you agree with me right?!"

However, Sunny said nothing and instead walked away from the scene.

Troy then looked at Jim. "What did you do?!"

"Well Troy isn't it obvious. Me, Scott and Dwayne caught you red handed. While you were chasing me, I turned on the voice recording on the phone that Scott gave me and recorded what you said to me yesterday. I knew you wouldn't say this in the school because you didn't want to ruin your reputation, so instead I made you chase me far away from the school so you believe that as you are far from the school, people wouldn't know what you were talking about. And with what's on the intercom, thank Scott for putting it on the intercom in the office."

Troy then let go of Jim.

"Troy, I'm not someone who you can beat me up with because I'm the 'nerd' that you expect me to be. Your pride makes you want to beat me up because of how you believe that I'm inferior to your fame."

Dwayne then comes into the conversation. "Yeah the same goes for me. Framing me for taking the drink mix, what were you thinking? You were just jealous that I'm a better quarterback than you. Now let's see how you would like it if you were set up like I was!"

"You set me up?" Troy was shocked.

"YOU SET ME UP?!" Troy then got angry. 

"YOU MOTHERFUCKER!" Troy then was going to punch Jim.

However, his punch was blocked with Scott intervening.

"Troy that's enough."

"So you're the one who set me up." Troy pushed his fist as Scott was holding it down.

"Ever since I saw Ashley's dead body after the dance. I couldn't forgive you, John, and Laura for what you did for her. You believe you're the main character of this school. You're nothing but a bunch of phonies who thirst for attention. And you're one of those people."

"Well John's the King of High School, how should me, John, and Laura not be the main characters of this school."

"Maybe you should try not to be prideful for once and treat others like human beings."

As Troy was still angry at Scott, Jim, and Dwayne, he let go of his fist as Scott let go of Troy's clenched fist.

"Fuck you bitch!" Troy then left them as people around Troy were looking at him with disgust.

"Murderer!"

"You phony!"

"Get away from me!"

"You fraud!"

"You don't deserve to be the captain of the football team!"

The students around Troy kept calling him names as his reputation was stripped away from the atrocities that he had committed to the many students in the school.

"I guess Troy's true color is showing and I don't think people will forgive his actions." Scott looking at Troy.

"He deserves it from what he has done to me and Dwayne." Jim is also looking at Troy.

"I hope this can give me a chance to have my position back at the football team." Dwayne looking at Troy.

"But what's going to happen to Troy?" Jim questions Scott.

"I don't know, but I know he will finally face the consequences that he deserves to face." Scott looks at Troy as he fades away from the crowd of students in the hallway.