“how much money would you give me to flip this table, right here, right now, in the middle of class?”
I will understand if you make it Rick, but if you could somehow make Beth say it, I would love you forever
“What’s going on here?!” Courtney asks, plopping down into geography class late with the Starbucks her mom bought for her at a drive-thru after getting stitches taken out this morning. Luckily, their teacher is out and their sub doesn’t even have Beth’s attention, so the lesson goes ignored.
“Rick has been training Beth for a few weeks to build up her strength,” Yolanda clues her in. “They’re arm wrestling.” She glances at the scar up Courtney’s leg. “How’s the shin?”
Court extends her leg out for Yolanda to inspect. “Only a little gross.”
Yolanda grins. “That’s great.”
Courtney stares as Beth shakes out her arm with a determined face. She rolls up her sleeve and sits in the seat pulled backwards to face Rick’s. He sits on his own chair leaned forward with a lazy smile, utterly relaxed.
“Ready, sunshine?”
“Don’t patronize me,” Beth scolds, but she’s smirking.
Court sips on her ice coffee and observes. “This isn’t even training. It’s flirting.”
“I know,” Yolanda says.
Four arm-wrestling flirting matches goes by in quick succession, Beth winning every time.
“You’re cheating,” Beth accuses. “You’re not even trying.”
“I just don’t want to hurt your arm, Beth.”
She huffs. “Then what’s the point!?”
Rick laughs. “Seeing you get competitive?”
“No, no, no.” Beth points a finger at him. “You rigged this. I have to show that I’m getting stronger.”
“Babe, you are getting stronger, you lasted twenty seconds last round.”
Beth scoffs.
“If Beth wants to train for real, I can always teach her boxing,” Yolanda pipes up.
“No,” they both say in unison.
Courtney frowns. “What’s wrong with boxing?”
“Nothing,” Yolanda mutters. “They just don’t want me third-wheeling.”
“Wait. I’ll prove I’m stronger.” Beth stands up suddenly and scrutinizes her desk.
“What are you doing?” Courtney asks as Rick watches her oddly.
“How much money would you give me to flip this table, right here, right now, in the middle of class?”
Rick’s jaw drops open. “You wouldn’t!”
“I will. With one hand.”
“You’d get in trouble.”
Beth shrugs, unbothered. “Maybe I could use a detention or two.”
“What!?” Yolanda cries. “Beth that’s crazy. You have a flawless behaviour record.”
But Beth is only leaning into Rick’s personal space. “How. Much. Money?”
Rick stares at her mouth, obviously into this Beth rebellion. “I’m literally broke.”
Courtney digs out a ten from her pocket. “Ten because I’m enjoying the chaos and my allowance doesn’t come until next week.”
“I’ll take it!” Beth says gleefully. She pockets it, flexing her hands, and then without warning flips over her desk with one arm.
They all jump back, Rick falling flat on his ass from the surprise.
The substitute teacher stops talking about Barbados to yell at them. “What are you doing!?”
Beth reaches down and helps Rick up, actually doing a decent amount of pulling to yank him from the floor. Yolanda puts her hood up and moves halfway across the room, pretending like she’s never seen the three before in her life and somehow getting away with it.
“Well?!”
Beth turns to the teacher and comes to Courtney’s rescue who only seemed to be able to stammer at the sub. She leans against Rick who stares at her with hearts in his eyes to exclaim, “Oh my gosh, I’m so sorry! There was a spider!”
She elbows Rick in the ribs. “Uh,” he says. “Yeah. A big one.”
Courtney totally gets why Yolanda is embarrassed, but she just grins and backs up their nonsense, describing the big non-existent spider in detail because she loves her crazy friends.
Wally West, big fan. I was wondering if, in your own words, you would describe your relationship with Beth Chapel?
Hi scary pineapples,
Ahhhh. Beth Chapel. Beth is the best. If it wasn’t thanks to her I’d probably be dead a few times over by now. Beth is really friendly, so I’ve had no problem getting close with her, but she tends to find my uh, complicated and unique situation with Rickoyald to be a bit tiring.
She’s a good buffer in the middle because she can calm Rick down with one of her cute little “please calm down” faces and like, yeah. That face saved my nose from being punched in more times than I can count. Not that I’m not fast enough for Rick to punch me LOL, but it’s the principle of the thought.
I hate you slightly less than the rest of them (Is this true or am I just saying this to start drama? Who knows🤷🏼♀️)
awwww nia ily!!! i’m glad to be the one person you may or may not hate slightly less than the others (and yes this will absolutely start drama and i’m so here for it) 🥺😌
Thank you for existing, you are loved! Send this to 10 people who, in your opinion, deserve such a sweet message in their inboxes. :) 💚 Nothing bad will happen if you don’t, but imagine the smiles.
NIAAAAA ILY!!! u r such an icon bro ur so knowledgeable abt movies AND ur u have no bias bc u hate us all equally!!!! ur amazing and ur the evil older sister i aspire to be 😌
