Jess Stone had breasts. He had been like this his entire teen life not quite fitting in anywhere that he had lived and at the same time he hadn’t really had the chance to. His folks moved around a lot with his dad being a hydrological engineer but they were slightly afraid of what might happen to Jess if he attended school. Some people just didn’t get it or wanted too. Jess was now attending a new school when he decided to change things...

Only it was everyone else that was getting changed!

 

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The rest of the day went for Jessie fairly smoothly and quietly and the group gathered out in the parking lot after school except for Kenyon who took a few minutes to go and bring his car over from where he was parked.

He got out of the car looking visibly upset. It sort of matched the folded over arms the others had staring at Jessie’s car.

Kenyon’s Camry had been scratched as in keyed all down along the side and freak had been scratched into the back lid of his trunk. He got out and he slammed the door. “Goddamn it! Those fucking assholes!”

He turned around and stared at the damage and shook he was that angry. “I just got this car this summer! I saved up all year!”

Daniel had his phone out and was taking pictures and Jessie was shaking his head. His own car had been keyed too pretty badly. He wasn’t as upset as Kenyon was over it though since his car had a pretty basic paint job compared to the factory paint that was ruined on Kenyon’s car.

Johnny looked mad and was wiping away angry tears. “Assholes…guys this was because you’re hanging out with me.”

Jessie shook his head. “No, we didn’t do anything wrong and this is only the start of their shit.”

He dialled the school security office. “Hello, this is Jessie Stone I’d like to put in a report of vandalism here in the school parking lot…..Yesh that Mr. Stone, fine we’ll be right here waiting.”

He then scrolled through the phone app to get the number for the local police station and he called them as well. And sent and forwarded the pictures that he had taken of the damage to the car.

One of the security guards came out with the VP of the school with him and the VP look visibly pained at the damage to the two cars and walked around them and looked at the kids. “You have any idea who did this?”

“No sir.” Jessie said. “But if there we could look at the tapes of the cameras in the parking lot then we might be able to see who did it.”

“There are no cameras for the parking lot Mr. Stone.” He looked at Jessie and then he looked at the approaching police car that was slowly pulling in.

“You called the police?”

“Yes sir, you need to file a police report with something like this for purposes of insurance.”

“You have an answer for everything Mr. Stone?”

“No sir if I did then I wouldn’t be here to learn. Though I suppose this is an interesting lesson for the law classes and civics.” He said it pretty deadpan and Kenyon and Honey just stared at him saying something like that to the schools VP. Dan looked like he was close to laughing.

The police came over and asked them if this was where they’d been parked and one walked to look over where Kenyon had parked. While the other one took notes and names and addresses and then looked to the VP. “Okay you should show us the video footage of the parking lot cameras.”

“There are no parking lot cameras.” The VP said to the officer.

Jessie added in. “There’s no cameras in the school at all.”

He stopped and gave one of those cop looks at the VP. “There’s No cameras…in the entire school.”

“No why?”

The officer just stared at him a moment. “You need to get camera’s here sir, it’s important to the safety of the students and the faculty as well as the staff.”

“We’ve looked at getting them in and there’s been issues.”

“Like?”

“I’m afraid that’s school business officer and a legal matter that I’m not at liberty to discuss.”

Jessie looked at the police officer. “Some of the parents of the kids here filed an injunction or something against the school over the right to privacy.”

“It’s a public school.” The officer looked non-plussed.

Jessie smiled and shrugged. “I know, but what can you do?”

The police officer looked at him and the vice principal and there was an almost smile there. “I’m not sure what you can do son but I’ll make a note of it in the police report and you can maybe tell your insurance companies to settle the bill with the city or the school.”

The VP stared at the both of them before making a face, or trying to hide that he was making a face. “Thank you for coming by officers I’m sorry that we inconvenienced the two of you.”

“It’s our jobs to check this stuff out but you should be apologizing to the kids.”

“Yes officer.”

The police left getting back in their cruiser after giving their cards out and drove off and the VP stared at them all a bit before he headed inside saying. “Excuse me kids I have a report to file with this and a meeting with the principal and the guidance councillor.”

Jessie shrugged. “That’s alright sir we have things to do to.”

“Like….”

Jessie looked at him and blinked innocently a few times. “Why chores sir.”

Johnny smiled despite her being upset earlier. “Homework.”

Honey blushed and nodded.

Daniel grinned. “Roll up characters for a new game!”

He gave then all a look and looked at Kenyon who was still looking distraught. “I’m sorry this happened kids I really am.”

He walked away with the security guard who looked as frustrated as the other guard had been.

Kenyon looked at the others. “So what are we going to do?”

Jessie looked at them. ‘We got home and we actually tell our folks what happened.”

“Tell our folks?” He looked at Jessie.

“Yeah, they’ll deal with the insurance and the insurance companies will listen to them and what the officer told us before they’ll listen to us.”

“Huh?”

“They’re the adults and they can raise a fuss that won’t be as ignored as if we did it.”

“So, we’re going to let them fight our battles for us?” Kenyon looked at Jessie like he didn’t believe he was suggesting that.

“No, not at all but it’s just one way to fight this.”

“So we are going to fight this?”

Jessie smiled. “Oh without a doubt.”

Daniel smiled. “I’m in.”

Johnny nodded. “Me too.”

Even Honey piped up. “So what’s the plan?”

……………………………………………..That night Jessie sat and quietly went over everything that had happened and had been happening at school with his parents. His dad was quiet as usual and he listened while Jess’s mom was angry and indignant over everything that had happened and the blasé attitude that the school was showing in regards to the safety of the students in the school.

Jessie and his parents did talk for quite awhile that night about the whole thing both the school having no cameras and the fact that the public does get up in arms over the whole big brother thing and especially here in the United States.

They did agree that they would be talking strongly to their insurance company about this and to tell them what the police officer had said about asking about who’d be liable the school or the city since there was no cameras present and they hadn’t had any posted parking waver of responsibility signs.

He even showed them the schools Facebook page and the other web page which had…

There was a new video with iffy sound and take from a bad angle but it was the whole scene with Jessie and his friends and the VP and the police. This one came with a written tag.

[And now we get to see why there’s never anything done to the people that we all know and despise that pull this shit off everyday. We know that the administration of this school has no backbone to fight a legal battle with the parents of the elite few. There are people in this school that think because they have money or influence that the rules don’t apply to them. Well we’re getting sick and tired of being harassed and bullied and hurt by people like these. This is just one case of the bullshit that’s been pervading our school like a venereal disease there are hundreds more. If you have one please feel free to post it we don’t need names we just want the truth here.]

Jessie blushed because there was under the video clip of him and the other’s was a caption reading.

“Three time’s in two days there’s been someone not taking their shit and look what the response is…Good job Jess Stone.”

His mom looked at him. “You know this person?”

“No, I have no idea who they are but they’ll be in trouble if people ever find out. They’ve made a lot of the people that don’t want things to change really mad it was like someone kicked over an ants nest at lunch today.”

She looked at her son, her only child and one she came too close to losing. “Jessie I don’t like this, they’ve pointed you out and you could be in trouble and there was that fight.”

He nodded. “I’m not alone this time Mom, and the abuse was going to come when they found out about me anyway.”

She hugged him. “I know, just…be really careful.”

“I will.” He hugged her back and then he and his dad went out to the garage to wait for the insurance agent to show up.

………………………………..Dan sat at the supper table explaining everything that had been going on in school to his parents and even though both were busy working parents they still took the time to sit and to listen and both of them agreed that they’d be there at the next school board meeting to voice their concern over the lack of security cameras in the school, especially in these days when things like Columbine happened far more than they should.

That part in place he called some of his friends that went to some different schools. He had a decent little network of friends and gamers and geeks that he’d known for years between middle school and going to some of the city’s gaming conventions.

Each one of the conversations on the phone or online went something like.

“Hey __________ what’s up?”

“Fine dude how’s stuff at school?”

“Crappy but way outside the usual. I’m going to send you a couple of links.”

“Okay, cool what about?”

“The high and mighty are gonna fall dude we’re in a revolution.”

“A revolution?”
“Yeah, see the school royal asshats sicced their lawyers on the school and got the security cameras banned there because of privacy issues.”

“Cool!”

“No….not cool, think about some of the asshats like Andy Parsons from middle school only without any chance of him getting caught then give him a pack of ass kissing hyenas.”

“Shit…okay not so cool.”

Andy Parson’s was a thug from Dan’s middle school he had the best of everything and it still wasn’t enough he had to make himself even feel bigger by kicking the crap out of the kids that were weaker and smaller than him. He had thankfully moved away in the second year of middle school but he had been a force of abject terror for kids Dan’s size.

But thanks to Andy Dan had a pretty decent threshold for pain and an ever shrinking one for bullshit.

The friends watched the stuff and seen the links and replied. “Shit it is pretty freaky over there, your buddy Jessie rocks though.”

“Yeah he’s pretty cool but there’s reasons why he isn’t taking anyone’s shit too. But we need some help.”

“Name it dude.”

“Go to school and take pictures of the name of the school you go to and the security stuff like the metal detectors and the cameras and stuff. Then post them up to the links.”

“Oh…cool I get it using the fact that our schools have this stuff to break up the reasons why you guys don’t.”

“Yeah that’s the plan.”

“Cool we’re in, talk at you later.”

Dan spent most of the time doing the calls and online with his friends squeaking in some time for homework and starting to work on a new scenario for his gaming group or what might be his new gaming group but instead of D&D he dug out his books for GURPS and started making a scenario of a Chicago when the earth had been hit by a plague and their rescue came from an alien race that had finally shown itself to them in their darkest hour only to use that fact to take over Earth politically and financially. He had a picture of this alien nobility being like the snobs and abusers that the high school assholes were. It would be a great theme for their group.

………………………………Johnny talked with her dad about the stuff that was going on in the school and the reactions that she was still getting though not as bad or as violent as what had happened before.

Her father wasn’t happy about the fact there were no cameras and instead of just saying that he was going to be at the school board meeting he also got onto the phone with his lawyer that he had hired when Johnny was assaulted and put in the hospital.

Between her and Jessie and the things they had going on in their lives he wanted his lawyer ready when things got ugly. He didn’t like some of the stuff on the website or that Facebook page and neither did his lawyer who said that she would pass this story on to some people that would make sure that this was going to be seen before it was swept under the rug.

She spent the rest of the night up and thinking about what might come and while scared she wasn’t nearly as alone as she was in the last few years.

………………………………..Honey had very quietly asked her mom to look at the link for the sites and the Facebook page while she did the dishes. She really didn’t know what to say about all of this since it had all happened so fast today and she never did stuff like this…get involved or stand up for herself.

Her mom came into the kitchen and hugged her who made both of them all sniffly and teary and they sat and talked a long time over Mexican hot chocolate in the living room about what’s been going on with her.

She cried a lot as she finally started to open up about how long she’d been bullied for and how her hitting puberty like she did had he lose so many of her friends.

Her mother surprised her over the fact she laughed at Johnny and the sandwich bit with the mean girls and she was very tolerant and understanding over Johnny being a trans-girl and Jessie’s condition. Her mom was a lot different than she’d thought and it had turned out to be the longest talk they had ever had since she had started to develop and change.

………………………………….Kenyon had done the same thing with his parents as Jessie. His dad blew his stack over everything and got a hold of the insurance guy but he was stomping around the house with a full mad on and several beers into him and going off on how the namby-pamby rich set think they’re better than everyone else and how he was going to give them a good fucking blasting at the school board meeting.

Then without needing the push he went off on there being guns and knives and all sorts of shit in schools now a days.

Yeah his dad was sort of a good guy but he was very blue collar and angry at some of the stuff that went on with people with money. Kenyon’s family came up pretty hard from South Chicago and he’d worked as he said too many jobs for these look down on you types to let them get away with their bullshit in a public school. And if they wanted to play king of the effing castle then they can do it in a private school.

The thing was that as good as a mad on as his dad was getting and the more he went on and on about this the more he could see him losing his cool if he…

Good guy or not there was and is a whole world of difference when you think you might be gay…and are watching one of your parents blowing up over something that wasn’t about that…

What would his dad do if he found out?

It really didn’t hit Kenyon until alone in his older brother Dean’s room while working on the weights that he just…

He just might have admitted…even to himself that he might, might be gay.

He hung the free weights up on the bar and put his hands over his face. “Oh fuck…oh fuck…oh fuck...i can’t be…no…no...I can’t be gay.”

……………………………….Nick sat on his bed and he watched as there were ever growing hits and posts to his web page and there had been a few attempts by people to close it down but they weren’t really good at this and they weren’t government or the server company and just some people that he was pretty sure that he knew.

One was the computer sciences teacher at the school and he knew that because he recognized the schools IP addy. They were trying to do damage control and take stuff down as fast as other people were putting things up.

Thet actually pulled the plug on the school newspaper’s web page and the school’s Facebook page and they were still trying to get access to his web page and he was booting them each time that they tried. In the end none of it had helped them as things from both the school paper’s page and the schools Facebook page were going up on his web page thanks to screen captures.

The best that they were able to do was to threaten and troll his page and some of the rants and the diatribes that were going off as replies he tracked the IP addy’s of and added it to a list of the people in the school that he was going to look out for and keep eyes on.

But he let them troll, he saved everything but he let them troll because the way that they were talking about people and losers and even accusing him/the Webpage’s admin of being a domestic terrorist and a liberal and a commie and all the other responses that had become the language of the bullies and thugs in society today.

All he did was watch and read and respond and send off links to other pages on Facebook that stood up for people, there was a lot of those too.

He might not know people in RL and he might not be able to talk to people like others did but here, here things were different here he was on equal ground power wise with the guys that beat you just for looking different or sounding different.

He wasn’t just mad about the stuff that had been done to him and others but it was like there was this mountain of bullshit piled way too high and all the people who just were trapped by the weight of it had this new kid Jessie Stone that just walked up and kicked the manure pile just hard enough that it sent all of that crap falling and setting them free.

Or rather showing them they could be free.

Actually Jessie gave him this whole look into people actually existing that gave a shit and didn’t suck.

Having a cause for the first time in your life changes things.