My school was again in a center of a scandal. GOSH! Moments like this not only inspires me to  wake up early and attend my 7:30 am class with a spring in my step and like the proverbial early bird, I wanna be the first one to catch the juiciest wormy gossip! ;D

Our library was for the first time inundated by students huddled in small circles, chatting about the headline news of the day. You can hear words like stalk, erotomania, psycho and banana hammock (?) being whispered a lot. Nathan who is always in there for the wrong reason of course (he is using its space for his "sleep study" aka siesta) was forced to decamp the area because according to him it became too noisy.

I never seen our librarian, Ms.Kay Boom, worked her fingers to the bone that day! It was a rare treat for me to see her stepped out of her fortress of solitude as she assisted students looking for reading materials and teaching them how to use the library system for the first time! Hah!

And to think that these were the same group of people who hacked into our school firewall so the whole class can play "zombie swarm" together and yet, had no idea what key to punch to search for a certain book! It's ludicrous!

The whole situation reminded me of Jet who thought that he could cook just because he was able to boil an egg without burning the shell... whaaaaaat?! LOL

So, are you all curious as to what everyone was talking about?

Remember Jolene from my last blog? The copy cat "jewel" thief? Its got something to do with her again and this time, it was the goss that broke the camel's back.
Spoiler alert! The camel being Nathan, looks and all! Lol!

After Jolene made a fool of herself awhile back. We all kinda moved on and everything was peaceful until that fateful Zombie Swarm Battle Royale.

For my non gamer fans, Zombie Swarm is a multiplayer, survival game that you can play on your computer or phone. You can choose your side --- zombies or zombie hunters and and it's a battle for the last team standing.  It can be played with 15 players in each group. Our school became so obsessed with the game that there were impromptu skirmishes between different years during free period. Even the faculty staffs play them too and according to my source (Mariella), the Math department is leading the tally followed by the Cafeteria team.

One day, the seniors decided to challenged us juniors for a friendly game during homeroom period. Fifteen of their best players are going to play zombies. It's a bit of a trap because all fifteen of them were in the same class together while our team were kinda scattered about. We were able to recruit ten people in our homeroom, three classmates in their gym class and two stragglers from the library.

The loser of the game will be the "fodder" for our upcoming school fair's main attraction, The Dunk Tank and Pie in the face.

My friend Greg created the server and we all logged in. Our team was consisted of the lost boys (Nathan, Piper, Jet, Hawky and I), my soon to be gf, Raven Baby Doll ( do not tell Raven or Nathan), Mariella and the mathletes--- Mika, Tim and Greg, the two girls from our hockey team, Perry, our school paper's associate editor and lastly, the two  students in the library who turned out to be Daniel, Mr. Heartthrob and Jolene, Miss Heartclog.

Before the game commenced, we needed to pick a name for our team. We unanimously agreed to be Team Vegetable while the seniors opted to be Team Fruits. Everyone excitedly picked their vegetable and fruit call sign respectively. At first there was a fiasco regarding whether  tomato is a fruit or a vegetable so to stop the nonsense, tomato won't be playing in either team.

I swear to God, it was fun!  And because we all have math classes for the next period, Mika placed a fifteen minutes cap on the game. The team who had the less casualties win!

The battle was exhilarating! It's a salad bloodbath with lettuce, cucumber and carrot the first to fall! Yep, it looks like the undead fruits were gaining grounds and kicking the vegetable hunter's asses!

As the game progressed, we gained momentum and started plucking  fruits one by one. We got the three cheerleaders first (apple, cherry and kiwi) then the  three players from our football team (banana, melon and fig) fell next.

Then, with five minutes on the clock, there's  five vegetables and seven fruits left.

The plight of our veggie crew rested upon Nathan (Okra), Raven (Snow Pea), Daniel (Kale), Jolene (Onion) and yours truly (Turnip).

We totally made a marmalade out of orange, strawberry and grapefruit but they got Kale during the melee.

One by one, we took them all down but not without sacrifices on our side.  Snow Pea (Raven) took the blow for Turnip (me) then I ended getting sliced the next.

It boiled down to just Okra (Nathan) and Onion(Jolene) against our school captain, Flynn (Pineapple) and our star swimmer, Matt (Papaya).

Ten seconds left so Okra made his daring move. He threw a smoke bomb before he ran towards the two fruits. In his haste, he accidentally shoved Jolene and then the game was over.

From the smokes, we saw two figures standing —- Pineapple and Okra. At first It deemed like it's a tie but then from a hole in the ground, a figure emerged. It was onion! She ended up in an open grave ditch when Nathan selfishly pushed  her away from his path.

Our team won!

During recess, the whole vegetable crew met up. We were all eager to meet our fellow team mates who helped us win the match. Everyone (especially the girls) was floored when they found out that Daniel, our year's hottest guy (close second me) came to play with us. I know my baby love, Raven has a crush on Daniel so Jet did the honorable thing —- feigned stomach upset and asked Raven to take him to the clinic!! HAHAHAHAHA!

I know it sounded unfair and selfish, but we can't have our baby girl in close proximity with the most popular boy in school!

We all congratulated our champions, Nathan and Jolene for a job well done. Nathan was overwhelmed with happiness that he hugged Jolene and Jolene reciprocated the gesture with a peck on his cheek. If it's me, I would have excused myself and scurried straight to the biology lab to douse my face with formaldehyde but Nathan being a naive idiot, didn't see her action as a red flag. All he was thinking back then was he saved us all from getting "pied" on our faces and being dunked in a tank filled with cold water. His trusting nature spurred the beginning of a month long stalking nightmare.

Like all horror movies, it started harmlessly with Jolene sitting next to Nathan in class. It followed by her sending somewhat innocent text messages asking about assignments and lecture notes. Then her text messages migrated to Nathan's social media pages where she left skin crawling comments and liking all of his unlikable hideous looking selfies and mediocre skate tricks.

Nathan never replied back but his non responsiveness only made Jolene determined to win his attention. In the days to come, they became lab partners in our Chemistry class and from there, she cleverly slithered her way and infiltrated our group.

I started noticing Jolene making her move towards my friend. I caught her one time giving Nathan a back rub when Nathan's girl best friend was not around. While I was at the bleacher, I spotted Jolene holding Nathan's hand and pretending to read his sweaty and callous riddled palm! I did snitch them to my Raven sugar sweet but she just shrugged it off. She said and I quote Jacksie, stop being suspicious! You are worse than Mariella. Stop being a gossip and telling everyone that I'm your girlfriend! Isn't she cute when she is in denial?! :D

And in some sick twist of fate, love letters started appearing in Nathan's locker. The letters were all signed "your secret admirer". Geez! Another disillusioned girl with below par standard. I mean, if she went for me, Flynn or Daniel ---- it's understandable! I'm not trying to toot my own horn but I am very bankable and hot! But Nathan?! Are you kidding me?! His resting face resembled that of a constipated man plus he is clueless when it comes to crushes.He is a perennial late bloomer.

Everyday, he gets a love poem or sweetheart message and instead of confiding to Raven baby doll, he told Jolene. Jolene told him that she knew who wrote the letters but she is not of liberty to say. Nathan was kinda flattered and was loving the attention at first until it escalated exponentially in the following days.

He started to notice subtle psychopathic changes from Jolene like the time she started bringing him food everyday. Handing him random sketches of a boy and a girl kissing with a caption "you and me, meant to be...jk"Or how she would playfully rub his shoulders during History class. He also couldn't passed up the part when Jolene introduced him as her boyfriend to her friends from Pebble Creek High School. That freaked Nathan out and finally confided to Raven.

When Raven confronted Jolene, the latter just laughed. She said that Nathan and her had a mutual understanding and the reason why Nathan freaked out was because they were not ready to tell the "world" that they were dating. She even added that Raven should stop acting like a jealous friend and be happy for them.

Oh. My. GOD! If it wasn't for our English teacher Miss Deveraux, hovering around, Raven would have throttled Jolene in class! She was in herself that her light gray eyes turned stormy gray in fury! She looked so hot!!! :D

I gotta say, for the first time, I saw Nathan and Raven had an argument over a girl. I know Nathan would do anything to appeased his girl best friend so he decided to stay away from Jolene. He even went as far as to asked our Chemistry teacher if he could swap lab partner but was unfortunately declined. When Jolene found out that Nathan was avoiding her like a bad flu, she was alarmed and cornered him during our Science class. She confessed that it was her who wrote the love poems all along and that she is madly in love with him. She was hoping that baring her feelings will bring Nathan back but the admission of romantic guilt pushed him away even more.

Jolene couldn't accept the fact that Nathan didn't have feelings for her let alone, rejecting her advances all  together. She wanted him back so bad she started stalking him. She followed him everywhere --- like the skate park, McGregor's Burger place and Honey Bun, the pastry shop where Nathan and Raven works. She bought so much Boston Buns hoping to impress Mr. Lukewarm but with no avail.

When that didn't work, she started turning up on Nathan's doorstep and was surprised to be confronted by (my gf) Raven baby doll. When she learned that Raven sometimes sleeps at Nathan's house, she got so insecure and jealous that she started trolling Raven online and left mean comments hoping for her to retaliate. Jolene's friends joined in with the online harassment but Raven did not respond in text but instead posted a photo of Nathan giving her a piggyback ride. It not only infuriated Jolene but the photo made me jealous too! What possessed her to ride Quasimodo's back?! Doesn't she know that Nathan lacks the upper body strength?! She could of slid down his camel like back and broke her crown! Lol!

Anywho, Jolene was fuming mad that she did something really foolish. She spread a rumor saying that Nathan and her were secret lovers and that Raven was trying to break them up. She even took it as far as to use a dodgy app that creates realistic looking fake text conversations and Imessages between her and Nathan. She forwarded the fake love convos to several classmates and it quickly spread like wild fire.

She made the whole school believed her lies and I have to say, I kinda thought it was true too! Nathan the idiot, made it worst by giving us all the cold shoulder treatment. He stayed away from us and wouldn't even talk to anyone, even to Raven. Literally, he isolated himself from everyone making him more vulnerable and exposed to Jolene's lies! I couldn't really blame Nathan.
I guess he felt he was to blame why Raven's social media platforms were crawling with trolls posting nasty comments about her. His solution was to stay away from her hoping that Jolene's friends will leave her alone in which in my opinion only fueled the fire.

But Raven never gave up on Nathan. She challenged him to a Game of Skate and if she wins, Nathan had to speak to her. Of course my baby love won.
Nathan had no choice but to bare everything to Raven. He told her how Jolene's friends would many times spam him with invites to join them in a group chat or how Jolene would sabotaged their chemistry experiment so that he had to stay after school hours to re-do the report with her. 

Our school has zero tolerance policy for bullying and harassment. The moment we reported her action to our class adviser, the ball was set in motion. Parents were called for a meeting. Evidences were presented and examined. In less than a week, the counselor emailed the parties involved with the school findings.

Jolene was suspended for two weeks for spreading rumors and for instigating online harassment. The school held an assembly and our dear Principal spoke to us for two hours about bullying and harassment. He reassured everyone that we are encouraged to speak to any faculty members if any one of us were in trouble.

Jolene never came back to school. We heard that her Dad was offered a job interstate and he decided to relocate the whole family. She tried to reached out to Nathan ---sending him friend request but he blocked her.

WIth the help of Raven, Mika, and Tim --- freaking Nathan was able to submit his chemistry report with a blinding grade of A+! Again, a salt to my wound .... lol JK!

From time to time, Jolene will make her presence known online but none of us ever interacted with her. She was met with a couple of blocks, ignores and the occasional server ban.

Since then, Nathan promised Raven, his forever girl best friend that he would never pushed her away again and he would never let anyone get in between their friendship. I have to say that was really sweet of him.

And on that note, I better go. I need to go see MK and run errands for her. BYE-eeeeee!

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Author's Notes: Instant messengers, forums, online games and chat apps made it easy for everyone to chat which strangers. Just like in real life, you meet good and bad people online and since everyone is behind the screen, the bad ones can easily go under the radar and by the time they unravel, it's too late.

The only way to protect yourself from low lives and scums of the internet is to buddy up with your friend. Trust is the cornerstone of a solid friendship. If you trust each other, no idiot can break your bond.

There was a period  that my friendship was tested online by conniving and manipulative group of people and I have to say, it was an uphill battle. At some point, I thought I am going to lose my friend over an online stalker but he proved me wrong. He shielded and protected me. In return, I did the same thing for him .
I never left him and he never left me. That goes to show how much our friendship meant and how love and respect binds two people together. To my dearest Noah, this blog is for you. You mean a lot to me.

Glossary:

Game of Skate - SKATE, also known as the Game of Skate, is a skateboarding game   where skaters attempt to perform each other's tricks in succession until all but one player is eliminated.

Erotomania - is when you think someone is in love with you but they're not. It may be a person you've never met. It is a delusional disorder that a person couldn't process social cues the right way. They often misread someone's face or body language . They might even think that the person they have their eyes on are flirting with them even that person don't know them in a personal level