Pepperoni Protesting ((Open))

[Jeannie O'Leary]

Jean's long red hair blew gently in the warm afternoon breeze. She squinted her eyes against the sun, her hand on her forehead. The sun signaled that high noon had finally arrived. And there wasn't a cloud in sight.

Ti, was late. But, no matter, Jean had a loud enough voice for the two of them. She would just have to go it alone. Slowly she slid off the pine picnic table she had been sitting on. She brushed the dirt off of her tattered jeans and pulled down her black lace cami before picking up her sign.

"Give animals a chance!" She shouted at some customers making their way into the store, "Don't order Pepperoni! Leave the Sausage! Ignore the Canadian-Bacon! Give animals a chance and bring down the oppression of the Meat Lover's Pizza!"

[Zachariah Thomas]

Gecko smirked sarcastically taking a quick drag from his doobie before tossing it on the ground and stamping it out. He shrugged his shoulders forward pulling on his blue-checked cover shirt, straightening it out on his back. Then, tossing his skateboard to the ground and jumping on, he glided over to Jeannie circling her and stealing her sign.

"Whoa Levi..." He taunted twirling her sign around like an expert batonist. "What's with all the screaming? You're scaring all of the customers inside."

He stopped his board in front of her, hopping off, tucking her sign under his arm. His smile widened. "You're looking awful slutty today..."

[Jeannie O'Leary]

Jean groaned. Here she was trying to have a simple protest and he comes along to delay her good works. Why did he have to be so irritating? But that was Zach for you. He was never going to understand that she didn't like him...at all...not even as a person let alone as a 'love interest'.

ick...

Rolling her eyes she made an attempt at grabbing her sign back. "Get the hell out of here Zach. I'm trying to have a protest. Why don't you go get high or something? Or go find some floozie to entertain yourself."

She couldn't stand him being around. And Zach was always around. He was like her little lost puppy that she tried to lose purposely but he kept coming back.

[Zachariah Thomas]

Zach dodged away when Levi tried to grab back her sign. His smile faded, but only for a moment. "And here I thought I was already doing both? I'm already high..." He paused his smile widening, "And you're just as good of a floosie as the next! I mean, well, your legs are a bit thin and your ass...I don't think there's much help for that thing...but you hide your nose well with that mop of hair you've got."

Immediately he took a step back, ready to dodge the imminent strike from the vicious redhead. Then he pulled out her sign and took a good look at it. It was a plain pink sign on a wooden stake with words in large block lettering stating: THOSE WHO EAT ANIMALS ARE JOINED WITH THE DEVIL!!!!

A single eyebrow raised as he looked back at Jean. "Strong wording for something so simple isn't it? I mean you're just trying to get people to say no to pepperoni. You act as if you're trying to cast demons out of the pizza!"

[Jeannie O'Leary]

Jean's eyes bulged the angrier she grew. Finally she whipped her sign away from Zach, cuddling it like a stolen teddy bear. "Just because you don't see the injustice of eating a poor defenseless animal, doesn't mean that my views are wrong!"

She turned back to the store. Some customers just came out with a pizza box labeled -SAUSAGE- on the side, "One day animals will be the superior race!" She shouted at them, waving her sign proudly. They gave her a dodgy look and quickly shuffled to their car, "How would you feel if you were chopped up and stuff in a box with bread, cheese,and sauce?! Think of the animals feelings you murderers!"

[Zachariah Thomas]

Zach chuckled, whipping his pack of cigs out of his back pocket. Pulling one out he slipped it into his mouth. "You know, you'll draw more flies with honey than with vinegar..." He pulled his silver lighter out of his front pocket and lit his cigarette taking a long drag. "Of course, I don't see you converting others to be just as insane as you by yelling anything at them, sweet or not."

He took another drag and jumped back on his board. He did a couple tricks in place as he watched Levi go on about her protesting. She was such a strange girl. He'd never met anyone so insanely passionate about anything before. And although it was her passion for her animals and random protesting that made her crazy, it was one of the things that attracted him to her. He liked her bitchiness too. She was a feisty little firecracker trying to save the world. That, in his opinion, was pretty cool.

[Jeannie O'Leary]

Jeannie turned to Zach glaring, but said nothing. Instead she just raised her middle finger to him, turned around, and continued to protest. He was so annoying! She could almost hear him chuckling under his breath behind her. She just didn't get him. She couldn't be more blunt with the fact that she didn't like him if she would have painted FUCK OFF ZACH on her forehead in big shiny red letters. But he just wouldn't go away. Why the hell did he take so much pleasure in tormenting her? Was this his pathetic attempt in wooing her?

She shook her head inwardly. That couldn't have been it. Because right around the time she was positive he was flirting with her, he'd do something that clearly stated: I hate your fucking guts bitch. No, Zach was just another immature little boy that liked to torment her just because he knew her. Jeannie wished Stacy had never gotten with Oliver. At least then she never would have gotten the awful privilege to have known one of his best buddies.