Chapter twelve: Start of Something.. Trouble?

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After that encounter we had after school, I didn't know what was coming my way after she had left me there on the sidewalk. I didn't really overthink it because I wasn't scared of her and she was no threat to me in any way.

But, the next day was something that I never thought would happen.

I got called up to her office early that morning when I was in first period. I was confused, but proceeded to walk to the office to find out what was going on. When I saw Miss Valerie, she never looked over at me, not once. She told me that Julia wanted to see me, so I walked into her office not expecting anything that was about to come.

"Take a seat, Dana." She told me. I took a seat and watched as she was typing on her computer. "I found your uncles phone number and gave him a call." She stared at me as I couldn't do anything but stare back.

"You did what?" My voice was a high pitch at the end of that sentence. "Why would you do that?"

She stares at me for a moment. "What do you mean, Dana? Do you not remember what happened a few days ago? You're lucky I didn't need your help because the parents from the other student was starting to get on my nerves." She ran her hand through her hair.

I stared at her as I couldn't believe she called Johnny. There's no way in hell that this is happening, because if he finds out, it'll be one big ass argument and I wouldn't be able to take it anymore.

"What did he say?" I ask as she was typing.

She looks over at me. "He didn't answer. But I did leave him a message." She says as she grabs a piece of paper. "I will need for you to take this to him and tell him to call me. It's urgent." She hands me the paper and I stare at her for a moment. "I know you'll do the right thing, Dana." She eyes me.

"What the hell are you doing?" I question.

She stares at me for a moment. "I don't think that language is acceptable." She says.

"What? Ok, why are you acting like an ass?"

"Dana," She sighs. "I'm not acting like anything. I'm strictly telling you to do a simple thing for me in order for all of this to be easy for both of us." I stare at her as I couldn't believe she was acting like a bitch. "Will you? Or I will go by there myself and hand it to him in person. It is up to you." She says as she's watching me.

I knew what she was doing.

So, I decided to challenge her.

"What if I don't give you my address?"

"I think you're smart enough to do what I say." She says.

I chuckle. "Ok, and if I don't? I mean, what are you planning on doing? Punishing me?" I smile at her. "Your punishments aren't exactly threatening." I air-quote.

"I won't be the one punishing you since this isn't really my authority." She says as she's watching me.

I stare at her. "What do you mean?"

"Since nothing really helps from what I do, I'm leaving this up to the school board to decide on your punishment." She says as she's staring at me. "I will not have a say this time." She hands the papers to me again. "Please, take these papers to your uncle."

I grab the papers as I watch her go back to whatever on her computer. I look down at the papers in my hand and knew that I couldn't give these to my uncle. I wasn't about to let my future of graduating be demolished by my stupid ass uncle.

"I can't take these to my uncle." I say as I watch her look back at me.

She was trying to get inside my head but I wasn't about to let her in.

She stares at me for a moment. "Why not?"

I stare at her for a moment as I was sick and tired of these stupid games. I was done.

I held the papers up on front of me and rip them in half. I watch as she stares at me in shock and I only stare back at her as I let the papers fall to the ground. I place my hands on her desk as I lean over towards her and watch her for a moment.

"You want a fight, Julia? I'll bring a fucking war." I say as I walk towards the door and leave her behind.

-

That day, I thought would be the start of a war.

But a war never came.

A few days after, was like nothing ever happened. I didn't get called up to the office for anything. I didn't get a call from the school about my punishment that Julia was talking about. Johnny never mentioned anything about a call, so I figured that he never got one.

I was confused, but also relieved.

I didn't give it anymore thought as I was sitting outside for lunch alone and enjoying the quietness around me. I heard a door shut and I look over to see Amber and Trey walking out of the building and towards me.

"Hi." Amber said as she sat down along with Trey beside her.

I look at both of them for a moment. "Hi." I said. "Glad to see that I'm not invisible to you anymore." I roll my eyes as I look somewhere else.

"Dana," Amber called for me. I look over to see her watching me. "We've been busy, I'm sorry."

I shrug. "With what? You couldn't take time to say hey or anything?"

"Don't start, Dana." Trey steps in. "The way you've been treating us, you kind of have no right to talk."

I stare at him as I couldn't believe he said that to me. "What?" I question.

Amber holds her arms out. "Stop!" She looks between us. "No fighting, ok? We promised." She looks at Trey then at me. "I'm sorry, Dana."

"It's fine. I deserve it." I shrug it off.

She shakes her head. "No you don't. Look, we've been busy with college applications." She stares at me with those sad eyes. "I'm sorry." She whispers.

I sigh as I shake my head. "Please don't start getting emotional. It's fine. I'm being an ass."

Having friendships were exhausting. Especially when it comes to Amber because she's emotional or Trey when he's crazy as hell.

We sit there and I listen to their conversation for a while. I look over at them as they were talking and I couldn't help but realize how truly blessed I was to have these two nut-jobs in my life. I mean, I know I'm a shitty friend to them but they're still here and that has to mean something.

I look over at Trey and instantly remember something. "Trey," I call out. He looks over at me and I slightly smile. "Tell me about your special friend." I say.

He stares at me for a moment until he realizes what I meant. He looks over at Amber. "You told her?"

Amber shrugs and I chuckle. "Come on, dude. We're friends. I want to know about the person who stole your heart."

He rolls his eyes. "He didn't steal my heart," He says. "yet." He finishes.

I smile. "So, it's a He." I nod in approval. "Tell me about him. Is he nice? A crazy person? Serial killer?" I joke.

"No." He says as he smiles. "He's sweet and he treats me well." He looks over at Amber. "I don't know where exactly it's going, but I'm hoping something happens."

I nod. "How long have you been seeing each other?"

"Almost a week. There's nothing really happening right now, but you never know." He says.

I nod. "Yeah, you never know." I smile. "I'm happy for you. But if he hurts you-"

"Please don't." Trey sighs.

I chuckle as I knew he would react that way. "I'm just saying."

"Now I regret telling you anything." He says as he shakes his head.

I shrug. "I promise not to beat him up as long as he takes care of you." He smiles and I watch as he starts talking to Amber.

After a moment of them talking, Amber speaks. "Oh, Dana," I look over at her as she was watching me. "Who's been bringing you to school? And taking you home?" She asks.

"Yeah, we noticed that your bike wasn't here anymore." Trey adds.

I shrug. "Tommy has been picking me up and taking me home. Something happened to my bike, so it's in the shop." I didn't want to get into details.

Amber stares at me. "Your ex?" I nod as I watch her nod. "Well, I wouldn't mind taking you home or picking you up. You should of asked."

Now I feel like shit. But, I didn't really want her going to my house. They never saw it, and never been there, so I would like to keep it that way.

"I didn't want to put that shit on you." I said as I was hoping for this conversation to end.

She shakes her head. "I wouldn't mind." She smiles.

"It's ok." I said. Her face fell and I felt even worse.

After a while, they started talking and I tried ignoring conversation but it was hard to do so when all they ever do is gossip about dumb shit. I can't understand what the purpose was to gossip. I never do it and I don't plan on it because it's stupid as hell.

But, I guess some teenagers like that shit so let them do whatever the hell they want to do.

After lunch, we were sitting at our desks in class and I couldn't be more bored. The teacher was explaining something but I couldn't focus for some reason. I was ahead in this class, so it really didn't matter if I pay attention or not. I tried but it was no use since half the shit he was saying didn't make it to my brain.

I look over at Amber and Trey as they were watching the teacher and I couldn't understand how they were paying attention when the words he was saying wasn't making sense to me. I lay my head down on the desk as boredom was taking over and I couldn't concentrate on anything.

All I could think about was Julia.

I haven't spoke to her in a few days since what happened in her office. I've seen her around school, but she never looked my way or said anything about what happened. It confused me, but I don't know why I'm sitting here thinking about it when I should be glad that she finally got off my back.

I felt someone nudging my arm and when I look up, I saw Amber staring at me. "What?"

She leans over towards me. "What's wrong?"

"Nothing." I shrug. "Why?"

She stares at me for a moment. "You had your head down and I was wondering."

I chuckle as I look at her. "I'm fine, Amber." She went back to focusing on the teacher and I couldn't help but smile at her for worrying.

Class went on forever it seems and the next few classes also were torture. But that final bell finally rang and I was more than happy to get the hell away from there and hang out with Tommy.

Amber and Trey said that they had things to do after school, but I didn't mind as I told them I would talk to them later. I was texting Tommy as I was walking through the parking lot and that's when I heard someone yelling.

I look up to see Julia and a woman standing next to her car. That woman who was standing in front of her was her wife, and she was yelling in her face.

"We never talk! Ok? We never have time to sit down and actually talk about this shit, Julia!" She yells.

I watch as Julia stands there not knowing what to do. She keeps looking at her or looking down at the ground. I couldn't understand what was going on, but I knew I shouldn't get involved.

Until the next thing happened.

Diane roughly grabs Julia's face to make her look at her and that's when I decided to step in, which I don't think was such a good idea at the moment but my stupid self did it anyway.

"Hey!" I shouted as I approached them. Diane looks over at me and when I saw Julia look at me, I could tell that she wasn't too happy about seeing me at this moment.

I stand a few feet away from them as Diane was looking at me. She let go of Julia's face. "Who are you?" She asks.

I look over at Julia as she was staring at me and I wasn't too sure on what to say. "I'm a student here." I spoke the truth. "What's going on?"

"I don't think it's any of your concern, little girl." Diane said as she was watching me.

I cross my arms as I was staring at her. "I'm not a little girl."

"This is between me and my wife. So, run along." She made a motion with her hand and I stood there staring at her, waiting for her to do one more thing.

Julia spoke. "Just leave, Dana." I look over as she was staring at me. "Now." She demanded.

I look back at Diane as I slowly start walking away. I take one look back at them before I walk to the end of the parking lot to wait for Tommy.

-

I twirled the pen around my fingers as my main focus was on that Diane woman. Nothing else mattered at the time and I couldn't understand why I was so caught up in this shit.

I look up to see Tommy and Damion playing some video game and I watch them for a moment. They were roughly pushing each other and cussing each other out, and although I would find this situation entertaining, I don't at the moment.

I sigh as I sat the pen down and lean my head back against the couch. I just wanted to forget all this shit and not worry about it, but here I am acting like I care for once.

"Dana, come play with us." Tommy calls out. I shake my head as he was looking at me. "Why not?" I shrug as I sat there and after a few moments, he got up from the floor and sat down next to me. "What's wrong, D?" He questions.

I shake my head. "Nothing. I just don't feel like playing." Which wasn't a total lie.

He kept looking at me as if he didn't believe anything I was saying. He grabs my wrist and pulls me off the couch. He quickly tells Damion that we will be back and we walk to his room.

After he shuts the door, he looks at me. "Ok, tell me the real reason." He crosses his arms as he was staring at me.

"I am telling you the real reason." I say as I watch him. "Why do you think something is wrong?"

He chuckles. "Dana, I've known you for about four years. I know small things about you that nobody else knows about." He looks at me as I'm watching him. "I know when you're mad. I know when you're unhappy about something. I know all the emotions that run through your head. I know you better than you know yourself." He walks towards me and stops in front of me.

I knew that it was no use to keep things from Tommy because he did know me better than anyone else. I can't explain how he does it, but I could be acting totally fine but he would pick up the slightest details when I'm actually not.

I shake my head as I wasn't sure on what to even tell him. I didn't know what was wrong, so how the hell was I suppose to tell him something that I didn't even know myself?

He grabs my arm and leads me to the bed. We sit down on the edge of it and he looks over at me. "Take your time, D. I'm here to listen."

I stare down at the floor for the longest time until I look back up at him. "Ok," I sigh. "about a week ago or something," I can't remember. "I hooked up with this woman at the bar. The same woman who I was talking to at that same bar that night we went." I look over at him as he was thinking back.

"The one that was a little tipsy?" He asks.

I nod. "Yeah, her."

"Ok." He nods as he was watching me closely. Something I always liked about Tommy is the fact that when someone is talking to him, he actually listens. He'll watch their movement and body language and I'm not sure on how many guys actually do that.

I avoided eye contact. "We ended up meeting again the very next day after that first time." I look down at the floor.

"What happened?" He asks.

I sigh then look up at him. "She's my principal."

He stares at me for the longest time and I wasn't sure on what he was thinking at the moment. Which, I'm pretty sure he was freaking out just a little bit, or totally confused. Maybe both.

"She's the principal at the high school?" He asks. I nod as I watch him. "What happened then? I mean, what happened when you found out?"

I shrug. "We both kind of didn't know what the hell was going on. It felt like it was a little unreal at the time, and we were trying to process it."

"Ok, so what's going on right now? With you two?"

I shake my head. "Nothing." He gives me a confused look but I just shrug. "We had a few moments where it was tension or a little awkwardness, but now it's like nothing ever happened."

Tommy sat there for a moment as he was processing everything that I told him. "Well.." He started as he trailed off. "I don't know what the hell to say, D. I mean, everything's good, right?"

I nod. "Yeah."

He shrugs. "Then don't worry about it. Is that why you're acting weird? I mean, you did say it happened a week ago."

I wanted to tell him about the curiousity that Julia makes me have, and tell him everything that's been happening with my head lately. But a part of me doesn't want to say anything in fear..

I shrug. "It wasn't that, but I decided to tell you anyways. I just been thinking a lot lately."

He pulls me into a side hug and kisses my temple. "Don't stress it."

I lean my head on his shoulder and wonder how I got so lucky to have him in my life.

After a few minutes of talking upstairs, we made our way back downstairs and I heard a voice that could make your ears bleed.

"Oh God, why did you let that in?" Sara said as she stared me down.

I roll my eyes as I was about to say something, but Tommy pulls me arm. "Sara, shut the hell up for once." We walk into the living room and I sat on the couch as Tommy sat back on the floor with Damion.

I heard noises coming from the kitchen and I couldn't stand when Sara was here. She drove me crazy and sometimes I want to strangle her, but Tommy is always watching us when we're in the same room together.

I watch as Tommy and Damion play their video game and I couldn't help but let my mind wander to Julia. The thought of her has my mind going crazy and no matter how hard I try, her presence will not leave my mind.

It's as if I try so hard not to think about her or get involved with anything that has to do with her, but my mind has a mind of its own and it overpowers me to where I'm doing this shit that I never do.

"Hey," Tommy's voice invades my thoughts and I look down at him as he was staring at me. "you ok?"

I nod. "Yeah, I think I'm going to go." I stand up and Tommy is quick on his feet too.

He walks over to me. "Is it Sara?" He ask.

"Huh?" I stare at him until I figure out what he means. "Oh, no." I shake my head. "I'm just going to go find something to do. I'm bored."

He nods. "Ok, well let me drive you. I don't want you walking."

We walk to the front door and I instantly hear Sara. "Bout time!" She yells from the kitchen.

"Shut up!" Tommy turns is head to yell back at her.

As soon as we're outside, I let out a chuckle. "I hate your sister." I look over towards him.

"I know." He sighs. We walk out to his truck and I come to a stop. He looks over at me. "What?"

I watch him for a minute. "I don't know. I miss my bike, dude. I hate asking you to drive me places."

He chuckles. "I don't mind it, D."

"Yeah, but when is my bike suppose to be back?" I ask. I was missing it like something crazy.

He stands there for a moment. "Well, I think he said about another week." I groan and look over at him as he's staring at me. "I have an idea." He says.

"What?" I watch as he walks cloer to me.

He hands me his keys and smiles at me. "Take my truck."

"Hell no." I refused. He stares at me in confusion. "I can't do that, dude. You need transportation."

He smiles then pulls me into a side hug and turns us both around until we're facing the house. "Look," He points to the garage and I saw a car parked inside. "I have my sisters car."

"Yeah," I chuckle. "like Sara is going to let you take her car places."

Sara was the type that does not like sharing anything.

He smiles. "She'll let me. Don't worry about it. Here," He holds his keys

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