I'll Follow You Anywhere

When he pulls through

The bell finally rang and I left the class quickly, finding Dick out the front in his car.

'Hey, how was your day?'

'Yeah okay.' I said looking out the window as we drove away.

'What's wrong?' He said sounding nervous, probably worried that I changed my mind about hanging out with him.

'I don't really like the principal, and I have to serve my extra curricular class with him which sucks because I don't want to just grade papers and do science all the time, it's like being in detention. Other kids are doing sports and band and cool fun things and I have to grade papers. I understand I'm on probation but this is a bit much.' I really didn't want to spend time with him, hanging out with the janitor would be more fun and totally less creepy.

'Well is there something you would like to be doing?' He asked and I shrugged.

'Well, I don't really have anything in mind but I mean if I had to choose... something to do with the football team, I don't want to play but like water boy or equipment manager or something.'

'Do you want me to put a word in to the principal about getting you changed?' I looked at him with wide eyes.

'Would you? Please, he really gives me the creeps.' The last bit wasn't suppose to come out but it did.

'If it's that bad we can look at getting you into a different scho-'

'No. I don't want to move, I'm making friends here, I just don't want to have to spend so much time with Stark.' Dick smiled and nodded.

'Alright, I'll talk to the school about letting you change and do something better.'

'Thank you.' We headed for the shopping mall and walked around for a bit. We decided to see some space movie and then get dinner, mum telling us that she wasn't going to be home until really late tonight. We sat in the food court together talking when someone bumped into my arm.

'So sor- hey.' I clenched my jaw and smiled tightly.

'Principal Stark. What are you doing here?' I asked and he turned to show me a pram with a toddler in it.

'I'm here with my nephew just getting a few things, sorry about knocking you. Hope you're alright.' He smiled but I felt really sick.

'It's fine.' I looked over to Dick and took a deep breath. 'This is my stepfather Richard. This is my principal.' I said and they shook hands.

'It's nice to meet you.' Stark said and I was extremely uncomfortable.

'Excuse me I need to go to the bathroom.' I said taking my phone and walking away. I dialed Eric as I walked.

'Hey, what's up?' He said, he usually called me babe when he was alone so he probably was still at practice.

'You'll never guess who I just bloody bumped into at the mall.' I said annoyed as I headed for the closest bathroom.

'Who?' He asked and I think he was still in the locker room at school, I could hear a lot of noise behind him.

'Stark, it's creepy, I feel like he's fricken stalking me or something.' I said as I turned the corner into the bathroom hallway.

'What?' This caught his attention and he sounded pissed.

'Yeah, where are you?' I asked as I walked into the men's and a hand clapped down on my shoulder nearly making me scream. I turned to see Eric holding his phone near his ear before pulling it away and hanging up. I felt relieved to have him here, I threw my arms around him and held on tightly.