The Youngest Booth

Chapter 13

Jay's P.O.V.

"Come on," Missy said and me and Hayley followed her into school. We walked to Miss Carter's office.

"Get in here. Now!" Missy told Hayley when she had slowed down by the door. Missy wanted to report Riz for sexual assault. I mean he had been a prat but Hayley had agreed.

"I want to report a sexual assault. Riz Nawaz. He's only gone and made Hayley do things to him," Missy said to Miss Carter.

"Uh...Did he force you Hayley?" Miss Carter asked.

"No," Hayley answered.

"He's 17, she's 15. That makes him a pedophile, don't it?" Missy said. 

"Kiddie fiddler," I laughed. Miss Carter and Missy glared at me.

"Well let's not go throwing words like that around, shall we?" Miss Carter said. 

"So are you going to do something about it or not?" Missy asked as she sat down. I couldn't help but laugh slightly and Missy gave me a death stare. Miss Carter didn't know what to say. She called Mum in and Riz's parents. Me and Missy stayed in the room but Hayley went outside.

"As you know I am obliged to report all safeguarding issues to the police," Miss Carter told them.

"The police?" Sadiq asked.

"Well, yeah, Hayley is still a child and Riz did get her to perform a sex act on him," Miss Carter explained.

"Ooo la la," I said a bit louder than I meant to. I am not very good at this whole volume thing. Everyone stared at me.

"Sorry carry on," I said. 

"This is ridiculous," Sadiq said.

"So will he have a criminal record?" his mum asked.

"No but he will have a child if he keeps this up," I said. Missy looked like she would happily murder me. Miss Carter ignored me and carried on.

"By all accounts, Hayley consented, so it's unlikely that the police will take things further in this instance," she told her. 

"So he just gets away with it?" asked Missy.

"It takes two to tango, Missy," Mum said. 

"Whose side are you on?" Missy asked her. 

"Your mother's right. Chances are your sister offered it up to him on a plate," Riz's mum said.

"Do you want a smack?" Missy asked. That was when I lost it. I laughed so hard and they all looked at me.

"Shall we just keep calm. Yeah?" Miss Carter said. 

"Riz is a good lad," Sadiq said.

"What like you? We all know you've bedded half the women in the valley," I said and at the same time Missy said,

"Well you would say that, wouldn't you?" Missy said.

"Jay lets not say that in front of your headteacher and thank you Missy" Miss Carter said, trying to diffuse the tension.

"You're one of them," I said to her.

"Let's just stick to the subject in hand, shall we?" Miss Carter said, totally ignoring me. 

"I think what's important here today is that we all decide what's best to do to move forward," Miss Carter said.

"Use a condom," I suggested.

"He should be kicked out," Missy said. 

"Well that's not going to happen," Miss Carter said. 

"What using a condom?" I asked. Again everyone ignored me.

"I could ground our Hayley if you like," Mum said. 

"There you go again- sticking up for them. Just cos they live in some posh house don't mean they're better than us," Missy shouted.

"Right I think what we can all agree on is that Hayley and Riz should be kept apart at all costs. Yeah?" Miss Carter butted in.

"What you going to do, put a cage around Riz's shlong?" I asked.

"Right Jay I think it would be best if you went outside," Miss Carter said.

"Yeah me too," I agreed and I left the room. As I was waiting outside, I saw that Lorraine had her back turned. I picked up the inter com. I had always wanted to use one.

"Till number 4 please," I said. I laughed. Man this was fun.

"Unexpected item in bagging area. Please remove to continue," I added. Lorraine turned around and grabbed the inter com off me and Missy and Mum came out the office. I followed them out to where Hayley was standing.

"What did you say to them?" Hayley asked.

"That he needs to keep his dirty hands to himself," Missy replied, "I told you before, lads round here are a waste of time."

"Not all of them," Mum said. Missy ignored her.

"So from now on, you stay away from him. Do you hear me?" Missy told Hayley. Hayley rolled her eyes. We all walked home in silence. Aaron was waiting at the top of our road.

"Hey, whoa, what you doing?" Aaron asked Missy, "We're supposed to be going to the cinema remember?"

"Oh, yeah, I am staying in with Hayley," Missy told him. 

"She's a big girl, Missy. I'm sure she can look after herself for a few hours," Aaron said.

"I could look after her," I said.

"No way. And that Aaron is where you are wrong cos if I had done a better job looking after her she wouldn't be in this mess," Missy said.

"Well you guys have sex. I mean you can't honestly say you make that much noise playing scrabble," I said. I wish the ground swallowed me up there and then. 

"Shut up, Missy, you have got to stop blaming yourself," Nas said as she tried to not laugh at what I had said. 

"That's easy for you to say. You've got a family, you've got people who care about you. the only person Hayley's got is me," Missy said.

"She has me," I said, slightly offended. 

"So why ain't you going protective mode?" Missy asked.

"What do you expect me to go smack him up? Just wait till he's back at school," I said.

"I don't understand why you're making such a big deal of this to be honest," Aaron said. R.I.P. Aaron. Died after being murdered by Missy Booth. I ran inside. I didn't wanna witness murder.