Phone Calls

our first Detention

I walked into school the next day. I felt some, okay maybe alot of eyes on me as I walked down the corridor. The eyes followed the bruises that went from my nose to slightly on my eyes. At this rate there eyes hurt more then my nose and I came to realise I hadn't come Into school the most happiest today.

Today was my first Detention. My first tutor session. My first day missing soccer practice. It was kinda annoying to say the least but it annoyed me more to see people realise I'm annoyed. As soon as I sighed and face contorted Into a fake smile the students who were staring suddenly stopped. I walked down the hall heading to my friends before my first class but Instead my legs took me to the little shit that caused all these problems in the first place.

"Ethan you're early today, missed getting punched in the face that badly?" I leant up against the lockers as I watched the pale boys face change from a smile to a snarl real quick.

"Extra credit. I was here early to help the librarian helpers stack books and stuff" his demeanor changed to be shy again and his face kinda retorted into a frown. I looked beside him to see Katherine, of course Katherine was with him, she's the only cheerleader to hate me after all. She says I'm to into myself and I need to stop kissing my own ass. "What do you want." The girls voice that snapped me out of my thoughts kinda made me realise. What do I want? I didn't come over here with any intentions so it kinda baffled me. I smiled widely to try hide my confusion and grabbed nestors face to distract myself from my intentions. "Huh? New ones today?" Ethans grabbed a hold of my wrist as I turned his head to admire the interesting shapes stuck to his face. Today he had went with hearts. He usually goes with stars or circles but all them were just hearts. It was interesting and new. In all honesty I did think they were cool. My brother would wear some now and then to help his suttle acne that would appear on that odd day. I don't think he intends to get the same ones as ethan and just gets what evers there. Yet when ever I see the odd shapes they would remind me of Ethan. "Ow." The grip on my wrist grew tighter and I realised that I'm just squeezing his cheeks.

"Nice patches, you should use them more often, I'd rather look at those then your face so just cover your whole face with them next time." I chuckled at my comment and pushed his face away from me his back slightly hitting the lockers. "What a weird back handed complement" Katherine kinda mumbled it and went to check if there was a mark left on Ethans cheeks. Did I just complement him? I mean yes. But it was also an insult so my intentions were to insult not to complement him.

As I saw the smaller boy collect himself again I wrapped my arm over his shoulder and started dragging him along. I looked back at kath and waved goodbye to her pulling the now curled up nerd closer to me. " Now nestor what we focusing on in our first tutor session?"
He looked confused, and kinda straightened out, more or less to show some sort of confidence. "I- well were gonna focus on English since that's what you seem to be struggling with the most." I kinda thought for a second to figure out how he came to that conclusion. "How do you know that? I don't really show if my grades".

He faced me more this time and smiled at me. It was weird since he never smiles at me. His smile was kinda nice too. It was soft and a change of pace from his fearful look.
"I asked some teachers that I knew you had this morning and they showed me your grades, then I jotted them down and concluded that English was your worst subject." I kinda looked at him shocked that he put that much effort into this tutoring thing. I get that he needs extra credit but still. I pulled my attention to the door to out maths lesson and pushed him through the door.

RING

First bell rang as I watched him stumble and catch himself slightly. I laughed at him fall onto the teachers desk and headed to my chair that I always sit at. "Hello ethan, hello Mark." My maths teacher gave me a sturn look as watched me chuckle to myself. "Ethan you are oddly early today. What made you get your act together??" As I tapped my pen on my desk and watched there conversation unfold i saw ethans eyes connect with mine. It was only a split second but enough for my heart to kinda stop. I don't know why I felt a weight on my chest. It might have been guilt for beating him up or it could of been guilt for getting him in trouble and forcing him to actually put effort where he clearly did want.