the book (hosie)

Discipline

Hope's fingers drummed along the top of the desk she was seated at, a look of impatience crossed with annoyance on her face as her steely gaze stared at the door in front of her. A frustrated huff blew from her nose as her frown continued to furrow.

Standing next to her, Josie had the same face and her arms were crossed. Her eyes were on the door as well, but they would occasionally flick to the clock on the wall.

"How late is she?" Josie growled.

Hope checked the clock and then to the time she had written down and said, "Twenty minutes."

Josie shook her head. "I figured as much. She is nothing but trouble. We have to do something."

Hope nodded. "And we will, Professor saltzman."

Suddenly, the door opened and the object of the two women's discussion entered the room: Olivia Colomar, or as she preferred to be called, Sombra.

Sombra was a first-year student at Overwatch Academy for Girls, and out of the entire student body, she was the most exasperating of them all. Throughout her time here, Sombra had logged several discipline infractions, ranging from simple classroom interruptions to things that were far more severe.

And now, something was to be done. Headmistress Hope O'Deorain knew something had to be done, and she had Professor Josie saltzman, the teacher who logged the most complaints, helping her.

Sombra moseyed on in without a care in the world, her school uniform already violating the dress code, as her skirt was a few inches too short and her shirt had a few buttons too many opened. Her hair was another violation; shaved on the left and swept down along the right of her face.

"Heey," Sombra said with a wave as she walked in front of the desk. "How's it hanging, M?"

"Don't address your Headmistress like that!" Josie snapped.

Hope raised her hand. "Please, Miss Colomar, take a seat."

Sombra sighed. "Oh, thank God!" she said with a groan. "I thought you'd never ask. You know how many stairs I had to walk up?"

Hope shrugged. "I don't know. How many?"

"Like, two. Maybe three," Sombra said dramatically.

Hope shook her head and asked, "Miss Colomar, do you know why you're here?" She looked up and saw Sombra was on her phone.

"Huh, sorry. What was that?" she asked.

Josie felt her eye twitch as Hope repeated, "Do you know why you're here?"

Sombra shook her head. "No. Not really. Enlighten me."

Hope rolled her eyes and said, "You are here today because we are going to discuss your disruptive and deplorable behavior."

Sombra gasped. "What could you possibly be talking about? I'm the nicest person I know."

Without breaking eye contact with the student, Hope reached down and slammed a thick stack of papers on the desk, the thud reverberating through the room. Hope grabbed one from the stack and read:

"Miss Colomar was on her phone the entire class. I asked her to put it away nineteen times during the duration of the class."

Sombra waved her hand. "That's not that bad."

"Miss Colomar was caught playing video games in the computer lab. How she got the administrative username and codes is well beyond me."

"I gotta keep my game up," Sombra defended.