THE ZODIACS

One. Detention

"Charlie! Charlie!"
"Ugh!" Charlie groaned moving on his bed. He yawned sitting up drowsily and rubbing his eye.  "I'm up mum."

"Good now go get ready and come down for breakfast, your gonna be late for school."

He rolled his eyes, glad that she couldn't see him from the other side of the door. "Sure mum, be down soon."

She stomped downstairs.

Charlie got down from his bed and stretched stretched out.

Now, boring old school..... Ugh

He walked into the en suite bathroom ready for a nice shower before an annoying day of school.

After the shower, Charlie changed into a dark blue hoodie with an ash jogger and a white sneakers.

"Looking good handsome." He said  to the mirror,because off course he looks good. He twirled around then walked to his side table and picked up his white Gucci school bag and his phone from the night stand before finally leaving his room to go downstairs

"Charlie!"
"I'm here mom." He said casually walking down the stairs with his school bag hanged over his shoulder. He walked to the dinning table, pulled out a chair and sat down.

"How long am I gonna keep waking you up for school?" Grace (Charlie's mum) asked rolling her eyes and keeping a bowl of oatmeal in front of Charlotte (Charlie's eight year old sister ) then sitting down on the chair beside Charlotte.
"Till I graduate from college."Charlie replied matter-of-factly  then ate a scoop of his own bowl of oatmeal.

"Ewww! You ain't staying here till college"  Charlotte said with a frown.

"Make me leave." Charlie said giving her an evil smile.

"Mum Charlie is being mean to me again."Charlotte whined and Grace sighed.

"Charlie stop being mean to your sister".  She said then started with her own breakfast.

Charlotte stuck out a tongue at him victoriously and continued with her breakfast, Charlie rolled his eyes then continued with his. He quickly ate up his breakfast then grabbed his backpack and left the house.

              
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Charlie walked down the hallway to his locker. He opened it and began by taking out his math text book.

"Charlie!" exclaimed a male voice. Charlie turned seeing a familiar chestnut brown haired running towards him. Chris Beckham, Charlie's best friend. He slammed into him. They both did their best friend handshake that only they understood.

"So is everything ready?" Charlie asked in a low voice.

Chris chuckled. "Off course it is, this is going to be the best prank ever."

The two giggled amused by their secrecy.

Bring! The bell for class rang

"Come on let's get to class." Chris said and Charlie closed his locker, they both start down the hallway. They made their way to math class, since they both attend the same math class.

They walked to their seats and sat down beside each other.  It didn't take long for the math teacher, Mr. Stanley to walk in and soon everyone was seated ready for the class.

Mr. Stanley dropped his ash laptop bag on the teachers table then took out his personal math text book from it.

"So we're gonna start briefly and end briefly, understand?"

"Yes sir." The whole class chorused

Charlie turned to Chris immediately Mr. Stanley was distracted writing an equation on the board.

"Dude, how long till it goes off?"

Charlie asked-whispered to Chris.

Chris looked down at his wrist watch then looked back up at Charlie.

"In two minutes time probably." Chris replied.

"Boys." They heard suddenly making them turn and look at Mr. Stanley who's now looking at them with his hands folded.

"Sorry sir ". They chorused

The class went on and the boys didn't say anything to each other after that then.......

"Excuse me student," The voice of the  vice principal rang out in the classroom, "Chris and Charlie of class 3b, please report to the principals office."

The two looked at each other.

"You don't think he found out?"

Charlie asked-whispered and Chris only shrugged in reply.

"Boys, you have been excused." Mr. Stanley said.

They nodded then stood up and left the class with their things starting down the hallway towards the principal office.

"There is no way he caught us, I left no evidence, no trails, our tracks are clean."

"Calm down Chris, I'm sure it's just a big misunderstanding, plus if our tracks are clean then he has nothing on us."

They came to a stop in front of the principals office but before they could knock, the door flung open revaling Mr. McColl staring at them with angry eyes. The boys found themselves trying their best not to laugh.

His face was all purple and his hairs are standing like corn dogs on a stick.

Yep! The prank definitely happened.

"Welcome boys, come in." He said through clenched teeths.

They walked in and were shocked to see ten other people in the office.

"Okay, what's going on?" Charlie asked with a brow raised.

"Yeah we also want to know." Maya, a girl with honey brown eyes and strawberry blonde hair said. Chris recognized her from his biology class.

Mr. McColl shut the door then turned and walked to his seat and sat down.

"What's going on is I am purple and I know one of you twelve did this to me!" He yelled.

Charlie turned to look at Chris. This turned into an interrogation fast, they was no way he's gonna tell Mr. McColl that the prank was all their idea but he wasn't too sure about Chris. He loved his best friend really, but it was always too easy for him to crumble under pressure.

"Well sir actually-" Chris  started but Charlie nudged him. Chris turned to look at him and Charlie gave him a:

SERIOUSLY! The truth is what your going with, just shut up and let me handle it- look.

Chris got the hint then Charlie turned back to look at Mr. McColl.

"What he's saying is that- We actually don't know what this is about."

"You got your reply right, same with the rest of us, we didn't do it".  Bendict said annoyed.

Mr. McColl smiled evily then leaned back on his swivel chair folding his hands.

"Since none of you guys did it," He started making air quotes with his hands on the 'did it' "you all are sentenced to a week of detention with hard labour, starting today."

"What!?" The twelve shrieked and then began a stream protest.

"Blah! Blah! Blah! I'm purple, I don't care! Now get out of my office."

The twelve didn't say anything but just left the office.