P Is For Pain

School

It was now Monday morning, Penelope and her siblings were getting ready for school.

Penelope had a few more minutes until she had to go to the bus stop, but suddenly she heard her parents arguing again, this time in their bedroom.

Penelope was curious to hear what they were talking about so she pressed her ear against the door to listen in.

Brooklyn yelled at his wife. "No! You're not going to adopt Penelope! I don't need a fat whale like you being her legal mother!"

Penelope was a bit surprised at what she was hearing. 'She wants to adopt me?' She actually kind of liked this, Penelope actually saw Karen as a mother figure, especially when her biological mother died, Karen was very kind to her and treated Penelope as if she were her own daughter.

That's when she heard Karen say. "Why not Brooklyn? You don't even care about her! Or any of our other kids for that matter! And she loves me so much!"

That's when she heard glass breaking and her step mother bursting into sobs.

She heard her dads footsteps coming towards the door so she backed away from the door but was still standing across the hallway in front of the door.

Brooklyn burst the door open, holding half of a broken beer bottle, that's when Penelope shifted her gaze to Karen and saw her on the floor on her hands and knees, crying in pain as blood poured from her head with beer on the opened wound, shards of the broken glass everywhere.

Penelope just stood there in shock, unable to take her eyes away from Karen on the floor, that was until suddenly Brooklyn sternly said. "Hey, the fuck are you looking at? Get your ass to school!"

Penelope looked at her father in anger and shock. "What the fuck is wrong with you?! Take her to the hospital right now! And while you're at it, turn yourself in and go to prison, you sick fuck!"

Brooklyn just looked down at his eldest daughter with a sinister smile on his face. "Well I'm a doctor and a cop and I say she's fine and I don't have anything I need to go to jail for."

Penelope just walked away to go to the bus stop, angry tears in her eyes and her hands balled up into fists.

~

When Penelope stepped on the bus, she began looking where to sit, that's when she realized there was no other seats available except for one next to Junior.

She sighed, feeling dread looming over her before walking there and sitting in the seat.

Junior smirked. "Hehe, you're sitting next to me!"

Penelope snapped, not only had she seen something so traumatic just this morning, and now the boy who annoyed her to death was doing the exact thing that annoyed her.

She loudly yelled. "What the fuck is your problem?! I hate you!"

Everyone on the bus was shocked and turned to get a better look of the altercation, even Junior's smirk was wiped right off at this and he was shocked.

That's when the bus driver, Jackie Chu, suddenly shouted. "Quiet! Quiet! No yelling!"

Junior felt really bad and started to muster and apology. "P-Penelope, I'm s-so-"

Penelope cut the ginger boy off. "I don't want to hear it!" She said before crossing her arms, looking away from Junior, and ignoring him the rest of the way to school.

~

It was the middle of class, Jackie Chu, who was also the teacher, was teaching the class about the Pythagorean theorem.

Penelope took down the notes but was also kind of bored and waiting for lunch so she could take a break.

That's when suddenly, Brooklyn Guy came into the classroom in his cop uniform. Penelope was in disbelief, her father who she hated was in the room, for god knows why.

She definitely didn't want to see him after this morning.

Brooklyn Guy suddenly got to the front of the class, pushing Jackie Chu in the process.

That's when he sternly yelled to the kids saying. "Alright! I just got word that there was a shooting threat in this school from a student here! Which one of you was it? Was it you, cross eyes?" Brooklyn asked, pointing at Jeffy who looked at him confusingly.

Penelope then yelled. "Dad! You don't even have proof of who did it, why are you here?"

That's when Brooklyn said. "Might as well arrest you, huh Penelope?" He smirked.

That's when suddenly, he got a message from his walkie talkie. "Guy, we just found out the school and name of the student the threat came from. It's Woodtown High School, and the students name is Michael Briggs. Go there."

That's when Brooklyn Guy then awkwardly said. "Oh, I'm just gonna go now. Bye!" He said, quickly running out of the classroom.

Everyone stared at a humiliated Penelope, she just wanted to die even more now.