Pool Hunny // Benny Rodriguez

47.

Caroline.

I tapped my foot against the floot boredly as Miss Grayson droned on about some war or other. I'd stopped following about twenty minutes ago. "Am I boring you Miss Baker?" She asked annoyed.

Yes, I thought annoyed. But I didn't feel like getting after school detention today since I was going to the lake house. "Of course not." I told her as brightly as I could muster.

"Detention." She told me.

"What?!" I asked her shocked. "What did I do?"

"I don't have to justify myself to you, I will see you after school." Miss Grayson said before continuing with the lesson.

"Why are you giving me detention?" I interrupted crossing my arms.

"I don't have to answer that." She scoffed.

I rolled my eyes, "no, you can't answer that, because you're sending me to dention for no reason other than that you hate me."

"We're not having this discussion Miss Baker, now sit down and pay attention, it would do you some good to learn something. At least then you might actually have some knowledge in your head when you fail out of school and become one of the airhead shopping assistants at the boutique next door." Miss Grayson replied coldly.

I gaped at her, "where the hell do you get off saying things like that to me?"

"I'm just painting you a very realistinc image of your future that's all, it's not my fault that you don't like it." Miss Grayson told me.

"Well at least it's better than being a thirty year old woman with no prospects whatsoever, who teaches history at a public highschool and hates her life so much she has to take it out on her students." I shot back standing up.

The vein in her forehead started bulging, "what?!"

I glowered at her, "did I stutter? Just because your life sucks doesn't mean you should hate on mine!"

"How dare you speak to me like that?" She shouted at me, "I am your teacher, you need to start showing me respect!"

"Respect is earned not given. And you certainly don't deserve it you ugly witch." I snapped at her.

She slapped me before I could even get another word out, my head whipped to the side as her hand hit my cheek making a loud clapping noise. The whole class gasped, and I stood there for a second too stunned to speak, my friends had already started shouting at her but all I could focus on was that stupid smirk on her face.

"You are going to wish you never laid a finger on me." I warned angrily her before storming out of the classroom, I had had enough of this. I barged into the headmaster's office making him look up surprised.

"Miss Baker-." he was about to tell me off for not knocking when he saw the burning red, hand shaped slpotch on my right cheek. "Are you alright?"

"I would like to file a formal complaint about Miss Grayson, not only has she been treating me completely unfairly all year, but she also just slapped me in the face. I want you to fire her." I told him furiously.

She barged in a moment later, "it's a lie. She's lying that brat is lying!" Miss Grayson was shouting.

"No she isn't." Benny defended as he and my friends walked in, "we saw the whole thing. The entire class did. Miss Grayson gave Caroline detention for no reason, then they got into an arguemnt and then Miss Grayson hit her."

"Yeah, and she said a bunch of horrible stuff to her too!" Ash added, "she'd been doing it all year."

"Daniela." The headmaster said turning to her, "that is unnacceptable."

"You believe them?" She asked incredulously.

"Caroline has some very damning evidence right on her face, and she's a model student, she has no reason to lie to me. You however, I have had quite a few complaints about recently. Apparently you've been treating some of your female students very ungraciously."

Well fucking finally.

After a little more clarification on the argument we were sent out so that he could talk to her, this might just have been the best day of my life. "Are you okay?" Benny asked me concerned.

I shrugged, "yeah, it hurts a bit but it's okay. As long as he fires her I don't care, and if he doesn't my father is going to sue her ass back to the whole she crawled out of."

Kenny laughed, "that's the spirit!"

We had a week off school next week because the building was in desperate need of refurbishing so I had planned the lakehouse so that Benny and I would go out first and then i would invite my friends. Not just the ones from school but Parker, Will, Lola, Alec, Lil and Mark too. Mariella and my father were spending the week in Spain as a get away and I had used it as an excuse to have a get away of my own.

I picked up my bags at home and shoved them in the boot of my car alonside Benny's, Alfie who I was also taking with me had made himself very comortable in the back seat. He loved the lake house so I'd made sure to take him with me. 

"My Dad saw a picture of your sail boat and now he wants to get one." Benny told me amused. "He wants me to ask if he can test drive."

I snorted, "I love your Dad but he is never stepping foor behind the wheel I can tell you that. Besides, you need two people to sail it so I don't think he's going to find it all to easy."

"Then how are you planning on using it this weekend?" He asked confused.

"I'm going to teach you of course, it's really not as hard as it looks, plus you can do the steering and I'll do the tricky stuff." I replied.

"You want me behind the wheel after you saw my dad? We do share a gene pool." He joked making me laugh.

I grinned, "hopefully your skills are still salvegable, if not, well it's going to be an interesting trip."