Uncanny Boy

Chapter 6: You Got Detention!

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Language warning.
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Jace's POV:

@school:

“The truth is that, the two admins were called to the teachers’ lounge because of you. I mean, what happened with you and Richie A. Turns out, he blackmailed the Junior admin to do his dirty work.”

I gasped in surprise.

“Yep, that’s not all. He would have done it to me if not for the fact that I am your friend and I could have easily said no.”, she revealed.

“He’s one big ass jerk, isn’t he?”, I said.

“Nah, he’s not so bad. He can’t do shit to the tough ones that can face him, so he picks on the small ones. Big deal.”, Nikki said.

Richie’s POV:

The guys and I were asked to come to school via a letter talking about our attendance record because we always left school before attendances were taken. It was not our favorite thing in the world to come to school, so, our frustrations were through the roof.

But then again, every cloud has a silver lining. Who the heck quoted that anyway? But in this case, it was true because us coming to school wouldn’t be a total waste.

The trouble-hunting we planned, more like I planned, was gonna happen when the test started. So, we had to be in the school to hear when the test was gonna happen and how much time we had to plan for it.

We were called to the classroom and apparently, we were under watch. This had me suspicious because the last time we were “under watch”, a few more moments into the day, we got detention, so I was immediately cautious.

I started scanning the faces of all the students in the class looking for who would be the likely victim in my random prank. I noticed a couple of nerds in the front, saw an old victim who was seated in front of me, but I reckoned it couldn’t be him, coz if it was him, how bad could his luck be?

I got seated in my usual seat and five minutes into the class, the P.A system screeched like we were gonna hear an announcement. Over the P.A system, “Hello, Students of Briarwood High, please be noted that after the first period is over, you have 20 minutes to get yourself ready in the auditorium for a special assembly. Thank you.”

After the announcement was echoed over the P.A system, the teacher also reiterated it to the entire class. I could have not gone to the assembly, but the announcement cut across the whole school, so, there was no corner out of not going to that boring assembly.

And moreover, I was “under watch”, so, I could not do anything. I had to go to the boring assembly whether I liked it or not. When the class was over, I tried using the sick magic on Mr. Peterson.

“Um, excuse me sir, I don’t think I can go to the assembly.”

“And why is that, Mr. Alexander?”

“I think I am feeling under the weather.”

“All of a sudden? You seemed lively when you came into this class, Mr. Alexander.”

“Sir, Mr. Alexander is my dad. I am Richie A!”

“Ah, you felt sick five seconds ago, but the might to yell at me for calling you Mr. Alexander suddenly flew in?! No, you are not excused from this assembly.”

“But…”

“In fact, sneak peek, this assembly was called based on you and one of the things you did. That’s why you have to be at this assembly. So, you can think of it like this. You are the MVP of this assembly.”