Uncanny Boy

Chapter 12: Punished?! No!!

Jace’s POV:

@the detention room:

I stormed to the detention room and I saw Principal Joyner walking out. Angrily, I barged into the room and moved to where he sat.

“Why, huh? Why did you do this to me?”I walked towards him, but stopping at the seat beside him.

“Uh, cool your jets there. What’s this about?”, he asked laid back.

“Oh, quit the cool guy talk. You did this, didn’t you? You rigged my test papers to make me fail, didn’t you?”, I angrily said, wriggling the papers in my hand.

“Oh yeah. Pretty clever, right?”, he said feeling somewhat proud of himself.

“What? And you admitted it just like that at the risk of being recorded?”, I said with instant surprise.

“Yeah.", he said while standing up. " I ain’t scared of you or anyone.”, he said standing real close, intimidating close, with his hands in his pockets at my front but I maintained my revenge resolute.

He walked away but then, something came over me.

“You wait and see.”, I muttered and I walked up to him and pushed him from behind making him fall. “How you like that, huh?”, I said while he was on the floor.

“Oh, you are gonna regret that.”, he said and grabbed my collar and pinned me against the wall next to us. We were both struggling to get out of each other's grasp and all of a sudden, Principal Joyner walked in.

“What is going on here?”, she yelled.“What is going on here?”, she yelled.

“Ma’am, I…”, I stuttered trying to explain.

“I leave for five minutes and you try to kill a student? And you, Jace, you only came recently and you have started picking fights?”, she lashed at both of us.

“No, ma’am. I wasn’t fighting. Here, ma’am, look at this. He switched out my test papers and caused me to fail the test.”, I said showing her the papers.

“I didn’t do it!”, he said trying to feign innocence.

“Oh, really?”, I said and pulled out my phone and played the recording of him admitting it. Seeming busted, I quickly text blasted my friends stealthily.

“You really did record me. Okay.”, he said, nodding his head,  his hands halfway in the air and pacing around one spot.

“Well, I won’t say this was entirely wrong, but when you have a problem in the future, reporting it first would be nice.”, she said in a calmer tone.

“I understand.”, I said head down.

“Yeah, but what’s done is done. I’ll still have to punish you for fighting on school grounds.”, she said.

“But…”, I stuttered.

“No buts. You and Ricardo are to come to school after hours at 7 and clean up the student sport inner locker.”, she ordered.

“Yes, ma’am.”, I said head down again.

“Ugh, I already have detention and now I have to clean with some cream puff?”, he said.

“Oh, I’m sorry, would you rather spend the rest of the semester in detention and have your parents over instead?”, she said with sarcasm.

“So, 7 tonight then?”, he said seeming scared at the thought of his parents coming.

“That’s what I thought. Dismissed.”, she said gesturing for me to leave.

“Yes, ma’am.”, I said.
Just then, I noticed the guys outside. Looks like they got my text a little too late.