YOUNG VOLCANOES

tenth

I grunted as my back was being uncomfortably poked by book corners.

The book shelf had made a really loud thump noise, thankfully it hadn't caused a domino effect on the entire library.

I could hear Felix cursing beside me as I stood up. I see Alex standing there; just laughing.

I blew some hair out of my face, then look around. I move the remaining hair out of my face and look at Alex.

"Can you be anymore childish!?" I ask.

"You're the one who wanted to have sex with me..." he brings up while hiding a devilish smile.

"I prefer a dead fish in bed than you, honestly" I say.

"If your taste is dead fish then that explains why you like Felix" Alex says.

Felix soon stands up behind me. He shakes his head a little. "Are you okay?" He asks me as he rubs the back of his head and squints his eyes in pain.

I nodd and begin to feel awkward. Felix then soon notices Alex.

"Dude, what the fuck?" Felix asks and Alex just shrugs.

In that moment the teacher walks into the scene.

"WHAT IN THE WORLD HAPPENED?!" She yells.

"Alex pushed the book shelf." I say

"True, but Felix and Sam where doing pg-13 things." Alex says. The teacher looks back and forth between Felix, Alex and me.

"You three are getting a week of detention added. AND YOU ARE RE-STACKING THE WHOLE LIBRARY!" She yells. I can see some spit shooting from her mouth the way it did when she got angry.

I want to protest about detention but I don't.

"Now, clean this up and then come back to the tables... if not you're staying here until 8pm!" she barks at us and then walks away back to the other side of the library.

I sigh and look down. Alex and Felix begin to bring the book shelf back up and I start to pick up the books that have fallen on the ground. We all stay silent and I'm avoiding eye contact for now. After we're done, we go back to the tables and sit there quietly.

My body had gotten the best of me.
My best friend had had sex with him one day ago! I didn't even like Alex so it wasn't about getting back at Kate... but it did feel like if it had been getting back at Alex.

I was just being a complete jerk; I had to tell Kate... But I also needed and explanation to what she and Alex had been doing. Three hours of silence passed and it was finally 6pm.

The teacher gave me a paper to inform that I had detention for the next 2 weeks...perfect. Apparently one week had not been enough.

I grabbed my bag and basically ran off the library. Kate was long gone, which meant that I had to walk home, what took me 30 minutes.

When I finally got home, I was utterly exhausted. "Hey! Why did you take so long?" I hear a voice come from the kitchen as soon as I shut the front door.

Honestly, I think that I can pull it off and hide what had happened. My Dad doesn't have to find out about detention.

"I decided to join this recycling club... and we where cleaning up the school yard. You know it's all filthy and stuff" I say as I enter the living room in which my dad sits on the sofa. He's watching some old ACDC concert.

He raises his eyebrows as he pouts and nods at the idea of a recycling club. I sit beside him and kick my feet up in the coffee table. Just as he was doing.