A part of me

Chapter Twenty Five

They left us in the first place.

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He comes back and tells me what to do.

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All they wanna do is run away from our problems, well I'm tired of running!

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Jessica kissed Jason.

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I don't really think I can win the big fight.

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"Ahh!!" I scream as I give the punching bag one more murderous hit. I fall back onto the floor behind me and try to catch my breath. I unwrap my knuckles and cringed at the bloody state they're in. I need to get cleaned up. I sigh as I get up and walk into the bathroom, I wash my knuckles thoroughly and carefully clean them up. I look in the mirror and almost feel ashamed. They're bags under my eyes, sweat dripping everywhere, and my hair is a complete mess. Right now, I don't care.

I walk back into the main gym and pick up my phone, it reads 1:30am. I have a miscall from mom and I'm assuming she isn't so happy that I snuck out. I couldn't sleep, which meant I stayed there with anxious thoughts. I couldn't contain the frustration building inside of me so I came here, knowing I could blow off some steam. I give the punching bag one more look before deciding my knuckles have shed enough blood today. I grab my belongings and head out the door.
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I woke up running late and not in my best mood. I ran downstairs grabbing an apple and screamed a bye to my mom. At the rate I'm going I'll surely be late for first period. I finally pull up at school and rushed into the first parking space I could find. I grab my stuff and head out but with just my luck, I managed to get my car door stuck on the back of my sweatshirt.

"Seriously?" I yelled in frustration, luckily there was no one in sight to see me at an embarrassing moment like this. I haul ass and run straight to class, "I made it, I'm not late!" I yelled almost out of breath. The teacher gives me a disappointing look and some of the class erupts in giggles.

"Actually Rose, you are ten minutes late. You know my policy.. detention after school." He says and has the audacity to roll his eyes at me.

"Alright listen here, sir, you wanna give me a detention for the one time I'm late but for the first week of school you were late everyday! What? Did you serve a detention?" I snapped, today is honestly just not my day.

"You go girl!" Chase yells from the back and I finally take the chance to acknowledge the boys. The teacher gives Chase a disapproving look before turning back to me, "I am the adult and you are the student-" Me being me cuts him off, "Oh so what? You think because you're an adult only you have the right to have shit happen that causes you to be late. News flash all of our parents pay taxes which mean we don't pay your ass to come late!" I yelled not caring if I made sense or not.

"I will not allow cursing in my classroom! Go to the principals office now!" He yells making the whole class go silent. I nodded my head slowly understanding he clearly does not want me in the class right now, we could both use some space seeing as our relationship is at an unhealthy state right now. "Does that mean the detention is off-" I try to ask but he cuts me off by placing his hand up and forcefully pointing at the door.

I hang my head low throughout my walk to the principals office, how am I gonna get myself out of this one? I'm left with one choice, talk yourself out of it Rose. When I make it to the main office the secretary tells me to sit outside his office until he's ready to see me. I gave her a warm smile hoping this visit doesn't ruin the nice reputation I was planning on having. A couple of minutes later she told me I could walk in.

I walked in and was a little shocked at how young our principal looks, he had to be in between his late 20's and early 30's. I sat down in the open seat across from his desk and waited for him to talk first. He gives me a warm smile before speaking, "Ms.Blossom it's nice to finally meet you, I'm your principal Mr.Shaw." He introduced himself. I saw the name tag placed on his desk and it read, Dave Shaw.

I return the smile before introducing myself, "Hi Mr.Shaw, or Dave can I call you Dave? I'm Rose." Luckily he's a good sport and chuckles at the fact that we are officially on first name basis. I noticed he has my file in his hands and wait for him to talk,

"So Rose, do you know why you're in my office?" Dave asks after finishing skimming through my file. I take a deep breath before answering, "I may have pissed off a certain unfair teacher which may have resulted in him sending me to your office." He nods his head signaling he's following along, "And how did you manage to piss off this certain unfair teacher?" Dave plays along. 

I tapped my chin playing as if I have to think of exactly what I did, "I came into class late for my first time and thought it was an outrage that he gave me a detention when for the first week of school he was late everyday." I explain my case hoping Dave sides with me. After what seems like forever Dave finally breaks his silence, "Alright listen up kid I happen to like you and think you're a good kid so you're off the hook. Just stay out of trouble okay?"

I smiled standing up from the chair and saluted him, "Ay ay captain." He lets out a good chuckle as I walk off leaving his office. Since I didn't have the time to go to my locker this morning I make my way there now. My little chit chat with Dave put my mood at ease. The class bell finally rang and it was now time to go to second period, having my mood changed I take my time walking to second period knowing I won't be late.

"Rosey!" I hear Chase yell my name and I turn around to see him, Logan, and Jason all walk my way. I take the chance to notice all the girls drool over them as they walk by them. I snort at they're reactions, sure they're hot but have some dignity. They finally reach me, each one giving me a smile which I return. "What's up amigos?" I ask walking towards my class with them.

"Dave left you off the hook didn't he?" Jason asked with a small smirk. I pouted when he called him Dave, I thought it would be our thing. "Yes, Dave did." I said putting emphasis on Dave hoping he'd get the hint. I turned around to face them, "You guys should go to class, don't wanna be late." I winked at them. They all let out chuckles and turned around doing as I say. I was about to finish my walk to class when some one put their hands on my shoulders and turned me around.

"Jason, what are you doing?" I asked completely shocked. He doesn't answer he just stares at my hands. I looked down at them to see what has his attention and then I remembered my knuckles. "Jason -" I start but he cuts me off. "What happened?" He asked so sincerely, you could tell by his face he was truly worried for me.

I cover my knuckles with the sleeves of my sweater trying to hide them from him. "I had to blow off some steam so I took it out on the punching bags. It doesn't hurt, I'm fine." I explain only he doesn't seem to buy it. He gives me an uneasy look. I place my hand on his cheek and I feel his body stiffen under my touch, but in a matter of seconds he relaxes and leans his face deeper in my hand. "We have to go to class I'm fine, I promise." I remove my hand from his face and give him a reassuring smile. Before I could leave he grabs my hand one last time and gives my busted knuckles a soft kiss.

We then walk away to class without saying another word.