Be Careful Out There

Chapter 12

"Can you please come back to school with us?" Scott asks.

"I don't know, Scott. The days already half over. I might as well stay here." I reply.

"What if your dad comes home? What will he say?"

"He doesn't come home from work until six."

"You know that the school calls and says if you've missed periods, or even the whole day."

"I'll just stay here."

"Ty, just please come with us!"

"Fine," I sigh. "You're going to have to wait about 20 minutes, I'm not even ready."

"Well, that's a problem, because we have 7 minutes until 4th period starts!"

"I'm hurrying!" I wave my hands around as I run upstairs. I throw on a blue floral shirt and black skinny jeans and put on my makeup. 3 minutes. New record. I rush downstairs. "Ready." I confirm. Stiles looks at his watch.

"3 minutes? How long can you take!" He exclaims. I just laugh. We drop Isaac off at Scott's house and apparently Stiles couldn't drive over 20 miles an hour.

"Oh my god, Stiles, hurry! We're gonna get detention again!" Scott yells.

"Yeah? Well I'd like to avoid jail for speeding in 35 zone." He replies.

"Stiles, you're going 20 in a 35! And you'd just get a damn ticket!" I say.

"Does it look like I can pay a ticket? I can barely pay enough for a Reese's in the vending machine!"

"DRIVE." Scott orders.

"OKAY FINE." Stiles yells back. He presses hard on the accelerator and we get up to 50 miles an hour.

"We're 15 minutes late! Hurry, Stiles!" I say.

"SHUT UP AND LET ME DRIVE." After another 2 minutes, we arrive at school. We run into our math classroom and rush into our desks next to each other. Mr. Clark doesn't even pay attention to us. Good. We might no get in trouble.

At the end of class as we try to exit quickly, Mr. Clark stops us. "Why on earth do you three think its okay to walk into my classroom 20 minutes?" He asks. We don't say anything. "You three drive me insane. If I could, I would suspend all of you because you have been nothing but trouble in my classroom." He starts raising his voice. "IT'S NOT THAT HARD TO BE ON TIME IN MY CLASSROOM! GIVE ME ONE GOOD REASON THAT YOU WERE LATE." We stay silent once again. "THAT'S IT. YOU THREE HAVE DETENTION. AGAIN."

"Mr. Clark I can't have detention again-" I say.

"WELL YOU KNOW MS. ROSE, I DON'T GIVE A DAMN. NOW LEAVE." He interrupts. I walk out of math to my next classroom, when someone trips me and I get a bloody nose. I look up to Donovan's girlfriend, the one that gave me a dirty look yesterday. I don't let it bother me the rest of the day, but during detention I break.

"Why do people treat me like this?" I cry. Scott rubs my back.

"What do you mean?" He asks.

"I mean ever since I got here, people haven't stopped letting me down! Ive been bullied all my life. I wish I could kill myself." I bawl even harder. That's when Scott literally picks me up, lays me on his lap, and just embraces me while I bawl.

"Why didn't you tell me this? Oh Ty, you are such an amazing person. You're beautiful. Don't ever take your life." I hear Scott start to cry a little too. I continue crying all the way through detention. I lay in the back of Stiles jeep, just going wherever he takes me.

"We're here!" Stiles says. Scott helps me out and I put my hood up so no one can see my red cheeks with mascara all over.

"Where are we?" I sniffle.

"Cold Stone!" Stiles exclaims. "Ice cream makes everyone feel better!"

"I'm lactose intolerant." I say. Stiles smile quickly turns into a frown."Just kidding."

"Well, at least you always have your sense of humor." When we walk inside, Isaac is already sitting at a table. When he sees me, he immediately stands up and hugs me. Scott must've called him. After I get some ice cream, I sit by him with Scott and Stiles.

"Let's go on a date." Isaac blurts out.

"Isaac, you don't even know if I like you back." I reply.

"Well you do, and we're going to go on a date. "

"If you ask me properly, I might agree." My mind is finally off of everything. He gets up and gets down on one knee.

"Tyler-"

"Katherine." I interrupt. He smiles.

"Tyler Katherine Rose. Would you like to go on a date with me tomorrow night?" He asks.

"Yes." I grin. Scott and Stiles just laugh.

I get home about nine. When I walk in the door, my dad yells my name and I walk into the kitchen. He speaks calmly.

"The school called and said that you missed three periods this morning and you got detention again." He says.

"Yes." I confirm.

"I don't know if I want you to hang out with these guy friends of yours."

"Dad, I stayed home because I got up late. They're the ones that brought me to school. They try to help me out. I've never had better friends."

"Tyler, it's just-"

"Dad, I've had a really bad day. I just want to go to bed." I don't care if it's Friday and I'm welcome to stay up late. He just sighs.

"Okay." I sleep soundly- for once. I get a text from Scott at 12 the next morning. 'Come to my house NOW' it says. I wait five minutes and then get ready and head over. When I walk into Scott's room, he seems furious.

"This has gone TOO far!" He says. "Both Mr. Green and Donovan's girlfriend are dead. I don't know what's going on, but if this doesn't stop...."

"Scott, i think you are completely irrelevant if think it's me! I didn't kill ANYONE." I start to cry again. Enough with the crying, Ty, get yourself together.

"Who could it have been?"

"I don't know but it wasn't me!" I scream.