The Maynards

The Message

It had been a few days since the video and I was sitting in math. You know I was having general math thoughts like, "why the fuck am I here" "this is a waste of time" "kill me now" "when am I EVER going to need to know this" when my phone suddenly pinged. My angry, lonely, divorced teacher turned to me and did what he always does and asked me what that was and told me to read it aloud, as always. This way he gets the satisfaction of my embarrassment. I stood up literally wetting myself and said "it is a text" you may be thinking why I didn't lie, believe me I have tried, but this guy is a fucking genius and he knows and he will check, and if he finds out then you are DEAD.

With a raised voice, he replies " you know what to do, who is it from and what does it say?" Shaking with fear I quickly read the text in my head and I couldn't quite believe what it said, I wanted to scream in happiness but I then realized the situation I was in.

"Well HURRY UP YOUNG LADY"

"Ummm ok well, It is an unknown number and it says...

Hey Gemma it's Conor - you know Maynard- Joe gave me your number and I was wondering if you wanted to go out sometime.

OMG....."

I couldn't breathe, everyone in the class turned to me and my teacher asked me to sit down. I did, and once that lesson had finished I knew I was going to be bombarded with questions.

As I was leaving the classroom after registration that day, still in shock of what had happened, and all the questions that had been asked that I just completely ignored, my teacher stopped me and told me the head of year wanted to see me - this was not going to be good.

I arrived, I was never here often as I wasn't a bad kid. She asked me too come in and she asked me how I was and in my head I replied " how the fuck do you think I am, I am here so I am obviously not good. but aloud I replied with " I'm great actually." just to piss her off. Now this bitch did not take her time, she went straight to the point, this is what she said....

" So about what happened in your class today, your teacher informed me as he had some concerns. He knows who Conor Maynard is and so do I, we both also know that he is 26 and we both just wanted to make sure you were ok."

Ok so, first of all yes I am fine cause I have just been asked out by my childhood crush and second of all when the actual fuck did you and all the other teachers in the world care about my well being. If you really cared about my FUCKING well being the you should let me go to the loo in the middle of the lesson so that I don't get a FUCKING UTI - is what I wanted to say, instead there was just a great mass of awkward silence and me finally saying, "I'm fine, can I go"

She then replied with " listen we just want you to be safe OK, and it is illegal for anything like that to happen."

I couldn't stand it anymore, I was going on that date and no one was going to stop me. I asked to leave a second time, she said yes and told me to be safe. Ignoring her advice I stormed out of school. School hadn't even finished, but I wanted to leave, as I left I called Joe as we had started to become quite good friends. I asked him if I could come over or if he wanted to go out. He told me he was at Conor's and that I could come over, but why at such short notice, I told him what had happened and he told me to be quick as they were going out soon and I replied, "Can I come?" he told me that he meant to a bar and clubbing, I already knew this and replied with, " I know, see you in 20 mins and please send me the address, thanks." and hung up.
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I rushed home put some clothes on and left a note saying I was staying at my friend Sophie's house tonight, and off I went to Conor's and Jack's flat, and that was the moment it all started to go wrong.