Not Your Average Cheerleader

NYAC - Part 18

I walked quietly beside the principal as we walked to his office. I felt extremely uncomfortable as I had never been in this position before, but I was more nervous that I had managed to do something wrong. I sighed and rubbed my eye, forgetting that it was sore and gasped when it was too late, the principal looked down at me, he seemed rather unimpressed which only made me feel more uncomfortable. I looked down at my feet for the rest of the way just hoping that I wasn't going to get in trouble for something. We get to the office and I follow into his own room where I see Nicole sitting in one of the chairs with my coach standing next to her, wow he must have actually done something about the whole thing.

I take a seat next to her, ignoring any pettiness she's trying to intimidate me with and set focus to the principal who has taken his own seat opposite us. He rests his elbows on the table and rests his chin on his hands which are now interlaced with each other and stares between myself and Nicole, this goes on for a few minutes before he decides to say anything, during which time I pulled my glasses out of my bag and put them on as my eyes were starting to go a little blurry from the strain throughout the day. I blinked a few times for my eyes to adjust, then took my attention back to the principal.

"So I heard there was an incident between the two of you?"

I nodded and then Nicole looked at me as if I was dead as soon as I got out of the room. The principal snapped his fingers in front of her face to take back her attention and then continued.

"So you, you hurt this student, and the evidence is clearly visible"

"Sir, how do you know she isn't lying. She could have hurt herself and then put the blame on me"

"You're kidding right. (Y/n), a straight A student who has never been in my office for negative behavior before, she did this to herself while you Nicole, are constantly in here for bullying other students, making a mockery of classes. And you expect me to believe you?"

"Well uh. Yes, because it's true"

The principal looked over towards me now and I jumped in my seat, I wasn't expecting him to snap his head towards me quite like that. I nervously played with my hands in my lap waiting for him to talk to me.

"Is it true?"

"No sir, When I made squad captain, she threatened me to give up my spot because she believed she so rightly deserved it. Then yesterday when I still hadn't given up my spot, she started beating me up at her friends watched, When she finally walked away, someone had to carry me to the nurse and then had to take me home."

The principal then sat back in his chair and tapped his fingers together over and over, one after the other whilst he looked between the two of us, I hope I explained my side of the story enough, Nicole really needed a kick in the ass for being the bitch she was. He took out a pad and pen then started writing down some things then looked over at Nicole.

"Nicole. As of this moment you are here by off the cheer squad and suspended from the prom. I can't have delinquents running through the school thinking they can just beat student's whenever they like, you're lucky I'm not suspending you, but if you don't keep away from (Y/n), I will have you suspended for 2 weeks. Got it?"

Nicole was speechless, her jaw was open and she did not look happy. She glared at me and that was it. She jumped up out of her chair which made me flinch, I even closed my eyes in fear of what was coming next, but the only thing I heard next was the sound of the door slamming shut. When I opened my eyes I loosened the tension on my shoulders and looked at the principal. I quietly thanked him for his troubles and gave a nod with a verbal thank you to him too before taking my exit. I was glad that she didn't get away with it, but now I just had the problem of Hayden and Dan. I had no idea what I was going to do. I didn't like Hayden, but I liked Dan, I think, it was hard to tell. He was an ass, that's all I knew, I was just scared of being hurt again.

I walked back to class where there was about 10 minutes remaining, I knocked on the door and without a scene I took back my seat. I looked across to see both boys looking at me curiously, Dan was mouthing if I was okay and I gave him a slight nod, but Hayden was just winking at me, like why was that even necessary, What a dick. Maybe it was a good thing I gave Dan another chance, but who knows, I'll have to wait until Friday to find out.