All of Me | Protector 1.4

Chapter 12

Chapter 12

*May*

       I've been ignoring Tony ever since we slept together and because of it, I knew that he liked me. For one thing, he was the one who initiated it and two....he kept looking at me with a hurt expression.

       Whenever he tried talking to me after it happen, I either had to walk him away, or told him I didn't want to talk to him. I got way too involved with him and now we were both hurting.

       I hated it.

       I hated not being able to trust him because if what Ian and my family did. I hated that I wasn't able to be with Tony because I was too afraid of getting hurt again. No matter how sweet Tony was, I couldn't get anymore involved with him.

       All because my family kept their mouths shut and Ian couldn't keep his pants on.

       I was in my classroom, marking some papers. I started doing it in my classroom a lot more so I wouldn't get as distracted.

       Someone suddenly walked into my classroom and I looked over, seeing Tony. I was about to ask him what he wanted, but he beat me to it. "Charlie, I really need you to be on detention duty," he said.

       "Uh, I can't," I said. "And if I recall, you're on detention du--"

       "My sister was hit by a car."

       "Wait, what?" I asked.

       "My dad called," Tony said. "Someone called him and said Poppy's in the hospital because she was hit by a car and they're not telling Grayson how she or their baby is doing and....I really need to go down there and I know you're mad at me for whatever reason, but I really need you to be on detention duty. Please, Charlie."

       "Yeah, sure," I said. "I just have to pack my stuff up and head there. You might as well leave now. I won't take long."

       "Thank you so much," Tony said before leaving my classroom.

       I really hoped his sister and her baby ended up being okay. Not only was it Poppy and Grayson's baby, but it was their first baby. If they lost it, they would be heartbroken. If Grayson lost Poppy....

       I made a mental note to ask Tony later on about them. I didn't really want to talk to him, but I wanted to make sure his sister and the baby were okay.

       I grabbed everything I would need to take home today, as well as the papers so I wouldn't have to come back here after, and headed to the detention room. "So, Mr. McCormick had an emergency so I am now on detention duty," I said.

       "Oh, sweet," one of the most annoying boys, Henry, said. He failed senior year, so he was back and according to most of the teachers, he was a serious pain in the ass. "The hot teacher gets to watch us. I might get detention more often."

       Oh, you want another detention?" I asked. "I can give you one for tomorrow, if you'd like. And I'm certain the teacher in charge is Mrs. Goth herself, so...."

       "Never mind, I'll shut up," Henry said.

       "Excellent choice," I said before sitting down at the desk and continuing to grade the papers.

       A few minutes before detention was over, my cell phone rang. I looked at it, seeing Tony's name on the screen, so I answered it. "Hello?" I asked.

       "Hey," Tony said. "I figured you would want to know exactly what happened."

       "Yeah, I kind of did," I said. "Are they okay?"