Prayers For Andrew

Eight ~Cassidy

Life is a drag when you have Geometry first hour.

With a Teacher you hate.

Mr. Kern stood at the front of the class, glaring over all of the students. He glared at me the most. Ever since I mouthed off to him (due to a bad day) Mr. Kern has hated me. Well, I hate him so what difference does it make?

"We have a pop quiz today. I hope most of you remember the stuff we learned from Monday through Thursday." His eyes swept around the room, then landed on me. Mr. Kern gave me the coldest stare yet. The corners of his mouth twitched and turned into a sneer. I just wanted to jump up and knock it off his face.

Like that would get me anywhere but Juvie.

Mr. Kern grabbed a stack of paper off his desk and started to pass them out to everyone. Half the students groaned in protest. When he got to me, I stayed quiet. Not wanting to give him the satisfaction of knowing I didn't study. Mr. Kern stood there for a moment, then realized that I wasn't going to slip up and laid the paper on the corner of my desk. When Mr. Kern walked away I snatched the paper and looked over it. Simple Geometry stuff. I should be okay.

After Mr. Kern was done passing out the papers, he went back up to his desk. "You have 10 minutes to completely this. If you do not, you will fail." There again was that stupid sneer. "Time is ticking." He said in a sing-song voice, which pissed me off even more. But, to play things save, I swallowed my anger and worked on the pop quiz.

It didn't take me long to finish, since I'm pretty good at Geometry. I looked around the room in hope I wasn't the only one to finish. When my eyes looked over to the door, I saw Jason and Andrew standing there, waving frantically. When I raised my hands, to signal I saw them, they both pointed to the door. I knew what that ment.

Time for a bathroom break.

I raised my hand, eager to get out to class to hear why the needed me so bad. Mr. Kern looked up from his book. "What?"

"I need a bathroom pass. please."

Mr. Kern grunted and pulled open his desk drawer. He took out a pen and scribbled something on a post-it note. I walked up to his desk right when he tore the pass of the pad. I delibrately took it, and walked out of the classroom to find that Andrew and Jason by the water fountains. I walked up to them. "Why?" I asked them both and Andrew was the first one to anwser. "This girl is threatening to break you and Jason up...I have a feeling that the threat wasn't a fake one." Andrew looked panicked. Jason squeezed his middle finger and thumb on the bridge of his nose. "I knew something like this would happened. I just didn't think it would be this soon." he said with a frustrated sigh. My heart leaped up into my throat. "Do you know who it is?" I asked. Andrew shrugged. "She's one of the cheerleaders. That's all I know."

"What does she look like? I might actually know her."

"Blonde hair, Spray tan. Blue-green eyes. About your height. Slightly bigger than you..."

My heart literally stopped. "My sister." was all I  choked out. Andrew and Jason's eyes widened. "Do what?!?!"  was all they said before the bell rang.