My life would suck without you

Two weeks later

Two weeks. That's how long Alex Danvers has been grounded, and thank god for her, it was finally Friday. She just had two more days left, and then she'd be free. It sucked for her, but it also gave her time to work on things she needed to focus on.

The one issue with being grounded though, was the fact that she needed to see Maggie, to help her with her project. Something, that she had to bring her mom into school for after she got home from work, to talk to her teacher about. Just to prove she really wasn't lying and wasn't trying to just get a free pass to Maggie's. But of course the whole time, her mother tried to get Maggie's partner changed. Saying things like, "Alex is just the T.A. She doesn't need to be doing this project anyways. And it's a waste of time, that's taking away from her other classes."

Alex just rolled her eyes to everything her mother was saying. She was happy when the teacher told her mother she cant do anything about it, telling her  everyone else has a partner and it would be unfair to put her in a group when everyone was in pairs.

She knew she wouldn't like that. Alex speculated that her mother disliked Maggie, and would rather have her hang out with someone else. 

Alex must have been right, because afterwards, when they got into the car her mother started telling Alex all about how her new friend is a "bad influence on her."

She wanted to argue against that, but her mother made good points.

"The first time you met that girl you missed half of your first period."

"It was just the first day and I was assigned to show her the school, plus its just a T.A. cl-

"I don't care, Alexandra." Her mother interrupted with a shake of her head. "And then look what happened the very next day. You got into a fight, then skipped school!"

Alex looked at her mother. She knows she shouldn't be afraid of her, but she is. She listened as her mother spoke angrily. Disappointed and shaking her head, as she sat at the steering wheel with her purse on her lap. Alex felt insecure and sad. She felt angry. But yet she nodded to agree with her mother. Knowing it was best for her not to argue.

She frowned at the memory. But tried her best to keep happy. It's Friday and she gets to actually go to Maggie's house and help her with her project after school.

So why the hell wasn't she getting out of her bed?

Shes been looking forward to going to Maggie's for the past few days. She only got to see her at school. And once after school, but that was last Friday. It didn't have to be this way. But her mom made her compromise with her on the days she could go. Which annoyed her, and made the whole thing pointless, because they were falling behind. Alex felt bad because Maggie would take the work home and do it herself. But she knew she was struggling with it and lately on the class too. Maggie is definitely brilliant, but she lacks the motivation she needs to excel. Plus shes been falling asleep in class and its causing her to fall behind.

So they were forced to meet as much as they could at school and do it during the classes they have together. Which didn't bode well with some of the teachers, but whatever. Alex almost wished they took the teachers offer on starting the project earlier, but of course they blew that off. She just had to go and get herself grounded that Tuesday.

Alex sat up for a moment. She contemplated on whether or not she was even gonna consider going to school or just skip. She really didn't want to prolong her grounding. So she thought it over and came up with the perfect solution. Play sick.

It was perfect because Alex never took a sick day and most days she just went to school even if she had a cold. But never if she had something severe or feverish.