Just another rowing story (Completed)

Chapter Thirteen (The Principal)

I was summend to the Principal's office. I was so scaried, no one has gone to the Principal's office and came out alive. That's what the older girls told us. This was my future. If I had to die in the hands of the Principal at least she better have a packet of chips and sweets. I would like to die in comfort.

When I got there, she just told me to seat myself​ on one of the chairs. I was so ready for her to bring out an ax or a chainsaw like in the movies. But instead she said,"How are you Lee darling?" I was shocked. Was she being nice to me. She was certainly not what I was expecting. "Sorry to bother you Principal. I was told to come see you." I waited for her response. Anything could happen from this point. Maybe she started off nice and now she was getting into it. "Oh Lee, just call me Mrs Brown rather then Principal." "Okay, Mrs Brown." I was beginning to think she was not as bad as people said she was. Our Principal was a plump woman with short brown her and rosey cheeks. She wore black shoes and a brown suit. She looked like she was in her mid forties. I couldn't see a ring on her finger,so i assumed she was not married. She seemed like the type of woman who was popular back in her day as a teenager. When she spoke she seemed to like biting​ the inside of her mouth.

If you really looked at her you could see her laugh lines around her mouth and the small gray hairs that were in her hair.

She looked at me and sighed. "Lee, you really have not been yourself the whole day. I know by word of mouth that you are a good girl. Always polite, always smiling and well mannered. So I was surprised to hear what you did today. Please tell me what's wrong?" "Mmmm, it's boy drama." I was so embarrassed to tell her that. But anyway I continued. "You see the boy I like said something to me that made me upset. And I can't shake what he said off." "Oh a boy, I see. Was it really that bad? " "Yes, Mrs Brown it was. But if I tell you it might seem small to you but to me it really was bad. Right now, I just can't afford to see him right now." I started to breakdown into tears. I was so upset, I just couldn't hold it in anymore.

"Lee, take sometime away from school this week and relax at home. Just clear your mind. I can see that you need to go away and relax. "Thanks Mrs Brown." She was truly something else. She was totally nothing like how the older girls said she was like. I thought she needed to be respected more. How could such a kind person be disliked by many?

After that I left her office and went home. I spent my time sleeping and thinking. Maybe I overreacted. Ed is not my boyfriend. So why did it hurt so much?....