One Girl, Boys Boarding School

Too Much of a Good Thing PART 2

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"How'd you go?"

"Pretty shit to be honest." I laughed, I truly had stopped giving any shits about this subject.

"I'm sure you went well bub." Joe took me in a hug.

"I've got the rest of the day off and you've got a study day right?"

"Yeah... but I don't need to study."

"Alright well we could go out somewhere, there are buses to the city in an hour I think."

"Or maybe we could lie in? Like this past weekend." A smirk grew over his face.

"Is that all you want to do? We can leave this room ya know!" I snapped and broke out of his embrace.

"Woah okay we don't have to stay in." He was clearly taken aback by my mood. "What's wrong?"

"Nothing's wrong." 

"We both know that's not true. Tell me."

"Just stop it!" 

"Tell me."

"I get that you're a teenage boy and you're gonna want to do stuff - I do too obviously - but it's all you want to do and I'm over it." I blurted it out.

"I didn't know you felt that way." I could sense his confusion. "Soooo you don't wanna have sex anymore?"

"You're not getting it! You haven't given me time to think about anything important, I feel like I'm in a cage!"

"I don't know what to say... I'm sorry." He looked like a lost puppy.

I slumped onto my bed, lying down facing the wall, feeling terrible for him and myself. Joe sat next to me.

"Why won't you give up already?"

"Come on Soph." He kissed my shoulder. "Let it out, keeping it in is the worst."

I stayed silent.

"Soph!"

"I just have so much shit going on right now and it's piling on top of me, I can't breathe." I could feel tears bubbling up, ugh I do not want to cry right now. "With you and the Jackson shit and my dad and my mum - I miss her so much." I burrowed my head into Joe's chest.

"I-." Joe started.

"You don't have to say anything."

"I honestly don't really know what to say right now. Am I distracting you?"

"No... kinda I guess. I haven't been able to work out my own problems because I'm so caught up with you and all the other shit around me. I've never been so tied down like I am here. Don't you wanna have new experiences and actually go out with me - like leave this school and spend time with me?"

"Of course - I just don't want to push you. With all this other stuff going on with you I don't know where your limits are."

"I'm gonna go for a run." I slid out of bed and starting to put my exercise gear on.

"I think we should finish this conversation first."

"We can later, I need to breathe."

I left him with a slam of the door, made my way out of the school, ignoring all possible encounters and ran. Just ran. I have the most amazing guy, yet I've never felt so alone

Joe's POV

I was angry. That I could make Sophie feel like this. That she has all this shit going on and I'm oblivious to it all. I was taking an angry stroll through the school when I pumped into a tall hard body.

"Mr Laney! How are you?" Oh God.

"I'm well thank you, I've actually been meaning to speak with you, would you mind if I stole some of your time?" The Principal of my school and father of the girl I love - this should be interesting.

"Not at all." We made our way to his office.

"Please take a seat." I sat comfortably, unfortunately Mr Laney didn't sit and so continued to circle me like a shark in the ocean.

"Look, I'm talking to you now more as a concerned father than a principle. I'm worried about Sophie, I need to know what's going on with her, she doesn't seem to want to share with me lately."

"I really don't think it's my place sir-"

"Yes it is Joe. Sophie's been through some really difficult stuff before and you have to tell me what she's going through because I don't know if I'll be able to save her this ti-"

A silence that shook me came, Mr Laney composed himself.

"I've said a little too much. Now it's time for you to speak." He stopped circling and sat on his desk in front of me, looking down on me. 

"I care about your daughter very much Sir." I was careful not to say too much about us, even though I'd rather he know the truth. "And I do think that she's struggling... in fact, earlier today she was telling me some of the things that are troubling her."

"Like what?"

"I think she misses her old life cos she feels really isolated here, I understand you two used to be pretty free, you were never tied down to any one thing for too long?"

"Yeah that's right."

"I think she misses that."

"Anything else?"

"She misses her mum."

"I feel that one."

"I'm sorry Sir."

"It's alright kid. Anything else I should know?"

"Well, there is this one other thing..." Should I tell him about the pictures? Sophie would kill me. "Sophie really wouldn't want me telling you this."

"Please, go ahead son." Mr Laney had a concerned look.

"There's been some trouble with a particular student."

"Who?"

"Honestly most of the guys have been pretty shitty- I mean not shitty but- I mean"

"Don't worry about it, keep going." He said with a chuckle.

"Jackson Gordon. You should check him out."

"What's he done?"

"I'm not sure I should tell you."

"Well I'm very sure that you should tell me."

I couldn't fight him. "I don't know how to say this. He took some 'unsavoury' pictures of Sophie, and sent them out to a lot of people."

Panic spread over his whole being. "How did I not know about this?"

I shrugged, not knowing what to say.

"I'm really sorry Mr Laney. But I want you to know that I care about Sophie a lot and I'll make sure this never happens again."

"Okay Joe, thanks for looking out for her. You can go now." 

"Actually Sir, I was thinking of doing something for Sophie tonight, to cheer her up..."

"What did you have in mind?"

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