Welcome To Detention School!

3. I Have Kaylee

Song:Count on me- Bruno Mars

I was speechless.

I couldn't believe this was actually happening. My whole life's efforts were just thrown away.

Surely that wasn't fair.

But I guess that's what life was. Just a spiral of unfair occurrences. The worst things happened to the most innocent people. People who didn't deserve what they had coming. And the evil ones? The ones who inflicted pain?

They lavished in glory.

They were powerful and very influential.

As I was thinking, I heard my phone ringing.

It was Kaylee.

Oh my crud I had completely forgotten about her!
She must really be pissed.

"Hello?" I start off. I was a little scared of the response I would receive from her. I knew she was my best friend but, she had a justifiable reason to be mad at me. And I totally understood that.

"We seriously need to talk. I'll be at your place in ten okay?" She replies.

"Oh.. Okay--" but before I finish I hear a beep signalling that she cut the line.

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"How have you been? You haven't even tried to communicate with me. I mean, I haven't really heard much from you after the whole 'incident' at Beth's." Kaylee starts off. I can't be more relieved she put what happened behind how much she cared about me.

I seriously have the bestest best friend anyone could ask for.

"Never mind that Lee, how have you been? I'm so sorry I got you into all of this.." I start to feel my cheeks heating up and my eyes tearing." I really shouldn't have forced you to make that toast. I--" but before I finish I am cut off by Kaylee.

"Aqua. You don't have to." She gives me a reassuring smile. "I'm the one who made the decision to join you. And besides, we made a promise. We would go down together. Always remember that I'm gonna be there with you no matter what trial we're facing. That's a promise Aqua." She says and that makes me feel at ease. I know that my best friend is serious about her words.

I really appreciate the fact that I met her the year we were freshmen. I'm so happy we had that literature class together where we were expected to talk to each other. I appreciate all the moments that have made us this close.

"But what about your punishment? Is it as equally as bad as mine?" I ask, to find out if (1) She's going to have to suffer along with me in detention school and (2) to ensure that our school board isn't racist when making their so called 'sentences' or whatever.

"If your punishment involves a really long sentence to detention then yes, yes it is as bad as me." She says. I have to be honest here, I'm kinda relieved she'll be with me. I wouldn't have survived in that place which I'm pretty sure is full of weird, rebellious teenagers.

Gosh, I wasn't made for a place like that. I loved order and control. Everything had to go the way it was originally planned out. And that was my life. Maybe Kanisha was right when she said it was really boring, but I liked it boring, I liked it tedious. I liked my closure.