Behind Everything...

Chapter 10

Tristan's POV:

After the lunchtime period, I didn't saw Veronica in the rest of the day. I don't know why but I didn't feel comfortable, it seemed like I really wanted to see her. 

Ew Tristan, what's wrong with you? Do you want to see that monkey again?

My subconscious mind scolded me and the rest of the time I tried to concentrate on the class but I couldn't.

You must be still worried by the fact that on the very first day of school you're getting detention for the first time in your life.

My subconscious mind reminded me about the detention. 

Suddenly I remembered that I've got detention and not only the fact that I'm worried because it's my first time for getting detention but also I was more worried about the promise that I made with Christina and her friends that I would go for coffee with them. I can't say no to Christina now or else she would be very unhappy. The class was full of people and for the first time, I really wanted to sneak out of the classroom.

"Class dismiss", suddenly the teacher barked and the flash of happiness hit me. Without wasting any more time, quickly I rushed for the bathroom. The hall was not as filled as I expected but slowly the noises of the students shouting and running at the hallway appear. I didn't open the door until I heard any more noise. I was totally surprised by the fact that I'm really doing this.

Quietly I stretched my neck out of the bathroom so that I could make sure that no one is there. As I expected, it was the same person who announced the detention for us was waiting for my arrival. Quickly I pulled back my neck and locked the bathroom from inside as I realized that he just looked at my direction.

After a few moments later, I decided to ran out of this bathroom. Again, I quietly pulled the door and once again checked my surroundings and after the count of three, I just pushed my body forward for running.

My heart was beating fast as I never did this before. The only thing that I knew was that I just need to get out of this school now. My legs felt wobbly at first but I ignored them as I ran without looking at anything.

Baamm!!

"Ouch!", I half whispered and half cried in pain as my body not only hit my front body but also results in falling flat on my butt. As I rubbed the side of my head, I saw a figure next to me. Soon I realized who is it and my expression immediately changed from terrified to anger.

"What the hell?", I whisper-yelled at her.

"I could ask you the same", Veronica said between her teeth as she also rubbed her elbow.

"You're the one who hit me", I tried to remind her, ignoring the fact that we're still in the middle of the hallway and anyone could see us.

"No! You're the one with no eyes", she hissed at me.  

"What? You're the with no brains", I hissed at her back.                                                   

She looked at me with her eyes narrowed but before she could reply, a voice came from behind us.

"What are you two doing here?", and soon our expression changes from anger to terror.

I looked at the huge figure which was towering on us and realized that it was the same man from this morning. Mentally I cried.

"So you think you can escape huh?", the man said. My mouth became dry due to fear and I couldn't speak anything.

"Well don't even dare to do that because if you do so then I won't hesitate to call your parents", the man said while giving both of us a warning look.

"But we were late by only three minutes!", suddenly Veronica remarked and that not only surprised me but the man too. His eyes widen up as Veronica looked at him with her furrowed eyebrows.

"Oh! Not bad Miss Brown. I really appreciate that you've got a brilliant memory. I'm sure you must have to remember what happened last year when you were only three minutes late to school after summers?", the man said with a smirk and when I looked at Veronica, I was surprised.

Her face got a bit reddish again. She clutched the tip of her dirty T-shirt but did nothing more. I thought she might say something but she remains silent. I never really thought that those words of that man could actually shut her up.

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*One hour later*

"Done!", excitedly I said while throwing my arms up on the sky but soon realized that my action brought the other people attention over me. 

"Silence", a man around late forties said while giving me a blank face. My cheeks burned when I realized that I'm not in a class but in a detention room.

I look around and found that I'm not alone but there were about twenty more students along with Veronica. She was sitting at the last bench of the last corner, near the window. All this is her fault. Just because we tried to run out of school, that man gave us detention for two hours and after the detention, he asked us to write our homework twice. The class was quiet and I mentally cried because I couldn't go to the coffee shop. I missed the golden opportunity of getting closer to Christina.

"How much more do we need to stay here?", I asked the man who was snoring in his half sleep. He didn't reply and continue to sleep. I felt insulted so I continue to look back at my notebook. I was totally bored and I haven't even given Christina a text that I'm stuck over here. I mentally repeated whatever I've said just now and found that it sounds really stupid. 

I tried to ignore all my stupid thoughts aside when unconsciously my eyes roam around the class and meet the black eyes again. She looked at me with narrow eyes but soon she breaks the eye contact. Quickly I looked away before I could embarrass myself anymore. 

Suddenly something hit on my head and I turned around. There was no one looking at me. "Kindly look in the front!", the man warns me and I again flushed into embarrassment. Again something hit on my head and again I turned around and again I found nothing. "Seems like you don't know English". Quickly I turned back again to my first position. I felt some more hits but I tried to ignore it but soon I got angry and I couldn't help but look at her with an irritated face.

She was doing something and then she again looked at me with an eyebrow rise and gave me a questioning look. After I realize that it wasn't her, I decided to change my seat. I looked around but it seems like my fate was not with me today. For hope, I looked at the man with a puppy look but he gave me a black face and unfortunately I had to give up the idea soon. 

I felt like someone just whispered my name and I turned back a paper ball hit my face this time, resulting losing my temper and this time I barked, "Sir, someone is hitting me with paper balls!".

The man who was ignoring me all the time whenever I complain him about the continuous paper ball attacks on me, almost got a heart-attack looked at his surroundings with a terrifying look in his face but soon his expression changes when he saw me. "Hey young man! Can't you just stay quiet for a minute? You got detention", he tried to remember me but when I gave him an angry look he just ignored me.

"I know how to deal with you", suddenly he said. 

Author's Note:

Hey guys, this is a reminder for all that this year I won't be able to update very frequently but I'll try my best. I'm very happy that you're enjoying the chapters. Please keep voting, comment and share. This actually motivates me to write more. Thank you all.

SARA