Teach Me Something New

Chapter 9

I was angry, my body heated in my rage, I found it hard to calm myself down.

"Why Joy, why did you keep this from me, what if I saw her today?" I asked, trying to hold in my tears, on the brink of a mental break down.

"Because I didn't want to ruin your day and go out and find her, I hoped it wasn't true but Mr White told me himself," she explained trying not to anger me any more, obviously scared of me but at this moment in time, I didn't care.

"Mr White?" I asked shocked that not even he told me. And that he knew.

"Y-yes, sorry Shadow, I didn't mean to do this too you," Joy apologised.

"Go to Joe, I'll walk home, I just need to talk to someone and be alone, alright," I say, clenching my fists, one with half-healed wounds from punching the locker.

"Alright, if you say so, I'll tell dad what's going on, be safe and don't do anything stupid," Joy said before trying to go in for a hug before stepping back and walking away with her bag and everything she needed for home.

Once Joy left, I waited until I heard Joe's car leave before I started heading towards Mr White's office, hoping to find him there. I was furious first about how Joy kept it from me the entire day, even if she thought it was a rumour at the beginning she still should've told me. Then there's Mr White, he even confirmed it with Joy and still didn't tell me when we were alone, instead, he kissed me and still kept it a secret afterwards.

I was beyond furious with Mr White when I got to his office door, I didn't even bother knocking, I just threw the door open.

I found Mr White sitting at his desk on the phone, he jumped at the sound of the door hitting the wall, when we saw me he raised an eyebrow at me before finishing the call and hanging up before turning around, facing me.

I slammed the door behind me, before letting my anger go.

"You! You kept it from me why? You kissed me knowing!?" I started screaming waving my hands viciously through the air for emphasis.

"What are you talking about Shadow?" He asked calmly, which just made me worse.

"What? What am I talking about? How about the fact you kept the fact Natasha Smore is back and lied to me?" I yelled, slowly about to get more violent as the anger grows.

"Shadow, I never lied to you. I kept it from you to protect you because I care," He said, standing up, raising his hands in a sign of surrender, but I wasn't having it, I was too angry.

"Bullshit Drew, you weren't protecting me, you were protecting Natasha, so who do you really care about?" I screamed, throwing a book from the shelf next to me at him, but he dodged right before it hit his head.

"Calm down Shadow, I did it to protect you, if I told you while in school hours and Natasha was here, you could've gotten suspended, even expelled and or arrested for assault," He said, trying to reason with me, but I continued to throw even more books at him until there was only one book left on the shelf, which I took, ready to aim it at Drew again.

"DO NOT tell me to calm down Drew, if I did anything to her it would've been deserved. So stop, you lied, you hid it from me, I can't trust you," I say, dropping the book before I dropped to the ground, pulling my knees to my chin as I sat and rested my back against the door, letting the tears escape and fall down from my break down, letting the anger, hurt, betrayal flow through me, before I blew up even more.

After what felt like hours I finally stopped crying and began calming down, I looked up to find Drew sitting in front of me, his legs crossed while his elbows rested on his knees and his chin in his hands, not wanting to touch me, scared of how I would react, which was understandable, at this moment I was a loose cannon.