The New Girl (girlxgirl) (teacherxstudent)

Intertwine

Jade's POV:

Usually, you can get away with a single absence; no question asked. I mean, it would be preposterous to expect a student to have perfect attendance when they can't predict what will happen in the future. You might even be able to get away with two, but maybe not in a row. That's when the administration might choose to call home and investigate why said student hasn't been attending classes. In my old schools, this was never a problem with their unspoken motto being; the fewer, the better. Angelwood High School, however, lived up to its prestigious reputation and when principal Santos noticed that I had been absent for three days straight, he phoned my aunt to ask about my whereabouts.

Trying to save face, Olivia told principal Santos that I had fallen ill due to complications with my blood sugar when in reality I had gone back to my old neighborhood to spent the weekdays with my friends.  Wishing for my speedy recovery, Principal Santos ask if my aunt wanted one of my friends to drop off my assignments at my house but Olivia stated it wouldn't be necessary since I would be in school the following day.

To say my aunt was disappointed and frustrated with me would be an understatement, the woman couldn't even complete one whole sentence before trying to start a new one with different points. The key points that I took away from the conversation were that one, she no longer trusted me to go to school, and two, she no longer wanted me to see my old friends more than once a month. In hindsight, I had no one to blame other than myself because instead of telling her that I would be ditching school for a few days, I decided to just skip town.

She only caught wind of where I was because she had seen the Instagram Live my friends and I was doing on our group account. I had forgotten to charge my phone, but she had the numbers of my other friends and once one of them picked up the phone, we all knew I was in deep trouble. Not to mention she had called when Tiffany was bleaching my hair and redying it to a light brown color. During the Live we were playing Truth and Dare with our fans and one of them dare me to bleach my black hair. Any other day, I would have declined the dare but I was drunk, so we went to Sally and got the supply. I only went along with it because Tiffany was always dying her hair from blonde to brown.

To say I looked different would be an understatement.

I had thought with my hair dyed my eye would not pop out as much but boy was I wrong. All it did was just change the atmosphere around me and that made me sick.

That Thursday afternoon, my aunt made it a point that I would have to earn back her trust and start carrying myself respectfully and responsibly. That included no more drinking during the weekdays. She would have preferred me to not drink at all but she understood that it would be a slow transition before I stop altogether. She knew about my past drug addiction and learned what happened when I tried to quit cold turkey; it ended with me having several seizures which resolved with her placing me in rehab the minute she won custody of me. Despite being nineteen, a judge decided that due to my childhood upbringing, I was not fit to take care of myself and gave complete rights to my aunt.

Olivia was so upset with me that I ended up having to beg her to give me at least this weekend without restriction so I could hang with Brendan because I didn't want to let him down. For some reason, she agreed, but I believed it would only because she wanted me to make new friends and ones that weren't troublemakers.

Brendan was prestigious coming from a well-off family while my other friends were anything but.

She made it a point to show me how much she didn't trust me by not only driving me to class but also walking me to my first period. I had missed homeroom because we went to principal Santos's office so my aunt could talk to him. Principal Santos had nothing but wonderful things to say to my aunt and went on and on about how he believes we have a shot in the academic bowl if I agreed to join the team. I was ready to decline but my aunt was quicker to accept.