All I Can Do Is Shrug

Chapter 8: What A Sweetheart

After the whole Telling The Stinky Bitch Off fiasco, Mr. Grace showed up and escorted me to the office. But because the vice principal wasn't there to decide my punishment, I had to receive a very dramatic lecture from Mr. Grace.

"This is completely unacceptable! You just got here and you're already starting fights with other students and throwing food at them. You can't do that!" Even him yelling at me was hot.

He is for sure the dominant one in a relationship.

"Actually, I wasn't the one who started it. It was that girl. I don't know her name but she called me a bit- sorry. I mean the b- word. And I didn't throw food at her. She ran into the cafeteria lady and she managed to drop the food on herself. It wasn't me. All I did was stand up and told her to leave."

Mr. Grace sighs and runs his hand through his hair. He gets up, closes the door and sits on his desk in front of me.

"Rose, may I call you Rose?", he asks me. I nod slightly cause I am so nervous about what he might do.

If he kisses me, I will totally accept it.

"Rose, you can't do this. That girl, her name is Lauranna James. Her father donates so much money to this school and if he stops donating cause she's having problems with another student, we'll be struggling and we might end up shutting down the campus. I get it she's a bitch. I know she is." I laugh and he smiles a bit too.

"But we have to treat her like she's some respect. I'm not gonna give you a detention. We'll just call this a warning. It won't go on your record so if colleges are interested in you, they won't think you're some bad kid."

I nod silently and thank him. We both get up and he opens the door for me to leave.

I turn around at him and he winks at me. I smile at him and I feel my cheeks warm up.

I'm not doing so well with my stay-away-and-not-get-close-with-anyone plan.

I walk out the office and I see Sabrina at the door. "Hey are you okay? What happened?" I feel compelled to tell her what Mr. Grace told me but I know that he could get in trouble.

"He just told me to stop causing trouble and that this was a warning." I tell her while shrugging. She nods and tells me she's sorry but then she starts talking about what her and Jeremy were talking about this morning. I technically wasn't lying. He did tell me it was a warning. I hope Mr. Grace doesn't talk to the other girls like this. I hope I'm the only one. I'm probably really naive for thinking that I am.

He could have any girl in the world so why would he want me?

I walk with Sabrina to her fifth period and lucky for me, we share this class. We walk in and she gives me the info of the class and what we're studying about. When I look at my schedule, I see that it says AP History.

'Oh thank God! Finally a class that I would enjoy slightly more than the rest."

Once we get settled into our seats, Sabrina introduces me to Jeremy and Derek and I mean officially introduces me. Jeremy says hello in a polite manner but Derek just waves and keeps writing in his notebook.

"So where are you from, Rosie?", Jeremy asks me. "I'm from Los Angeles." That's when Derek perks his head up and starts paying attention to what I'm saying. "Oh wow. Did you meet any celebrities while living there?" Jeremy asks me. "I didn't live in Hollywood. I lived in East LA. But I did visit Hollywood with my friends a couple times. We saw Jennifer Lawrence and we saw Brendon Urie walking out of a cafe once. I have some pictures."

I take out my phone and show Jeremy, Derek and Sabrina the photos.

"That's so cool. I mean those are some really good shots. Are you into photography?" Derek asks me. I look at him and smile, "Yeah I'm in Yearbook this year." He nods and looks back down onto his notebook and keeps writing. We keep talking for a bit but then the bell rings and the History teacher, I'm assuming, walks in.