A/N: So here's my first Detentionaire fanfiction. I worked hard for a few days on this, but I mostly finished it all today heh...and i finished it before Chapter four of TCBTS (one of my Penn Zero fics)
Speaking of Penn Zero, my Penn Zero OC, Corona, actually plays somewhat of a part in this fic, since she's Lenore's cousin. Not a really huge part, more like she shows up now and again, and might be helpful, but she's there. In fact, this is actually where she was those 6 years she was away from Middleburg.
Anyways, enjoy! (And review if you can, please!)
Honestly, could today be a stranger day for Lenore Monday? Lenore nervously looked at the door of the detention room with a feeling of uncertainty of what lurked within. It was her first time getting detention-she was always well behaved-well, this detention wasn't for behavior-but it was something she certainly wasn't used to. And how unfortunate that this had to be on the first day of school.
She still had a hard time believing what got her here in the first place, it was such a pointless reason to send her to detention. But yet, here she was.
~u~
It was a little after 8 a.m. when Lenore walked through the doors of A. Nigma high, making a beeline straight for her friends, Deidra and Ainsley.
"Hey." She greeted.
Deidra slightly waved, and Ainsley seemed to be absorbed in her phone as usual.
"Hey guys." Lenore said, as she leaned up against the lockers, greeting her two friend.
"Oh, hey Lenore! How was your summer? Is that a new top? Your hair looks great !" Deidra replied, practically giggling.
"Good, yes, and thanks." Lenore replied.
Ainsley continued to tap away at her phone, as if it were more important than the other 2 girls who were there. Until she looked up, just to say:
"Hey…Lenore, isn't that your cousin over there?"
Lenore shook her head. "It can't be, Corona goes to private-" Then she looked in the direction that Ainsley had pointed.
Lenore's blood ran cold.
Her cousin, who was just a tiny little freshman, looked lost. She also looked extremely out of place, with her school uniform (A. Nigma high didn't have a uniform), and very neatly kept shoulder length black hair.
Lenore quickly sprinted over to Corona. "Corona, what on earth are you doing here?"
"I'm going to school here."
"No, no, you go to the private school that's like…several miles from here."
"No…Jane cancelled that. She said she didn't want to pay the tuition, so I guess I'm going to public school now." Corona smiled nervously. "With my cousin!"
Lenore cringed. Not that she really minded her cousin going to the same school as her…it's just…she'd prefer that Corona didn't learn of her reputation here…She didn't want her young, innocent cousin getting horrible ideas.
"Just…be careful, I don't want you getting eaten alive by public schooling…or something else…"
"What?"
"Nothing…Just…uh…remember that rumors you hear…aren't always true, okay?"
~u~
Lenore took a seat in her 1st period class. She paid barely any attention to the morning news, as usual, getting absorbed in this one sketch she was doodling in her notebook.
She didn't plan on paying attention either until…
"Ooh! Lee, Lee, Lee! The girl you want to have the kissy-time with! Tina!" said a voice from behind Lenore.
And then everyone in the classroom, except Lenore who hadn't been paying attention, started laughing. That did catch her attention however, and she turned around to where the voice came from.
She saw a boy with red and black hair attempting to hide his embarrassment with a book, Lenore assumed this was Lee. She also saw a blonde boy with long hair smacking himself in the face with a book, and she assumed that was the boy who revealed Lee's crush.
Lenore, unintentionally, made eye-contact with Lee, and she could sense how deeply embarrassed he was. She kinda pitied him. What if that became his reputation?
She gave him a look of pity, before turning back to her drawing.
Lenore continued not to pay attention. All she really caught was that the principal apparently went missing, got replaced, and that's about it. Also something about some sort of assembly after lunch.
~u~
Lenore continued to draw throughout lunch. Her cousin came up to her and sat next to her.
Lenore didn't notice, since she was still absorbed in her sketch.
"So…do I keep staring at you until you notice me…or?" Corona asked
Lenore looked up. "Huh? Oh, sorry." She set her mechanical pencil down. "So, how's your day been treating you so far?"
Corona shrugged a little bit.
"Meh? Same here."
Then, a commotion caught Lenore's attention.
That Lee boy, from earlier bumped into one of the school's bullies, Biffy T. Goldstein.
Lenore cringed, did this Lee just have the worst of luck? She looked at him with slight pity again.
Of course, the Vice Principal just so happened to walk in and give Biffy detention, on the first day of school.
~u~
After lunch, Lenore, Corona, Deidra, and Ainsley headed to the gym, where all the other students were going, for the assembly that the new principal would be revealed at.
The four girls took seats in the metal chairs.
Lenore looked around, and surprise, surprise, she spotted Lee. Again. And he looked like he had to pee. Oh, someone help this poor boy.
Then, there was a sound of loud stomping...Stomping from the sound oof metallic boots? What was that about?
Corona looked startled by the loud stomping noises, so Lenore put her hand on Corona's shoulder to reassure her.
Then a metal claw pulled the curtain on the stage back.
A cyborg man, straight out of a teen dystopian literature novel walked on stage.
Corona was frightened. Heck, Lenore would be lying if she said she wasn't slightly frightened.
"Listen up, you little snot-nosed, baggy pants wearing, maggot covered, puddles of vomitized puke, strolling through life, like it's some sort of mini-mall…"
What a first impression. Did the school happen to order a military dictator on accident, instead of a replacement principal?
Lenore silently groaned as the new cyborg principal went on, and on, until ending up yelling at the 2 boys who had been with Lee, for laughing-wait…Where did Lee go? That was awfully suspicious.
And then there was beeping.
"Who…in….tarnation is beeping?" said the new cyborg principal…
And then some techno music started, and the lights went out…and just the most horrifying few minutes of life commenced. Paint, potato flakes, and worst of all, vomit, was everywhere. Lenore saw Corona immediately take cover under a chair out of fear of all of this. Lenore then realized…
Oh shit, my drawing!
But it was too late, paint, potato flakes, and WORST OF ALL, vomit now soaked the sketch she had been working on that whole morning.
Lenore was super pissed, to say the least.
"Who is responsible for this?!" Principal General Barrage asked, or rather, yelled and demanded an answer.
And then, Lee burst in.
Lenore glared at him.
The lights came back on.
Lee started laughing.
Lenore crossed her arms. Does this boy not realize the deep shit he's in?
"YOOOU did this!" Principal Barrage stomped over to Lee. "Not one day, not one week, not even one month, you, boy, are sentenced to ONE FULL YEAR OF DETENTION!"
Lee had a look of deep fear.
Lenore uncrossed her arms. That look of fear…That look, looked more like he was taking the heat for something he wasn't responsible for.
"B-but sir! I was in the washroom the whole time…It couldn't have been me!" Lee desperately tried to defend himself, to no avail.
And then a stinkbomb went off in someone's backpack…aaand what do ya know? It was Lee's backpack.
Lenore was angry at him for ruining her drawing again.
And then a woman, who from the angered look directed at Lee, proceeded to ground him for the same amount of time he had detention for.
Lee had the look of deep fear.
Lenore now had mixed feelings. Was this boy innocent or guilty?
~u~
Lenore stomped out of the gym, Deidra, Ainsley, and Corona following behind her. Lenore proceeded to rip up the now soiled drawing in a fit of rage, making soiled paper confetti, which she just dropped on the floor.
"Littering in the hallways?" the Vice Principal so happened to see Lenore's fit of confetti rage. "Miss Monday, that is means for a detention." Vice Principal Victoria crossed her arms, and then walked away.
"SON OF A FU-"
Corona walked over, and Lenore immediately ceased saying that curse word aloud.
"Oh no…you got detention?" Corona expressed concern for Lenore.
"It's fine. Maybe I can slap that Lee fool silly for ruining my drawing-unless he is innocent-though I have my doubts." She crossed her arms.
~u~
Lenore took a deep breath and entered the detention room.
Biffy was already there.
Lenore just took a seat and started drawing, waiting for Lee to show up.
And moments later, Principal Barrage threw him in.
Lenore was about to walk over and give Lee a huge slap on the face, but Biffy beat her too it-or so she thought.
"That…was the craziest thing I've ever seen!" Biffy exclaimed
"But I didn't do it!" Lee said, trying to prove his innocence, yet again.
"Well of course not, you don't have the devious mind, skills, or physical know-how to pull off such epic archaic chaos." Biffy replied.
"I could if I wanted to."
"Nah, it's just not your style, no offense but you're just not that hardcore."
Lenore wondered if Biffy was right. And then she spoke up.
"So, Lee didn't ruin my drawing?"
"You talk?!" Lee seemed alarmed by Lenore speaking.
"Uh…duh…everyone talks." Lenore scoffed.
Lee noticed the sleeping teacher at the desk. "What's his deal? Doesn't he-"
Biffy threw a ball of yarn towards the sleeping teacher, who did not wake up. "Nope."
Lee sat down. "I need to get out of here. So I can get this camera that proves I didn't do it-or…" Lee pulled out his cellphone and dialed a number.
Lenore got out of her seat and sat on the desk Lee was sitting at. "Who're you calling?" she asked, crossing her legs.
"My friend." Lee just replied.
Several minutes, and ringtones later, there was no answer.
"Camillio, pick up!" he whispered to his phone.
"No big whoop, just grab the tape after detention, then everyone sees you're cleared." Biffy suggested.
"Yeah, but it won't be there after detention." Lee replied. "There's like…these psycho cleaner freaks in there!"
"…Well, escape is always an option…"
"Dude, escape? What do you want to be expelled or something?" Lenore questioned that idea.
Biffy and Lee looked at Lenore like neither of them had asked her opinion. To which Lenore just said "Sorry I had an opinion!" she got off of Lee's desk.
"What about sleeping ugly?" Lee asked.
"What is your obsession with him? I told you! He never wakes up!" Biffy walked over to the sleeping teacher. "HEY, YOUR FACE IS ON FIRE!" he poked the teacher in the nose. And then threw a desk at him. "Trust me. You could walk right out that door."
Lee seemed to consider this.
"What about cyborg principal robo cop man?" Lenore pointed out.
"Yeah…what if Barrage catches me?"
"Well, if we knew where he was, we could avoid him before he catches you."
"Yeah, and how are we gonna do that?"
"Hello, it's the 21st century! I'll plant a confiscated phone on him, I can track his GPS" Biffy threw a phone at Lee, who missed, and it fell on the ground and cracked.
"Nice catch." He threw another phone at Lee, this time Lee caught it.
"Hold out both your phones."
Lee did so. "Biffy, why are you helping me?"
"I could give you a beating, if you'd prefer" Biffy replied to Lee, in a menacing manner.
"I-I vote for helping!" Lee nervously said.
"Okay, they're synced, 43 minutes to get to the gym and back." Biffy said. He started setting up a laptop. "Man, this is like a spy movie or something. Wait…wouldn't that make me-"
"The computer nerd? Sure looks that way." Lee said as he left the detention room.
Biffy growled.
"Hm. So he's really innocent then?" Lenore said, kicking her legs up onto the desk she was sitting at.
"Well, obviously. You heard everything we both said." Biffy replied in a grunt.
"I sure hope he finds that camera. Then I can know who ruined my drawing, and I can smack them across the face super hard-"
"That's petty and pointless"
Lenore glared at Biffy in the same way he and Lee had glared at her earlier.
~u~
Most of detention was uneventful for Lenore. She was mostly waiting to see if Lee made it back in one piece or not.
"Dude, he's coming! He's almost here!" Biffy yelled to Lee on the computer.
Lenore figured Lee wouldn't make it back in time. "I knew it." She said, in a rather, petty fashion.
Biffy glared at Lenore. Then realized. "He's here!" he whispered to Lee on the computer. Biffy ran over to the door and held onto the handle so Barrage couldn't open it. "Wow, this door is really stuck. Bad….That's a bad door!"
"So bad." Lenore jokingly added, which resulted in another glare from Biffy.
"Open!" Biffy picked up the phone and whispered "Hurry up!"
The there was a rattling from the vents.
Lee seemed to be having trouble getting the vent open.
"C'mon!" he muttered
"Here, let me help!" Lenore whispered to Lee. She stood on the desk and helped him get the vent open.
And then Lee had that look of fear he had twice earlier. He gasped. "The tazelworm!" Lee unintentionally closed the vent.
Lenore glared at him. "Dude, c'mon!"
Lee used the light from a device in his hand to scare it off. And, apparently the vent actually wasn't closed, because Lee fell out, only to be caught by Biffy. The device, which was apparently a camera, fell to the ground and shattered.
"Smooth move." Lenore teased.
Lee rolled his eyes.
Lee and Biffy quickly got into their seats, as the door slammed open, and Principal Barrage came in. He looked around the room.
The three teens tried to look as innocent as humanly possible.
"DISMISSED!" said Principal Barrage "And Ping," he referred to Lee, whose last name was apparently Ping, "We'll see you tomorrow." He said, adding a laugh at the end. Totally not creepy at all.
Lee had that look of deep fear, again, as Principal stomped out of the room.
When Barrage was gone, Lee hurried, and grabbed an SD card from the smashed camera.
"Imagine what could be on here!"
"It could be a clue! Or it could be pics from a chick's slumber party." Biffy smirked
Lenore scoffed. Boys. Lee seemed equally annoyed by Biffy's comment.
"Either way we win. Alright, see you tomorrow." Said Biffy
"You're gonna be here?" Lee seemed surprised by that.
"Yeah of course! Gotta finish my sweater." Biffy replied.
"Well, I won't be here tomorrow." Lenore grabbed her stuff and left.
At least, she thought she wouldn't be…
