New story. DivaliciousDooL gave me the idea and wanted me to write this for her. Hope you like it :)
Mara had just arrived at the school that she had been working at for the past 5 years. She was a teacher at a school in her home town of St Louis, Missouri. It was a bright and early Monday morning. The students had not arrived yet but she liked to arrive early to prepare the class for her first lesson. Her students were a handful but they all loved her, their parents also loved her as well as her work colleagues, Mara was someone that they could all rely on. She teaches teenagers and at that age they are always quite loud and can be hard to handle. She wrote the date and objectives on the board then placed papers on each of the students tables. She looked at the clock and it was 8:45am, class starts at 9:00am so the students had started to come in.
9:00am had hit and most of her students had arrived. All but one of her students had arrive. It was no surprise to her. Jason Orton was always late to her classes. She needed to get in contact with his father.
"Late again Jason. What's the excuse this time?" Mara asked him. He just shrugged in reply and sat at his table. She told the class what they had to do today in class and they all got started. All but one. She walked to his desk and crouched beside him. He had his hood up and his head laying on the desk. "If you don't get started with your work I will call your father to come in to school. You show up late and to make it worse you sit here and do nothing. I want you to open your text book. Read page 75 and write a paragraph about what you read." She said. She stood back up and sat at her desk. Jason had opened his book and sluggishly began his work.
She walked out of the class and walked to the staff room to make a quick call. On the third ring there was an answer. "Hello?" She heard. It was a mans voice. He didn't sound pleased.
"Hello, is this the father of Jason Orton?" She asked.
"Yes" he said.
"I'm Mrs Blair. Your sons teacher. Would it be possible for you to come in today after school. We need to discuss your sons behaviour" She said. She heard him sigh down the phone.
"Yes, I will pick him up then come see you right after" He said.
"Thank you Mr Orton. See you later" She said and they hung up. She quickly walked back to her class who were all still sitting quietly doing their work, except for Jason, he had his head resting on the table. The bell went signalling break time. All the kids packed away their books and walked out the class. "Jason, can I see you for a moment please." She said.
"What?" He said looking up at her.
"I called your dad earlier. He's coming in to talk to me about your recent behavior. You used to be such a good student. I want to talk to him, maybe there's something going on personally that is effecting you, I don't know. I just want him to know how you're doing" She said to him. She was worried that his father was a tough, no good, bad guy.
"It doesn't bother me. I'll be waiting in the car when he gets here then" Jason said and walked out of the class. She sighed and turned around and wiped the board clean before she started planning the next lesson. Thinking about Jason's father and what his reaction would be to how Jason was behaving. After the school day was over Mara let out a long breath knowing that Jason's father would be walking in soon. She didn't mind staying behind after school, she found it better then going home to her one bedroom apartment where she lived all by herself. There was a knock on the door and she looked up and saw Jason's father. She waved him in. He had short hair, blue eyes and tattooed arms, he looked like the kind of guy that Mara would avoid, he had that bad boy look about him.
"Hello, I'm Randy Orton, Jason's father." He said when he walked in.
"Hello Mr Orton, I'm Miss Blair" She said. "Please take a seat" He nodded and sat down at one of the desks. "I called you in because I'm worried about Jason, he's been turning up late then when he comes in he chooses to sleep instead of doing his work. I've tried to talk to him so that he can tell me what's bothering him but he doesn't want to." She said looking at him as he sighed.
"Thank you for letting me know, I apologize for him being disruptive and as for what's bothering him I think that's because his mother and I divorced a couple months ago and she gave me full custody of Jason and she's completely cut him out of her life and he's been blaming himself for that." He said, she didn't know why but part of her felt relieved that he was divorced.
"He's been falling behind on his work too" She said to him.
"I'll be sure to get a tuition teacher for him every Saturday to catch up." He said to her.
"If you want I could come round on Saturday's, I know what work he's fallen behind on and I won't charge you for my time" She thought it would be easier if she was his tuition teacher.
"I wouldn't want to ruin your Saturday's, you could have other plans" He said looking at her.
"It's fine, I'm never busy and I'd be happy to help." She said. It was true, she was always home alone on Saturday's just watching a movie or whatever was on TV.
"You sure?" He asked again.
"Yes, I'm positive" She smiled.
"Thank you for this." He said smiling back. "I appreciate it"
"It's not a problem. Shall I come round this Saturday?" She asked.
"Yeah, I'll give you my address, I have 7 months off from work so I'll be at home" He said as Mara handed him a pen and paper and he wrote his address and phone number and gave it to her.
"Just out of curiosity what is your job?" Mara asked.
"WWE superstar, I wrestle all over the world" He said. "I'm surprised you've never noticed"
"I don't watch much sport" She said. "So you're away a lot?"
"Yeah but I can get time off whenever I need it and Jason comes with me when it's holiday time. When I'm not here he stays with my parents now that my ex is out of the picture" He said as they both walked out the classroom and to the car park.
"Not a boring life for you or Jason then" She smiled.
"Not at all" He smiled as they stood outside the school. "Well, my car's just over there, Jason's waiting patiently. Thank you for calling me. I'll see you Saturday" He smiled.
"See you then" Mara smiled as he walked to his car and she walked to her car. She couldn't help but feel excited for Saturday.