A/N: Hey guys this is the fourth chapter. I hope you enjoy and thanks to all the people who favourited, followed or reviewed this story. Keep on reviewing any feedback is more than welcome. Thank you to xremeidiot and Galen for the constructive feedback. I will do my best to write better. Some people have PM'd me and suggested this story is the perfect setting for a clopfic. Lol this will not happen because I'm not that sort of writer. The fourth chapter... here it goes.

Chapter 4: The Consequences

I walked slowly past the door of his office, and stood next to the menacing red chair all students who cause trouble sit on. Mr. Stephen closed the door, looked at me and commanded "Sit down, Jack." I did as I was told and sat in the chair, taking off my bag and letting it rest by my side. I looked around his office, never being here before I gazed in amazement and fear at the number of pre-typed up warnings he had written which were lying dormant by the photocopier. 'Wow, a pen is all that is needed to send me on my way.' I thought to myself. I was snapped out of my thought process when I heard a loud thud in the office next door.

"Ignore that Jack, that is just some minor renovation going on next door." He gazed in frustration at all the papers that were scattered on his desk. "Damnit, where is my pen? Jack, you haven't seen my pen have you?"

"Um sir, it's underneath the assembly seating plan..." I replied. "Found it!" Mr. Stephen happily exclaimed. 'How long will this go on for? I just wanted to come in and go out of this office... This is getting corny.' I thought to myself. "Mr. Harrison!" Mr. Stephen called out my name in a rather stern fashion. 'I guess we are finally starting' I thought to myself. "You know why you are here. I'm gonna be completely straight forward with you, I am not like Mr. Andrews." 'What does he mean by tha-' "In my opinion, he is too soft on the kids that he deals with, but I am not like that. I want you to tell me exactly what happened today, why you were out of class when you should have been in class, and why you assaulted those two boys."

"Sir" I began "It started like this. I was held back in accounting, so I was running late for my other class, History. After I asked the teacher about some um work related things, I left C-block and was going towards my History class in A-block. As I was getting closer to my class, I saw Matthew and Paul walking towards me. They started insulting me and I was ignoring it, until Matthew attempted to throw a roundhouse kick to my knee while Paul tried to jab me in the face. That's, when I fought back to defend myself, and well here I am now. So that's what happened." I finished.

"Hmmm, so you were provoked? Still, it doesn't fully explain your violent outburst on those two boys... Theirs something more to your violent outburst and you're not telling me, and I want to know what it is. Please Jack, carry on." Mr. Stephen replied. So I told him about what happened to me three years ago and how that fuelled the fire that burned inside of me for revenge.

"I h-had no i-idea, why didn't you tell a teacher?" Mr. Stephen stuttered out

"I did sir, and they all ignored me. Some of them even told me that boys will be boys, that it's a normal part of life and that I will eventually learn to accept it..."

Mr. Stephen sat still, his mouth still agape. For the first time since I set foot into his office, he had been at a loss for words. "Okay Jack, here's what I'm gonna do." Mr. Stephen said, finally breaking the silence. "Because you assaulted two students of this school, you will be stood down for 5 days. In other words, one school week." I listened carefully, nodding my head in understanding. Still though, I was a bit ticked off with the consequence, but I wasn't expecting any less from Mr. Stephen.

"You would have normally been expelled from school, however witnesses who had been watching the whole fight from inside their classrooms, tell us that you were provoked which is why I have decided that a five day stand down is an adequate punishment in this case." I nodded again, silently thanking the witnesses who provided this information to Mr. Stephen. They may have potentially, saved my future in school.

"Matthew and Paul will be stood down for three days, as is the standard procedure when dealing with instigators of fights." After hearing this, I thought to myself 'Standard procedure my arse, hahaha why do things like this happen to me?'

Mr. Stephen picked up the phone and started to dial my dad's work number.

"Wait!" I yelled. "Please sir, don't ring my dad. He'd go mental if he found out about this. Especially while he is still stressed out from his work load, maybe I can talk to him when I get home?"

"Well it is school rules to ring yo-"

"No sir please, I beg of you! Can't you at least give me a letter or something so that I can explain to them at an appropriate time?" I interrupted, trying to play my luck.

"Well...Um..." Mr. Stephen said, starting to think about what he would do.

"I promise I don't want any favours, your punishment is fair... Please sir just let me have this one last request!" I begged. Never before in my life, have I begged for something this badly. It made me feel weak, but I had no choice, not unless I wanted to get murdered when I got home.

"OK fine. Here, take this letter home with you, informing your parents of your stand down effective from 3:10 pm. Now you do know that I do not want to see you on school grounds for the whole of next week, is that understood Mr. Harrison?"

"Yes sir, Thank you..." I replied

"Okay take this late note, and move on to your next class. I do not want to hear anymore trouble out of you for the rest of the day, is that understood?"

"Yes sir!" I replied. I took the late note Mr. Stephen wrote for me and I walked out of his office, with an empty feeling in the pit of my heart. 'What have I done?' I thought to myself, but quickly I pulled myself together 'Oh well too late to go back now, fuck the past. They got what was coming. I am who I am, they brought it upon themselves.' I walked to my next class, having missed interval I was glad to see that my next class was Classical Studies, and I knew our teacher would let us eat in class. "Well, at least I get to eat." I mumbled to myself. I arrived in class, 10 minutes late and took my seat. My whole class stared at me, but I ignored them. My mind someplace far away, too distracted to be concentrating in class.

The rest of the day went by like a breeze. No one gave me trouble and I sat and ate my lunch at my regular place. 'We finish early on Fridays...' In no time at all, the 2:20 pm bell for Friday rang and I knew that my time was up, so I took a good look at my last class, English and walked out, knowing I wouldn't be here for a week. I had never been away from school for more than a day, 2 days max so it felt weird that I would be away for a week. Nonetheless, I got over myself and walked out of the school gates. I walked over to my mum's car and sat down.

"How was your day?"

"Fine... I'm hungry, let's go." I said, quickly cutting the conversation short

The car ride as always was quiet, and in approximately 15 minutes, we reached home. I unlocked the front door and stepped inside my house. I put the warning letters down on the kitchen bench top then I went upstairs to go for a shower, when I heard my mum calling after me "I thought you said you were hungry, Jack? Don't you want anything?" I hesitated for a while before coming up with an excuse "After my shower, mum!" I called back. 'Guess she hasn't seen what I've done today...' I put my bag in my room and walked towards the shower. After my shower I decided to go downstairs and eat something. 'Well she's busy now, but when she's not, I'm fucked' I thought to myself. I then went into the lounge to play some doom on my PS3 so I turned on the TV and started to play.

'I might as well enjoy the peace, while it lasts.' I thought to myself. After about 10 minutes of playing, my controller went flat. I cursed at my controller and connected it to the play station with the charging cable. I was just about to un-pause the game when I heard my mum calling:

"JACK, COME HERE NOW!"

"Coming!" I yelled back.

She stood by the kitchen bench-top and held both the letters in her hands.

"What is this?" she asked

"Umm, it's the suspension thingy and the other one is th-"

"HOW COULD YOU?" she interrupted.

"WE SEND YOU TO SCHOOL TO LEARN, NOT BEAT UP OTHER PEOPLE! I knew that Karate wasn't a good idea." She mumbled that bit, hoping I wouldn't hear her.

"What?" I asked

"Never mind, I don't have time for this. When your dad gets home, we will discuss this further Jack."

"Ok."

"Now go, get out of my sight!"

I walked away, back into the lounge and un-paused my game, not wanting to think about what happens when my dad gets home. I played for hours, until the clock hit 6. I turned off my game and knew that my dad and brother would be home at 6:30 so I watched the news and waited.

'Bro's all good, he doesn't care but dad... this is going to be intense' I thought to myself.

Finally 6:30 came, and 3 minutes later I heard my dad walk through the front door, my brother behind him. My dad went into the kitchen, talked with my mum and then said hi to me and walked upstairs to change his clothes.

"What the fuck? Oh maybe he hasn't noticed yet, lol" I said to myself.

I stopped watching the TV and just as I was going upstairs my dad came down the stairs. 'Wow that was a close one' I thought to myself. I went up to my room and closed the door, thinking about what I was going to say. After minutes of thinking, I concluded:

"I'll just tell him I acted in self defence, he doesn't have to know about the 'extra' things I did right?" I said to myself while staring into the mirror.

'Wait, but then he'll be pissed even more, what if I sa-'

"JACK, GET THE HELL DOWN HERE NOW!"

"Fuck, now I'm in the shit." I whispered under my breath.

My brother knocked on my door from the outside and said "Bro, are you in here? Dad's calling you. Go quickly bro or he's gonna get even more pissed..."

"COMING!" I yelled and I opened the door to my room. I turned around and looked back inside my room 'Well here it goes.' I thought to myself as I shut the door and got ready to face what awaits me down stairs.

A/N: Chapter 4 done! Wow, what do you think is going to happen next chapter? The next chapter maybe a bit shorter or longer, I don't know but it will not be any bit less in quality. A bit of a hint for next chapter, it's a life changer. Like I've said before, please review and tell me your thoughts on this chapter. Anyway I hope you guys are enjoying reading this fic. Last week of school... YES! A couple of real exams this week lol so I'll be busy this week. Still, I'll do my best to write chapter 5 whenever I get free time so until next chapter, cya!