•••••••{Author's Note}•••••••

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••••••{Detention! Chapter 4}••••••

"Shit! I'm running late. I even left early today!" Ciel said through clenched teeth, heading to his first-period class. "If I get caught again...I don't even want to know what he would do!" Ciel thought back to the last time he was late for Mr. Michaelis' class.

He ran into class just as the bell rung and let out a huge sigh of relief. No detention for him today.

"That was close, Mr. Phantomhive. You almost received a trip to the Principal and detention for a week," Mr. Michaelis said with a hint of sadism and a smirk.

'So that's what he would do...' Ciel thought, shivering. 'Mr. Sutcliffe is the creepiest guy I know, and I think Mr. Michaelis feels the same way. Selling me off to Mr. Sutcliffe...really is a punishment. The only person I know that likes him is Alois, strangely enough.'

"Now, take your seat like the rest of your classmates," Mr. Michaelis demanded.

Ciel sat in his usual seat at the back of the class. Sitting in the front is like being in the front line of a war. You are always being called on and asked to read and answer questions. Mr. Michaelis liked to put his favorite and least favorite students in the front. Luckily for Ciel, Mr. Michaelis considered him "unimportant."

Or so he thought.

"Actually, Mr. Phantomhive, there is an extra seat in the front, if you will," Mr. Michaelis said with a smile, gesturing toward the seat.

"Uh, yes sir," Ciel said carefully.

There was no arguing with this teacher.

'Damnit! It seems I have made his list. Not even his good list,' Ciel thought wearily.

"Alright class, under your seats are your new books. Majority vote rules...even if I disagree. Unfortunately, as you can see, The Scarlet Letter won the class' vote."

Under his breath, Ciel could hear him mumble, "leave it to a high school class to pick a book of adultery over Shakespeare."

Ciel rolled his eyes.

'All of them sounded stupid to me,' Ciel thought, looking through the book.

"Ciel, if you would, begin reading us chapter one."

'Damnit, the entire chapter!' Ciel thought.

"Yes, sir," Ciel mumbled.

If Mr. Michaelis suffered, then everyone suffered. He was just that type of teacher.

However, just as he was about to begin the reading, Principal Sutcliffe busted through the door, to Ciel's relief, well, momentarily.

"Heeelllooo, Mr. Sebas-chan!" Mr. Sutcliffe said excitedly, blowing a kiss and winking at the teacher.

Mr. Michaelis' eye twitched as he tried to keep his composure. "It's Mr. Michaelis," he corrected with an edge of warning.

Mr. Sutcliffe was far too oblivious to notice. "So anyway, the intercom is broken...So I came to say that I needed to talk to you!" said Mr. Sutcliffe as if he were improvising.

"Broken, hmm? What would you like to speak to me about?" Mr. Michaelis responded coolly.

"Uhh, well...technical things. You know, teacher stuff. If you would, meet me in my office in a few minutes. Thank youuuu! Bye, bye!" said the red head, waving his hands and scurrying out of the room.

Mr. Michaelis sighed.

Ciel could hear his teacher say, "good riddance," under his breath.

"Anyway. Ciel, begin on chapter one, please," Mr. Michaelis said, patience clearly running thin.

"Oh yeah! Ciel, come to my office! Sorrrrryyy, I forgot!" said Principal Sutcliffe, head peeking through the door.

'Thank God! I didn't want to read but, um, why does he want me again?' Ciel thought, gathering his belongings and heading out the door to follow his Principal.

•••••••••{Principal's Office}••••••••••

"Welcome, Mr. Phantomhive! I do believe this is the first time we have met in person!"

"Yeah, uh, nice to meet you," Ciel said nervously.

'This guy really seems crazy,' Ciel thought eyeing the something red and fuzzy in a box in the corner.

'Wha-what is that I wonder?' Ciel thought before the Principal got his attention again.

"Well, anyway, there seems to have been an incident involving a certain... troublemaker" Mr. Sutcliffe began.

"I was wondering if perhaps you knew what happened this morning before school. Did you notice anything unusual?" Mr. Sutcliffe said becoming rather serious.

'Huh. So the guy actually has a serious side? Although, I have no fucking idea what he is referring to,' Ciel thought trying to recall any "unusual" event from this morning.

"Well, actually, Mr. Sutcliffe, I was almost late this morning. It would appear, I missed your 'incident' with a particular 'troublemaker.' Is there a reason you are asking me? You said it yourself, we have never officially met," Ciel commented with slight defense.

Principal Sutcliffe tilted his head, thinking Ciel was an odd, but smart kid. He had to use better tact to get information out of him.

"Well, I have asked around and students have told me that you knew both children. I am just trying to get to the bottom of the situation," Grell explained, choosing his words carefully.

"Let me remind you, Mr. Sutcliffe; I wasn't there, and I don't have the slightest idea what you are talking about. If you want my help, then you should reveal some names," Ciel retorted, trying to squeeze information out of the Principal.

Grell sighed. "Yes, alright. The names are Alois Trancy and Elizabeth Midford."

Ciel's eyes widened.

"Wha-what happened!"

Principal Sutcliffe's brow raised. 'It seems he really doesn't know anything,' Grell thought scratching his head.

"Well, Ciel, that will be all."

"Wha-what? Come on! What happened?" Ciel pleaded for an answer.

"I said that would be all, Mr. Phantomhive."

"Ah! Sebastian! Welcome. Come in, come in. Ciel, leave," Principal Sutcliffe demanded with one of those goofy smiles.

'Hah. There goes his serious side,' Ciel thought, irritated.

"You're in second period, Mr. Phantomhive," Mr. Michaelis said, also irritated.

"And how many times must I tell you?" He turned towards the principal. "It's Mr. Michaelis, especially around students!" Mr. Michaelis argued.

Ciel scurried out the door.

•••••••••{Hallway}••••••••••

"Yo! Ciel!" Alois yells from the other end of the hallway.

Alois dashed to Ciel while he stood with his head in his hands.

'Ugh. I don't know him. I don't. If I just pretend...' Ciel thought.

"Hey, you ready?" Alois asked with a big smirk.

"Uh. No. Never." Ciel said glancing back to the office door.

Alois just laughed.

"So you heard, huh?" Alois asked.

He didn't give Ciel time to answer before asking, "Hey, who's in there?"

"Um, Mr. Michaelis and Principal Sutcliffe," Ciel said carefully.

"Hah. This oughta' be good! Hey Ciel, check for teachers and I'll look through the window," Alois instructed, getting up close to the door and spying through the small window. "No, no! Get closer so you can hear too!" Alois said in a loud whisper, gesturing Ciel to come closer.

"Why am I doing this?" Ciel asked quietly while he watched for teachers and observed students as they cleared for second period. "We are going to miss class!"

"Haha, you are at least, not me. I have English with Mr. Michaelis next."

"Tch, lucky you, asshole. I have that crazy lady, Ms. Red, for art."

"Shh. Come on! Suck it up, that's not even a core class!"

"What are they doing in there?" Ciel asked curiously.

"Right now, Grell is just bugging Mr. Michaelis."

"Oh, well that's nothing new."

"Yeah but it's starting to get good. Grell is getting up," Alois whispered back.

"Um, why do you call him by his first name?"

"Uhhh, you don't want to know the answer to that. Trust me."

"Soooo, anything happening now?" Ciel asked, still on the watch-out.

"Oh shit!" Alois exclaimed.

"Wha-what?!"

"He has something behind his back..."

"Are we about to witness a murder?!" Ciel asked with wide eyes, thinking the worst-case scenario.

"Huh? No they are...his red handcuffs"

"Ohhh, so that's what they were." Ciel thought back to the red, fuzzy thing he had seen in his office earlier. "I was wondering. But, um, what's he going to do with them?"

"Holy shit, they are kissing and..."

"Hey! A teacher is coming! Come on!" Ciel said loudly grabbing Alois' arm and dragging him to the closest bathroom.

•••••••••{Restrooms}••••••••••

"You do realize you dragged us into the girls bathroom, right?" Alois asked and began to laugh uncontrollably.

"Oh, I didn't realize...my bad," Ciel apologized, looking around curiously.

"So, they really were kissing? That's weird. Mr. Michaelis acts like he hates him."

"Yeah, he does. I think he was resisting. That's what the handcuffs were for."

"Damnit, why did a teacher have to come?" Ciel asked, annoyed.

Alois lifted a brow.

"You wanted to know what happened next, right? Do you finally get it now, Ciel?"

Ciel ignored the questions.

"Why is he so obsessed with Mr. Michaelis?" Ciel asked.

"If you want my opinion. I think he is in love. I mean, come on! Mr. Michaelis is sexy as hell!" Alois admitted.

"Are we skipping or are we going to second period?" Ciel asked, glancing at his watch.

"Second period. For now," Alois said with a flirtatious wink, leaving Ciel in the girls bathroom to find an excuse for being so late to his second-period class.

A girl walked into the bathroom, and her eyes widened.

"Uh, I was just...Sorry," Ciel explained hastily, quickly leaving the bathroom, face red.

•••••••••{Ms. Red's Class}••••••••••

"Why are you so late for my class? Is it really too much to ask for punctuality? I work so hard, and this is what I get. I swear. Children these days and-" Ms. Red began her ranting.

"Uh, I'm very sorry Ms. Red. I was in Principal Sutcliffe's office, and then I stopped by the bathroom. Very sorry, ma'am," Ciel said quickly attempting to stop her dreadful ranting.

"Hmm, fine. I suppose," Ms. Red said putting her nose in the air.

Ciel swallowed hard and found his seat. He hated being the center of attention.

Throughout the class, Ciel struggled to stay awake. They were not doing any hands-on art, but learning about different styles. Ms. Red always boasted about her paintings, and the worst part is they all had one color scheme. Red.

"You, know," one of Ciel's classmates began, "I heard she changed her last name to Red and began painting after she killed her husband," the boy said creepily as a smile spread across his lips.

"Well, that would account for how fucking crazy she is," Ciel whispered back, his eyes never leaving her.

He did not want to get caught talking in her class; that was like committing suicide.

"Oh! There goes the bell! We will finish talking about the great Michelangelo tomorrow, my dears!" said Ms. Red, dismissing the class.

"Ugh! Please not another day of this nonsense," Ciel mumbled and walked out the door with the crowd, surprised to find Alois waiting for him.

He had to admit; it wasn't so bad having a friend.

•••••••••{Hallway}••••••••••

"How was second period?" Alois asked looping his arm with Ciel's.

"Boring. Really. Fucking. Boring," Ciel emphasized.

"Ahahaha, yeah. Well, we got caught," Alois said casually.

"Huh?! What the hell are you talking about?" Ciel questioned.

"It's no big deal. At least, with Mr. Michaelis, because he only seemed irritated and embarrassed that we know about the kiss. He is just gonna' shrug it off. He is cool like that. It's Grell I'm worried about. I'm not sure whether he knows or not," Alois explained.

"Fuck" Ciel said, at a loss for better words.

"I mean, it's not that bad. We haven't even got to the best part of today," Alois reminded.

"Oh my God, we can't! We may already be in trouble. It's not a good idea to push it!" Ciel exclaimed, worried.

"There is nothing we can do about it now. We just have to keep moving forward. Come on. It's lunchtime!" Alois demanded, dragging Ciel to the lunch room.

•••••••••{Cafeteria}••••••••••

As soon as they reached the cafeteria, Alois blanched. He was staring at something. Ciel couldn't place what, though.

"So, Ciel, I'll ask you again. Are you ready?" Alois asked.

Ciel took a deep breath.

"Are we at least going to eat first?" Ciel asked, stalling.

"You see, I can't go in there now. You can though, and while you're at it, get me a sandwich. Meet me outside under the big tree," Alois said still eyeing something wearily.

"Yeah, alright," Ciel replied, eyebrows furrowed.

Ciel walked through the line and was greeted by Lizzie.

"Hey, what's up, Ciel?" Lizzie asked with her ditzy best friend following close behind.

"Nothing much," Ciel replied, walking away.

He didn't care for Lizzie, at all.

'Oh, so that's why...' Ciel thought about Alois' weird behavior earlier.

•••••••••{Big Tree}••••••••••

Ciel tossed a sandwich to Alois. Alois thanked him. For a few minutes, they didn't speak as they finished their food.

"The reason why you couldn't go in was Lizzie, right?" Ciel asked still focused on eating the last of his food.

"Yeah," Alois admitted.

"Are you afraid of her or something?" Ciel asked curiously with a raised brow.

"Tch, as if! I already confronted her earlier. I don't want to see her again," Alois replied honestly.

"So, why do you two have a problem?" Ciel questioned Alois.

Alois didn't answer.

"Why won't you just answer me?" Ciel asked, bothered that Alois had stopped speaking to him.

"She's just in my way, alright!" Alois yelled.

Ciel rolled his eyes.

"Hey, I'm just asking. Calm down," Ciel replied gently.

"How did Mr. Sutcliffe get involved?" Ciel asked suddenly, remembering his earlier run-in with the Principal.

"Well, principals generally get involved when violence occurs," Alois said looking down.

Ciel's eyes widened.

"You two fought?!" Ciel asked, surprised.

"We were about to but her little friend ran to Grell," Alois said with spite.

"Hmm, speaking of the devil, there goes Mey-Rin and Lizzie now," Ciel said, watching the door as the two approached from the cafeteria.

Lizzie and Mey-Rin walked up to Alois and Ciel.

"Hey, Ciel. We were wondering if you wanted to sit at our table. You should. We would love to have you," Lizzie said while giving Ciel a big smile.

Ciel didn't have enough time to respond when Alois said, "obviously, if he wanted to sit with a nasty bitch like you, he would, Elizabeth."

Lizzie was dumbfounded.

"Ciel, he is a bad influence. He's rude and violent. Why would you want to hang around him? Come with us," Elizabeth coaxed as if she was a perfect angel herself while flipping her blond curls.

Alois sighed.

"It seems you've caught me, Elizabeth."

"Watch, Ciel, as I do the oldest thing in the book," Alois said rolling his eyes and getting up from his spot under the tree.

Alois still had his opened bottle of chocolate milk in his hands.

"Sorry to ruin your beautiful blouse, Eliza-bitch" Alois said with a smirk.

"Wh-what are talking about, weirdo?" Elizabeth asked looking down at her perfectly unruined shirt.

As soon as she did, Alois dumped his whole bottle of chocolate milk down her shirt. Ciel tried not to laugh as Lizzie looked as if the world had ended.

"I cannot believe you just did that!" Lizzie screamed, throwing a temper tantrum.

"Well, believe it. Y'know, that little friend of yours just watched. If I were you, I'd be mad at her, or maybe you should blame Ciel. After all, he knew what I was going to friend here is just stupid," Alois said gesturing to Mey-Rin, smiling the entire time.

He wanted to do that for a long time.

"I-I..." Mey-Rin began.

"Just shut up and help me clean it!" Elizabeth demanded, stalking off.

Mey-Rin stumbled over her own feet and fell right on her lunch tray. Ciel burst-out laughing. He just couldn't hold it in any longer. Mey-Rin clumsily stood and ran after her best friend, Lizzie, leaving her plate behind.

"Hey, Elizabeth, got milk?" Alois yelled after her.

Lizzie ignored the comment, walking the long way around the building to avoid further embarrassment.

Ciel was still rolling on the ground, laughing his ass off.

"Haha, 'got milk?' You're stupid! Hey, how about 'my milkshake brings all the boys to the yard.' That was awesome," Ciel said through his laughter.

"Yeah? I'm glad you enjoyed that. So, we ate and now...are you ready?" Alois asked carefully.

Ciel stopped laughing.

"Yeah, yeah, as ready as I'll ever be," Ciel said through gritted teeth.

"Do you have yours?" Alois questioned, looking at his own in his book bag.

Ciel pulled opened his bag and said "They're right here."

Alois laughed somewhat manic.

"Oh yes, this will be great!" Alois said happily.

"I'm glad someone is happy about it" Ciel said wearily.

"Alrighty, here's the deal. Lunch will be over in about fifteen minutes. We have to get them set off quickly if we want an audience. So let's say five minutes to get set up. You can take the roof and I'll take the cafeteria itself. We've tested this earlier, you know what to do" Alois said seriously while walking toward their destination.

Alois pushed Ciel toward the most discreet route to the roof.

"Oh yeah, Ciel, 12:45" Alois said running off to his position.

'Damn Alois! I don't want to do this. I really don't want to do this! This is the reason I was almost late for Mr. Michaelis' class. Although, how the hell did Alois manage to get in a fight during that time frame? I guess Lizzie was in the cafeteria' Ciel thought while climbing the stairs and reaching the top.

"This is it. Now or never. No going back" Ciel told himself looking at the maintenance door that was always unlocked.

•••••••••{The Roof}••••••••••

'Leave it to Alois to find an unlocked door like this' Ciel thought.

Ciel released the deep breath he had held.

Ciel opened the door half expecting to hear an alarm go off. It didn't. Ciel let out another breath of relief and opened a hatch inside the room that led to the vent system. It was pretty tight but Ciel was small, and he wormed his way until he found his destination; the ceiling vent that led to the cafeteria. He took the stink bomb out of his backpack praying the ceiling wouldn't cave in. He set the timer on the device and said to himself, "no going back."

Ciel made his way out of the vent system quickly. He ran down the steps and took cover in the bathroom that Alois and Ciel planned to meet in.

•••••••••{Restroom}••••••••••

Someone grabbed Ciel from behind and practically scared the shit out of him. Ciel looked back.

"Damnit, Alois! Don't do that!" Ciel yelled.

"Haha, sorry," Alois said with a big grin.

"So uh, did you...?" Ciel asked carefully, beginning to feel like he'd been set up or something.

"Yeah, and you?" Alois asked with that doofy grin still plastered on his face.

"Yeah, I did it," Ciel confirmed with butterflies in his stomach.

"Well, we have two minutes. Let's go watch the chaos!" Alois said excitedly pulling Ciel out of the bathroom.

"Oh yeah, this should go without saying but act normal," Alois said calming down and walking down the hallway together, casually.

Alois and Ciel managed to sit before the bombs went off. They didn't make a loud noise but the smell was instantaneous. Within a minute, there was complete chaos in the lunchroom.

Ciel and Alois stood but didn't run around like everyone else. They just stood in awe of the panic they had created.

Kids were running in all directions and acting like jackasses. Some were crowding the doorways leading outside, and some were even brave enough to open the emergency exit doors. The school's alarms were blaring. Ciel smirked.

"What are you smirking at?" Alois asked with the same smirk on his face.

"Nothing. I just, uh, locked the entrance doors," Ciel said grabbing Alois' arm to pretend they were part of the panicking crowd and so that they wouldn't have to open the doors for the teachers now beating on them.

"Haha, great minds think alike. Wonder why those students are crowding around the back exits but going nowhere?" Alois asked as they joined those kids.

Ciel just grinned.

"Hey, everyone! The only way out is the emergency exit!" Ciel yelled and watched in joy as his stupid classmates all stormed to the emergency exit.

Ciel, Alois and some other smart kids just stood and waited for the exit to clear.

After the ordeal was over, everyone had cleared for recess.

"Hey Alois, why do high schoolers even get recess?" Ciel asked Alois as they sat under their tree together.

"Why question it? Do you really want to go to class?" Alois asked listening in as students passed by and spoke of the stink bombs.

"No, of course not. You know, you really are a bad influence," Ciel replied.

"Yeah, I'm aware. Going by our fellow classmates, our mission was a success," Alois said turning to Ciel.

"I guess it was. At least, they haven't figured out who did it yet. I'm really glad we figured out how to make them with timers" Ciel admitted.

"Yep. It was your idea though, and a good one at that," Alois said pulling out his bucket list from his backpack.

"Would you look at that. Alois' Great Big Book of Foolishness" Ciel said sarcastically, pulling a sharpie out of his pocket and scribbling the title across the front of the notebook.

"Um. No," Alois said grabbing the notebook from Ciel.

"Alois' and Ciel's Great Big Book of Foolishness. There. Perfect." Alois said adding Ciel's name in the title.

He then opened the notebook and scratched off number 32, stink bomb the cafeteria.

"It's nice to have you as my partner in crime, Ciel," Alois said looking through the rest of his notebook.

"Tch, yeah, whatever," Ciel said knowing that he really couldn't go back now.

The stink bombs were his initiation, and he had gone through with it.

"So, what havoc are we planning for tomorrow?" Ciel asked.

"I don't know. Good question," Alois tossed the notebook.

"Pick one," Alois smirked.

•••••••••{END}••••••••••

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