Chapter 14: Skipping and Texting
Toph's POV
"I knew it, I knew it, I knew it. Oh yeah," I chanted to myself as I did a little victory dance from where I was sitting behind one of the garbage cans in the cafeteria. The two love birds just left to get to their next class. 'I'm always right when it comes to relationships. I saw that Katara and Zuko where perfect for each other right from the beginning.'
"Miss. Bei Fong!" a voice yelled at me, effectively startling me.
'Oh Shit! Not again!' I looked up at where the person supposedly was standing over my sitting form. "Oh! Hello Professor Zhao," I greeted him with a fake smile.
"I see your friends left you, again," he said suspiciously.
"Um... it appears so."
"Tell me, exactly, why you are hiding behind a garbage can?"
I stood up from where I was sitting and said,"I wasn't hiding."
"Then what were you doing?"
"Uuummm..." Oh crap. How do I answer this? "I was... helping pick up trash that missed the garbage can," I answered.
"Uh huh," he said. He's not buying it. "So how come I found you sitting on the ground then?"
"I was taking a break and waiting for my friends to come take me to my next class, but they never came," I told him.
He scoffed at me, again. "This is the second time today that I've found you skipping class. The first time I believed your little story, but this time your little story wasn't good enough."
I gulped and smiled a nervous smile. "Does that mean I get off with a warning?" I asked him, but I already new the answer to my question.
"No, it means you get detention, and don't even try and skip out on it or I'll add on another detention." I could hear the evil smirk in his voice. He's the kind of teacher who loves punishing kids. You don't have to be a genus to figure that out. "Room number?"
I sighed. "A3," I answered. He roughly grabbed my arm again and led me to my classroom, for the second time today.
Katara's POV
"Come on stupid clock. Move faster!" I murmured, urging the clock as I sat in my last class of the day. Mr. Pakku was being his boring teacher self, trying to teach us about history. I found it incredibly boring.
Suddenly, I jumped a little. My phone was vibrating from in my front pocket of my old jeans. I looked to make sure Mr. Pakku wasn't looking, he wasn't, and took it out and looked to see who was texting me. It was Toph. I know what your thinking, "How can she text if she's blind?" She has a special phone that helps her text. (A.N. I don't really know if they have phones like that for blind people, but in my story they do.)
Toph: Hey. I got detention.
Katara: How?
Toph: Mr. Monkey found me skippin' class.
I smiled at Professor Zhao's nickname.
"Katara!" I jumped, startled by my teacher's yelling. I quickly turned off my phone and put it back in my pocket.
"Yes Mr. Pakku?"
He glared at me. "Don't think I didn't see you texting. That's one detention for you," he told me with an evil smirk.
"What? But I-"
He didn't let me finish. "That's the rules. If you want to start arguing over them then I'll have to add on another detention."
I huffed. 'Well, at least Toph will be there,' I thought, trying to look on the bright side.
Zuko's POV
'I hate school. Why does it have to be so boring?' I asked myself as I stared at the most hated teacher on Earth, Professor Zhao. Oh, how I despise that man. Not only does he teach my least favorite subject, math, he also hates me.
I jumped a bit in my seat from my phone suddenly vibrating from in my back jean's pocket. I quickly pulled it out and looked to see who was texting me, it was Toph.
Toph: Hey. I got detention.
I smiled a small smile. Toph was always getting herself into trouble. I wonder what she did to get detention this time?
I looked up to see if Zhoa was paying any attention to what I was doing, he was to busy yelling at another student because the poor kid raised his hand and said the wrong answer. I sighed and quickly replied to Toph's text.
Zuko: What u do this time?
Toph: Skip the beginning of 4th hour.
Zuko: Who caught u?
Toph: Mr. Monkey
Zhao does look like a monkey. "Zuko!" Speak of the devil.
I turned my phone off and slid it back into my jean's pocket. "Yes Zhao?" He hates when I don't call him Professor Zhao.
"Zuko!"
"Yes?"
I could tell he was about ready to strangle me. His hands were in fists at his sides and he was grinding his teeth, probably fighting the urge to do just that. "I saw you texting and as you know, that is not allowed. Plus, you have disrespected me as a teacher. Do you know what that means?"
"That you'll buy me ice cream?" I asked hopefully. The rest of the class tried to hold back their laughter at my response.
"No, it means you get detention," he told me.
"Damn, I was looking forward to having ice cream," I said under my breath with a small smile.
A.N.
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