Chapter 8

Last Time:

"I love mom too Dudley. I love you as well. You are an amazing older brother." Dudley grins and kisses Alex's cheek as Petunia stops in front of them.

"You both ready?" Petunia asks. Alex takes her hand as she nods.

"Thank you mom." Alex whispers jumping up at Petunia and wraps her arms around Petunia's neck.

"I would do anything I could to make you happy Alex." Petunia whispers in her ear and carries Alex into the school.

Now:

It has been two hours since Petunia left the school, and Alex is terrified and sitting by herself at a table. All the girls and guys in the class has been laughing and making fun of her because she wouldn't leave Petunia's side, and because she was carried into the school.

Alex already told the teacher and the teacher just laughed and said it's only a joke.

It is 2pm, and tears angrily fill Alex's brown eyes.

"LEAVE ME THE HELL ALONE!" Alex screams as the group of girls and guys that at in front of her laughing at her.

"Aww, baby Alex is angry." A girl taunts in a baby voice. Alex narrows her eyes, stands up and punches the girl in the face.

The girl falls to the ground and glares at Alex as the teacher runs over and grabs Alex. The teacher pulls Alex out of the room and to the principal's office.

~A&H~

Petunia runs into the principal's office to see Alex sitting in a chair with her feet almost two feet off the ground. Alex is looking at her lap with her hands laced together.

"Ahh, Mrs. Dursley, please come in." Petunia walks into the office and sits down on the chair next to Alex, "Now I have called you because your daughter has punched a girl in the face. The teacher told me there wasn't any reason for her to do so."

Petunia shakes her head.

"Alex wouldn't do anything like that unless there was a reason. She is a very well behaved child and she has been my daughter for a year now. I must ask, did you hear my daughter's side?"

"Uhm..." The male principal frowns deeply, "No I haven't."

Petunia looks down at Alex, who is still staring at her lap.

"Alex, please tell the principal what caused you to punch that girl." Petunia tells Alex gently but strictly.

"The whole class have been teasing me all day about mom coming in with me and I wouldn't leave her side." Alex starts looking up at the principal, "The girl and her friends ganged up on me, and I told them to stop but they won't listen. So I got angry and punched her. I know what I did was wrong, but when I told the teacher, she just laughed and said it was only a joke." Alex's eyes fill with tears, "I know I am going to be punished for what I did, but I'm new here. I accept a detention or whatever you will give me as a punishment but can't you give the girl I punched a detention and the class a warning?"

The principal nods agreeing with Alex, surprised that she didn't put up a fight.

He gives Alex a week's worth of detentions and to be suspended for a week. He gives the class all a detention for three weeks, and the girl gets four weeks.

~H&A~

Dudley walks out of school at 3pm as Alex and Petunia sits in the car going over the week's worth of homework that the principal received from Alex's teacher. Alex has completed three days of the homework from the time she and Petunia got into the car after the meeting to now.

Dudley climbs into the car and looks at Alex, who is climbing out of the front seat and into the back.

"What's going on?" Dudley asks.

"I got suspended for a week. I punched a girl in my class for making fun of me all day with the rest of the class. She wouldn't stop after I gave her a warning so I punched her." Alex answers, "When I go back I have a week's worth of detentions." Alex fills Dudley in.

Dudley's mouth drops open in shock as Alex explains everything that happened, even in the meeting, as Petunia drives them to her parents' house.

~A&H~

That night as Dudley sleeps, Alex climbs into the bed she and Petunia shares since there is only three rooms in the house. Alex snuggles into the bed with her teddy and her nightlight on.

"Alex honey?" Alex hears Petunia ask from the doorway.

"Yes mom?" Alex asks sitting up as Petunia closes the door after changing into her pyjamas.

"I have an important question for you." Petunia reveals as she sits down on the edge of the bed.

"What is it?"

"Would you like to do online schooling instead of going to school? I spoke to my parents and they offered to buy us a computer and internet so you could do school that way."

"Really?" Alex asks in relief. She honestly hates that school. She didn't mind school in New York, but she didn't exactly like it.

"Yes."

"Can we please? I really don't like that school. I didn't mind school in New York but I didn't like it either." Petunia gives Alex a smile and holds her arms out. Alex crawls into Petunia's arms and hugs her tightly, "I love you mom."

"I love you too Alex."

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