Morgan was getting closer to the door and when she finally got there; she stared at the door; rethinking about whether she should enter. With a sigh; she knocked on the door and waited for a response. "Come in."
Morgan turned the knob and walked in. Miss. Bea was standing in front of her desk with her arms crossed and a smirk on her face. "I'm so glad you've followed my instructions; now let's sit; shall we?"
Morgan went to her desk and sat down; she had placed her backpack on the floor; the right side of her desk. Miss. Bea sat down at her desk; the word detention was printed on the chalkboard and how long it would be. Morgan's detention was going to be for about two hours.
"I assume you already know why you are here." Miss. Bea waited for her to respond.
"Because I stood up for myself?"
The math teacher scoffed. "Because you are a brat and have no respect."
"I have to be home by four; for dinner and I thought detention was supposed to only be for about forty five minutes."
"You think you're so smart; don't you? It is; I just decided to make it longer." Miss. Bea looked satisfied.
Morgan sighed and unzipped her backpack; she decided that since she was going to be here till five; that she would try to get most of her homework done; especially try to focus harder on the math.
"You know," Miss. Bea began, getting her attention. "Most kids your age already know about sex; it's something that most kids learn by the fifth or sixth grade."
"Where did you get the idea that I don't know about sex? And even if I didn't why is it any of your buisness?"
"Hm, let's see; first you think that Giselle is your mother when she didn't even 'have' you to begin with, you don't even know what a mother is; you're delusional."
Morgan didn't see how calling Giselle her mother meant that she doesn't know anything about sex. Suddenly Miss. Bea had a nasty smirk on her face. "I think it's time that we have the talk." She said it as if she was talking to a five year old boy or girl who just walked in on their parents having sex.
"Well a man and a woman meet; when they're together for a very long time; they decide that they want to move on to the next level. So they find a private place for them to be alone; they get naked together and the man presses his pennis on the woman's vagina; it will pop, bleed and hurt a little the first time you do it."
Morgan wrinkled her nose with disgust and feeling like she would puke or vomit at any second; but Miss. Bea didn't stop; she continued; obviously only telling her all this stuff to make her sick because it brought her such joy to do so.
"After awhile; the pain goes away and the woman gets comfortable. The man's fluids from his pennis gets on her vagina and she could get pregnant; so she takes a pregnancy test, pees on a stick and if it turns a certain color; that means you're pregnant. A baby grows in the woman's stomach causing it to get bigger; it stays in there for about ten months till it's ready to come up and that's what a mother is; some woman who had you by 'blood' 'sex' Do you understand what I'm saying or is it too much information for you to take in?"
"To be apart of a family; people have to be related by blood. Giselle's not in your blood so she's nothing to you; nothing but a woman your father married."
Morgan's head hung. She was getting very tired of people telling her that Giselle wasn't her mother; whether she 'had' her or not. That shouldn't matter to people what she called Giselle; she loved her, helped take care of her and that seemed like a real mother to her. Morgan's heart pounded when Miss. Bea mentioned about her siblings.
"And Peter, Sarah and Melody aren't much to you either; they're only 'half related' to you and that means you're 'half' to them. Since Robert got involved with Giselle and she's not your mother; that means he's not much of a father to you anymore. Your family is screwed up Morgan, you're screwed up and you don't mean shit to the bitch that you call mother; cause you're not her blood." Miss. Bea finished.
Throughout the whole detention; Morgan wondered if maybe Miss. Bea was right. And the thing was; Morgan never even heard of her real mother until last year when Robert finally told her after she ran away. By the time detention was over; she was already about halfway finished with her homework. She got out her pink folder; put her homework in it and shoved it in her backpack.
"Remember what I told you Morgan." Miss. Bea said as Morgan was about to walk out. "Your family is screwed up."
Morgan walked out of the classroom with those words echoing in her head.
Meanwhile; there was knocking on Robert's apartment door; he opened the door and outside stood Peter's X friend, Megan. She had a box filled with stuff in her hands and she looked serious. "Can I see Peter?"
"Uh, sure; he's in his room."
She walked inside and headed for his room. "Peter!" She knocked on the door. He walked over to the door and unlocked it. "Megan? What are you doing here?"
"Since we are no longer friends; I came here to return all the stuff that you gave me."
She took out a necklace made out of colored beads and letters that spelled her name." Here's the necklace that you made for me near the end of June." She handed it to him and he put it on the top of his dresser.
"Here's one of your Spider Man action figures you gave me, a music c-d that you downloaded all my favorite songs on from your sister's laptop, a Spider Man valentine card you gave me on valentines day, about six more super hero action figures, a stuffed unicorn that you got me eleven months ago for my birthday, a few race cars and a friends forever bracelet." She finished.
"Well," He began, rummaging through his toy box. "I have some stuff for you too."
"Here's the container of marbles you gave me a little over a year ago, the stuffed Spider Man doll you gave me for my seventh birthday, a unicorn valentine card, the pen that writes and lights up in 15 different colors, glow in the dark bubbles, your old c-d player that you used to listen to on the bus and decided to give it to me when you got a music pod and..." He paused when he saw the last thing that she gave him. It was the action figure she gave him as a goodbye present when he was leaving to go to Giselle's world.
"Well." Megan said getting impatient.
"And the action figure that you gave me before I left." He finally finished after glancing at it one last time. He finally dropped it in the box along with all the other stuff.
"Okay then," She paused and it seemed like she was having second thoughts about them ending their friendship. "I guess we're done here." She finished in question, she didn't mean just done with giving their stuff back; she also meant with being friends.
The two stared at each other as if wanting to know if that's what they really both wanted, but Megan just looked like she was trying to hide her hurt and he wasn't happy either. "Yeah." He finally answered after the awkward silence.
"Yeah." He finally replied.
"Then it's official." She picked up the box and walked out of the room. He watched her go and stared down at the ground with hurt. He sat down on his bed and didn't even bother to close the door.
Morgan came home and placed her backpack on the couch. Robert and Giselle had been waiting for her since three thirty; cause that's when she usually got home and now it was almost five thirty five. They even tried calling her school but no one would answer.
"Morgan Philip; it is five thirty four! Where have you been?" Robert demanded for an answer.
Morgan was surprised that they didn't know she had to stay two hours for detention. Didn't Miss. Bea call and tell them about it? "I had detention, didn't Miss. Bea tell you?"
Giselle was shocked to hear this. "You got detention?"
"For two hours?" Robert cried out.
Morgan nodded.
"Detention isn't supposed to be for two hours."
"What did you do to get a detention?" Giselle asked.
"She didn't like that I was correcting her about the homework." Morgan didn't want to tell her all the stuff that Miss. Bea had said about her.
"Well, we already had dinner and we saved you some cooked carrots, lima beans, chicken legs and potato salad." Robert explained. "So go wash your hands and dig in; you are not going to bed on an empty stomach."
So Morgan went to the kitchen sink, washed her hands, sat down at the kitchen table and Giselle put the plate of food in front of her. "You have got to try the cranberry juice; it is delicious." She poured Morgan a glass of cranberry juice and she liked it.
"We had trouble getting Peter to eat his lima beans; so I told him that if he eats them; he will have super powers when he gets older and be like his favorite super hero; Spider Man." Robert explained.
About fifteen minutes later; Morgan was finished with her dinner.
Morgan, Robert, Giselle and Peter were sitting on the couch watching a live action Spider Man movie; Sarah was on the floor playing with her building blocks and Melody was in her play pin drooling on a red rubber ball.
The door bell rang and Robert went to answer it. "I'll get it; you guys can keep watching the movie."
"Stranger!" Sarah cried as she ran to her room and hid under her bed.
Robert opened the door and there was a woman with curly red hair that went a little pass her shoulders, light brown eyes, red lipstick and was dressed in a medium sea green blouse with a glittery vest that came with it and her knee length skirt was also medium sea green just like her blouse and vest.