Tuesday April 24, 2030
"Alright, I'm going. I'll see you Saturday night."
"I don't want you to go." I said hugging onto him.
"I know but I'll be back before you know it and this will be the last time I travel for a while, I promise." Spencer tilted my head up and gave me a kiss. "I love you."
"I love you." Spencer and I kissed once more and then he left which made me sad. I walked into the living room and sat down on the couch and sighed. "And I'm alone once again." I grabbed my phone off the kitchen table and decided to text Des.
T: Are you busy today if not wanna hang?
D: Yeah, let's go out to lunch and then we can do baby shopping for you.
T: I'm going to drop Cara off at dance, see the baby, pick her up, and then we'll meet up.
D: K, text me when you are leaving the hospital.
Brendan's POV
"What are you even talking about, no I didn't."
"Oh really, we have proof you did."
"Can I see that proof because I bet it's not even me."
The principle pulled up a video of a couple of teenagers, two who look like don't even go to our school, break inside the school and vandalized it.
"That's obviously not me. He doesn't even look like me."
"We say otherwise. You are suspended Mr. Walsh."
"That is not fair because I did nothing wrong!"
"Do we need to sit down with your parents and have a little talk?"
"My dad's not in town and my mom is in the hospital on bed rest so you can't." I smirked.
"Don't sass me, I'm your principle. Who are you staying with?"
"My uncle."
"Do we need to sit down with him?"
"Go ahead I don't care. I'm not doing and did nothing wrong."
"Brendan Walsh, you are suspended and you have to pay for all the damages."
"Oh I see now. Just because my family has money, you want to blame it all on me so we can pay for the expensive damage that was cause by these teenagers who don't even go to our school." I laughed it off. "But guess what my dad's not gonna pay for it because I didn't do it." I got up from where I was sitting. "Bye."
"Brendan Walsh, sit back down."
I ignored her and left her office. I grabbed my backpack from my locker and headed out of the school to take the bus home.
Teddy's POV
"I'll see you tomorrow, my sweet little Clarissa. I love you."
As I left the hospital, I texted Des that I was leaving and then headed over to pick up Caralynn from her dance class. Once I picked her up, I met Des for lunch with her two kids, Bradley and Kinsley.
"Hey Teddy." Des said as I sat down with her at a table.
"Hey."
"How's the little baby doing?" She asked.
"She's doing well; I mean as well as a three month premature baby can be. She gained about five ounces since she's been born and everything is developing well."
"That's good. When do you think you'll be able to bring her home?"
"Maybe in a month and a half or two." I showed her a photo I took of the baby today. "This is her from today."
"She's so cute." Des smiled. "You know this picture reminds me of what Brendan went through when he was born."
"Yeah but I was a little over thirty weeks when I had him and I didn't have preeclampsia." I placed my phone on the table in front of me. "Spencer left again today."
"Oh, really? I thought he was done leaving you."
"He has to finish the movie. He should be back Saturday though, Saturday night and then he'll be done traveling for a while which I'm happy about."
"So you'll be fine alone for what, four days, with all the kids?"
"Yeah, I'll be fine."
After we ate, we went to a cute little baby boutique to do some baby shopping for me. We were at the store for about an hour before I had to leave to pick up Cassandra and Braeden from school. I bought a new travel system since I got rid of Cara's old one thinking I wouldn't be having another kid. I also bought a few clothing but not too many and some toys. After I picked up the kids from school, we headed home. I was surprised when I saw Brendan already home.
"Uh, why aren't you in school?" I asked.
"Mom, please don't get mad, but I got suspended."
"What, what did you do?"
"Absolutely nothing! Over the weekend our school got vandalized and the principle showed me a video claiming it was me and other teenagers who did it. It's pretty clear in my opinion that guy she is claiming is me is not me. She said we have to pay for the damages. I swear she is blaming this on me cause we have money to pay for the expensive cost of it."
"We're not paying for it if you didn't do it."
"That's what I told her and then I got up and left."
I sighed. "Do I need to go in and talk to her?"
"What NO! I kinda told her you're in the hospital on bed rest and that I'm staying with Uncle PJ. She wanted to sit down with both you and dad and me together and talk about this incident I didn't do. So I lied and she got mad because I was supposedly "sassing her"."
"How long are you suspended for?"
"I don't know… Two weeks."
"What, two weeks for something you didn't do. You should be in school learning."
"And I won't be able to make up any of the work that I'll miss since I'm suspended."
"I'm getting real tired of your school, Brendan. First the teacher's don't teach and now you get suspended on something you didn't do. I'm ready just to switch you or just have you home schooled."
"Hey, I'm with you."
"You know what, you are switching schools. I hear that Beverley Hills High School, just down Wilshire is a great school. Maybe we can get you into that school."
"I know a few people who go to that school and they love it."
"I'll call the administration to see if we can meet with the principle this week about it."
"Okay."
Thursday April 26, 2030
Today Brendan and I have a meeting with the principle of the Beverly Hills High School so after I dropped Cassandra and Braeden off at school we headed over there.
"Oh this school is so much nicer than your current one." I said as we entered the building.
"By far it is." Brendan said.
We found our way to the office and waited to meet with the principle. We waited for about ten minutes and we were called back.
"Hello, I'm Principle Reagan." The woman said shaking both my and Brendan's hand.
"Hi, I'm Teddy and this is my son Brendan and my daughter Caralynn."
"Please take a seat." She hand gestured. "So you are interested in switching schools?"
"Yes, we are having problems with his current school and the teachers are just not teaching well in his opinion so he isn't learning as much as he should or as well as he should."
"What school are you currently enrolled at?" She asked Brendan.
"Fairfax High." He replied.
"Oh, you live over there?"
"I know we don't live in the district but it's just a five minute longer drive from his current school."
She smiled. "Did you bring his transcripts?"
"Yes." I handed her a folder of them. "Oh you get A's and B's, that's great. Oh, football and basketball." It took her a few minutes to look it all over. "Oh, it says here you were or are currently suspended?"
"That is actually the problem we have with that school right now. He was suspended for vandalizing the school when he didn't do it and now wants us to pay for it all."
"Oh, do they have proof it was you?"
"The principle showed me a video claiming it was me, but it's obvious it wasn't. Plus, I was at home all weekend with my grandmother when it took place so it couldn't have been me. I tried to explain that to her but she wouldn't listen and got mad. I honestly feel like she just wants us to pay for all the expenses because, let me just say it, we have money."
"She is suspending him for two weeks and he won't be able to make up any of the work, so they are really, excuse my language, screwing him over with college. Colleges look at this and say no, we don't want him."
"Well Mrs. Walsh, I don't see why we can't have him here. I'm sure you can manage with the commute to get him here on time and you'll make a great new addition to the school." She smiled. "But you need to go to the school board and get this suspension taken care of so none of this affects his file."
I smiled. "Thank you so much."
"You are going to need to fill these papers out and bring them back on Monday. You can also start on Monday so how about since I got you here, fill out the classes you want to sign up for this year and for next year also."
After we finished up at the school, we headed home. I called the superintendent of his "old" school to get the suspension cleared up so he can be good to go. It took me a couple of hours to do, but I was finally able to get it out of the way. After I did that, I decided I should call Spencer to tell him what happened.
"Hey, is everything okay?" He immediately asked.
"Yeah, why wouldn't it?" I asked.
"You're calling."
"Because I wanted to talk to you about something, are you busy?"
"Uh, I can talk for a few minutes. What's up?"
"You may be mad because I didn't talk to you about it, but I'm having Brendan switch schools."
"Why?"
"Brendan got blamed for vandalizing the school and was suspended for two weeks. He didn't do it and the school wanted us to pay for all the damage. Brendan thinks they are blaming him on it because we have money and can pay for the pricey cost to fix everything."
"What."
"The principle showed a video to Brendan claiming it was him when it obviously wasn't so I got mad and now he's going to a new school. He starts Monday and before you ask, yes, I got the suspension thing taken care of and no, it won't be on his permanent file."
"She gotta be crazy if she think I'm going to be paying for that."
"Don't worry, we won't. I got it taken care of."
"Alright, we'll talk more about it when I get back. I'll see you Saturday."
"Okay, I love you."
"Love you too, bye."