19

The next morning, I felt Morrigan tugging on my shirt.

"Nhmph?" I groaned.

"Jay get up, your dad's coming" Morrigan said sharply.

I sprung up. "What? Why?"

"Son" I heard from the up the stairs. My dad came down the stairs in his brown work uniform to see Morrigan sitting up in one of my tank tops staring blankly at him. I had my shirt off with just shorts on. Things felt kinda awkward. My dad looked at us and scoffed.

"Um, sorry to wake you two up, but I knocked on the door last night to give you your plexiglas but to get no answer. Guessing you two were fast asleep. Anyway, here you go"

My dad handed me a bag containing my request.

"Thanks" I said.

My dad started back up the stairs. "You're welcome. Hurry and get ready you two, you're late for school" he said as he vanished upstairs.

I looked at Morrigan. "Babe…why didn't you wake me up?" I asked.

"You were sleeping so peacefully, I didn't want to disturb you"

"Well let's get situated" I said. "I know were staying after school this time"

I grabbed my phone from beneath my pillow.

8:45. Yup, that's a detention.

…

Morrigan and I entered the school thirty-five minutes later. We walked straight to the dean's office and got our referrals ten minutes after waiting in the tardy line.

Our dean, Mr. Smaldik signed our referrals. "Here's your passes" he said, as he handed us our referrals along with two pink slips. It must have been Morrigan's first referral as I seen her study the sheet of paper.

"Make sure to time st-"

The dean was cut off when he heard Morrigan laugh. Mr. Smaldik and I looked at Morrigan.

"Something…funny Ms. Aensland?" he asked.

Morrigan shook her head. "No, Mr. Smal-", she broke into laughter again.

Mr. Smaldick turned red as a stop sign. I looked at the floor as I bit my lip to keep from laughing.

Mr. Smaldik gulped. "Alright, think things are funny? Let's see how funny things are now"…

Morrigan and I left out the dean's office twenty minutes after second period bell rang.

"I'm sorry" Morrigan said chuckling as we walked down the hall. "I couldn't help it"

"You just don't know how hard I was trying to keep from laughing myself" I remarked with a smile.

Morrigan calmed her bursts of laughter and looked troubled. "Wow, I have to serve an hour now"

"Well" I chuckled. "Shouldn't have dissed the mans' name"

"You're right. That's not like me"

"…Unless you have a small dick" I snickered.

Morrigan and I burst into laughter as we walked into our second period…

I looked at the clock as I sat in a class of boredom in my sixth period.

2:55

Mr. Cartlett sat in front of the class discussing the aspects of a slope and its velocity across the screen projector. I looked over to Morrigan who was sitting with her face resting in her left hand. She noticed my glance and smiled. I smiled back and looked back at my physics teacher.

"Alright, any questions?" Mr. Cartlett asked.

The sound of crickets answered his question.

"Okay, if you have any questions, now's the-"

The rest of his statement was devoured by the bell.

RRRIIINGG!

The sound of chairs screaming choked my eardrums as everyone fled out the class room.

Morrigan and I exited the class as we walked towards my locker.

"So which classroom do we go for this detention?" Morrigan asked.

I pulled out my crumbled referral from out my pocket.

"Room B109"

We entered the room in B-hall and seen an African American woman standing in the middle of the classroom.

"Take your seats and shut your mouths"

Damn…I hate teachers like her

It was now 3:28. My thirty minutes were almost done. I looked across the classroom. It was about nine other students who accompanied Morrigan and I in our detention. I glanced over at Morrigan sitting across from me. She sat with her legs crossed with her arms folded against her chest.

"Who is Jay?" I heard the woman ask.

I raised my hand. "Right here" I said to the woman sitting behind her desk.

"You may go"

I put on my backpack and looked over at Morrigan. She gave me a message to wait for her through our eye contact.

"I'll be outside" I said aloud.

"Go…before I change my mind" I heard a sassy voice aside of me.

I looked over at the lady and nodded and made my way out the door. I exited the school doors and paced around the school. I walked a few blocks down and began to put in my headphones until I was stopped when I heard the sound of a female scream.

I followed the agonizing scream until it led me to an abandoned building. I heard another scream.

"HELP ME!"

I looked for an entrance and found a boarded up door. I kicked it down and checked my surroundings as my eyes adjusted to the dark hallways of the building. I hurried and transformed into my suit of armor. I ran through the halls of the building listening out for the female behind the scream for help.

"HEELPPP!" I heard a few feet ahead. I got down the hallway and saw a blur of red vanish behind the corner.

I hurried and ran around the corner to see a girl in a red hoodie with blonde hair stand down the hall facing me.

Why does she remind me of Little Red Riding Hood?

"Hello, are you in danger?" I yelled down the hall.

The girls' face was hidden under the rim of her hood.

"No, but you are" she said sinisterly.

Out of the shadows, a guy appeared standing in front of the girl. I tried identifying him though the dark prevented me from seeing the guys' face.

"I finally…get to have my vengeance" the man stated.

"Do I know you?" I asked recognizing the guys' voice.

Just then, the girl I address as Little Red Riding Hood pulled out a jar containing a black substance from within her hood. She threw the jar to the ground and to my amazement, the goo consumed the mans' body and soon covered him completely.

"He's all yours" Riding Hood stated as she disappeared into the shadows.

The man clenched his fist.