Scott walked into his house just wanting to put his feet up and have some
quiet time. As he swung open the door he was met with the sounds of loud
music blaring and Amanda's loud voice singing. Sighing he groaned and
dropped his briefcase then walked over to the stereo, he hit the stop
button.
"Hey,"cried Amanda walking out of the kitchen with a can of pop in her hand,"Oh hi, man you get home late."
"Yes, well, I see you've kept yourself busy,"said Scott.
"Well I slept, went on your computer, watched TV, ate, called people,"said Amanda,"So what's for dinner?"
"Well I'm not quite sure, I've never really had to have dinner for someone else,"said Scott.
"Dude can we order pizza?"asked Amanda.
"I suppose,"said Scott pulling out his wallet to make sure he had money. Amanda smiled and pulled a twenty out of Scott's hand as she skipped to the phone.
When she was done she walked back into the living room where Scott was sitting on the couch.
"Hey you don't let people smoke in your house do ya?"asked Amanda going through her purse she had left disguarded on the loveseat.
"Pardon? You smoke?"asked Scott.
"Yeah, well occasionally, not everyday just ya whenever,"shrugged Amanda.
"Amanda, you do realize that will kill you. It only takes one cigarette to get you addicted,"said Scott following her as she walked through the kitchen to the back pourch.
"Hey, it's AJ, not Amanda,"said Amanda,"And I know the whole cancer thing, the addiction thing and all that crap but I choose to smoke." Amanda slide open the sliding doors and walked out on the pourch where she lit up her cigarette.
"AJ?"asked Scott.
"Amanda Jane, everyone calls me AJ,"said Amanda,"Look I had a couple of smokes today but I had them outside, if you don't smoke or want people in your house smoking that's cool."
"I don't want anyone in my family smoking,"said Scott.
"Well you can't control everyone in your family so chill out,"snapped Amanda.
"And another thing, you're getting signed up for school tomorrow,"said Scott knowing he had lost one fight he wanted to get one last one in there for chance.
"Fine,"said Amanda calmly taking a drag.
"Do you realize how stupid you look with that thing?"asked Scott trying to take another stab at the smoking issue.
"About as stupid as I look calling you Dad,"said Amanda sarcastically.
"Pardon? What in the world is that suppose to mean?"asked Scott. Amanda took a drag off her smoke and looked at him like he was stupid. She stepped back a bit and drew a smirky grin on her face.
"Well c'mon it's been like what? Six years since we even spent a day together, c'mon we're practically strangers, you're not a dad and I'm not Daddy's girl,"said Amanda.
"That isn't my fault I made countless attempts only to be shot down by you and your mother,"said Scott defensively.
"Nobody is saying it's your fault,"said Amanda shrugging,"Shit happens, all I'm saying is it's weird and dumb for me to call you Dad. A dad is someone who's there, someone you accept and he accepts you."
"Our difference will be something we will work on and deal with,"said Scott.
"Sure,"said Amanda stamping out her cigarette and walking in.
**** The next morning at seven o'clock Amanda walked into Winslow High's halls for the first time. The place was deserted besides for the odd teacher. She walked behind Scott who lead her to the office, they weren't talking since they exchanged words on the choice of clothes she wore. She wore a pair of low cut tight black pants with hints of her royal blue thong peeking out and a white short white tank top showing a lot of cleavage. The sound of her heels clicking on the floor echoed through the wall as she seen two young female teachers stop mid stairs as they watched her and her father walk by. Amanda looked up at them and stared at them as if they were crazy as she continued on.
They walked into the office and were greeted by a smiling young woman.
"Good morning Scott,"said Lousia observing the young girl behind Scott. She looked like a hell raiser, just another to the pack, she wore the barely there clothes and had the temptress stance but her face was was drew the eyes. Lousia had to admit Scott had a goregous daughter, seemed odd, though she had no real idea as to what his daughter might look like.
"Good morning Lousia,"said Scott nodding. He looked at Lousia who was standing there eagerly looking to be introduced to the young girl.
"Lousia, this is Amanda, my daughter,"said Scott.
"It's AJ,"said Amanda detterminaly. Scott sighed and continued walking into his office with Amanda following. He set down his briefcase and took his jacket off.
"You can take a seat and I'll get you the neccessary registration sheets,"said Scott. Amanda sat down and looked around the office, nothing about it was too great it was pretty boring and dull just like Scott. Sighing she sat back and tapped her fingers against the arm of the chair.
"Scott, I want to talk to," Amanda whirled around to see a tall dark haired man stilled in the door way with his hand still on the door knob. Their eyes meet and locked in a moment of silence, Amanda immediately wanted to know who this guy was because she liked what she saw.
"I'm sorry, I was looking for Mr.Guber,"said the man slowly.
"I'm his daughter,"said Amanda,"He just went to get registration papers."
"Oh,"said the man.
"I'm AJ Guber,"said Amanda reaching out with her hand.
"Harry Senate,"said the man taking her hand and shaking it.
"Do you teach here?"asked Amanda.
"Yeah,"said Harry nodding.
"Harry can I help you?"asked Scott walking in the doorframe past Harry and into the office breaking the moment.
"Yeah, but your busy I'll talk to you later,"said Harry taking one last look at Amanda then leaving the office.
"Okay, here you are I want you to fill these out. Now we're going to need your school records and I'll have them sent from your last school but until then I'll go on your own word,"said Scott.
"So much trust,"muttered Amanda as she filled out the forms.
Once done she gave the forms back and Scott gave them to Lousia to get a schedule set for Amanda. At nine am, twenty minutes after classes had started Amanda had a schedule and was looking around for Ms.Cook's class. Once she found it she knocked on the door and walked in, she found a skinny, blond lady speaking to the class.
"Can I help you?"asked Ronnie Cook walking over to the door where Amanda stood.
"Yeah I'm new,"said Amanda handing her the schedule. Ronnie checked it over and seen Amanda's name printed at the top.
"Okay welcome to the class, class this is Amanda Guber,"said Ronnie.
"AJ, not Amanda,"said Amanda cooly.
"Okay, AJ Guber,"said Ronnie,"AJ, you can take a seat anywhere that's free." Amanda walked through the class as they stared at her and she took a seat in the middle of the room. She crossed her legs and leaned back in her chair.
"Hey you related to Mr.Guber?"asked the guy next to her loudly.
"I'm his daughter,"said Amanda cooly as she looked over at him.
"Damn, never thought the Nazi had it in him,"said the guy.
"What the hell is that suppose to mean?"asked Amanda,"He's no Nazi."
"He walks around here like he's Hilter or something,"said the girl in from of Amanda.
"Class quiet down now and have some respect for AJ,"said Ronnie scoldingly.
"Well number one my dad's Jewish, number two if you are intimadated by him you guys are nuts,"said Amanda.
"Nobody's scared of him, he's just nuts,"said the girl.
"Okay can we carry on with class please,"said Ronnie.
*** It was last class of the day and with the help of a few girls she met in second block she found everything with ease. They had told her that her last class of the day was in 'the dungeon' with Harry Senate. It took a few minutes but it clicked that was the man she had met earlier in her father's office.
"Well maybe this school isn't so bad,"said Amanda as she was lead into class by two girls from her morning classes, Miranda Eyrea and Karen Byrnes.
"Winslow has it's perks,"said Miranda as they walked to the back of the class and sat down in the back three seats. As Amanda sat down she watched as Harry Senate walked into the class.
"And there is one of the very fine, fine, perks,"said Karen smiling as she leaned over to Amanda.
"Yeah,"said Amanda softly.
"Ugh, but he's been tainted,"said Miranda,"He's all cautious and shit now, ya know since that bitch black mailed him."
"What?"asked Amanda looking over at her.
"A year or two ago, there was this chick Dana Poole, popular, she coulda fucked any guy in the school but she wanted Mr.Senate or something. No one really knows what exactly happened, the common story was they kissed and stuff, PG stuff then she blackmailed him to keep a friend from suspension or something,"said Miranda,"Since then, he's on his guard around the females. The pretty ones, the fugly ones he doesn't worry too much about, they wouldn't know how to seduce a dog if they had instructions." Amanda snickered slightly and sat back as she looked up at Harry who was at the front of the class with his back to them going through some papers.
"Hey Marty,"said Karen as a guy sat down in the seat in front of Amanda. He turned around and smiled at her, looking her up and down slightly.
"Whose you're friend Karrie?"asked Marty.
"AJ, she's new,"said Karen.
"Oh new girl, heard about you. Whole school has, you're the Nazi's daughter,"said Marty.
"Marty,"said Karen warningly. Marty turned in his seat to another guy sitting a few seats up.
"Hey Derick, you said Guber's daughter was gonna be a dog, man she's damn fine,"said Marty loudly drawing the attention of the class, even Harry stopped and turned around. Amanda sat there still as everyone's eyes gazed over her.
"Marty you're such an ass,"said Miranda breaking the silence,"No wonder everyone hates you."
"Okay class settle down,"said Harry as the bell rang,"Can I get you to bring up your schedule and stuff." Amanda nodded and pulled the papers out and walked to the front of the class. She handed her papers to Harry who looked them over and signed the confirmation papers. He then seen her class card, it was only the third day of class and she had one. Class cards were given to serial skippers to give them a realization to how many classes they were skipping by having the teachers inital for each class they were in.
"Didn't know these were given yet,"said Harry as he initaled it.
"I'm just special,"said Amanda smiling as she took everything back from him and walked back to her desk.
"Okay just to get over the whole star shine, AJ is it?"asked Harry looking over at Amanda. Amanda nodded.
"Well you now offically have celebrity status, yes she is Mr.Guber's daughter. There it's out let's leave it, who cares just be nice to her,"said Harry.
"Geesh remind me to thank Guber for giving us such a gift,"said one of the guys looking back at Amanda.
"Timmy, watch it,"said Harry.
As class went on Harry talked about the class, his expectations and such as most of the class nodded off or got involved in their own conversations. Amanda listened to Miranda and Karen babble as she watched Harry.
"Hey AJ, what are you doing this weekend?"asked Karen.
"I dunno,"said Amanda pulling her gaze away from Harry and on to Karen.
"There's a party going on you interested?"asked Karen.
"Maybe,"said Amanda,"I'll see."
"Cool,"said Karen.
"Hey,"cried Amanda walking out of the kitchen with a can of pop in her hand,"Oh hi, man you get home late."
"Yes, well, I see you've kept yourself busy,"said Scott.
"Well I slept, went on your computer, watched TV, ate, called people,"said Amanda,"So what's for dinner?"
"Well I'm not quite sure, I've never really had to have dinner for someone else,"said Scott.
"Dude can we order pizza?"asked Amanda.
"I suppose,"said Scott pulling out his wallet to make sure he had money. Amanda smiled and pulled a twenty out of Scott's hand as she skipped to the phone.
When she was done she walked back into the living room where Scott was sitting on the couch.
"Hey you don't let people smoke in your house do ya?"asked Amanda going through her purse she had left disguarded on the loveseat.
"Pardon? You smoke?"asked Scott.
"Yeah, well occasionally, not everyday just ya whenever,"shrugged Amanda.
"Amanda, you do realize that will kill you. It only takes one cigarette to get you addicted,"said Scott following her as she walked through the kitchen to the back pourch.
"Hey, it's AJ, not Amanda,"said Amanda,"And I know the whole cancer thing, the addiction thing and all that crap but I choose to smoke." Amanda slide open the sliding doors and walked out on the pourch where she lit up her cigarette.
"AJ?"asked Scott.
"Amanda Jane, everyone calls me AJ,"said Amanda,"Look I had a couple of smokes today but I had them outside, if you don't smoke or want people in your house smoking that's cool."
"I don't want anyone in my family smoking,"said Scott.
"Well you can't control everyone in your family so chill out,"snapped Amanda.
"And another thing, you're getting signed up for school tomorrow,"said Scott knowing he had lost one fight he wanted to get one last one in there for chance.
"Fine,"said Amanda calmly taking a drag.
"Do you realize how stupid you look with that thing?"asked Scott trying to take another stab at the smoking issue.
"About as stupid as I look calling you Dad,"said Amanda sarcastically.
"Pardon? What in the world is that suppose to mean?"asked Scott. Amanda took a drag off her smoke and looked at him like he was stupid. She stepped back a bit and drew a smirky grin on her face.
"Well c'mon it's been like what? Six years since we even spent a day together, c'mon we're practically strangers, you're not a dad and I'm not Daddy's girl,"said Amanda.
"That isn't my fault I made countless attempts only to be shot down by you and your mother,"said Scott defensively.
"Nobody is saying it's your fault,"said Amanda shrugging,"Shit happens, all I'm saying is it's weird and dumb for me to call you Dad. A dad is someone who's there, someone you accept and he accepts you."
"Our difference will be something we will work on and deal with,"said Scott.
"Sure,"said Amanda stamping out her cigarette and walking in.
**** The next morning at seven o'clock Amanda walked into Winslow High's halls for the first time. The place was deserted besides for the odd teacher. She walked behind Scott who lead her to the office, they weren't talking since they exchanged words on the choice of clothes she wore. She wore a pair of low cut tight black pants with hints of her royal blue thong peeking out and a white short white tank top showing a lot of cleavage. The sound of her heels clicking on the floor echoed through the wall as she seen two young female teachers stop mid stairs as they watched her and her father walk by. Amanda looked up at them and stared at them as if they were crazy as she continued on.
They walked into the office and were greeted by a smiling young woman.
"Good morning Scott,"said Lousia observing the young girl behind Scott. She looked like a hell raiser, just another to the pack, she wore the barely there clothes and had the temptress stance but her face was was drew the eyes. Lousia had to admit Scott had a goregous daughter, seemed odd, though she had no real idea as to what his daughter might look like.
"Good morning Lousia,"said Scott nodding. He looked at Lousia who was standing there eagerly looking to be introduced to the young girl.
"Lousia, this is Amanda, my daughter,"said Scott.
"It's AJ,"said Amanda detterminaly. Scott sighed and continued walking into his office with Amanda following. He set down his briefcase and took his jacket off.
"You can take a seat and I'll get you the neccessary registration sheets,"said Scott. Amanda sat down and looked around the office, nothing about it was too great it was pretty boring and dull just like Scott. Sighing she sat back and tapped her fingers against the arm of the chair.
"Scott, I want to talk to," Amanda whirled around to see a tall dark haired man stilled in the door way with his hand still on the door knob. Their eyes meet and locked in a moment of silence, Amanda immediately wanted to know who this guy was because she liked what she saw.
"I'm sorry, I was looking for Mr.Guber,"said the man slowly.
"I'm his daughter,"said Amanda,"He just went to get registration papers."
"Oh,"said the man.
"I'm AJ Guber,"said Amanda reaching out with her hand.
"Harry Senate,"said the man taking her hand and shaking it.
"Do you teach here?"asked Amanda.
"Yeah,"said Harry nodding.
"Harry can I help you?"asked Scott walking in the doorframe past Harry and into the office breaking the moment.
"Yeah, but your busy I'll talk to you later,"said Harry taking one last look at Amanda then leaving the office.
"Okay, here you are I want you to fill these out. Now we're going to need your school records and I'll have them sent from your last school but until then I'll go on your own word,"said Scott.
"So much trust,"muttered Amanda as she filled out the forms.
Once done she gave the forms back and Scott gave them to Lousia to get a schedule set for Amanda. At nine am, twenty minutes after classes had started Amanda had a schedule and was looking around for Ms.Cook's class. Once she found it she knocked on the door and walked in, she found a skinny, blond lady speaking to the class.
"Can I help you?"asked Ronnie Cook walking over to the door where Amanda stood.
"Yeah I'm new,"said Amanda handing her the schedule. Ronnie checked it over and seen Amanda's name printed at the top.
"Okay welcome to the class, class this is Amanda Guber,"said Ronnie.
"AJ, not Amanda,"said Amanda cooly.
"Okay, AJ Guber,"said Ronnie,"AJ, you can take a seat anywhere that's free." Amanda walked through the class as they stared at her and she took a seat in the middle of the room. She crossed her legs and leaned back in her chair.
"Hey you related to Mr.Guber?"asked the guy next to her loudly.
"I'm his daughter,"said Amanda cooly as she looked over at him.
"Damn, never thought the Nazi had it in him,"said the guy.
"What the hell is that suppose to mean?"asked Amanda,"He's no Nazi."
"He walks around here like he's Hilter or something,"said the girl in from of Amanda.
"Class quiet down now and have some respect for AJ,"said Ronnie scoldingly.
"Well number one my dad's Jewish, number two if you are intimadated by him you guys are nuts,"said Amanda.
"Nobody's scared of him, he's just nuts,"said the girl.
"Okay can we carry on with class please,"said Ronnie.
*** It was last class of the day and with the help of a few girls she met in second block she found everything with ease. They had told her that her last class of the day was in 'the dungeon' with Harry Senate. It took a few minutes but it clicked that was the man she had met earlier in her father's office.
"Well maybe this school isn't so bad,"said Amanda as she was lead into class by two girls from her morning classes, Miranda Eyrea and Karen Byrnes.
"Winslow has it's perks,"said Miranda as they walked to the back of the class and sat down in the back three seats. As Amanda sat down she watched as Harry Senate walked into the class.
"And there is one of the very fine, fine, perks,"said Karen smiling as she leaned over to Amanda.
"Yeah,"said Amanda softly.
"Ugh, but he's been tainted,"said Miranda,"He's all cautious and shit now, ya know since that bitch black mailed him."
"What?"asked Amanda looking over at her.
"A year or two ago, there was this chick Dana Poole, popular, she coulda fucked any guy in the school but she wanted Mr.Senate or something. No one really knows what exactly happened, the common story was they kissed and stuff, PG stuff then she blackmailed him to keep a friend from suspension or something,"said Miranda,"Since then, he's on his guard around the females. The pretty ones, the fugly ones he doesn't worry too much about, they wouldn't know how to seduce a dog if they had instructions." Amanda snickered slightly and sat back as she looked up at Harry who was at the front of the class with his back to them going through some papers.
"Hey Marty,"said Karen as a guy sat down in the seat in front of Amanda. He turned around and smiled at her, looking her up and down slightly.
"Whose you're friend Karrie?"asked Marty.
"AJ, she's new,"said Karen.
"Oh new girl, heard about you. Whole school has, you're the Nazi's daughter,"said Marty.
"Marty,"said Karen warningly. Marty turned in his seat to another guy sitting a few seats up.
"Hey Derick, you said Guber's daughter was gonna be a dog, man she's damn fine,"said Marty loudly drawing the attention of the class, even Harry stopped and turned around. Amanda sat there still as everyone's eyes gazed over her.
"Marty you're such an ass,"said Miranda breaking the silence,"No wonder everyone hates you."
"Okay class settle down,"said Harry as the bell rang,"Can I get you to bring up your schedule and stuff." Amanda nodded and pulled the papers out and walked to the front of the class. She handed her papers to Harry who looked them over and signed the confirmation papers. He then seen her class card, it was only the third day of class and she had one. Class cards were given to serial skippers to give them a realization to how many classes they were skipping by having the teachers inital for each class they were in.
"Didn't know these were given yet,"said Harry as he initaled it.
"I'm just special,"said Amanda smiling as she took everything back from him and walked back to her desk.
"Okay just to get over the whole star shine, AJ is it?"asked Harry looking over at Amanda. Amanda nodded.
"Well you now offically have celebrity status, yes she is Mr.Guber's daughter. There it's out let's leave it, who cares just be nice to her,"said Harry.
"Geesh remind me to thank Guber for giving us such a gift,"said one of the guys looking back at Amanda.
"Timmy, watch it,"said Harry.
As class went on Harry talked about the class, his expectations and such as most of the class nodded off or got involved in their own conversations. Amanda listened to Miranda and Karen babble as she watched Harry.
"Hey AJ, what are you doing this weekend?"asked Karen.
"I dunno,"said Amanda pulling her gaze away from Harry and on to Karen.
"There's a party going on you interested?"asked Karen.
"Maybe,"said Amanda,"I'll see."
"Cool,"said Karen.