The next monday Helena entered in the Principal's office and she saw him
sat in his chair and in front of his desk, to Barbara; the redhead locked
her eye in her. The girl took a deep breath and sat in front of her. The
Principal played with a pen between his fingers.
"Good morning miss Kyle, Want to say something to me?"
Helena blushed and down her face. "No."
"Want to say something to miss Gordon?"
Helena looked Barbara afraid. Barbara raised one's eyebrowns.
"Okay, so I'll give you an assessment of the damage miss Gordon. Miss Helena Kyle clogged the sinks and the students bathrooms flooded." Helena put an elbow over the desk and covered her face with her hand, she wanted kill the gossip of Stuart Thomsen "We had a little flood there, maybe you could saw the water running in the stairs miss Gordon."
Barbara swallowed and nodded.
"Maybe you would put a little most of attention in your girl before she will be in a very big trouble."
"Yes Principal." Barbara said.
"You are one of our best professors. I know is hard take care of a teen but if it was your choice I'm glad for that; but you need take more care of her. Is not a good image for you that your adopted child is a real mess in school."
"She is a good student, she." Barbara explained to him.
"I know is a good student" the Principal interrupted her "But it don't give her the right to do all those things."
"Yes, true."
"Miss Kyle, I'm not going to suspend you for Ms. Barbara; but you need do a extra job for a week in the library." He wrote a message in a paper and gave it to her "Give it to the manager of it. I don't want see this young lady again here in a very long time. That's all you can go. Ms. Barbara I need talk with you alone."
Helena looked Barbara worried and tried to say something but she didn't find he words. The face of sadness on Barbara made her feel so guilty.
"Its okay Helena, go," Barbara whispered.
Helena went out but she didn't go; she sat in the chair outside the Principal's office waiting for Barbara nervous. She had expected that the Principal scolded her, but he had scolded Barbara and sure he was yet doing that to her.
She was the one that deserved the telling off, not Barbara, she had been always trying to help and guide her. She had failed to her mentor once again. She waited almost an hour; finally the red head went off his office. She stood up waiting a scold but Barbara just patted her arm and wheeled outside. She knew Barbara was very disappointed.
"Barbara." She mumbled following her.
"It's okay Hel," Barbara stopped and said to her in sweet voice "don't worry; just don't clogged the sinks. Go to your classes, okay?"
"But."
Barbara wheeled to her classroom. Helena felt like garbage, it was all her fault and the only one hurt had been Barbara. She watched her go, and later walked to her classroom.
* * *
Gibson and Helena sat at the gardens in High school eating their lunch under a tree. Gibson had noticed that his friend's mood was much better; she smiled and made jokes now. But today she seemed to be sad after the visit to the Principal's office.
"Are you happy now?" He asked her.
"Well, I'm okay, Barbara is a good person; she takes care of me and always asks me how am I, if I need something she helped me and at the same time she gave me my own space." Helena picked up her peanut butter sandwich.
"She wasn't mad when you arrived drunk at your home?" Gibson lied over the grass.
"She was really pissed, but she didn't show it to me."
"How do you know she was pissed?"
"Her look, I know her look when she is mad with me." Helena bit into her sandwich "And when I saw that look I'll started to worry."
"She punished you when you make her feel mad?"
"No, something worst. When she is really mad she just tells me what she didn't like, and later she kept silence all day; its like a thumb; that put me really nervous. She makes me felt guilty."
"And that is unfair?"
"No, that's the worse, she is right; and that makes me feel worse; but I couldn't admit it in front of her that she is right."
"Why not?" Gibson scratched his head.
"Gibson!!!" Helena hit him.
"Oh, yea, I know, proud thing. And what happened today at Principal's office, you didn't tell me yet." Gibson sat and opened his lunch box.
"Stuart is a coward, as soon as the Principal entered the classroom he said my name and nobody asked him. We are almost 1,300 students anybody could be. And he opened his big mouth. The Principal called me today in the morning and called Barbara too." Helena took a sip of her coke.
"She lectured you?"
"No, he lectured her. He just gave me social work, a week in the library. I felt so bad; I waited for Barbara outside until she came out. I was waiting for her to lecture me. She just smiled and told me, 'It's okay Hel, don't worry; just don't clog the sinks again. Go to your classes, okay?' I could see in her face that she was so sad, and now I feel like very big garbage."
"Bad week ah?"
"Awful, I took the Hummer with out permission on Saturday and I hit the wheel on the sidewalk; I broke it. I was waiting a big lecture and she just told me: 'If you think your own choices is because you know what are you doing and you are assuming the responsibility of your actions, okay, now is your responsibility the repairs.' I would prefer her shouting me or something like that, but she never raises her voice. That was all and she was happy the rest of the day."
"Happy?"
"I didn't understand either until I realized that she annoyed me. I needed to pay; it cost me so much that Barbara reduce my monthly allowance by 4 months. I couldn't go out now. I only have money for a few things." Helena exclaimed.
"Oh.!" Gibson laughed.
"I never imagined a Hummer wheel was so expensive! Of course I never would touch that car again. She is intelligent, if she shouted at me I am sure will do it again, but with that. she put me against the floor today; I'm feel bad for her, I'm always in troubles. She gives her best effort and I only gave her disappointments"
"What happened when she saw you drunk?"
"Well, here she took revenge" Helena took out her next sandwich "she didn't say a word but every time I saw her I almost could listen her telling me: 'I told you, now hold on'" Helena imitated her voice. "And later she blackmailed me."
"She what?"
"She wanted me to I train, and of course I didn't want to." Helena explained lying back in the grass too "She used that mistake to jump over me. I don't know how she always do that I do the things that she want. Is the only one that had could do that. I hate that because she closed me all the roads and at the end I choose exactly what she wants."
"Training for what?" Gibson asked curious. Was the first time in long time that some one could win Helena and control her rebellious actions.
"She knows I'm Meta, and she tells that I have many skills and she wants develop it to make me a hero." Helena looked him; Gibson was her confidant and he knew all about her, her story and Barbara.
"You a hero? That was good!" Gibson laughed Helena glared to him. "Okay, I'm sorry."
"I didn't want be a hero! I'm not sure I want be as him!" Helena lowered her head.
"Why not? Your father was a marvelous Hero."
"For me he just is a 'him' okay?"
"You would be a great hero. I can be your partner."
Helena laughed "Don't be foolish." The ring bell turned on and the boys picked up their things and walked inside the building running. * * * Barbara wheeled inside the Delphi's. She was still upset with the problem of Helena at school; but she knew she must be intelligent to manage it and to control the girl; Helena used to contradict rules. Alfred looked her and he greeted her. He stood up to her side while she typed in the keyboard.
"Good day miss Barbara?"
"The correct word would be awful."
"What she did today?"
"She clogged the sinks in the bathrooms. Big flood in the stairways. I had a long meeting at Principal's office about how took care of a rebellious teen." Barbara sighed and gave him a paper.
"What is this?" Alfred took the paper.
We need to pay the repairmen and the plumbers. Give it to my accountant please, I need to give a check to the school."
"Are you going to punish her?"
"I don't think so, if I gave her a lecture it would go in her right ear and out her left, she is so stubborn. Now she feels bad because the Principal yelled at me and not her; maybe that would make her think her about her behavior." Barbara turned her wheelchair to him "She is a good girl, but she loves prove she is most smart and that she could break the rules with out a problem; I think she is trying to prove to her self she don't need anyone and that she could survive alone. But, she didn't realize it. And in her way she took me with her in her problems." Barbara suddenly began to laugh and Alfred looked her surprised.
"Do you feel okay Miss Barbara?"
"Yes Alfred just. that Helena is so clever and witty; sometimes I did a really big effort to not laugh with her wicked things. Tell me who could have in mind clogged the sinks of the bathrooms? Just her."
"The Hummer wasn't funny." Alfred said "You were really mad."
"Well Alfred yes, but you couldn't deny was fun find her trying to repair the tire heating up a knife with Gibson in the parking lot." Barbara laughed again and Alfred smiled too.
"Well, yes, was funny, you are right."
"She looked for me after classes to talk with me about the "spiked" thing. I told her that we can eat dinner and talk about that so. I need go to a parent-teacher conference and later I'll go to catch her in a restaurant in the Center Town. If you want, you can leave early." Barbara watched her clock "I need take a bath and later I'll go."
"Good morning miss Kyle, Want to say something to me?"
Helena blushed and down her face. "No."
"Want to say something to miss Gordon?"
Helena looked Barbara afraid. Barbara raised one's eyebrowns.
"Okay, so I'll give you an assessment of the damage miss Gordon. Miss Helena Kyle clogged the sinks and the students bathrooms flooded." Helena put an elbow over the desk and covered her face with her hand, she wanted kill the gossip of Stuart Thomsen "We had a little flood there, maybe you could saw the water running in the stairs miss Gordon."
Barbara swallowed and nodded.
"Maybe you would put a little most of attention in your girl before she will be in a very big trouble."
"Yes Principal." Barbara said.
"You are one of our best professors. I know is hard take care of a teen but if it was your choice I'm glad for that; but you need take more care of her. Is not a good image for you that your adopted child is a real mess in school."
"She is a good student, she." Barbara explained to him.
"I know is a good student" the Principal interrupted her "But it don't give her the right to do all those things."
"Yes, true."
"Miss Kyle, I'm not going to suspend you for Ms. Barbara; but you need do a extra job for a week in the library." He wrote a message in a paper and gave it to her "Give it to the manager of it. I don't want see this young lady again here in a very long time. That's all you can go. Ms. Barbara I need talk with you alone."
Helena looked Barbara worried and tried to say something but she didn't find he words. The face of sadness on Barbara made her feel so guilty.
"Its okay Helena, go," Barbara whispered.
Helena went out but she didn't go; she sat in the chair outside the Principal's office waiting for Barbara nervous. She had expected that the Principal scolded her, but he had scolded Barbara and sure he was yet doing that to her.
She was the one that deserved the telling off, not Barbara, she had been always trying to help and guide her. She had failed to her mentor once again. She waited almost an hour; finally the red head went off his office. She stood up waiting a scold but Barbara just patted her arm and wheeled outside. She knew Barbara was very disappointed.
"Barbara." She mumbled following her.
"It's okay Hel," Barbara stopped and said to her in sweet voice "don't worry; just don't clogged the sinks. Go to your classes, okay?"
"But."
Barbara wheeled to her classroom. Helena felt like garbage, it was all her fault and the only one hurt had been Barbara. She watched her go, and later walked to her classroom.
* * *
Gibson and Helena sat at the gardens in High school eating their lunch under a tree. Gibson had noticed that his friend's mood was much better; she smiled and made jokes now. But today she seemed to be sad after the visit to the Principal's office.
"Are you happy now?" He asked her.
"Well, I'm okay, Barbara is a good person; she takes care of me and always asks me how am I, if I need something she helped me and at the same time she gave me my own space." Helena picked up her peanut butter sandwich.
"She wasn't mad when you arrived drunk at your home?" Gibson lied over the grass.
"She was really pissed, but she didn't show it to me."
"How do you know she was pissed?"
"Her look, I know her look when she is mad with me." Helena bit into her sandwich "And when I saw that look I'll started to worry."
"She punished you when you make her feel mad?"
"No, something worst. When she is really mad she just tells me what she didn't like, and later she kept silence all day; its like a thumb; that put me really nervous. She makes me felt guilty."
"And that is unfair?"
"No, that's the worse, she is right; and that makes me feel worse; but I couldn't admit it in front of her that she is right."
"Why not?" Gibson scratched his head.
"Gibson!!!" Helena hit him.
"Oh, yea, I know, proud thing. And what happened today at Principal's office, you didn't tell me yet." Gibson sat and opened his lunch box.
"Stuart is a coward, as soon as the Principal entered the classroom he said my name and nobody asked him. We are almost 1,300 students anybody could be. And he opened his big mouth. The Principal called me today in the morning and called Barbara too." Helena took a sip of her coke.
"She lectured you?"
"No, he lectured her. He just gave me social work, a week in the library. I felt so bad; I waited for Barbara outside until she came out. I was waiting for her to lecture me. She just smiled and told me, 'It's okay Hel, don't worry; just don't clog the sinks again. Go to your classes, okay?' I could see in her face that she was so sad, and now I feel like very big garbage."
"Bad week ah?"
"Awful, I took the Hummer with out permission on Saturday and I hit the wheel on the sidewalk; I broke it. I was waiting a big lecture and she just told me: 'If you think your own choices is because you know what are you doing and you are assuming the responsibility of your actions, okay, now is your responsibility the repairs.' I would prefer her shouting me or something like that, but she never raises her voice. That was all and she was happy the rest of the day."
"Happy?"
"I didn't understand either until I realized that she annoyed me. I needed to pay; it cost me so much that Barbara reduce my monthly allowance by 4 months. I couldn't go out now. I only have money for a few things." Helena exclaimed.
"Oh.!" Gibson laughed.
"I never imagined a Hummer wheel was so expensive! Of course I never would touch that car again. She is intelligent, if she shouted at me I am sure will do it again, but with that. she put me against the floor today; I'm feel bad for her, I'm always in troubles. She gives her best effort and I only gave her disappointments"
"What happened when she saw you drunk?"
"Well, here she took revenge" Helena took out her next sandwich "she didn't say a word but every time I saw her I almost could listen her telling me: 'I told you, now hold on'" Helena imitated her voice. "And later she blackmailed me."
"She what?"
"She wanted me to I train, and of course I didn't want to." Helena explained lying back in the grass too "She used that mistake to jump over me. I don't know how she always do that I do the things that she want. Is the only one that had could do that. I hate that because she closed me all the roads and at the end I choose exactly what she wants."
"Training for what?" Gibson asked curious. Was the first time in long time that some one could win Helena and control her rebellious actions.
"She knows I'm Meta, and she tells that I have many skills and she wants develop it to make me a hero." Helena looked him; Gibson was her confidant and he knew all about her, her story and Barbara.
"You a hero? That was good!" Gibson laughed Helena glared to him. "Okay, I'm sorry."
"I didn't want be a hero! I'm not sure I want be as him!" Helena lowered her head.
"Why not? Your father was a marvelous Hero."
"For me he just is a 'him' okay?"
"You would be a great hero. I can be your partner."
Helena laughed "Don't be foolish." The ring bell turned on and the boys picked up their things and walked inside the building running. * * * Barbara wheeled inside the Delphi's. She was still upset with the problem of Helena at school; but she knew she must be intelligent to manage it and to control the girl; Helena used to contradict rules. Alfred looked her and he greeted her. He stood up to her side while she typed in the keyboard.
"Good day miss Barbara?"
"The correct word would be awful."
"What she did today?"
"She clogged the sinks in the bathrooms. Big flood in the stairways. I had a long meeting at Principal's office about how took care of a rebellious teen." Barbara sighed and gave him a paper.
"What is this?" Alfred took the paper.
We need to pay the repairmen and the plumbers. Give it to my accountant please, I need to give a check to the school."
"Are you going to punish her?"
"I don't think so, if I gave her a lecture it would go in her right ear and out her left, she is so stubborn. Now she feels bad because the Principal yelled at me and not her; maybe that would make her think her about her behavior." Barbara turned her wheelchair to him "She is a good girl, but she loves prove she is most smart and that she could break the rules with out a problem; I think she is trying to prove to her self she don't need anyone and that she could survive alone. But, she didn't realize it. And in her way she took me with her in her problems." Barbara suddenly began to laugh and Alfred looked her surprised.
"Do you feel okay Miss Barbara?"
"Yes Alfred just. that Helena is so clever and witty; sometimes I did a really big effort to not laugh with her wicked things. Tell me who could have in mind clogged the sinks of the bathrooms? Just her."
"The Hummer wasn't funny." Alfred said "You were really mad."
"Well Alfred yes, but you couldn't deny was fun find her trying to repair the tire heating up a knife with Gibson in the parking lot." Barbara laughed again and Alfred smiled too.
"Well, yes, was funny, you are right."
"She looked for me after classes to talk with me about the "spiked" thing. I told her that we can eat dinner and talk about that so. I need go to a parent-teacher conference and later I'll go to catch her in a restaurant in the Center Town. If you want, you can leave early." Barbara watched her clock "I need take a bath and later I'll go."