On Monday I surprised Kai wasn't at school. I got a phone call from him in morning sounding kind of frail. "I've got a migraine. See you tomorrow." I didn't answer incase it made his head worse so I just hung up.

This meant I would be facing Miss. Bitch and Irene on my own. I sat beside Tala telling him where Kai was. "Yeah, he told me last night that he might not be in today." I wondered why Kai didn't tell me last night, only to realize my phone was switched off early yesterday.

"Good morning class. Today we shall be learning about algebra." Algebra, my greatest foe. I hated it beyond all comprehension. Sure I understood 7x+2x9x, but when it came to two paragraphs of them and getting a simple answer out of them…well; that was another story. No surprise I was sent to the front of the class when I couldn't answer the double paragraphs. God I wished Kai was here, I was sure he knew what she was going on about.

"Does anything penetrate that thick skull of yours?" I glared at her. 'Does anything penetrate that thick hide of yours?' I looked over to the spike on her table. You know, the kind that you stick little notes of paper on. An evil thought crossed my mind. In my daydream I slammed my hand on it and Miss. Bitch shrieked as well as the rest of the class. But I was quickly brought back to reality when she smacked a ruler down on her desk. "Well?"

I took a piece of chalk and wrote something that made everyone gasp and Miss. Bitch quiver with anger. Later I was in the principles office waiting for Hilary's mum to arrive.

The principle looked a bit like Mr. Dickinson only not as fat and his hair was gray. No smiled passed his lips as he looked at me seriously. Hilary's mum came in and looked at Miss. Bitch with recognition. "What have you done this time Ebony?" I looked at her with a blank look upon my face. "I'm afraid she wrote something upon the black board in math's."

"What was that?"

"She told me to shove my Algebra up my anus!" Miss. Faulkner cried hysterically. Hilary's mother snorted only to quickly pretend she was coughing. I went home with my aunt who had a big smile on her face. "You know her?" I finally asked when she suddenly burst out laughing at a safe distance from the school. "Yeah, and do you know what? I told her the same thing when we went to school together. She was a real toff in those days, too high strung in my opinion. Some things never change."

I wanted to text Kai to let him know I wouldn't be in school for the next two days due to me being suspended till further notice. But his phone was a bit loud and he was probably sleeping his migraine off.

The next day I woke to my phone going off at the time I would've been at school. I saw it was Kai and answered it. "Why aren't you at school?" I would've told him but I was too tired. I made a night of it yesterday by celebrating how I expressed my hate for algebra and that bitch at the same time. "I'll let Tala give you the details." I hung up and switched my phone off so I could go back to sleep without being disturbed.

KAI

'I'll let Tala give you the details?' What the hell did she mean by that? Well I asked Tala and smirked at what he told me. Trust me to miss something like that on one of the rare days I'm ill. "I wish I could've seen that."

"Yeah what a shame. I would give my left nut just to see that again." I really wondered where Tala learned to speak like that. Because then I would understand him a little better. "I guess I'll see Ebony after school." I texted her phone to meet me by the canal spot we usually meet. "Aw, true love." Tala sighed fluttering his eyes at me. He quickly stopped that when I threw a rubber at him. It hit him Right Square between the eyes making him back down.

It was at lunchtime I just realized that Irene didn't have to get through Ebony to get to me. Three seconds was all it took when she flung herself at me. I glared at the pest and told her I was already taken again and again. I shrugged her off using a lot of self-restraint to keep me from killing her.

After lunch she clung to my arm like an unwanted growth that needed getting rid of A.S.A.P. All her years of dirt was left on my skin where she had touched me making me feel ill. I would definitely be having a bath before I see her today. I had to turn away from her so I could breath, she was wearing far too much perfume that couldn't be good for one's health. We came towards the school fountain by the front and I pushed her in it. Her friends were close by and quickly escorted her to the changing rooms. I smirked for the rest of my time at school that day. I was even more pleased to hear Irene went home. (Probably because her perfect hair became frizzy beyond repair at school.) I smiled at the image of her fuzzy head.

When I got home I had a quick shower and made my way to the canal. Ebony was waiting for me and I told her about my day. She scowled at first when I told her Irene tried to get her claws in to me. But then she burst out laughing when I told her what I did. "I knew we didn't need each other all the time." I agreed and we sat back to watch the sunset.

EBONY

Kai took me back home as we reminisced about the past couple of days. I really loved the time we spent together. I had more of it now I completed the stage and all I had to do was wait for the play to begin. The other thing keeping me from Kai was a month worth of detentions after school for my use of 'extreme language' was how Miss. Bitch put it. Extreme? Maybe if I said stick it up your pussy and fuck it. But stick it up your ass? Hmm.

"Hold on. I thought you have a photographic memory. So why didn't you just work it out?" I sighed at Kai's observation. "There are certain things I can't do. Like solving hard math's problems for instance e.g. double paragraphed algebra. I'll get a B for math's but so what, like I'm gonna get a job that requires math's."

"You've got fifty million pounds in your bank and you're still going to get a job?" I gave Kai a piercing look. "I may be rich now Kai but I was raised to work and know the meaning of money. Sure I'll enjoy it for the rest of my life when I retire or something but until then I'm going to university and then I'm going to work." Kai frowned. "You think I don't know the meaning of money? I had to find that out the hard way."

"Sorry." I said and he shrugged. "You weren't to know. It's perfectly understandable, I've always been rich so first thought would be I wouldn't understand the meaning of money." I know he meant to sound understandable but it made me feel even guiltier. "Sorry." Kai smiled and kissed my forehead. "That's why I love you. You speak your mind."

"So do you." He dropped me home after another day and detention.