Seconed Chances

Thinking of Mayhem

Drake had no idea what to do about his little 'situation' with Matthew. He really wanted to apologize like he did with Wendy, but it wasn't really that easy with a guy like Matthew. Drake was sitting on his bed, guitar in hand, but he had no inspiration to play at the time.

Josh was practically begging to know why Drake was so sad lately. Josh should stop budding into his business; it was getting annoying, really. Every time they were in the same room, Josh would start pestering him about what happened with Matthew. It was like 'Drake, what up with you and Matthew?' or 'Tell me, I can help you!' and frankly, Drake was fed up with it.

1st Period the Next Day

"C'mon Matthew, will you please forgive me? I just lost control." Drake pleaded.

Matthew just ignored him and pretended to do his work. Drake knew he really wasn't doing his work, on the inside, Matthew was just like Drake: Pretending to be cool, not doing his work, and trying to flatter the ladies with what he called 'the charm'. Why couldn't this kid just listen to what Drake had to say? Was it really that hard?

"Will you please just listen?" Drake asked.

" No, I won't! Just leave me alone, will you? You obviously don't want to talk to me, so just bug off will you?" Matthew ferociously whispered.

" Fine then, I won't apologize, I'll just let you be mad at me for the rest of my life!" Drake whispered back. Then he walked out of the room. He didn't want to talk with anyone; he just wanted to be alone. He just got blown off by a sixth grader! No one blew off Drake Parker, especially a sixth grader, without Drake getting revenge. Like when he was 15, he went out with Susan, but she cheated on him and tried to go out with Josh, but Drake got his revenge. He put goo in her locker, so when she opened it, she got covered in the stuff! That was hilarious!

Drake absentmindedly walked around the school for about a half an hour, then got bored. This school was big, but he had no intention to explore it. Drake sighed, then walked back towards room 712.

When he got there, he expected to see Josh at the front of the room, teaching. But that wasn't what he saw. What he saw was much more exciting. Josh was tied to a chair, silver duct tape covering his mouth, frantically kicking his legs. The kids were all up around and moving. Not one person was sitting in their chair, and you'll never guess who was leading this group: ok, maybe you will. It was Matthew Dombrosky. He was up jumping around, screaming. Chairs were all around, some were on their sides, and the kids were climbing all over them like they were pieces of a broken jungle gym. Drake really didn't know what to do; he really wanted the kids to have fun, but then again, if he didn't stop this mad rush of kids, Josh wouldn't get his teaching thing. " Everybody!" He yelled. They all just ignored him. Why didn't the other teachers come and sort this out? Oh, yeah. They were all student teachers as well, and had they're own students to deal with. Drake was also prepared to bet their students weren't as rowdy as this bunch. He walked over to the front of the room and stood on a chair that was upright. "EVERYONE BE QUIET!" he yelled.

"Why should we listen to you?" Austin Nakatani yelled.

"Because I am older and more wiser than you." He said simply.

Renae walked towards the front of the room and whispered to Drake, " I think you mean, ' because I am older and wiser than you are', right?"

Drake didn't say anything for a minute, then said "Whatever you need to sit down in your chair, ok? Just do as I tell you for a minute. That goes for everybody!"

Everyone didn't really feel like messing with Drake, so they obeyed him. Josh suddenly fell over, on his side. Everybody burst out laughing, accompanied by Drake himself. Still chuckling, Drake walked over to his stepbrother, and untied him. He also pulled off the silver duct tape, which made Josh wince. "You're a geek, you know that?" Drake asked, as he smiled at his brother. It wasn't made to be an insult; it was made to be a friendly joke between brothers.

"Yeah, I know. But I've gotten to be more of a coolie-o sort of guy, right?" Josh asked, with a weird sort of hand motion that made many of the students' snigger.

"Yeah… don't ever do that in public again. Come to think of it, don't ever do that in private either." Drake said, freaked out.

"Ok, but thanks for settling down the students. Who knew sixth graders could be so violent?" Josh asked.

"Anytime, bro. But are you going to do the after-school thing today?"

"Yeah, why? Are you going to do the music thing today?"

" I was only going to do it if you were going to do the study group. So I guess I will. Do you mind if I pull out Alex and Renae for a second? I really need to talk to them, ok?" Drake asked.

"Ok, what do you need to talk to them about?"

"You'll see this afternoon. Alex, Renae, follow me." He said, walking out of the room.

They followed Drake out of the classroom and further down the hallway, towards a small bench.

" I need you two to help me apologize to Matthew this afternoon after school." Drake said suddenly.

"Why is this bothering you so much? It's not that big a deal, really." Alex stated.

" It is a big deal to me. Don't ask why, but I don't like it when people are mad at me."

"Ok, we'll help you." Renae said, cutting off Alex's drawn breath, ready to talk.

" Thanks, guys I really appreciate it. Now my plan is…" he said.