-1Chapter 5

A Late Start

The next morning, Daisy and Victoria met up with Freddy and Todd for breakfast. Daisy convinced Todd to skip first period, so that they could sneak into the teachers lounge and steal some of the teachers hidden stash of food. Freddy tried to get Victoria to skip first period too and go hang out behind the bleachers, but she said no, because first period was her sculpting class and she didn't want to miss it. Disappointed, but considerate, he decided not to push her and just simply waited for school to get out to hang out with her.

3 p.m. came rolling around and everyone rushed to get out of the building. It was Friday and no one wanted to hang around school any longer.

Freddy waited outside the school's doors for Victoria, his nerves made his stomach churn; Victoria was about 15 minutes late and still hasn't showed up. When he got tired of waiting he began looking for one of her sisters. Unfortunately the only ones that he could find were the snobbiest ones of all, Tiffany and Missy. Instincts told him to turn back around and look for the other two, but his nerves were doing all the talking for him.

'Man, I hope everything's okay.' he thought to himself, as he slowly approached the two girls, 'God! Why do I get this feeling that Vicky probably stood me up? Peitro told me that if you go out on a date with a girl and she says that she's gonna meet up with you at a planned time and she doesn't it usually means that she's not interested anymore…' he groans to himself miserably, 'Why do I always fall for the girls that are leading me on? Is this gonna be another Jean Gray episode? Man… This sucks! Why do I always have to fall for the girl who's nicest to me? Maybe she's late for a good reason. Maybe she got caught up on her art work or something or maybe-Uh-Oh! Tiffany and Missy just noticed me! Okay. Now relax. Take a deep breath.' he did as he commanded himself, then let it go before approaching the two Creed sisters, "Hey, girls. Do you two know where Vicky is?"

Tiffany shrugged, "Don't know, don't care. I have a hot date tonight and those plans don't include a mousy little sister."

Missy gave him a sour look, "I could care less about Victoria. Once Daddy stopped paying me to baby sit her ass I stopped caring. You might want to ask Sasha, she's the one who's constantly babying her."

"And where's she at?"

"At the library, working the front desk." answered Tiffany, "You can't miss her."

"Thanks." he walked off towards the library and found Sasha sitting at the front desk, bent over, and reading a rather large book. "Um… Hi, Sasha."

Sasha looked up from her book and pressed a finger to her lips, "Shh This is a library, if you wish to speak, I must ask you to keep your voice down to a minimum whisper. Other students are trying to study."

"Sorry." he bent down to her level, "I was suppose to be waiting for Vicky after school today-"

"Then why aren't you?"

"Well, she hasn't showed up. I've been waiting for over 15 minutes and-"

"You think that she stood you up, right?"

"Uh…"

"It's alright. I understand where you are coming from. You, a young adolescent male, whom I presume has never had a girlfriend before?" she waited for Freddy's response, which he remained silent. She smiled and continued, "Young men, like you, when it comes to matters of the heart tend to become territorial over their first female or in your case threatened and scared at the fact that she might not like you because of your physical flaws. Well, you need not worry. My sister is a very understanding person and if she truly cares about you, then she'll go out of her way just to make you happy. Though, in our family's case… It would seem nothing that she does could ever make them happy."

"What do you mean?"

"Let's just say that my sisters are in a way… Jealous. As for our father… That's another story all together."

"And what about you?"

Sasha chuckled lightly, "I love my little sister more than anything in the world and I would give my very life to protect her."

"Wow. What about Daisy?"

"Daisy? Well… Daisy tolerates Victoria more than Tiffany and Missy do, but there's not much to their relationship than that. But, unlike Tiffany and Missy, Daisy is very loyal and devoted to family, and no matter how much she's mad or hates you, she'll always be there at your side when you need her the most." Sasha smiled as she watched Freddy's expression change from nervous to very intrigued, "Now to answer your question as to where my little sister is, she is currently in detention."

"Detention? Vicky? What happened?"

"You have to ask her about that. I didn't get the chance to hear all of the information. I presume that you know where the detention hall is?"

"Yeah. Thanks." he started to turn, but a lingering question in the back of his mind made him stay, "No offense, but… How come you're so open and friendly right now, when last time you talked to me you practically threatened my life?"

"We just had a moment, don't ruin it by asking me questions that you should already know the answer to." she gave him a death glare that sent chills up his spine.

"R-ight. I'm gonna go this way now." he walks off in the direction of the detention room. When he arrived, he peeked into the room to see the teacher sleeping at the front desk and Victoria, who was the only student in there, looking very bored. Slowly he turned the handle of the door and poked his head in. Victoria noticed him right away. He motioned for her to come out, but she refused, mainly for the fact that she was scared of getting caught. 'It's okay." he mouthed, 'Just come real quietly, he won't even notice that you're gone.' After about a few minutes of coxing, Victoria finally caved in and snuck out. After they were a good ways away from the detention room, Freddy asked, "So, whatcha do to get thrown in there?"

"I don't wanna say."

"Come on. I won't tell. Promise."

"Well… Okay." she paused for a moment to collect her thoughts, "I sorta talked back to a teacher."

"Sorta?"

"Well… It wasn't exactly talking back, more along the lines of… Not doing what she wanted me to do."

"What was that?"

"It was a substitute art teacher today and she's like a total bitch. I noticed her going around the room telling students what she wanted them to put on their work, even though it didn't belong, and when they got up to take a break, she would sit down in their place and do what she want to their work. Everyone knew what she was doing, but didn't say anything. When she came to mine and tried to make me change my work completely, I told her no and when she saw that I wasn't gonna get up to take a break anytime soon, she started picking on me in front of the entire classroom. I kinda got mad and…" she paused and stared down at her feet, shuffling them uncomfortably.

"What?"

"I lost my temper and picked up my art work and threw at her feet. When it broke, I yelled at her saying, 'Here! Now, you can do whatever you want to it, cause now, no matter how much you fuck it up, it won't matter!' and then I told her that she was a stupid bitch and she could rot in hell for all I cared." quickly she added in, "I'm not normally like that, I swear! It's just-" her body began to tremble and Freddy automatically pulled her into a hug.

"It's okay. I understand."

"That woman just made me so mad! I shouldn't of lost my temper, though. Now dad's gonna hear about it and I'm gonna get into a lot of trouble!" she tried to fight back her tears.

"It's okay. It's okay." it was all that he could say.

She hugged onto him and sighed, "Can we get out of here now?"

"Sure. Where do you wanna go?"

"Anywhere, as long as we're away from this god forsaken school."

"Okay."

With that they left the school and walked to a video store, rented a marathon of Jay and Silent Bob movies, and bought lots and lots of movie junk food. They went to the Brother Hood House to watch them in the living room; accidentally falling asleep on the couch while watching the cartoon version of "Clerks".