Chapter 12: Fast Enemies
It's the next day. Jake and David haven't talked to each other since last night when they got into that argument. Jake accidently bumps into David when he turns the corner going to his next class.
"I'm sorry Dude." Jake said to him not noticing he bumped into David.
"Sure you are Jake." David said to him.
"Oh, it's you. Then I guess I'm not sorry." Jake then said to him.
"I just said that to you." David told him as he was getting up from the ground.
"You don't have to give me an attitude." Jake then told him.
"Listen, Skaterpunk. Just walk away and go to your next class or are you cutting again?" David asked him.
"Shut up you brainless jock!" Jake yelled at him.
"Why don't you make me?" David then asked him getting into Jake's face.
Jake shoves David. David punches Jake in the face and gives him a bloody nose. Jake touches his nose and sees the blood. Jake then punches David in the eye and gives him a black eye. They get into a fist fight. Mrs. Harrington breaks them up this time.
"I want to see you two in my office right now." Mrs. Harrington told them.
David and Jake follow Mrs. Harrington to her office. They sit in her office waiting for her to come into the office.
"See what you did?" David asked Jake.
"Me? I didn't throw the first punch!" Jake yelled at him.
"Jake, you ran into me!" David yelled back at him.
"It was an accident. I didn't know that you were around the corner." Jake explained to him.
"Don't give me any excuse Jake. You knew my scedule and knew I was going that way to my next class." David then told him.
"What do you want me to do, be late for class?" Jake then asked him.
"You usually are late for class anyway." David then told him.
"We can't all be brown nosers like you." Jake then said to him.
"Maybe if you sucked up to teachers you would actually see grades higher then a 75 on your report card." David then replied to him.
Mrs. Harrington walks in to them arguing.
"Enough!" She yelled at them.
"He started it." Jake told her.
"No, he did." David then told her.
"Mr. Baker and Mr. Calenti I saw the whole thing. Mr. Calenti you threw the first punch." Mrs. Harrington explained to them.
"After he shoved me." David told her pointing to Jake.
"You still didn't have to throw a punch." Jake then told him.
"And you shouldn't have retaliated and throw a punch back Mr. Baker." Mrs. Harrington then told Jake.
"Since you don't know who started it then where off the hook, right?" David then asked her.
"Dude, she said she saw the whole thing." Jake then told him.
"I know that Jake. I was seeing if she remembered that she said that." David said to him with a scowl.
"Mr. Calenti I have a very good memory. And you are both suspended until next Monday. And when you get back to school you both have two weeks worth of detention." Mrs. Harrington told them.
"But Mrs. Harrington its Wednesday." David then said to her.
"She knows that David she's not an idiot like you." Jake then told him.
"Mrs. Harrington if you just give a few minutes with this Skaterpunk in your office alone, I promise you this whole thing will be settled and you don't have to call our fathers." David explained to her.
"I'm not going to leave you two alone in this office. And another thing I didn't call your fathers." Mrs. Harringto told them.
"Thank God." David said to her.
"I called your mothers." Mrs. Harrington then told them.
"Oh shit!" David said outloud.
"Mr. Calenti I already told your father that I don't like it when people curse around me. That's another weeks detention for you." Mrs. Harrington told him.
"Serves you right." Jake said to David with a smirk on his face.
"For that remark Mr. Baker you also have another week of detention." Mrs. Harrington told him.
"You can't be serious Mrs. H." Jake said to her.
"Well, Jacob I am serious. Maybe three weeks of detention together will make you two get along." Mrs Harringot told them.
"Mrs. H you know I hate it when people call me Jacob." Jake said to her.
"And you know I hate it when people call me Mrs. H." Mrs. Harrington then told him.
"I'm sorry. I won't call you Mrs. H again." Jake told her.
"You just did Jacob." David told him with a chuckle.
"Shut up Dave!" Jake yelled at him.
"Hold on a minute. Did you just call me Dave?" David then asked him.
"Uh, I think I did." Jake replied.
"Mr. Calenti, Mr. Baker go wait for your mothers outside my office. And don't sit next to each other." Mrs. Harrington told them.
Jake and David go outside the office to wait for their moms. David is sitting at one end of the room and Jake is sitting at the other end. Kate comes to pick up Jake.
"Hi David." Kate said to him as she walked in.
"Hi Mrs. Baker." David replied.
Kate and Jake walk out of the office. Christine sees Kate in the hallway.
"Hi Kate." Christine said to her.
"Hi Christine." Kate then replied.
"Hi Mrs. Calenti." Jake said to her.
"Hi Jake. Where's David?" Christine asked him.
"He's outside the principal's office." Kate told her.
Kate told Christine where the principals office was. Christine goes to get David.
"Hey Mom." David said to her.
"Hi David." Christine said to him.
Christine and David walk out of the school and get into her car.
"Mom, before you say anything, I just want you to know that I love you." David told her.
"David that isn't going to work. You know how I feel about fighting." Christine told him.
"I know but," David started to say to her.
"No buts. You are grounded for a month. No TV, no cell phone. And no anything else that you like to do for a whole month." Christine told him.
"I guess I can't take out the trash then or clean my room." David the said to her.
"Nice try, David." Christine said to him.
"Man this bites." David said to her as he folded his arms and sank back into her passenger seat.