Chapter Five: Detention
Ty's POV
Tuesday Morning in Algebra
The weekend passed by so quickly. Everything in life seemed to change in one small was or another ever since I told Amy I liked her. The way I was handling things made me feel like I was a middle school boy instead of a teenager in high school. Both Saturday and Sunday we only talked when we needed to and we would both catch each other looking at one another and then look away quickly. Maybe she didn't really notice these things but if she did she probably thinks I'm a complete idiot.
"Mr. Baldwin, are you listening to our test review?"
"No," I thought. "Oh yeah."
"Then what problem are we on?" The teacher raised his eyebrows at me.
"Fourteen," I guessed.
"No Mr. Baldwin, we are on number 21." He smiled sourly. "Since you haven't been able to pay attention lately, you have the great privilege of reporting to the study hall room where you will serve detention until both lunches are through."
"Wonderful, three hours of detention and tons of homework."
"You can leave now. Unless you want to stay there all day?"
I rose from my seat and walked out the door turning in the direction of my locker. I walked down the hall, eyes on the floor. Suddenly I felt the hit of a body against mine. I looked up and realized I just ran into Amy.
"Hey!" She smiled looking a little shocked.
"Hey, sorry," I laughed. "I wasn't really watching were I was going."
"It's okay I guess I wasn't really either. What are you doing out here?"
I sighed, "I kind of got a detention from Mr. Brum."
"Oh how long?"
"Until both lunches are over."
"Sounds like fun. I'll be in there during my study hall next hour so I guess I'll see you then," She turned and walked away.
"See ya!"
The half hour I sat there and waited for Amy during my detention seemed like three hours all by itself. Luckily I thought to take my ipod with me from my locker so at least I had music to listen to.
I put my head down at the desk I was to sit at and let the sound of Augustana's Bullets fill my ears…
Come fly down, like a singing bird
Sings your name, I am still the same,
Black and white, no you're not to blame,
Holly sweet... Put me down to shame...
Light in the car in the park,
I'm falling on my face I know who we are...
And I ain't looking down for the rest of the night
A bullet in my head ended late last night...
"Ty?" The voice kind of sounded like my mom.
"Yeah?" I slowly opened my eyes and lifted my head. I was still in study hall serving my detention and Amy was sitting in the desk beside me. "Oh, hey! How long have you been sitting there?"
"Only about five minutes."
"Oh that's good," I said groggily.
"I'm surprised they let you sleep in detention."
"Well normally they don't I'm just a special case," I smiled.
"Are you?"
"No, they probably just didn't notice I was sleeping."
"Ah I see."
"Yeah."
We sat in silence for a few minutes. I tried thinking of a few things to talk about but nothing really came to mind.
"You know I've never gotten a detention before," Amy said breaking the silence.
"That's because you're a good girl and always pay attention," I said jokingly hoping she wasn't offended.
She laughed quietly, "Actually not really, I somehow manage to just get straight A's but I never really do listen in class."
"So Rider seems to be doing a lot better, we could probably send him home," I said thoughtfully.
Amy looked a little confused as to what I was talking about at first, "Oh, yea…. He's doing great. I think Lou was going to call the owners sometime this week. I hope she remembers because it will give us more space in the barn that we could use with winter coming up and everything."
"Not that we don't have enough room in the barn already. We have at least ten empty stalls for the horses that are always outside right now."
"True, but you never know when more people will want to board here."
Amy's POV
It was weird sitting in study hall talking to Ty the whole hour. We've known each other forever but all that time we've never really had time to talk all that much. Sure we tell each other things and we're always there for each other when we need someone but at school in study hall it was just different.
We sat in silence after a few minutes of talking about a few different horses and where we thought they could go home.
Breaking the silence Ty asked, "What do you think you want to do?"
Even though he wasn't specific with his question I understood right away what he was talking about. "I'm not really sure. Would things be weird if we started going out? What if we break up? Will we still be friends?" This all came out of my mouth so fast I barely knew what I was saying.
"I've thought about all that stuff a lot, especially right before I told you I liked you," He was looking directly at me and I met his gaze. "But I told you and I think that if we don't try this we'll both end up wondering what could have been."
Everything that he said made sense but I still worried. I couldn't look into his eyes anymore, he was becoming too intense and it scared me, "What if we end up hating each other?"
He let out a sigh telling me he had thought of this part of it too, "I could never hate you."
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After school
"Amy!"
"Hey Soraya!" I turned toward her.
"Where were you during study hall? I thought you were coming to the library."
My eyes looked away from her.
"Oh I see, getting a little action in the bathroom?"
"No!" I gasped. "I was in the study hall room."
"With Ty, I know." She smiled. "I saw you two talking together when I went looking for you, I decided I'd leave and give you guys time to talk."
"Thanks, but I know you didn't leave so we could talk, you just wanted to give me crap about it later."
"Yeah, pretty much."
I laughed, typical Soraya. We started walking to the bus. We got on and sat down next to each other.
"Ty's not giving you a ride?"
"Nah, I told him I needed to spend sometime with my friend."
"Aw! You're so sweet!"
I laughed, "Shut up, you know you'd be lonely without me."
"Actually not true because…" She lowered her voice and her blue eyes widened. "Somehow when you were on the bus I never realized there happens to be a very cute junior who just loves talking to me when you're not around."
"Huh, who knew I could be replaced in the couple days that I didn't ride the bus last week."
"Well if its any help, you were why he started talking to me," She stopped. "Sort of."
"How so?"
"Well he asked where my friend was and that's how it all began," Her voice was filled with joy.
"Glad to know you were thinking of me so much," I laughed. "But I'm happy for you."
"Look there he is!" She whispered enthusiastically.
"Very cute."
"He is isn't he?"
He walked down the aisle and sat in the seat directly in front of us. "Hey Soraya!"
"Hey Nick, what's up?" She said trying to hide her excitement.
"Not a whole lot, school was pretty lame today."
"Yeah tell me about it." Soraya turned to look at me. "Especially when you get ditched by you best friend for a guy."
Nick laughed, "Oh that always sucks." He looked at me as the bus started moving. "Hey I'm Nick. You must be the ditcher?"
"That's me, also known as Amy."
"Those days you weren't on the bus I'm assuming you were ditching poor Soraya for some guy then too?"
"I guess you could say that but it look like you've been taking good care of her while I was gone." I said knowing Soraya was eating this up.
"I think I have been. Soraya what do you think, has hanging out with Nick made up for the loss of Amy?"
"I hate to say that my friend has also been replaced by a guy but…" Soraya laughed. "She kind of has, at least on the bus."
I sat there and listened to Soraya and Nick talk for a while, answering questions that I was asked or commenting on the things I could. I was really happy Soraya, her and Nick seemed good for each other. Soraya was the first to be dropped off so Nick and I were left alone.
"And then there were two," Nick said, watching Soraya walk down her driveway. Soraya's dark hair was waving in a slight wind that was in the air, she couldn't have looked more beautiful.
"I guess so," I said not really knowing what to say.
"How long have you two known each other?"
"Since we were five, Soraya's family moved here just at the start of preschool. She was my counting buddy and we've been best friends ever since." I said thinking about how long we really have known each other.
"So you know her better than probably anyone else?"
"Yeah," I answered not really knowing where this was going.
"Do you think she would go out with me?"
My face lit up, "Yes, but don't ask me all this stuff. Talk to her about it."
"Okay, I was thinking about asking her to homecoming." He smiled. "She's a really awesome person."
I stepped off of the bus and waved goodbye to Nick. I smiled at the thought of how excited Soraya will be when Nick asks her to homecoming and realized today was a great day.