Remember how Aunt Agatha told me she had a trick or two up her sleeve? Well, I didn't think much of what she had planned until Monday. Apparently, my dear auntie was in good cohorts with the principal. She told him everything, and (although I don't know fully what my aunt was doing) the principal didn't take too kindly to her advice. Unfortunately for me, at the same time, Ken's grades had taken a pit fall around the time of the talent show and the principal knew how to put two and two together. So, now imagine my surprise when my homeroom teacher informed me I had been expelled. Again, if this was in a chick flick I would have laughed, but real life was rudely reminding me how it wasn't a laughing matter at all.
"I warned you Miss Misako." The principal said sternly. "Now you have to pack up whatever remains in your locker and go home. You are no longer allowed at Moore Allen High School. I will contact your parents with the details when they come to pick you up."
When I think about it, it's a bit funny how no one's mentioned my parents up until now.
"But sir," I plead, "The only other high school is a town away, my parents would never approve that. The only family member I have that lives in that town is my aunt."
"I don't know what to tell you Miss Misako." The principal said, shaking his head.
The car ride home was tense and horrible. My parents were not happy at all at the news, and I got an earful of it at home. With incredible timing, Aunt Agatha called me up to see how it went over at school. She ended up getting an earful of my parents' rants as well. Bless my aunt, because then she suggested I attend the school where she lives.
I left the room at the demand of my parents as they put my aunt on speaker so they could discuss the matter further. Although it went unsaid, I had been grounded until my parents and aunt decided what they were going to do with me.
I laid down on my bed and turned on my radio through its remote control. Pixie Lott's Mama Do instantly started to play as I stared up at my bedroom ceiling. I was gonna die, I could feel it in my bones. First, my parents were going to verbally kill my aunt because of her natural eagerness to help me, then they were going to hunt down me and tap dance on my grave when they were finished burying me.
As I thought over my inevitable punishment, there was a soft ping at my window. Then another, and then another. Curious, I got up from my bed and went over to my window. Another ping and I opened the window, almost getting hit by something in the process.
"Hey!" I angrily shouted out the window while taking a quick glance to see what had been thrown at me. A pebble…. a pebble at been hurtled at me. But why? When I looked out the window, I soon knew why; Ken.
"What are you doing?!" I hissed at him, rather silently so the neighbors didn't over hear; or worse, my parents.
"I came to say I'm sorry that you were expelled," he said, sounding sincerely upset.
Should be, I thought on the back of my mind, you're the reason why I was expelled to begin with.
"What are you going to do now?" he then asked.
"I dunno." I admitted. "My parents are talking over with my aunt now. There's a school in the town she lives in."
If I had known then that by saying this, he'd follow me there when I did go away, I would have never had said it.
"Have they decided anything yet?" he asked.
"Am I still alive?" I responded.
A silence followed after this as Pixie Lott ended and made way into Girl's Generation. I hate 'Gee' so much now…
"Can I have your number?" Ken suddenly asked. At the same time, my parents barked my name from the living room.
"Sorry," I told him as I shut the window, "I have to see to judgment day."
And I left him there, and later found I had some sense of regret for doing so.