I am soo sorry its so late but i've had really bad writers block recently and for about 4 days i pretty much lost the plot of the story and where I was going with it. but now i have finished it and its here ready to be read, so enjoy and sorry about the shortness but its only a filler for the next chapter really so enjoy... again.
Chapter 6: Detention
A week or so had passed since Sam's punishment had been set and it was her first detention at the Ridgeway, and she had been a student at the less than a month. What would her mother think if she found out?
Sam walked down a crowded corridor in Ridgeway High School, dodging other students, as the school bell rang for the last lesson of the day. She had History, with none other than the infamous Mr Howard.
She slowly trudged toward the stingy classroom at the other end of the corridor. As she neared the classroom she could smell the stale dust from the ancient history textbooks clouding the room, as usual.
Sam walked into the classroom with a frown playing upon her lips. Her eyes darted around the room to see who had arrived and who was yet to.
"Puckett sit down" She heard Mr Howard say. She wasn't in the mood for a fight before class had even started yet so she quickly took her seat at the back of the classroom.
She looked to her left to find the seat empty. She looked around for him but he wasn't in sight. Where is he? She thought.
"Miss Puckett have you lost something?" Mr Howard asked with a raised eyebrow.
"No" Sam replied, not even bothering to look at him. She knew from that moment that, without Freddie next to her, this was going to be a very boring lesson.
Sam and Freddie had become very close friends since the first time they met. Whenever they were together they always found a way to make a boring time fun for them.
She almost fell asleep several times during the agonisingly boring lesson but somehow managed to stay awake, barely. She couldn't deal with a double detention for sleeping in class.
Throughout the whole lesson she couldn't help but wonder where Freddie was; she had seen him only 5 minutes before class but he said he had something to do before he went and he would be right back. Unfortunately he didn't, well not until 5 minutes before the end of the lesson.
"Sorry I'm late sir. Principal Franklin needed my help with something" Freddie said calmly as he walked to his seat next to Sam.
"Oh ok" Mr Howard said, unusually unlike himself with what he said and the tone he said it and then turned back to the board and continued his lecture on the American Revolution.
Sam quickly turned her head to Freddie with an irritated look. "What?" he whispered simply.
"What? Where the chiz have you been for the last fifty five minutes? You said you'd be five minutes not nearly an hour!" Sam exclaimed quietly.
"I was with Principal Franklin. He needed some help with some internet and network problems on the school system and I'm very good with computers so he asked if I could fix it for him" he replied.
"Oh" Sam whispered a little embarrassed that she had over-reacted over that. "Why come back for the last five minutes though?" she asked.
"I didn't want to face the wrath of Sam Puckett after disappearing last lesson today and not giving her an explanation as to why I wasn't there" he replied with a smirk.
"Ok" Sam said before turning her attention back to Mr Howard. Seconds later the end-of-lesson bell rang signalling the end of the day.
"Read chapter 7 for next lesson class" Mr Howard shouted in his usual grumpy tone followed by a grumble of 'Yes sir's and 'Whatever's from the class as they left the classroom.
"See ya tomorrow Sam" Freddie said before they parted ways to go to the opposite ends of the corridor.
"Bye" Sam replied.
Sam arrived at detention 5 minutes late as she usually does to see most of her friends in there with smirks spread across their faces and she wondered what they did.
"Samantha Puckett you're late" Miss Parkes said in her snooty accent. Miss Parkes was a very arrogant and cruel old woman, she was rude to all the students at Ridgeway, except for her granddaughter Carly, and everyone hated her for it. She gave out detentions for the fun of it.
"Yeah whatever, I was on the other side of the school and had to get through the crowd of people leaving" Sam explained.
"No wonder, now sit" She commanded pointing at a chair in the front row. Sam did as she was asked and sat in the chair opposite Miss Parkes. "You will all sit in silence until the end of detention, no moving seats, talking, texting, chewing gum, drinking and most of all do not annoy me or I will add another day of detention, are we clear?"
"Crystal" Jade said with a sarcastic smile.
"Good, I will be in the teachers' lounge with Ms Briggs and Mr Howard so don't disturb us" she said before leaving the room.
"Well I'll have that disgusting image in my head for eternity" Sam said with a disgusted look on her face.
"Same" Danni and Liam said at the same time from the back of the classroom where all five of Sam's friends where sitting.
"So how've you been? I haven't seen you lately" Chris said as he sat on the table in front of Sam.
"I've been good. I've had load of homework and stuff to do so that's kept me busy" Sam replied and all 5 friends burst out in laughter. "What?" Sam asked in confusion.
"Since when does Sam Puckett do homework?" Liam asked between laughs.
"Since she wanted to not get in trouble with her already worked up parents" Sam answered in annoyance and the five burst out laughing again.
"Since when has Sam Puckett cared about getting into trouble?" Danni asked between laughs.
"Uh…" Sam stuttered trying to think of when she actually started to care if she was in trouble "I don't know".
"Well we can make sure you don't want to care ever again" Chris said in seductive voice as he leaned close to Sam's face.
"Get a room already" Danni said with an annoyed look on her face which Chris just chuckled at.
"Nah we're good out here" Chris laughed. Then he leaned into kiss Sam but she quickly pulled away "What's the matter with you?" He asked in annoyance.
"Nothing it's just I have a cold and I don't want you to catch it" Sam lied with a fake smile.
"You don't look like you have a cold" He rebutted with suspicion.
"Well I'm just getting over it but I could still be contagious" Sam covered.
"Ok" Chris said almost in defeat but Sam could tell he was not entirely convinced.
"So what we gonna do for the next…" Jade paused to check the time on her phone "… 40 minutes".
"How about we have a look at what the teachers are doing in the teachers' lounge" Liam offered.
"Yeah lets go" everyone said before they got up and made their way to the door.
"Umm actually I think I'll stay here I have tons of stuff to do" Sam said, she actually did have a lot of homework to do since she hadn't had the time in the last few weeks because she had to look after her brothers and sisters for her dad, who was busy.
"It's only homework" Danni shrugged.
"Yeah but homework is actually important" Sam defended.
"Easy there Sammie" Chris said with a laugh "Come on".
"No I'll stay here, you know what if someone comes in I can cover for you guys" Sam offered.
"Sam what's happened to you? You've changed" Chris said.
"I guess I have" Sam agreed with a small grin appearing on her lips.
"I don't like it" Chris said sharply.
"Well I do" Sam once again defended "And If you don't like it then leave me alone".
"Fine" Chris said bluntly and then he walked out the room followed by the rest of the group.
The time alone flew by and Sam managed to finish over 6 separate homework pieces and started her project.
Thanks for reading my story please R&R.