OOPS!

Chapter 4

Disclaimer: please see previous chapters, I can't be bothered to say it again right now.

Zed

I really hate teachers sometimes you know. Why wouldn't they just believe the truth - well kind of - when they heard it? Oh because that would be way too easy wouldn't it, but no, instead they jump to conclusions and think we snuck off to spend the day together but wouldn't the obvious thing be to actually sneek off somewhere instead of stay in school? Why can't they believe the evidence that's in front of their eyes? Couldn't they pay attention to the fact that what we were telling them matched up with the state of our red eyes? And now to make it worse they chuck us to our parents to deal with. Responsibility lectures yey! This is just messed up.

Sky had been trying to interrupt but me being the idiot I am carried on until it was too late.

Well Zed, your father and I appreciate your little rant and thank you for telling us there is more to it than what you told the teachers.

Oh shit, the one time I really don't need anyone eavesdropping on my conversations with Sky. I can't believe I could be so stupid! Well at least they don't know the real reason we spent three hours out if lessons.

To be honest I just zoned out after the first half hour. They kept going on about how I needed a good education and I had to take it seriously. I'm grounded. Well that was a surprise. I'm not to see Sky until I tell them the truth and they believe it. To which I replied that would mean I would never see her again because I would never explain fully other than the basics that Sky was crying. They kept trying to catch me out but it didn't work because I would just say "Sky was crying" but they wanted to know why and I still hadn't got my head around the why yet. I couldn't even think about that until no-one was around to make sure they wouldn't take the thoughts out of my head.

After an hour I think they figured out that they weren't going to get anything else out of me but just before I left, my Dad stopped me saying "Zed I can understand that you want to keep this just between you and Sky but ever since you walked out of school you've been really quite and you look like you're not even here. You two look like you need help Zed. All you have to do is ask." He patted my shoulder and moved to walk past me as I looked at my shoes and mumbled "You're right Dad I think we might need help but we have to talk about it first and figure out what we're going to do. If you need to know then we'll tell you. You just have to give us some time." He was looking at me strangely when I whispered under my breath as I walked off "promise not to judge us Dad because I have a feeling we're gonna have to tell you"

God I can't deal with this I need to think. I've been forbidden to go out until I confess, well I'm not going to be doing that any time soon. I can't think when I'm here because someone might see what I'm thinking. I have to go. I'm going crazy in here. I need to think and then I'll go see how Sky's doing.

"Zed Benedict! Where do you think you're going?!" I really can't be bothered with this right now. "Out Mom" I carried on putting my shoes on and headed for the door. "Oh no you're not Zed, you've not told us the truth yet come back inside!" When will she give up? I sighed "no Mom I'm going out. I need to think. I've told you the truth already." I walked out the door while Mom started ranting at me again but I just couldn't care less right now. I heard Xav talking to her when I walked by the window, "let him go Mom, didn't you see his face?" that made me wonder what I looked like but yet again I couldn't really bring myself to care, I needed to think.

I still don't know what we're going to do and I've been up here looking down on the slopes for an hour, all I know is I need to go and see Sky and we need to find out one way or another. How could she keep this to herself for so long? Why didn't she tell me? Even if she's wrong she should have told me, I would have reassured her a lot earlier if she had.

As I got back to the house I saw the whole gang had arrived. Great. More lectures for me. Yey. Trace and Vic saw me first and started on the lecture as soon as I was in hearing range but to my surprise it was Dad who came to my rescue and told them to lay off me for a while because I wouldn't take anything in until I'd thought about whatever it is I needed to think about and he also reminded me that I still owed him an explanation. Yves and Phee were looking worried and Uri asked if everything was alright. I didn't bother to reassure them or acknowledge them at all, I just grabbed the bike keys and started it up but when I set off I thought what if she is and I crash? I went back and got into the car instead, not without receiving some funny looks and a hell of a lot of questions from my family which I totally ignored. Just as I was pulling out Dad spoke to me telepathically I know you need to do this Zed but remember Sky is probably grounded and it's getting late, if you're not back in four hours at the most I'm leaving you to your mother and she's not going to be pleased I let you go without that explanation you promised us. I trust you to explain everything when you feel you understand whatever it is that's going on but don't take too long Zed, you have us all worried. I have myself worried too Dad. I'm not sure if you'll get that explanation any time soon. I felt him sigh as he said as long as we get it.

It was strange after that, I felt as though I was driving towards my impending doom. I've never felt like that going to Sky's. Now I just had to figure out how I was going to get her out without her parents knowing and then how to keep her out without them noticing or worrying. Great, this is going to be fun.