Chapter 2. Detention

Ray’s POV

“Honey, come down for dinner,” my dad said immediately he walked in.

I followed him immediately as we both went downstairs to have dinner.

“How was school today, hon? Hope you didn’t get into trouble today?” my mom said as she passed me a plate of Caesar salad.

I wasn’t paying much attention to my parents instead I was paying much attention to the fork that suddenly moved on its own when I was about to touch it.

“Mom, dad, did you guys see what just happened? My fork just moved on its own,” I said still shocked myself looking at the fork that had just made me a liar by staying still like nothing happened.

“I’m sure you must have imagined it. It’s not possible for an object to move on its own,” my dad said to me then changed the topic almost immediately.

“That reminds me your birthday is near,” he added as my mom continued.

“Yeah, it’s next two weeks Saturday, right?” my mom said as she sits down next to me to eat.

“What are your plans for your birthday?” she asked me but I wasn’t paying much attention to her.

I kept looking at the fork hoping it moves again so I can show them, maybe they will take me seriously if they see it themselves but unfortunately it didn’t.

I reluctantly picked the fork up and started eating hoping I imagined it all if I didn’t then maybe the house must be haunted, I thought.

***

Later that night, after having dinner I went up to my room, fed my cat then decided to go online.

I took up my phone and started chatting with my friends on Picsta, which was the most popular social media amongst students in Los Angeles.

As I was chatting with Natly, a message popped up and it was from this guy in my class named David Roberto, he is really cute, he has this black short hair, a bright sea blue eyes, attractive red lips, long canines which I admire the most, and he also has two piercings on each ear.

He was really a cool guy and almost all the girls in my class are crushing so hard on him.

Seeing his message my heart really skipped a beat because I didn’t expect him to text me.

“Hello, pretty,” it read.

He actually called me pretty, I couldn’t help but blush as I quickly replied the message.

“Hi,” I sent.

I wanted to send ‘Hi, handsome’ to him but I didn’t want him having any clue of my admiration for him so he won’t take it the wrong way and I just liked that we started chatting like we’ve been friends for a very long time.

He was really good in keeping up with a conversation and I really got to know the reason why girls were head over the heels for him.

He was not just handsome but also very good in flattering someone and raising up interesting topics.

At a point in the chat he sent a voice note and OMG his voice sounded so good even better than I thought it would.

We chatted for hours and suddenly he did the unexpected, he asked me out just like that.

I literally freaked out, I was so glad that he actually likes me but on the other hand I didn’t want to accept his proposal so I said no to him.

I mean that was so sudden and besides I really don’t like him that much to be his girlfriend, I just admire him and would want him as a friend that’s all.

A few minutes later I went offline without a goodnight, laid my head on the pillow and slept off.

***

It’s Tuesday morning the next day and I’m getting ready for school, I had my bath, brushed my teeth, brushed my hair and styled it like I saw on one Picsta video last night, and it turned out better than I expected.

“Wow, I’m really good,” I said to myself as I looked at the hair I just did in the mirror with a satisfying smile.

I wore my school uniform, the shirt was short sleeves which was purple in color and the uniform came with a pink colored tie and blue jacket with the knee-length purple socks and a knee-length flare skirt that is also blue in color and I wore it with pink shoes that complemented the tie while most students chose to wear their uniforms with either blue or purple shoes a few people wore theirs with pink shoes and I was among those few people.

When I was done with dressing up, I took my phone from where it was charging and kept it in my backpack which I took downstairs to have breakfast.

After the breakfast I headed out to meet up with my friends who were waiting for me in front of my door.

We hugged and left for school.

Justin and I told Heidi what happened in school yesterday as we walked to school together.

She laughed at us and it was not funny at all.

She made fun of both of us as we got to the school gate and kept wishing she came to school to witness it all by herself.

***

When the bell for lunch time has been rang, something unexpected happened. Clara wasn’t friendly to me at all, she kept on laying abuses on me.

Yesterday I made sure that both of us would be friends but I don’t know what happened today, and at the point of her laying abuses on me she called me a bitch.

I reacted to it by raising my hand to slap her but before I could know it she fainted right in front of me, everybody gasped and they all blamed me for what happened to Clara while I couldn’t even tell what happened to her.

I froze in shock hoping she was just faking it, I know I didn’t hit her, maybe she has a heart disease I concluded.

A few minutes later she was revived and I was also called to the principal’s office immediately.

“Raven, you’ve gone too far now, I mean you knocked out your fellow classmate,” principal Brown said disappointed in me.

“But, sir, I didn’t, maybe I did, but I didn’t do it intentionally,” I said trying to convince him.

“Remember the time when you were caught starting a food fight, and the time when you knocked out a shelf from the library because you were trying to kill a bug, can you remember?” he asked as he gave me a hard stare.

“Sir, I remember that, but why are you reminding me of what I did last three weeks ago?” I said with my head bowed in shame.

“Look, the point is you did those things without thinking, and it’s possible that you did that to Clara without thinking too, what am I even saying, of course, you did that intentionally, I mean you almost fought her yesterday,” the principal said meanly to me.

“But, sir, I didn’t do it intentionally, how can I…” that’s what I said before I was caught off by the principal.

“Enough, Raven, don’t forget what I told you last time, I hate lies,” he said firmly.

“Sir, I’m not lying,” I said trying to convince him. “You know I’m a good student,” I added.

“No, you’re not, also it’s detention for you, missy, you may now leave my office,” he said as he pointed at the door and immediately I stood up in anger and left.

When I was coming back from the principal’s office, I saw Dave bullying two younger students, I never expected that from him, I walked past him heading for the cafeteria to tell Heidi and Justin about my punishment.

“Ray, do you know the teacher in charge of detention today?” Heidi asked me as I got a little bit tensed.

“Who?” I asked terrified hoping it’s not Mathews.

“It’s Matthews,” Heidi replied.

“Matthews? That man hates me,” I said with a frown on my face.

“I think Clara fainted on purpose so that I would get detention,” I added in a fit of rage.

“I don’t think that’s what happened,” Justin said with food in his mouth.

“Ray, guess who’s in the cafeteria right now?” Heidi interrupted with a smile on her face.

I didn’t even reply her since I was still furious at my whole situation.

“It’s Dave,” she added stealing glances of him.

“What was the point of you telling me to guess when you won’t wait for me to guess?” I reluctantly replied.

“I was just excited,” she said still smiling.

“Ray, tell us, what’s going on between you two?” Justin asked me looking at me keenly with his face like he was so much interested in what I would say.

“There’s nothing going on between us and there is no gist for you, guys. You know what? It’s time I clear things up, I don’t like him one bit and I will never agree to date a guy like him, you know why, because I don’t have any feelings for him, I mean who does he even think he is?” I replied in frustration.

That scene of him bullying those boys really made the little likeness I had for him as a person to disappear.

“Okay, okay, you can calm down now, Ray, you can stop now,” Heidi said to me as they both tried to make me stop whining.

“No, let me finish, the guy’s a jerk and a big baloney, yeah, I said it,” I added then finally turned just to see him standing behind me.

“Oh no, I said it,” I said with a low voice as my morale went low.

“So you think I’m like that, don’t ya?” he said with a frown on his face.

“No, no, it’s not like that I didn’t mean to say that, what I meant was a baloney sandwich, I mean who don’t like a baloney sandwich,” I said as I giggled nervously alone.

“I don’t,” he said as he left the cafeteria.

I could sense he was so angry at me.

“Oh, man, I now have two enemies,” I muttered to myself as I used my palm to smack my forehead.

“We tried telling you to stop,” Justin stated.

“Really?” I said in this doubting tone.

“Yeah, but you didn’t listen,” Heidi said.

“You could have pinched me or something,” I said as I smacked my head again taking my seat immediately.

There was this little silence between us before Moonlight and Twilight walked to us to invite us to their birthday party coming up on Saturday.

***

When our school was over, I was in detention with four other students including Dave, I wasn’t surprised when I saw him in detention since he was one of the notorious students in school.

During the detention I was so glad Mr. Mathews acted like he wasn’t noticing me, he just gave us the long lecture on how to behave more nicely and kept telling us it’s not right to knock out a classmate and I know he was just referring to me throughout the class as he kept looking at me anytime he talked about hitting a classmate and looking at others when he talked about a different thing.

Before detention was over, I told Dave that I saw him do to those two students and he explained to me why he did that, I apologized to him for the misunderstanding and for the way I insulted him earlier.

I didn’t really know he was defending someone against them, and they were the bullies.

Later, when detention was over, I went home with him and my three remaining classmates who were in detention with us.

After just a few minutes of walking home later, we all went our separate ways while I went home to prepare myself for the next day of school hoping it turns out better than today.