Chapter 6 Detained

I've never been this nervous before, standing in the middle of the room with the school authorities, most of them glaring hardly at my figure. Most of which were intimidated by my existence in school. I stood, my hand crossed at the back, studying all of them. Mr Caleb had this killer look on his face, like he would wanna eat me if given the chance. But i answered his question, was i challenging?.

"Miss Wilson. Relax, we'll detain you when it's time." Dean said giving me a very hateful glare.

"What do you think will happen now?" Stefan whispered to me. I scoffed, "Don't know, maybe detention, scolding or suspended whichever way suits their taste of punishment."

"We're so screwed. Look at their faces," I laughed. "Why are you so comfortable with this?" Wished he knew how nervous i am to be the centre of attention.

"Your mother is here. We shall proceed."

"What?" I turned back instantly and saw my mother taking low strides into the hall. She stopped and glared at me, knowing something was wrong. She was however offered a seat in the table.

"You don't look anything like your mom."

"Shut up!"

"Mr Caleb, what transpired between you and Miss Wilson?." He looked at me and cleared his throat.

"Eloise Wilson came to my class very late. And i was almost rounding up the lesson, but then she insisted i ask her questions on what I've taught so far. So.."

"He's fucking twisting it." I whispered to Stefan who must be thinking what i was thinking. "Such a pathetic liar." He looked disgustingly at the teacher. "You!!." The dean pointed at me. He looked around and found everyone looking at him. He adjusted his collar and cleared his throat. "Eloise Wilson. Your turn.."

"You have a lot of haters, Eloise. What's going on?"

"I do not have a problem with this man. He isn't even one of my teachers.Perhaps, he's doing this because of Chloe, his daughter "

"We're waiting, miss Wilson." All attention were on me. Even i could feel Stefan eyes on me.

"I walked into the class and waited for Mr. Caleb to order me out as he usually does in his class, he said he was half way into the lesson, so i suggested if he'd like to ask me questions on what he taught so far so i'd be able to study with the others."

There were murmuring as all of them spoke in low tones. "They are not buying that." Stefan says.

I nodded and picked my fingers.

"He hasn't asked you to leave the class." The female teacher said.

"But he does ask anyone to leave the class." I replied.

"It doesn't make sense. You challenged your teacher." The dean started.

"I did not. I told him to ask me questions."

"Because you want to embarrass him."

"You don't fucking expect me to answer questions in class?." I asked, more like a statement.

"Language, Eloise." Mom warns.

"Miss Wilson, what you did was wrong, challenging your teacher in the classroom would make others do likewise."

"I'm wrong because you think i am."

There were murmuring and everyone of them were whispering to each other.

"It made sense now that you challenge your teacher. You'll have to be punished."

"Damn you!!. We are getting punished." Stefan roared.

"Not you." I told him.

"I wanna ask questions before you pronounce my punishment."

"We ask the question and you answer us."

"You can ask your questions." The principal said.

"Thanks, principal. I have two questions to ask," I look from Mr. Caleb to the dean who was so eager to punish me.

"Is it wrong for a student to answer questions in the classroom?."

"Not in this circumstance, Eloise. You didn't answer his question, you were indirectly insultive to him."

"How so?" He breathed out and turned to my mother. "Anything to say?. Mrs Wilson."

"Nothing." She answered.

"Eloise. We've studied your case, however we entertained your questions and answered them correctly, so we've come to conclude that the new boy goes back to class," I looked at Stefan and he looked like he isn't bothered. "And you will attend the detention class for two weeks."

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"Mom. I'm sorry."

"Meet me at home." She stepped into her car. "I didn't do anything wrong." She ignored me and drove off. "Damn!!." I roll my eyes and started walking inside the school.

Sitted at the cafe with my friends, i bent my head on the table. "I can't believe that resulted to punishment." I look up at them as they sat with their lunch. "Not hungry?" Tyson asked.

"Not at all. The dean is unbelievable."

"He knows." Molly said absentmindly.

"He knows what?" I asked.

"He knows about the quiz next week and you won't be able to partake while you're in detention class."

"How did you know that?" I and Tyson asked at the same time.

"My dad told me about the competition. Although they did not announce in school."

"So I'll be disqualified. That's great. Not bothered at all."

"Chloe's definitely going in your place."

"Isn't that great?. She will not have to bother about reading." Molly added.

We all heard chattering behind us and we turned. I frowned at Chloe and her friends as they joined the lunch line.

"She's happy about this."

I turned back to my friends. "I'm not bothered." Molly scoffed. "Don't pretend like you're not. We know you very well."

"He was so eager to punish me."

"Dear. Not many teachers liked you. You're the one with the brain."

"Please let's not make her feel bad. Eloise, how was your time with mr. handsome?."Tyson asked wriggling his brows. I punched him playfully on his arm.

"Ouch!!. It hurts."

"Sometimes i wonder if you're a boy." I told him and we burst out laughing.

"Shut up. Don't pretend as if you don't like him."

"I have a boyfriend." There was silence. Jake?, where is he?.

"Is that guy really your boyfriend?. I seriously think you should dump him."

"My thoughts too. He's not even handsome to start with." Molly said sipping from her yogurt cup.

"Stay here. I'm gonna talk to him.." I told them and got up in search of Jake.