Chapter 5 Detention Class

JUSTIN's POV

Well recess is over now, in fact school is over now and my class is currently empty and I'm as well packing up my books into my book bag.

At the sound of the closing bell, I'm immediately reminded of my appointment with Mr. Warts.

"Argh!" I groan.

I'm not sure I have one hour to spare for detention, I have to get home and set up for today's heist or else, I'm going to get one of dad's *I sent you to school to help the business... If it's covering you main priority then you might as well dropout* speeches.

And worst of all, it just had to be Mr. Warts, that man is a real life grim reaper, so I'm not sure he's going to agree to give me an appeal.

He won't even listen to reason, his head must be as hard as rock.

"Argh!" I sigh again, but this time my chainof thought is disrupted by the sound of slightly deep but feminine voice saying;

"Hey, don't spend all day sighing and grunting, the faster you get your thirty minutes done, the better it will be for the both of us" Lena says while starting at me with emotion-less eyes as she leans slanly on the wall.

On hearing her complains, I feel a little fire of rage ignite inside me, I mean isn't she at least a bit guilty, she the one who got me into this shit in the first place.

I glare at her, wanting to burn hear with the series of insulting words I have in mind right now, but I hold my peace... I need her for something, so I'm gonna work on getting on good side.

"Hey, what are you glaring at me for?" Lena shrugs, "I'm in the same shit with you right?"

"Seriouly, but I'm going in thirty minutes earlier than you are." I nag.

"No you sound a lot like a sissy, and guess what? You look a look like one" Lena smirks.

Swears, I really want to punch that smug look off her face, but it's too pretty to bruise... So I'm going to let this one slide.

The next thing I hear is a loud bang on the table, and I immediately shudder at the sound of it, and I'm sure I wasn't the only one, because loud and intimidating voice yelled.

"What the hell man! You turn me deaf!" Lena yells, drawing herself closer to the culprit who made the sound.

And believe me, I'm glad I'm not the person, because she has one of her *I'm gonna rip your head off you neck look*

So, out of curiosity, I turn my head to see who this unfortunate soul is. Then, I let out a shallow sigh after seeing who the person is.

Suddenly, I'm no longer interested in seeing Lena beat the culprit up. Well, maybe because the culprit is quite formidable as well.

"So, when is the all mighty Justin going for his kingly detention."

I roll my eyes at that statement, how low. "Alex, if you have nothing educating to say, then I suggest to excuse yourself." I say to the culprit, hoping to spite him just as he did me.

Yes, I know it's wrong to do bad to others just because they did you the same, but I'm a bit mad right now and Alex is just making things worse!

"wow, sissy gat balls" Lena says with a smirk on her pretty face, while she nods lightly in approval.

I must say, I feel proud after as she hails me but Alex is so good at bringing down my spirits.

"Oh, so you can talk back now... After being a dumb mutt for three years." Alex grunts, then rudely hits his shoulder against mine before leaving the classroom.

How he got in? I wonder.

By now, I've finished packing books into my book bag. Hanging it across my shoulder, because it's a one strap bag.

Then I make my way out of the classroom and Lena follows me behind. As soon as I remember I'm going for detention, my body suddenly feels weak and I sigh again.

"Just what am I gonna tell dad." I grumble, afterwards sighing again, and this time a little too loud.

"Sissy why are you sighing so much, you've never done detention before?" Lena asks me, as he repositions herself, from behind me, to beside me as we walk down the hallway still swarming with teenagers, heading for Mr. Warts off, A.K.A. Prison.

"Yeah... I've Never" I replied, a little proudly though.

"Well... A nerd and a sissy, enh...I buy it" Lena shrugs, not even sounding impressed or enthraled or something. What world does she live in?

"But that not why I'm so unhappy..." I continue, and it seems like I finally got Lena's attention because she has her eyes and ears fixed on me; "...I have something to do for my dad this night and I really don't want to get him amgry."

Then I sigh, and Lena sighs with me, wear a sore expression on her face; I can't help but wonder, is she feeling the same thing too.

"I also have something to run for my dad this night as well, and Mr Warts is going to make me one hour late." she grits her teeth, letting a frown appear on her face.

Afterwards, we give each other a glance and at the same time, I immediately remove my eyes from her, but I realize something.

I and Lena might be have the same family issues, but let's not get ahead of ourselves. Though, most importantly, I have to find out if she's similar me in another area as well.

I assume a serious but melancholic expression this time, and I'm sure if I can see it, I'm going to cringe.

Then I look at Lena, to attract her attention; "Lena I-"

"Shit sissy, I know your cute but... You have to get delicate on me man, I'm gonna gag... Wipe that look off your face!"

Lena cuts me off, before I can complete my statement. And of course she kills the mood. I give a momentary stare, but she totally oblivious to it.

Anyway, I kinda worked up the mood, but when I finally grew the courage to say it, we arrive at Mr. Warts office.

Then Lena stopes in front of the door, without opening it, giving me an expectant glance.

Yeah, I know what that glance means, I have to serve detention thirty minutes earlier than her, so I'm going in first.

I place my hand on the door knob slowly twisting it to the left, but as soon as I am about to push the door open, a call came into my phone.

Luckily for my phone's on vibrating mode, that's just how much I hate noise, if not Mr. Daniel Warts will have caught us immediately and send into detention immediately, no questions asked.

And you know what, he will even add in an extra one hour for being late.

The pull my phone from my front left side pocket. When I view the who the call is coming from the screen, it reads *Trouble in my life 💔😈*

At the sight of it, my heart flutter, along with a certain feeling of fear that comes with. I don't want to answer.

But after staring at call for about two minutes,I eventually answers. I can't see Lena's face, but I'm sure she's about to loose.

"Hello" My voice sounds a bit low, a bit girly, I cover my mouth out of embarrassment, not having the courage to glance at Lena who is right behind me.

"huh? What was that Justin, is that really you?" the caller replies, they certainly know that isn't how I naturally sound.

Yeah, my voice is quite soft, I know, but seriously; I'm also asking myself what exactly that was just now.

"Say what you wanna say dude, I'm not sure I have the time for your shit right now"I immediately thicken my voice, sound a lot my grumpy than usual.

Shit what is wrong with me! I scream internally.

After that, a few seconds of silence dominants the call between I and the person on the receiving end.

I get a bit nervous, did I sound too rude, did I sound too awkward, why is he silent all of a sudden.

I ramble alot of thoughts in my head. Then after a momentary silence he continues;

"Any-way, where are you. Dad's getting all quirky again... You know what's going down tonight right, we can't miss it!" He warns bitterly.

"Shit! I know man, but Mr. Warts gave me detention, I'm currently at his door right now, about to enter" I complain to him.

Danm! I'm in a real deep shit right now.

"The fuck man! How did you get yourself into detention, this has never happened before, has it?"

"No... What am I gonna now. I can't face dad-" I wail, but I immediately compose myself after remembering that Lena is still behind.

"Shit man, just ditch it man, run home no-" I wasn't able to hear him complete his statement as Mr. Warts yanks the phone from me.

Then he ends the call immediately. Mr. Warts gives me a sardonic gaze once again.

"So you are here, Justin." He says with a dead look in his eyes, also sounds like a zombie from the apocalypse.

I almost gag, but trust me, he is the list of my problems now.

I just give him scornfully look, "I really need to be somewhere else Mr. Warts."

"If you want to beg, you beg with the eyes of a puppy, not with the eyes of a hungry wolf" he adds, "Come in, you both just earn yourself thirty more minutes of detention.

Mr. Warts leads the way, into his office. On getting to the office, he already has two desk of ready for us.

"Hey, don't you really need to somewhere right now?" Lena whispers into my ears, as she she is right beside me as we stand in front of the desks arranged by Mr. Warts.

The desks are arranged such that Mr. Warts is able to monitor us thoroughly as the desks are just a meter distance apart from his desk., on in front of another.

His desk is in front of mine and Lena's desk is right behind me. Yeah, it's that bad.

I and Lean stand front of the desk, not even up to a meter away from the desk, looking at how dark and thick aired it feels insides the not so big office.

I don't understand, are detentions so supposed to feel like some exile or solitude, because it really looks dark to me right now

I glance and Lena's face and She looks pretty unbothered. Then again, maybe we don't really live in similar situations and from the looks of it, it seem she has done a lot more detentions than I have.

"What?" She catches my eyes looking at her. Well that is a lot more embarrassing that it sounds, she might think I like or something. Anyway, that aside.

"What are you waiting for... Take your places on the desk in front of me" Mr. Warts commands.

Lena walks ahead, taking her sit on the desk directly in front of him. Though, I can't seem to make my body move forward.

Every cell in my body wants to just run home right now and set up for the heist tonight. If I mess it up, dad and his gang might loss a lot of money, or even worse go to jail.

I that's going get most of my allowances cut. Yes, I know what you're thinking, my dad's source of money is all illegal and less safe and I pretty much hate what he does.

But hey, don't bit the hand that feeds you! That for sure.

I stand there momentarily, looking for ways to fly out here, but I'm no magician nor am I Superman.

"Justin, what the hell are you waiting for... Your sit. Now." Mr. Warts commands, looking directly at me with his dull eyes-how old is he anyway, I can't tell if his old or young- and he points at the desk in front of him while he Leans with his legs crossed on his office table.

"Mr. Warts... I- I can't, I have something important to do for my dad" I plea with him, even though it's one of the things I hate doing, but I also so desperate as it is.

"Hmmm... Don't worry, you dad is going to thank me or porging your disobedient self... Lena stand up and move the desk behind, Justin I want you to face me."

No, no you don't know my dad, he is gonna have mobstars clobbered you to death in any dark alley they corner you, if he ever gets wind of this.

"The hell man!" I groan, hesitantly taking forced steps to the desk.

As I get to the desk I look at Lena eye to eye as she stands up-Yes, we share the same height- and she has this fed up expression on, then she in turn glares at Warts while she repositions herself on the desk behind.

Then I take my sit as well, but angrily. Warts take magesticaly slow steps to his desk, before planting his totally unattractive butt on it.

"So, I will start the therapy on why you are here and none of you is to make a sound unless I-" he instructs but he's interrupted by a loud yell coming from the hallway, just beyond the door.

"HEY! TELL ME WHERE MY BROTHER IS... HEY YOU, WHERE IS DANIEL WARTS' OFFICE!!"

That voice is so familiar, its him, it can only be him. My heart leaps of joy at the thought of him coming for me.

"Who is that-" Warts is interrupted again by the sound of his door banging open.

Then he stands there, just a meter in front of me, he looks like he ran here, because he's covered in sweat and also breathless.

Nevertheless, he still look undeniably hot.

"What have you done to my brother you ugly wizard!"

"What!? How dare you barge in her and call me names. A teach-"

"I'm here" once again I sound like a damsel in distress, and I immediately cover mouth sheepishly.

But I think no one notices as he just walks straight to me and picks me up by my hand,

"We're going" he says

"James why about the-"

"Shut it, we're leaving now." he adds, gripping my hands protectively as he dragged me across the hallway.

My heart races and I wants to release my hands from his,still I like that he's holding me, even though the just sees me as his *KID BRO*

But I want him to hold me in many places, not just palm. Arrgh my ears feel hot.