SCARS | 𝖠𝖿𝗍𝖾𝗋 𝖲𝖾𝖺𝗌𝗈𝗇 1 𝖮𝖻𝗑

44 - The Shooting

TW...? I mean it's pretty self explanatory just look at the title.

{ Kiara POV }

"This is bullshit" I said, standing up straight.
"Kie what are you doing?" Pope asked irritably

"What do you think I'm doing" I replied, marching to the door.
"You step foot out that door and your in big trouble" Mr Jiles pointed his fat finger at me.

I rolled my eyes and pushed it open anyways.
"Well well well, look who it is" JJ put a hand on his hip

I smirked at him
"Should we get outta her-"
"RIGHT you two come with me your going to the principal"

"Mm fun" I said sarcastically
"Yes we're going to see Benjamin" JJ exclaimed
"We love Benjamin" I added

"Hey stop that, you don't call a teacher by their first name it's Mr Golding" Mr Jiles scolded

Mr Golding wasn't really a punishment, he's generally quite a lenient teacher.

He than took our arms and marched us to the principals office.

He chucked us in and left us with him.

"I understand what you're going through, I know that it's hard losing a friend but it's been nearly two months, you have to get your lives back on track." He said, rubbing his hands together.

"You know that the average grieving period is about 8 months" I interrupted.

He just ignored me and carried on talking.
"JJ you've missed weeks of school and even before that in 9th and 10th grade you missed a lot. now you're lacking behind even further, you do know that we have social services on the tail of your case, right?"

"Yes I know" JJ almost snapped

"I know that in your Freshmen year you had two weeks off due to ...being in hospital, right?" Mr Golding said, making it sound more like a question.

"Um yeah I was" he nodded

I shot JJ a look as if to say 'when the fuck did you go to hospital?

Why was he in hospital?

"Right, you have two years to knuckle down and focus, you can still turn this around you know, make something of yourself" Mr Golding lectured

"Sir I'm from the cut, okay? I ain't going anywhere, I was born here I'll die here. I'll be the same as anyone else in my family" JJ argued

"Quite a lot of the students here are from the South Side actually and they're still doing very well. Take your friend Pope for example" He raised his eyebrows

I rolled my eyes at them.

"You could be the first Maybank to go to college" he suggested

"...no just no" JJ said, sounding horrified

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"You went to the hospital in 9th grade? I thought you'd never been to one before" I fired at him as soon as we stepped out the office.

"Kie its okay it was just a small accident" he replied cooly

"But you had 2 weeks off?"

"Yes okay, I took advantage of it a little just to get out of school"

"Did you like break your wrist or something?" I asked

"Erm my uh - yeah actually it was my wrist" he tripped over his words

I didn't believe him at all but I'm not gonna press him any further.

And I thought I knew everything about this boy... What else is he not telling us?