When The Lights Go Down

Bad Day

Later after school..

(Nick's POV)

I was sitting at the counter doing my PACE school work when the front door flung open and in walked a very irritated looking B, she dropped her bookbag at the bottom of the steps and continued on into the kitchen grabbing a big bowl and filling it with vanilla icecream...this couldn't be good. She then poured captain crunch berries cereal on top of her icecream, grabbed a serving spoon and headed up the stairs. I turned around and gave Mom a confused look, she just shrugged

(Mom) I dunno...she wouldn't say anything

(Nick)*sigh* I'll go figure it out

*Nick heads upstairs and knocks on B's door before opening it up*

(Bailey) *mouth full* what?

(Nick) you are CLEARLY upset about something...

*B tosses Nick her phone*

(Bailey) why don't you text Jake as me and tell him he is an ass

(Nick) guess I deserve that...*walks in and sits next to B on her bed*

(Bailey) no, you deserve more! I'm just tired of being mad at you since it seems your only involvement in it was providing the phone and apparently my meet up spot...thanks for that

(Nick) I'm sorry

(Bailey) truth?

(Nick) ok...

(Bailey) what really happened with Jake

(Nick) *hesitated* errr-um

(Bailey) I'm not going to tell Joe you said anything, I'll just say Jake told me, I just need to know why Jake is making my life hell at school

(Nick) Why? What did he do *suddenly angry*

(Bailey) Nick, tell me *takes a big bite of her icecream/crunch berry concoction*

(Nick) *sigh* Joe...roughed him up a bit...he didn't hit him

(Bailey) what did he do

(Nick) well...ummm, he sort of dragged him out of his car and kinda held him down

*Bailey narrowed her eyes*

(Nick) with his foot...to his neck ...

*Bailey burst out into hysterical laughter almost spitting icecream everywhere*

(Nick) o....k...not the reaction I had anticipated, you seem to be taking it well, maybe you've had too much sugar....*goes to take the bowl from B*

(Bailey) *pretends to growl* you touch my crunch berry icecream and I will bite you I swear

*Nick quickly retrieves his hand*

(Bailey) *takes a big bite of icecream* I'm glad Joe did it, Jake is an ass he deserves it

(Nick) no, he deserves more, what did he do to you today? Maybe he didn't get the message.

(Bailey)he didn't touch me, in fact he acted like it annoyed him to even be around me.

(Nick) Good!

(Bailey) not really, I have to see him every day, and he is unfortunately my lab partner, I tried to switch today and Mr. Francis wouldn't let me, and he said if I chose to work on my own he would dock me a letter grade at midterm and seeing as how that's my worst subject I cant afford that...and Jake starts saying how he wasn't thrilled to be working with me and that if I was just going to be a bitch about it he would just rather be docked and work alone and I told him he was stuck with me and he says story of my life, like being with me was just this pain that he had to endure for way too long and I was like EXCUSE ME...and then Mr. Francis kicked me out of class and marked me truant and that was just what happened before lunch.

(Nick) well jeez what happened after lunch?

(Bailey)lunch wasn't bad, I sat with Ronnie, but then the rest of the day I had to deal with seeing him in the hall with Brooke and Brooke giving me crap In class. Then last period English Jake was talking to a buddy as I was walking in in front of him loud enough so he knew I could hear and he was saying something like me not being worth the trouble and me being a prude and I turned around and slapped him across the face.

(Nick) HA! NICE *holds his hand up for a congratulatory hi-five, which B quickly received*

(Bailey) it WOULD HAVE been nice if Mrs. Potter wasn't there, she saw the whole thing and gave me two demerits

(Nick) oh....yea that's not so nice

(Bailey) mmhmm *taking a huge bite of icecream* so....now I have 2 demerits for 6 inch rule policy and 3 for truancy and I'm pretty sure detention is 5 demerits so I'm fucked.

(Nick) So...is that why you are trying to commit sugar suicide?

(Bailey) *looks at her bowl of icecream and crunch berries* its good! And it makes me feel better so shuddup.