FORBIDDEN

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I told Reneé I had a detention, but I knew she wouldn't tell mum or dad, I trust her completely and she trusts me. That's how it works.

"Yes, he told me you stayed late last night because you were catching up on your English work, that's so good of you for using your own time to bring your grades up." She beams at me.

Reneé shoots me a weird look, so I give a 'just-go-with-it' look.

"Why didn't you tell me you stayed late?" Mum questions.

"Because it's not that big of a deal mum." I tell her.

"Nonsense! I'm so proud of you for taking the time out to study, and I know your dad will be too once I tell him!" She exclaims. "Also, Mr Wilde told me that you both arranged for him to tutor you after school weekly, so you can carry on trying to bring your grades up."

"Oh erm yes we did." I reply.

"That's so good! He told me you were staying behind tonight as well." She says.

Oh did he now?

"Oh yeah I am." I shrugged it off.

"Well I'm proud of you darling! Now go on, you don't want to be late again!" She laughs before kissing my forehead.

I decide to walk to school today as I just feel like walking.

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"So yeah, I said yes and made the deal official." I finish telling Blake the events that occurred last night.

I know I can trust Blake 110% with everything. He's been my best friend since year 4, and he's never once betrayed my trust.

"Get in there you saucy devil." He winks and nudges me.

"Oh shut up." I giggle.

"Anyways, we better start walking to your boyfriends class, he might put you over his knee if you're late again." Blake wiggles his eyebrows at me and I playfully hit him.

We enter Mr Wilde's classroom and take our usual seats.

Just then, Blake's football teammates come and join us.

We usually sit on a table by ourselves because we don't really like anybody in our class.

"Hey guys! What are you doing here?" Blake greets them.

"We got transferred into this class." One of them simply says.

I've never really gotten to know Blake's teammates, but from what Blake has told me they seem like nice guys.

"Hey, Ella is it?" One of them asks me.

"Yeah it's Ella." I smile at him.

"Nice to meet you Ella. I'm Donté. This is Chase and Nate," Donté says and points to each of the boys.

"It's nice to meet you all." I smile warmly at them.

"Settle down everyone." I hear a familiar voice boom.

Everyone shuts up and stares at him.

"Right, so today we will be taking sentences that stand out to us from chapter 48-50 and explaining why they're effective and why you think the writer has used it." He tells us.

"Ah Miss Faye, you're here on time today." He smiles at me.

"I told you I would be Sir." I smile back.