Skipping School

The Ultimatum

Taylor's POV

I climbed out of my car, preparing to go to class. As I gathered my things, I thought about English Composition, the class I was enrolled in with Devon, my long-term boyfriend. We've been together for four months and have been altogether great. We've had some ups and downs but we've gotten through them. One of our more recent arguments was about the number of absences that he's had since I've gotten to know him.

FLASHBACK

"I just don't understand why you miss so much class!" I exclaimed as he stood before me.

"My missing class is none of your concern. It's my degree and schooling that will suffer, not yours." He shot back.

"That's not my point. The point is if you keep missing all this class, you will eventually get dropped and then you won't be able to attend school without being re-enrolled. The re-enrollment fee is $100 and I know you can't afford that right now!"

"I told you not to worry about me and school. I get the work done so why should I waste my gas to drive to the school every day to do the same work that I can do from home?"

"Then enroll in online classes instead but don't jeopardize your education because you don't want to physically go to class! I know this, though; if I have to sit through one more class that you're supposed to be in without you, and without a legitimate excuse, we're gonna have some problems..."

END FLASHBACK

'I sure hope he's in class today. If not, I might have to follow through with that promise I made him,' I thought.

While thinking about Devon, I remembered that we share that class with one of my other friends, De'Lonta, who is like a little brother to me; I met him before Devon, and honestly thought he was cute, but after getting to know him better, and finding out we shared a last name, I decided that he was more like a little brother to me than anything else. He and I have also had conversations about him missing class, although most the time work is his excuse.

Just then, my thoughts were interrupted when I saw Devon's car pulling out of the school parking lot with two passengers. I couldn't see them well enough to know who they were, so I pulled out my phone and called Devon.

"Hello?" he answered, shushing someone in the background.

"Hey baby, are you at school yet?" I asked.

"Oh, no baby. I won't be in today. Something came up, so I'm just going to stay home for the day," he replied, sounding nervous.

"Oh, well is everything okay? Do you want me to come check on you after school lets out?"

"NO!!" he yelled, before calmly finishing, "I mean, no baby, you don't have to do that. I'll be fine. Thanks anyway baby."

"Ok baby, just checking," I replied, skeptically. "I'll call you when I get out of class. Love you."

"Love you too baby," he answered before ending the call.

'So, now he's resorted to lying to me.' I thought. 'Hmmm, I wonder where he's going....'

***

As I sat in class later scrolling through Facebook on break, I noticed a post from a few hours ago that my friend, Adrian, had made that Devon and De'Lonta had been tagged in. It said:

"So excited to be going to VA Beach with De'Lonta and Devon! Been forever since I've been on a vacation with friends!"

'Oh, so that's where they went!' I thought to myself as I pushed the 'Like' button on the post. 'They are in so much trouble! When they bring Adrian back to school so he can catch his ride home, the three of us will be having a nice long chat! Luckily for those two (or maybe unluckily) today's my day off!'