Amelia Ford P.O.V
"Ion get this shit." Donate twisting his hair as sat in groups of four in math me him Lauren and Paisley the smartest black girl in here. She covered her paper while she worked not wanting to be grouped with us.
"Can I go piss?" Don asked leaving before he could respond.
."That's not how you ask." Mr.Owens said to the rest of us turning his back to the board writing out more problems for us to copy.
"y'all done." Hendrix asked leaning over Paisley who knocked him off her as she finished.
"I want you to come over after school." Lauren spoke to me wasn't much we could do we didn't get the math.
"I have to see Montae asked me to babysit." I said just to her.
"You so nice you should've said no." I adored Queenie she was the sweetest baby.
"Bring her too." It was weird if we wasn't working we were usually at her house. The time she came to mine my mother talked her ear off. And when we hung with Dontae his brother wouldn't allow me with them because she was rubbing off on me.
"Ask Dontae because
"Why do every time I try you push me?" Hendrix asked Paisley. I guess she was helping him honestly she is too smart for this class. Now that seniors take morning math she was left with us. Most of the smart kids all worked together but she thought she was better than them too. She was too smart for the regular kids and thought she was too good for the nerds. She walked alone.
"Because you're not trying." Turning seeing Don returning sitting down scribbling down the answer before turning his paper to us. Paisley got up going to turn her in.
"She so fucking mean."
"Thank you." Mr.Owens said collecting the paper as we wrote.
"Damn really you know we all need help." Hendrix smacked his lips.
"That's why I'm here to teach not you copy someone's paper." Paisley walked out with her bag.
"Snitch."He mumbled under his breath.
"But you erase it before we can copy anything." I said back to him.
"Ms. Ford if you and Ms.Clarke could stop talking and playing you wouldn't be lost."
"I'm not lost I'm confused as to why you erasing the answers so fast. Damn, we people not robots you do the same shit every day then be mad when we have to cheat."
"Ms.Clarke office that language won't be tolerated." He said going to his desk.
"But if a player said that you would laugh it off." I said to him.
"Ms.Ford join your friend." Getting up collecting my things headed to the office praying they didn't call my mother.
"Man, you tweaking."
"Lauren." I called her name ignoring the freshmen headed to lunch. Waiting on me as I walked to her untwisting her lip as we giggled over both being sent to the office.
"We going to Mr.Dean he ain't going to trip." I said to her he was nice plus he played too much. He and the computer lab teacher walked up to the cafe. Stopping on the wall seeing the seniors that had gym over there talking to the young girls.
"Mr.Dean." Lauren said catching his attention as we sat on the wall. The older black teacher who had been here longer than we were alive shook her head.
"Why aren't y'all in class." He greeted us stepping over to us.
"We both got kicked out because we were working together." He looked at us like we was crazy before directing us back to class.
"They can't stay being disrespectful isn't working today."
Mr.Owens said shutting the door in our face.
"Let's go." He marched us through the back door to his office where he sat us in his office.
"Guess ya can spend the rest of class in here since you have about 30-35 minutes to behave." He said coming in and opening his blinds.
"Can I get a snack before you leave?" Lauren asked pushing the buttons.
"No, you're in trouble you lucky I'm not calling home." He said taking his desk chair.
"Can you do this for me?"I asked him, he was a math teacher before he became principle. Teaching us the easy way to solve the problem by going over the sheet. Maybe it was the best thing that happened to us.
"you girls got 16 minutes just chill out." He said picking up his phone and keys to leave us in the room.
"Girl, why ro get caught up last night?" She said spilling tea on her brother as we sat waiting.
"By who?"
"This crazy girl he was messing with popped up on him yesterday as Ginger was leaving they were fighting and you know he let them right. Then she busted his windshield after she lost. I was so thankful I parked in the garage yesterday." Shaking my head as we talked about it not knowing he had a girlfriend maybe that was her way of telling me to leave her brother alone.
"Emily's husband popped up last night she was stuck in the car the whole shift. Jeff called Vera and asked how we were supposed to close when we couldn't find her."
"That's who got fired."
"Yeah, she wouldn't come in to get her stuff. Ms.Vera took it to her."
"Haha, that's what she gets." Emily was mean as fuck you would think she owned arbys as hard as she rode us about our jobs.
"But Don said she looked a mess like she was fighting he said he saw the car shaking at first he thought they was freaking."
"He found out she was sleeping with the young boys at work." The men are just as messy because they were telling us all the dirt.
Ding!!
Ding!!
"I guess that's why she was so mean to the girls." Collecting our stuff as we headed back to class this time separately.
"Had to be." Montae walked right next to me as we talked how he found us that fast.
"Behave next time I won't be nice." Waving bye to him as we headed down separate hallways. Now that I am headed to science and her world history.
4:30 After school
How's school?" My mother frightened me as she stepped to the table I worked on homework.
"It's going," I said trying to write my paper for literature.
"You on track right everything going good?"
"yes, ma'am."
"Why the hell is a mr.owens calling me and telling me you disrespecting his class? Cursing him out and playing in class while he teaching?"
"I didn't mama I swear." Turning around scared as I tried to plead with her.
"What does he have to lie on you for Amelia you are nothing to lie about?"
"He erases the
"I got a meeting at your school tomorrow with your teacher you better pray like hell he don't tell me you blinked too hard in class. I'm going to try to kill you this time." She told me holding onto my face tightly letting go of my face and going in her room. I hadn't been going to class like I was supposed to.
"I'm dead." I thought to myself knowing she would keep her promise.
Next Day!!
"Ms.Ford." Mr.Owens greeted me opening the door as I walked from the double doors from the bus. Asking me inside as I took a seat it wasn't even 8:30 and she was already here. She dressed in her red scrubs and wore her natural frown.
"Now I have been knowing you since you started here and you have always been a good kid but recently your attitude has changed not for the better. I've been asking you to be quiet or put your phone up all class." Glancing at her as she nodded her head.
"Mr.Owens what about her grade."
"Right now she has a 70 but she can get it up. She needs to be doing her homework herself cheating not going to get her nowhere because she's smarter than she thinks."
"Cheating?"
"Yeah I have to tell them to stop cheating her and a few other students."
"Coach."Hendrix opened the door making me look back.
"Get out."
"My fault." Mr.Owens shut the door coming back to my mom who took my phone from my hand.
"Amelia girl I will see you after school you know what I said yesterday. Sir, you will have a different student from here out." She said standing up from the desk in front of mine speaking another second before leaving. Walking to my next class hopping she left.
"Good Morning ms.Ford the door please." Taking my chair as I stepped into homeroom.
"where have you been?" Lauren asked me as I sat down.
"Mr.Owens scheduled a parent teacher meeting lying to my mom." She straight-faced me. Whispering back and forth before I eventually had to return to his class.
"Sis Montae is in the hospital with Max he said he'll see you after work since you ain't answering yo phone." Nodding my head as we waited for class to begin.
"Move to my seat." He told Addison the white boy who sat next to me as we got ready to work in groups.
"Why you ain't talking?"
"Cause he only going to lie and call my mom causing me problems." I said to him as he moved closer to me as the door shut.
"He told on you when he fucking young girls in the field house."Shaking my head I wasn't trying to cause a problem I have been talking more. Maybe I should go back to being quiet again.
"Let's get to your seats now."
"Why you just going to let us switch back."Waving Dontae off as he wrote on the board.
"That's why he doesn't fuck with us we all know." He said to me.
"Amelia Hendrix Addison one group." Now he was just messing with me. Leaving him and Lauren as they argued with him only making him laugh at the situation for an hour I worked on something I didn't know. Going to get my things from my desk as Lauren and Dontae waited on me.
"You know for someone that fucking minors you sure are fucking with people that got proof."
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"Oh girl, I thought after I put you out you were going to get your shit together no you go to school embarrass me. My mother spoke as I came in.
"I'm sorry." I apologized.
"You sorry but I had to miss work. Oh and the grown man that been calling you all day I called the fucking police."
"Montae is in high school."
"That's the police problem, not mine. You I am letting you pick your punishment either I can beat your ass straight up or I can beat your ass with that belt over there until I get tired." My eyes glued to her scared of the choice.
"Use the same energy you have at school."
"Belt," I mumbled.
"You better not fucking run." Picking the belt up and swinging it.
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