Chapter 5: Escape
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"Open your books to page 45" said Mrs. Benson.
The class was filled with the sound of pages flipping.
"Who knows a thing or two about..."
The lesson zoomed off quite slowly. Mainly because most of the students were bored to their asses.
Trrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!! The bell sounded.
Everyone in their respective classes closed their books and placed them in their desk lockers as they felt the relief of finishing one more lesson.
It was now 11am, time for some a snacks.
The school hall ways were filled with students making their way to the cafeteria and some just slacking around.
"Hey Trevor!..... Wait for me!".
Trevor turned turned around to see who called him. It was the red haired girl.
"Hi.....am Clair by the way." said the red haired girl as she now stood in front of Trevor.
"It's a pleasure to meet you Clair..." Trevor was so anxious and over joyed at the same time.
The girl he crushed on was finally taking to him.
He stretched out his hand and offered a handshake.
Clair looked at his hand, a slight chuckle escaping her lips. It was like she just remembered something funny.
She shook his hand though.
The two walked to the cafeteria together, picked up trays and lined up as they waited for their turn to get served.
They both made their way to an empty bench.
As Trevor heading to the bench, he passed by a tenth grader bench.
A 10th grade student, in some sort of leather jacket, stuck out his foot when he saw Trevor and made him trip.
Poor Trevor spilled his meal as he fell down.
"ooppss! Baby hasn't learnt how to walk properly." said the 10th grader in a sarcastic voice.
Everyone in the cafeteria laughed when the 10th grader said that.
"Trevor!.." said Clair in a shocked expression.
She quickly put her tray on a nearby bench and rushed to Trevor to help him up.
"Are you okay.?" she said after helping him up.
"And what do we have here?" said the 10th grade student as he stood up from the bench and looked down at the duo.
"oh! Maxwell slut has finally got another boy to prey!" he said is disgust.
"I don't have time for your nonsense now Kevin." said Clair.
Kevin was the captain of the school's football team. He had a crush on Claire the first time he saw her.
So he decided to propose to her. But unfortunately for him, Claire had no interest in him.
He got really embarrassed because he put in a lot of effort and hired a band to play a song for her in the school's cafeteria they were standing in now.
He didn't like the fact the captain of the school's football team could be rejected like that. Any girl could easily say yes to him.
He made up a lot of rumors about her being a slut to cover up his embarrassing attempt.
The whole school now knew Clair as the school slut.
Almost everyone hated her that she had to find an empty bench and sit all alone.
Though all this happened to her, she still kept a positive attitude. She had been raised never to care about what other people say.
Today was going to be her first time in while to share a bench with someone in the cafeteria and she felt so happy because she made a new friend.
Everyone's attention was fixed on the little commotion raking place then.
Clair went back to the bench she left her tray, picked up her meal and went with Trevor to the bench they intended to sit at earlier.
"Hey am sorry you had to go through this again. He can mean to be a total jerk." said Clair.
"it's okay." replied Trevor.
"Here, we can share my food." she said.
"Thanks" said Trevor as he picked up an extra fork and dug in.
"You seem like a good person." said Clair.
"hmmmmmm!"
The two chatted throughout the meal and had a fun time too.
Trrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! The bell sounded again.
Break time was now over.
Everyone chatting and eating stood up, left their trays in the bench and headed back to their respective classes for another gruesome lesson.
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The day went on and all the lessons where done.
It was now time for Trevor's Detention.
"Here, take this go on. Remove the gum under all benches in the cafeteria. If your done there you can go back home." said Mrs. Benson handing Trevor a scapula after she saw him smiling silly while staring in air at his desk.
'This Detention shouldn't be so easy for him' she thought. '
Trevor took the scapula and headed to the cafeteria to start his punishment.
The cafeteria had already been cleaned up when he got there. Now he had to start the gruesome gum removal.
He moved around bench by bench with a dustbin as he removed the gum.
It was already an hour but he had only done half of the work.
He was so frustrated that he even adopted the idea of escaping from his punishment and head back home.
He looked around to see if anyone was watching him. He saw a shadow in a cone-shaped hat swoosh fast in the corner of his eyes. He looked around again buy saw nothing. 'Maybe it's just my stupid mind and this silence playing tricks on me' he thought.
He proceeded to completing his mission, to escape this Detention.
He tip toed slowly till the cafeteria's door, stuck his head out the door to sneak a pick of the hall way.
'all clear. Phew !' he thought as he breathed a sigh of relief.
He tipped toed slowly through the hallway still cautious of his surrounding. Just as he turned to the right through the hall way leading to the school's gates, Mrs Benson was already there waiting for him.
'"I had a feeling you would try to dodge your punishment. But of cause am not surprised, you can't even finish your own homework." she said in a displeased tone.
Trevor's heart skipped a nest when he caught sight of Mrs. Benson.
Just as he was about to reply, Mrs. Benson spoke again," Am giving you two options either finish your punishment today, or complete it tomorrow along with toilet duty."
Trevor went back to the cafeteria to finish his punishment without another word said.
He didn't want to go through all this again.
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