His Leather Jacket

Episode 02

I swallowed hard, naturally my hangover sensation faded as soon as I heard Mr. Williams’ words.

Today is by all means not my day!  I sighed inwardly

Well, don’t get any wrong ideas, I think I have a clue on why the headmaster’s waiting for me in his office. What I don’t get is why Aaron is the one to escort me there? Anyway, I got up from my seat and walked silently towards the door,

This week is the final round of FLC, The foreign language competition held by our school and since I’m the first winner for the past couple of years I was chosen to be part of the judges’ board.

The headmaster must be expecting other elite students as well otherwise he wouldn’t request my presence in the middle of a course, but hey, Medieval history class and Mister Williams scolding me isn’t the best situation someone finds themselves caught in either so I’m gladly leaving class even if I still want to go to bed instead.

I walked calmly through the corridor when I sensed someone behind me, of course

Aaron, I rolled my eyes, do you remember the rules I had when it came to him?

Don’t look at him, don’t talk to him and pretend you don’t know him?

Well, they still apply but something isn’t  quite right , I continued my  way to the headmaster’s office  and when I arrived in front of the door, I knocked twice before entering,

Aaron was still behind me but I entered first, surprisingly the office was empty, and here I thought this was about the foreign language’s competition!  Well I didn’t give it much thought and

I sat on one of the two empty chairs in front of the headmaster’s desk only then, Aaron entered the office , I couldn’t close my eyes  to avoid  seeing him but this doesn’t mean I didn’t ignore him as I usually do,  which I’m thinking  is probably why he is constantly picking up on me.

He sat silently before me and that’s when it hit me.

This whole situation wasn’t right! From what I know  Aaron takes an immense pleasure in annoying me but now he was quiet, weirdly quiet , I look up to him and he just avoided eye contact with me and I merely broke the three rules at once by asking him

“What did you do this time?” Aaron averted his eyes my way and replied

“Believe it or not, but I’ve done nothing baby girl”

 I don’t know if it’s because I knew him well or because of all the resentment I had for him , but I somehow knew that he was saying the truth, which left me even speechless compared to what I’d usually be when he calls me that !

The office’s door opened and the headmaster entered, his eyes heavy with worries and his expression said more than words could explain,

I felt a chill in my bones; that look on Aaron’s face and now the expression of the headmaster’s face. It meant no good.

“Dad…?” I finally worded out questioning their silence,

The man before me stood defeated, his shoulders down and his crystal eyes seemed tainted with sadness but didn’t answer.

“Tyler’s been injured” Aaron replied instead and I was shook to my bones, I instantly stood up and shouted at him

“What? How? ” I questioned hastily as his answer’s lead me into thinking the worst 

The headmaster put a hand on my shoulder drawing back my attention to him and looked at me again with compassionate eyes and a forced smile,

“Don’t worry sweetheart; your brother is going to be fine,” his words were as soothing as ever, or maybe it was the feeling of his hand on my shoulder that made my worries fade gradually

I sighed in relief; I wasn’t expecting that to happen

“But where is he? I want to see him!” I asked somehow impatiently

“Currently at the hospital receiving treatment, Aaron will take you to see him after class”

Wait what? Me and Aaron going together? Yeah, not gonna happen !

“I can go by myself”  I replied  coolly hiding the frustration from the mere thought of being stuck with him

“After class, you’re going with Aaron. Miss Miller!” he said sternly.

“Yes sir!” I said more or less silently.

 when my dad gets all serious about being the headmaster there’s no more to say,

I forced my lips into a faint smile and then left his office discouraged .

My dad was the new headmaster of the school but only few knew about that.

He tried as much as he could  to stay unknown so that I never get any special treatment by the teachers  just because I’m the headmaster’s daughter, and besides he’s been at this position only  for a couple of months so it’s still possible to hide his identity. what he didn’t know is that I already get  special treatment  from all the teachers just because I’m a brilliant student , speaking of the teachers, I think Mister Williams  got the wrong idea about me , to him I must seem as a delinquent student but I’m not that worried about it,  I know that  in no time during the next cessions  I’ll prove him wrong by being myself , the studious Grace Miller and  not the sleepy brunette sitting at the back of his class.

Because yeah, even good students, have their ups and downs.

I went back to class and resumed studying, to be honest I was just physically present in fact all I could think about was Tyler, I was mind absent during the following subjects I had, luckily the last teacher, Mrs. Bloom was absent and thus I was finally free to go and see Tyler.

I made a quick stop to my locker to drop my books when my phone vibrated in my pocket, I took it and read the notification message

Text from unknown number:

I’ll be outside, don’t be late, A

I somehow figured out  it was Aaron and no I don’t want to ask how he got my number anyway, I hurried outside because I didn’t want to be late to see Tyler