The Devil Inside

Chapter 12

Lexi's P.O.V.

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Tiffany and I were standing in Uncle Jerry, or he told me to call him for now, Mr. Turner. He was pulling his stunt where he gets the people/person to speak first, and of course Tiffany just couldn't stand the silence anymore. 

"Mr. Turner I think that you have made a grave mistake, why would you ask me to your office when in the past week I've been beaten twice by the same person. You should be punishing her or my father will hear about this!" Her voice is so high pitched she sounds like she just inhaled four cans of helium. Uncle J turned to me obviously waiting for me to talk. I hear Tiffany intake a big breath.

"Oh come on Alexandra, just speak so he can punish you already!" I flinch from the velocity of her voice, I wouldn't be surprised if my eardrums were bleeding. I sigh.

"Fine 'Mr. Turner', what's the punishment this time?" I ask sarcastically also making sure I enunciated his name. He now sighs.

"Alexandra, I put you on that team in hopes that you would overcome your differences and at least try and be civil. What was the problem?" Is he serious? For one of the greatest agents of all time and a pretty smart dude, he is hella stupid when it comes to students and teaching.

"Well first of all, she deserves it and if we weren't at school I would've kicked her a*s so bad you wouldn't be able to recognise her, and secondly, did you know that she has bullying a poor innocent kid ever since I left. I know how you feel about innocent people and the punishments they get, and he doesn't deserve one yet she is giving it to him, so, if I'm gonna be punished so is she, understand?" I turn at the last part and look at Tiffany, to see her roll her eyes at me. 

"Лекси, что она делала с этим человеком?" Uncle J started speaking in Russian, this was our language that we shared together. I can see Tiffany feels like the lesser person in the room, which she is, because she doesn't know what we're saying in what language. [Translation - Lexi, what type of things has she been doing to this person?]

"Что ж, дядя Дж. Я не понял всего этого, но, похоже, она изо всех сил пытается запугать его, а он - сирота с СДВГ, так что не похоже, чтобы он мог выдержать большую борьбу." His eyes widen a tiny fraction, and if you weren't trained to find stuff like this then you would've missed it. He turns to Tiffany and I can practically hear her thoughts. [Translation - Well Uncle J I haven't gotten the full extent of it, but it seems she goes out of her way to bully him and he is an orphan with ADHD so it's not like he can put up much of a fight.] 

"Tiffany, I just found out that you have been bullying a student, for years and here you are playing the victim, why is that?" She looks shocked like he just asked her the most ridiculous question, like if she is a girl or not.

"Are you serious? My face has that many bruises on it and you're worried about some little autistic kid who doesn't know who his parents are?! Gosh, my father will so be hearing about this." Oops, she just slipped up some information that wasn't yet revealed, well, in a language she could understands.

"Tiffany I don't recall telling you who the student was and if they were orphaned or disabled. How would you come to that conclusion? Hmm?" She actually looks scared. I chuckle lightly to myself, God, she is so much more stupid than I originally thought. Playing with her will be real fun. Then the door bursts open and her mother walks in and grabs her arm and pulls her away from me like I've got the deadliest disease in the world, I do it's called manipulation, and it can kill hundreds. 

"Tiffany don't speak anything more. Your father and I will deal with this once we get home and then we will look at the qualifications of Mr. Turner." They both then get a smug look on their faces, like you both ugly and no amount of plastic or make up is going to change that. I start laughing, lightly at first, and then full blown that has tears streaming down my checks. I think she now just realised that it was actually me in the room not some other student.

"Oh God, Uncle J you hear these people? They think they gonna get you fired. Ha, priceless." I wipe a tear from my check then sober up and face the two b******s in the room.

"Listen, did you not hear my warning yesterday? Waiting and confronting a minor in a school parking lot, with multiple people, one including the mayor of this town, now, that wouldn't sound too good in the newspaper would it? Also, that their daughter has been abusing kids for years now and is using her parents, more specifically her fathers because let's be honest, what do you do besides spend money, title to get her what she wants. Now, your daughter, will be punished by Mr. Turner or me, I haven't decided yet, and, Mr. Turner will be left alone. His position here will not be threatened again because you don't know what I am capable of. Now, you go wait outside will Mr. Turner punishes us, the both of us because I once again beat your daughters plastic, pathetic a*s." She looked scared, Tiffany as well, and Uncle Jerry looked like he didn't know what to do right now. She straightens her posture, fixes her blouse and purse, then walks out the door, without Tiffany, good. Uncle J clears his throat.

"Ok well, Tiffany, you will have two weeks worth of lunch time detention and after school in which you will spend cleaning the school. Lunch time will be cleaning outside, on the fields, in the cafeteria, where ever a lot of students are, and I'll decide when and what day. Now, you may head off to practice and tell your mother to leave as well. Thank you." Then he turned to me, oh s**t I'm in trouble now. After Tiffany walked out the door and we heard a second door closing indicating that the front office door had been closed, Uncle J started laughing his a*s off. Ok, kind of expected more yelling from his side and laughing at mine but you know, I'm not complaining. 

"Oh, thank you Lexi. I have wanted to yell at that women and tell her off for so long, but I couldn't because she could have had my job taken from me. I think that goes for most of the teachers and staff at this school." Ok, really wasn't expecting this. I thought more along the lines of 'Respect your elders Lexi' and 'Never raise your voice at an adult' and stuff like that. 

"Is this a prank? Are you not acting mad that I yelled an adult and then you become really mad at me for laughing at it and give me double my punishment? What is it?" He laughs again.

"God no why would I yell at you. That woman and her husband think that because they technically run this town that they can get away with being snobs to everyone. This town is small, like here they're treated as royalty, but the second we leave this town they aren't anything, just normal day civilians. But, as I was saying, in this town they are royalty, so we must treat them as such even though you could do a better job at running this town. They are vile people who forgot what it was to be like us because that's who they used to be, no bodies in a small town." Damn, he is so sentimental when he wants to be.

"Damn Uncle J, you got a b***h over here feeling mushy and s**t with that 'no bodies in a small town' s**t. Gosh, you could never use your good speeches when they were needed, could you? Never mind, doesn't matter anymore. So, what's my punishment? Will I be joining Tiffany at cleaning the school? Or maybe, you want me to be suspended. Say no more, I'll start the journey home." He sighed but in a bit of a playful way.

"No Lexi, you will not be joining Tiffany in detention you will be running the schedule actually, and you're not suspended either, so get to the parking lot, I'm sure Tommy is waiting for you to get back so you can leave. Now go Lex, and please try not to come into this office again for another week if not for just wanting to pop in and visit your old Uncle, alright?" I nodded then left and headed straight for the field behind the school where Tommy was for sure. I arrive and see him sitting on the bleachers looking nervous and his own world so I decided why not scare him. I put my bag on the floor and begin climbing the bleachers. Once I'm at the top I quietly climb over and stand behind Tommy who is two seats in front. I take a big breathe in and yell at the top of my lungs,

"BOO!!" 

"AHHHHHH!" He jumped so high I'm sure he could've caught a star. Everyone on the field was looking now. Tommy was on his back, breathing heavily out of anger and from having the wind knocked out of him, and I couldn't keep my laughs. 

"Oh you were so f*****g scared dude. Ha, that was absolute gold, I should have recorded it and sent it to the twins." As I said the last sentence I reached out my hand so I could lift him up. He got up and we started walking to the bottom and deciding just to go to the back of the field and do our own mini workout thing. 

"Bro why were you so tensed? What were you thinking about?" He looked like he was contemplating between telling me or not. He stopped walking and turned to me, and we happened to be in the middle of the field where everyone was staring at us.

''HQ got a tip about a case they're working on and wanted me to tell you because they're probably scared you'll go over there and rip their heads off." Ok now I was worried, it takes a lot to get Tommy worried and me not a lot. I have been diagnosed as bipolar and have very high anxiety and it really doesn't work well together, so I need to be careful about the information I digest and in the time period I do.

"Go on." I said. I knew Tommy would tell me, I just didn't think that what he said would have come out of his mouth. He opened his mouth and closed it again, he looked like a fish.

What he said next shocked me.