I left off in my story where I was invited to a party by a popular girl who attends the academy. You probably already know by now that the wealthy attend the school and that's exactly what Chrystal Hightower is: wealthy born into a rich family. Her parents are travel agents, always on the go basically giving Chrystal just about anything she wants and I mean anything, you name it, she'll get it. Due to her insane popularity around the school and her wealth the girls worship her as though she's some god of some sort, they look up to her, study her every move, stalk her social media accounts, wish they could be just as insanely wealthy, pretty and popular but she' also stuck up. When she invited me to her party I was shocked to think that she even knew who I was, my name or wanted me at her event, maybe for the sole purpose of Josh being there, after all Josh is pretty darn good looking and attractive but I didn't know what he thought of her.
*Detention*- Emily p.o.v.
There was hardly anyone in detention. It usually takes place in my school building, never the same teacher, always different. However, on this day I was stuck with my Chemistry teacher with my best friend's brother hovering over a frog on a tray. There was only two other girls in the classroom in the other section apart from the lab area. One not giving a crap as to being placed in detention aka prison, the other: oogling over Josh in the back getting the tools we needed to dismantle the animal for a A+ grade surely that would drop to a B- or B+ after our behavior from earlier. Josh didn't notice me walk in but his eyes were focused on the girl staring at him, he wasn't interested from the looks of it but just wanted her to stop looking at him. The girl quickly turned when he looked at her, probably a mere game to her.
I approached the desk "Hi carebear" he smiled grinning at me. "No running away this time alright?" he raised an eyebrow. I poked his arm "No surprises"
"Everything set?" our Chem teacher came to check on us. Josh nodded "Thank you". She smiled. "Make the incision correct and you'll get a good grade. Focus" she looked at both of us "No talking" she reminded us. Josh left out that part when he was telling me about it earlier and gave me a sad look and mouthed the words 'I'm sorry' On the other hand I was panicking on the inside, how was I supposed to make an incision on the creature I feared the most, worse yet we couldn't even talk so how were we supposed to make the markings precise and accurate. Has our teacher gone insane or was she just teaching us a lesson. Perhaps we could have used our phones to communicate or would that drop our grades lower? Either way this was going to be hell.
I stared at the scalpel moving it towards Josh who pushed it back in my direction. I decided to give it a head start looking away from the table and holding the frog and laying it on its back. Josh proceeded to spread out the frog's limbs and pin them to the tray. There was no way I was going to do all of that. I helped him by grabbing the forceps to lift the skin between the hind legs where the incision would be made. It was so hard to do this without talking and we didn't come to an agreement as to who would do the cutting. Josh knew how scared I was but I can tell that he was also. I slid the scalpel towards him and made a face indicating that I was no way in hell doing it, he nodded and picked up the tool but froze in place... just frozen without any sudden movement. I nudged him at which he jumped and moved his hand closer, focusing and made a small incision. A part of me wanted to hug him tight for finally doing it but I couldn't so I gave a wide smile. Josh continued the cut up the center of the frog's body with now scissors, I had collected the scalpel from him. He was careful to cut through only the skin at this point I wanted to barf but kept calm for our grade. When Josh was done he threw the scissors down with a sigh of relief and we both stepped back waiting for our teacher, she walked over checking the frog making sure the markings were precise and looked at us "Good job you two and without talking. Great communication." she looked at the frog. "The cut could have been straighter" Both me and Josh looked at each other, he gulped. "A+"
"YES!!!" Josh yelled jumping up. "WOHOOOOO" the girls turned. Josh was about to grab me when he stopped "Right, frog fingers" he hid his hands and washed them at the nearby sink in the lab, I followed. When he was done he gave me a tight squeeze. I didn't want to let go if I'm being honest. "Relax" I told him. He pouted "What, I just wanted to give my carebear a hug, we did it" he beamed
'My carebear?' Was he on drugs?
I went back to the desk, the area was cleared and courtesy of our teacher. "Before I forget... um.... Chrystal invited us to a party at her house tonight, it's at 8pm"
He stood still "Chrystal of all people?" I agreed with him. "I knowww"
"Are we going or what?" he asked "You're not one to do parties"
"We're going, bring Caroline"
"Okay"
Shortly after, detention was over and it was time to PARTAYYYYYYY'
Josh and I were home free. "Pick you up at 7?"
"See you at 7"