I'm packing up my things still giggling over Ivy's faled attempt at getting the new guys attention. I couldn't help it, she was so obvious about it that even I felt bad for the twitch. When I hear her voice call my name saying,
"Shawn I need to see you right after class, so you need to stay."
Well fudge sickles, I'm in for it now. Ivy has had it out for me since I moved her 3 and a half years ago to live with my Dad after my Mom died. You would think a grieving 13 year old would hold some kind of compassion with adults but nope she see me as a home wrecker. All because her little sister married my Dad.
I wait for all the other students to walk out the door before I turn to her and ask,
"What's all this about Ivy?"
I see her stiffen at my question and take a deep breath before she replies,
" What have I told you about calling my by just my first name? It's Aunt Ivy or Miss Matters. "
I roll my eyes so she can see and reply with,
"Not going to happen in this lifetime Ivy. So just get to your point in having me stay after class to talk to you."
She glares at me then huff's her reply,
"Your not supposed to be in my class this year. Your supposed to be in Tammy's classes and then once she's ready for the advanced classes you are both to take them together. So why are you here and she's not."
Oh boy I knew I'd get into trouble for this but I'm not putting my education on hold for Tammy to get her fluff together.
"Your point would be?" I reply. Since I'm already in trouble might as well go for broke.
"How dare you talk to me this way? I'll give you 20 minutes to go to the office and fix your schedule. If you do this I won't tell Samantha about this it will be our little secret. "
"Hmm. Let me think about this." I wait a couple of minutes so she thinks I'm actually considering this stupid ducking request. Then I look into her eyes and say,
"Your request has been submitted but denied as a result of being to stupid to consider."
Before she can reply to that her classroom door gets thrown open and bangs on the wall next to it. I turn to the noise and see Shaw there in the doorway looking pissed and right behind him is Aidoneus looking some what confused. As I turn back towards Ivy I see her eyes have gone wide and she looks both guys up and down while licking her lips. Ugh I think I'm going to be ducking sick.
"What's going in here?" Shaw asks with bearly controlled anger in his voice. He doesn't raise his voice but lowers it instead and that my clue has to how pissed he is. But Ivy doesn't know this and pastes on a big fake smile while she's says,
"Oh it's nothing but a little girl talk." The she looks at me and asks,
"Right Shawn?"
Oh no I'm not bailing you out of this Ivy. When I smile at her and turn to Shaw and say,
"Hum nope. She wants me to change my schedule again to be in Tammy's classes for this year." I see his eyes go dark but before he can say anything I continue with,
"And to top this fluffen stuff off I can have my advanced classes when Tammy is ready to take them. He would be frozen over by then, don't you think?" I finish with a tilt to my head.
I hear laughter coming from behind Shaw and realize I forgot Aidoneus was with him. Usually I'm more cautious with my replies when it comes to this ducky fluffen stuff but she's pushed me to far this time. I'm trying to get enough credits to graduate with Shaw this year and having to give up this schedule for the main stream classes won't help me. This is my ticket out of this family and place.
"What's with all the no cuss words. Just say bullshit if you mean that or fuck if you mean that. It seems way to hard to come up with alternative words." Aidoneus says. And I turn red and look down immediately. For some reason what he said has hurt my feelings. I know people don't get it but it's the way I am. My Mom always told me it took no imagination to use the cuss words but took a a lot of imagination to go around or come up with new ones. Now with Aidoneus words I'm standing here trying hard not to cry as he points out my short comings.
I feel a arm wrap around me and I'm being drawn into the arm's of my friend. Where it's warm an safe. I feel him say,
"Well that's not going to happen since I'm the one that changed it in the first place. You have no say in this Ivy. So go ahead and call Samantha let's see her or her husband come at me. Shawn schedule stays and that's final."
With that said I reach into Shaw's pocket and pull out the car keys, I'm done with this situation for today Shaw will be a bit longer he always is when it comes to this. So with the car keys in my hand I step out of his hold and walk out the door.
Aidoneus grabs my arm to try and stop me bit I look at him and wrench my arm out of his grin and keep on walking. I never want to see or talk to him again, he's just like the others.
With that happy thought in my head I run down the hall and out the school doors as the first drops of tears start to fall.