"Willow Parks you are 19, having an IQ of 148 and being the most brilliant student I have seen for the last ten years but your behaviour is just... Just unacceptable, revolting, naughty and jeopardizing for this prestigious institution. You are just unbelievable."
Principal Dwayne was red with anger and frustration and I swear I could see fumes emanating from her ears, but well can you blame her ? After what I did again anyone would be mad, literally. By the way what did I do? Well I had a very civilized, friendly and sweet conversion with the girl I hate the most, in the bathroom....we broke three sinks and shattered the mirror in the process. Only God, us and the devil know how we managed to do that bare-handed and without a single scratch. Well my partner went free without any punishment mean while I was conveyed to the Principal's office. Meh, what do you want me to say?After all money talks.
So this is how I got called up here for the twentieth time this week and the forth time of the day, pretty impressive right? Let's get back to what poor Principal Dwayne is fuming about.
"I don't just understand how it's humanly possible to be so naughty and so intelligent at the same time. Having a student being called in my office twenty times in the same week was something that I had never witnessed in my entire life."
She removed her glasses, the usual glasses and massaged the bridge of her nose. I was really trying to hold myself back, but damn it.
"Don't you think I merit to be in the guinness book of records for all of these?"
If glares could kill I would have been six miles under earth by now.
"Ok, I am taking that back but atleast look at the positive side of it. You will never forget me."
"You are oh so right, she said taking a file from her drawer. I won't forget you but atleast I won't see you again because you are officially expelled."
"What?"
Don't get it wrong I wasn't shocked or about to tear up because of an expulsion. On the contrary I was happy, after all these up-calls I had finally been expelled. Mission accomplished! Next direction: Miami to meet the most important man in my life, my father, who was my everything and whom I loved so much
And who had just backstabbed me.
After Dwayne, I got tired of calling her principal, it's not like she's my principal anymore, gave me my file containing my report and some others documents I returned to my room in the dorms. On my report she didn't note any of my misbehaviours and justified my expulsion by a transfer. Just by the side she had written on a note:
Writing a negative report would had destroyed your life given the havoc you made here. But I know you are not of the bad kind and something must justify your actions. I really had a good mind to destroy your life with this, but I talked to your teachers who see in you nothing but a brilliant and quiet student. It is at that moment that it hit me, you just want attention. And from whoever it is, I hope it was worth it. You lost a great chance to succeed in your career. But I do not worry because I know your strength.
Farewell Parks,
Margaret Dwayne.
I hated being read like an open book, I did all what I did on purpose and yes it was worth it. All I want is to be re-united with my dad, just him and me, nobody else. It had always been like that and nothing was ever to change.
Well that's what I thought until I read that goddamn letter my father wrote.
I had torn it the moment I read the phrase ''I got married to an amazing woman last week and you will live from now on with her six sons'' Just how could he? Dating, I could bear but marriage? He wed last week and didn't even inform me neither did he even bother to tell me he had found someone. I felt betrayed and all of a sudden lonely, abandonned by my only real family.
I sluggishly dragged my suitacase into the hall of the airport as my backpack was one-sidedly hung on my right shoulder. The journey from Scotland to Florida had been a long one,pretty long one but my mind was exclusively focused on reuniting with my father more like confronting him. I scanned the room to see any familiar figure but there was no one in sight, he didn't even bother come to pick me up. I was slowly exiting the airport's main hall when two guys approached me. The first one was big, like really big a metre ninety or so. He looked pretty muscular as his biceps, quadriceps and all other muscle ending in -eps or -abs were traced by his white slim shirt, he equally wore a pair of black jeans and a pair of black balenciagas. He had dark brown hair and light brown eyes which made his look really peering accompagned with Oral-b commercials teeth. The second one was relatively shorter and younger around twelve and super cute if I may say, he was wearing a pair of grey jeans, a dark blue top and a pair of navy blue all stars. He also had bracelet on his left wrist and so had the other big boy and his hair was equally brown just a shade of grey,excuse me I spoke my mind out, just a shade or two lighter than that of the other.
The biggest of the two was about to speak when someone called his attention.
"Hey Lyam!! We haven't found her and I'm bored and I'm hungry and I wanna go home!!"
The voice came from behind, the guy whining like a kid was coming in our direction, closely followed by another guy who looked exactly him, they seemed to be twins; same eyes, same face and same jet black hair, yup they were actually twins.
"Stop behaving like a toddler and how in the world can you be hungry, you ate a whole pizza before we came here.", that was his twin.
The former argued on how pizza wasn't enough and the latter lectured him on his poor dieting and they went on a very interesting food debate, so interesting that I didn't even bother to listen,please note the sarcasm. Lyam whom I presume to be the tall guy smiled to me.
"You should be Willow,right?"
"And you are?", I said very suspicious of how he managed to know my name
"My name is Lyam, Lyam Callum and..."
"And I guess you are one of my new brothers.", insisting on the new.
"Yes I am, the two goofies behind you are Nate and Noah, the twins and here is our youngest Marco."
Marco gave a shy and cute wave before sending his hands in his pockets and staring at the floor meanwhile the two others were still arguing.
-"Where is my father?"
"Lincoln said he wanted to finish your room before you came home."
"You call my father by his first name?"
Really insisting on the my, he is my father not yours, I was there first.
"He really insisted on us calling him like that. Well I think we should get going, there's a yummy dinner waiting for us at home."
Lyam said as he trailed off, Marco silently followed him and so did Noah only Nate stood back and proposed to help me with suitcase. I didn't l let him do but asked him to lead the way and followed right behind, thoughtful.
Was this how unimportant I had becomed to my father? Screw the bedroom I would had rather have him here than my brothers uh that word had an horrible taste in my mouth, but I guess I will have to deal with it.
I followed Nate and the others out of the airport into the parking lot, Lyam stopped by a navy blue Hyundai i35.
I had to say he had good tastes as far as cars were concerned, to me though..
We parked in one after the other. Lyam was the one driving, Marco was at the back, in between the twins who were still food-arguing and had even started insulting each other with food names. What a duo of spinash heads. I know it's lame but that's all what I could come up with.
I, obviously was sitting at the front, staring at the scenery as Lyam drove by. The rays of the dying sun were being reflected on the glass windows of the skycrapers giving them a golden-orange color. I took out my phone from my back pack and took a picture. It really was beautiful, I saved it in my gallery. I wanted to text my father to tell him we were on our way but I gave up on the idea what's the point anyways? We'll meet soon plus it's not he will really care about me texting him or not. I know I should not think like that but after what he did I feel betrayed and unloved.
I let out a loud sigh before logging in into the website of my new highschool. Collinson highschool, my former school. I attended no survived there from grade one to grade eleven. I hated school there, the classes were just so boring and the students there were empty-headed racists, Surprise! I'm brown-skinned. Well, not all of them are racists but a great majority of them were and I couldn't stand the jokes, the nasty remarks and the rare rare but happening physical bullying so at the end of my eleventh year I left. My father never knew about it, how would he? It was at that period that he started becoming distant with me. So one morning a blurted out of nowhere that I wanted to school in Scotland and without even asking me why or counselling me like any normal parent will, he sent me there, only to bring me back two months later announcing me that he had gotten married. My dad is such a great parent.
If you were keen enough you would have noticed I didnot mention my mother eversince I started narrating the story of my life , I give her hope, I spent her love until she is broken inside,the story of... Ok let me not get distracted, where was I? Oh yeah I don't have a mother, I don't know anything about her only for the fact that she passed away when I was eight months old. Dad just never talks about her, he says it hurts him too much. With time you know, you get used to, I don't think that not having a mother is that bad, but how would I know when I don't know how it feels to have one?
I was so lost in my thoughts that I fell asleep without even realizing it. It was only when my phone drifted away from my hands to the floor that I woke up. We were in a huge underground parking lot which had a maximum capacity of twenty cars wait why do these guys really have an underground parking lot?
Lyam turned off the engine before giving me one of his beaming smiles, please I need sunglasses
"Glad you woke up. Will you mind helping me to wake up the three others?"
I looked at the backseats to see the three guys sound asleep. Nate and Noah looked so peaceful that I almost felt bad waking them up.Marco on the other side had a stoic expression which from time to time will change into a pained one, seems like the poor boy was having nightmares. I finally woke Nate up leaving Noah to Lyam who had a hard time waking him up. I went back in the car and softly called Marco's name. I read somewhere that we should always softly wake people having nightmares from their sleep or else they might be trapped between sleep and reality or be traumised. So I called him as softly as I could. His eyes slowly opened and once they were fully opened he yanked himself backward almost falling of the car through the opened door. Terror was painted on his face for some seconds before he calmed down and returned to his quiet self. He mumbled a sorry before exiting the car through the door closest to him that is opposite to me. I followed his example and left the car after grabbing my backpack. I closed the door I stumbled into the person that was behind me in the process, sorry i'm clumsy.
The guy had a toned skin a shade or two or more clearer than mine. He had chestnut hair and dark eyes.
"I'm sorry.", was all I could muster before he held his hand up to interrupt me.
"It's no big deal, Welcome home Willow."