Chapter Eleven

A/N: This chapter is not written properly. Both of us were having writer's block. So excuse it, please.

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Yours Truly, SunAngel ;)

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Penelope

I looked around the room the teacher had brought us into for detention.

Aidene was rubbing her head with her hand which probably was still hurting from Kaleb pulling her hair really hard, her jaw had started to turn an unusual color black and blue due to the punch.

Anne stood leaning slightly to the left because Kaleb had managed to kick her really hard on the right ankle. I too and several bruises the only ones who were unscathed were Valentina and another boy, Roy Robinson who for some unknown reason was stuck in detention with us.

"This is going to be our new chemistry lab, you will be cleaning it up for renovation" Miss. Danvers said the principal had handed us to her for detention.

"What about Kaleb?" Aidene asked, her voice full of spite. She seemed to hold some sort of grudge against Kaleb.

"He will be getting a session about respecting women and has been appointed a different task for detention."

"What exactly is that?" Aidene raised an eyebrow."Mowing the lawns all by himself"

"Aren't they like enormous? Asked Valentina."A fitting punishment; and you girls.."

"Umm... I am a boy," Roy said but was completely ignored.

"Will be coming here every day of the week after classes are over till you finish cleaning this place up." She finalized leaving no place for argument, walking away briskly, and muttering something about how good girls aren't supposed to be fighting.

A confused look took hold of Anne's face."Did she just say that girls aren't supposed to fight?"

"That's my English teacher, a very old-fashioned-forget-we-live-in-the-twenty-first-century type of person," I replied.

"Yeah, those things kind of imply that she was born before women could vote," Aidene said wiggling her fingers like worms over her chest indicating the frills the teacher wore earning a glare from Anne for some reason.

I on the other hand was trying to get over the fact that Aidene could punch and punch hard that is."Why are you here and who are you?" Aidene asked, turning towards Roy, a tall, boy in an 'Alan Walker' hoodie and e-boyish hair. He was a lot lankier than most of the other kids around his height in our grade.

"Roy Robinson" He outstretched his hand for Rayners to shake but she very kindly ignored it.

"Wow! Alliteration" she said instead.

The height difference was hilarious. Aidene was at least 8 inches shorter than Roy, he was taller than all of us. Aidene didn't seem to be bothered by the fact she was the second shortest in the room after Valentina. If anything she looked a lot more intimidating than Roy with that defiant look she seemed to have acquired after the brawl that only happened about half an hour ago.

"Why are you here?" Aidene deadpanned looking up to Roy's grey eyes.Intimidating him, which wasn't really a particularly impressive feat, he was a bit of a wimp.

"Forgot to submit my maths homework?" Roy replied replacing his usual stutter (caused by being intimidated) with running his hand through his dark hair.

The answer seemed to be enough for Aidene.

"Ok! Everybody listen up." Aidene shouted, raising an arm, imitating a rockstar asking everybody to sing along, suddenly making everybody jump.

"We are going to clean this room up cause I don't want to be stuck here." She said smiling kindly but her eyes showing a different story.

"Annnnnnnnnnnnnd... I don't know your last name, Miss Valentina?" Aidene said pointing to Valentina.

"Brookes. And stop acting as that" Valentina said, a little shaken by Aidene's crazy behavior.

"Darlin' this ain't no act"

"Does she always act like that?" Roy murmured.

I turned to the stack of mops and brooms waiting for us.

After a while we started cleaning, I was voted to scratch the bubblegum off the underside of desks since I couldn't really walk well (thanks to the sprained ankle gifted by Kaleb) and also maybe because I may have put some of them there.

Aidene took up the job of pushing the broken furniture out of the room with help from Roy. Anne took the job of taking the graffiti and stickers off the walls. Valentina had started to broom the floors but stopped after 5 minutes, she claimed of being tired from the brawl and extremely tired to which Aidene replied.

"Val, Valentina dear... you were absolutely no help during the brawl and I am an underweight 13-year-old who is pushing really heavy furniture across the room after being punched in the jaw."

"With my help" Roy added cheerfully. Gullible, I thought

"Yes with your help and with Valentina's" Aidene added sarcastically.

"I am really tired, seriously," She said with a strained voice.

'Yeah, and none of us are...' I thought to myself but decided to keep quiet since it wasn't going to be of any help anyway.

Valentina continued to check her phone. I sighed. There's no way we were going to finish this today. Another day of detention it is.

I figured I might as well take a small break now. I stood up and stretched my back hurt from crouching over for so long.

The sun was already starting to set, it flickered like an old movie projector. A dark shadow had cast itself over everything. The warm white tube lights in the classroom were dying out leaving us in semi-darkness. The dark environment was reflected in our moods. Cleaning a whole room and not being able to complete the task had made us dispirited.

Aidene had herself sprawled on the table doing a dramatic enactment of what appeared to be a dying fish while Roy watched her from the other side of the room with confusion while Valentina watched her with interest.

"Aren't you three going to clean?" Anne asked, glaring at me because I was starting to sit down, I glared back.

Just in time, Aidene announced."I have taken a permanent break for the day," earning a glare from Anne.

"Me too!" Valentina agreed, flinging her arms in the air in surrender from her tiring hours of doing absolutely nothing productive.

"Valentina you like cleaned for fifteen minutes, Aidene was furniture lifting for three hours she deserves a break, and I am taking my @#$$%%^ break for the day," I said.

"Permanent break for the day" Roy quoted Aidene as he plopped down on a broken chair that creaked dangerously under his weight.

"That lanky wonky chair gonna break Roy," Aidene said with a smug smile probably thinking of how funny it would be if he did fall. Roy got up instantly and fixed Aidene with an incredulous look.

"Did you just say 'lanky wonky'?" I questioned.

"Get used to it, she's weird," Anne said.

"You should know, you are best friends after all" I hit the nerve and both of them stiffened. Aidene looked away frowning and Anne glared at me (only if I got a dollar for every time Anne glared I would be rich).

"She is not my friend," Anne said in a dangerously low voice.

Her voice left the air cold and dry, sucking it devoid of any emotion, although what she just said may as well have been told by a toddler throwing a tantrum.

"Hey, calm down, we'll miss dinner if we stay here any longer and we're coming back here tomorrow anyway..." said Roy, clapping softly, attempting to break the tension in the room. He was ignored.The argument elevated between me and Anne, Valentina had started making side comments not taking anyone's side in particular.

Our words slurred together barely making any sense.

Roy was desperately trying to separate us and getting shouted at for interrupting.

He would occasionally tell Valentina to stop making things worse. He failed.

Aidene sat slouched on a half-broken chair with a mix of a pout and a glare on her face and occasionally breaking into a smile seeing Roy fail only to return to her pout and glare state after a few milliseconds. Who would have classified Aidene as a little bit of a sadist?

"Maybe if you hadn't started the $^#!@ fight with Kaleb maybe we wouldn't be here," Anne said the fight had somehow found its way into this topic.

"ME!? YOU scratched him and your @$%^& Best friend punched him -BLAME HER!" I yelled. I had quickly found out that Anne didn't like it when I called Aidene her best friend or her friend."She is right if Aidene...." Valentina said, taking my side.

"Guy stop. Just stop" Roy made another weak attempt at stopping us.

We stopped. Not because of Roy but because someone else had intervened.