Madalyn

Detention was something that always terrified me. At any cost, I avoided to get detention. I never gave any of my teachers a chance to give me such punishment but that was until Dylan entered my life and pulled me into something I could never think of doing.

A few days back,
On my way to English literature, I bumped into something...or rather someone.

"I'm sorry." I muttered quickly and was about to go to class when I heard a deep muscular voice speak, "You think you can push me and just walk away like that?" He grabbed my wrist and spun me around to face him. He looked furious. His blue eyes glared at me. If looks could kill, I would be dead already. But I was not someone to be afraid of this asshole. So I decided to stand up for myself.

"Yeah, so, what do you expect me to do? Fall at your feet and ask for an apology?" I retorted glaring at him with the same intensity as he was glaring.

His jaw clenched and his grip on my wrist tightened. He was hurting me now and I was sure it was going to leave a mark on my wrist.

"Dylan, leave. Ouch, you're hurting me." I said and tears started to well up in my eyes. He looked into my eyes and instantly left my hand.

As soon as he left my hand, I started examining my wrist which was already red due to his tight grasp.

Asshole.

He took a step forward and as a natural instinct I stepped backward. This continued until my back touched the cold metal of the lockers.

He leaned in and whispered, "This is not over. I'll deal with you later."
Just then the bell rang and he left with his friends, Brian and Jace.

The rest of the day went pretty well. There was no sign of Dylan which honestly scared me a bit because you never know what he would do get me back.

When I got home, I completed my homework and decided to go to bed since I was not hungry. I started thinking of what Dylan could do tomorrow until sleep engulfed me.

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Present-day, I am waiting for Katie to arrive at the main gate of our school.

"Good morning, Maddie." she chirps as she approaches me.

How can someone be so cheerful, so early in the morning?

I mumble her a good morning and we head towards our lockers to get the books for our first lecture. I see my timetable of the day and find out that the first lecture is History.

History?

Who the hell keeps the first lecture History?

Ughh! I hate school.

The bell rings and Katie and I part our ways to go to our classes. Well, unlike me, she has English and hence she leaves happily.

I enter the class and take a seat. A few minutes pass by and the teacher comes in and begins to teach but I am too sleepy to pay attention to what she is teaching so I just stare at her blankly.

The rest of the classes go by quickly and finally, it is lunchtime. The only reason why I come to school.

Katie and I grab our lunch and sit at our regular table.

"Any news from Dylan?" Katie inquiries taking a bite of her sandwich.

"No, not yet," I say shaking my head.

It's weird, he hasn't done anything yet.

I was expecting him to do something immediately the next day. His words rang in my mind,

"I'll deal with you later"

Maybe I should expect him to do something sooner or later because I don't think he'll forget it so easily.

The rest of the lunch we just gossiped about random things.

Yes, we do that quite often.

When the bell rings, indicating that the break is over we head towards our lockers. And for some reason unknown to me there is a huge crowd gathered near my locker. I push through the crowd to see why are there so many people are standing by my locker instead of going to their classes. When I finally reach my locker to know the reason, the sight before me enrages me. To say I'm angry would be an understatement, I'm furious.

How could he do this? And why did he do such a thing?

"What the hell are you doing?" I yell loudly at him.

"Spray painting," he shrugs. He has vandalized my locker and is acting so cool about it. It just made me even angrier.

"You wanna try it?" he asks, smirking and throws a bottle of spray paint at me. I catch it just before it is about to hit my head.

"What is everyone doing out here instead of being in their classes!" Our principal Mr. William shouts coming out of his office.

The crowd quickly starts moving to their respective classes.

"Dylan and Madalyn, I want you in my office right now," he yells, looking down at the spray paint bottles in our hand.

Shit! I'm in so much trouble.

"But sir, he did-"

"No buts, I want you in my office now!" Mr. William yells cutting me off

I glare at Dylan only to find him smirking at me.

Ughh! I officially hate him now.

We follow Mr. William to his office. When we enter, he sits on his chair. Before he starts yelling again I take the opportunity to defend myself. Again. But to no avail. He just wouldn't listen to me.

Why would someone vandalize their own locker?

He declared detention for both of us for three days and dismissed us but not before a long lecture on why we shouldn't be vandalizing the school property.

Oh no, now I'll have to wait for two hours for three days after school.

"Why would you do that?" I yell at Dylan as soon as we get out of the principal's office.

"I'll tell you in detention today. I'm busy now," he says.

"Busy," I snort.

He runs his hand through his hair and leaves.

Sighing, I go to my class.

"You're late Ms. Monroe," Mr. Brown, our Calculus teacher says as soon as I enter the class and the whole class looks at me.

Thank you so much for giving me unwanted attention, Mr. Brown.

"I...uhm...I was in the principal's office," I say looking down nervously.
"Okay, you may sit," he says and starts teaching again.

Couldn't he ask me the reason after the class was over?

I look around the class for a seat and walk towards it when I spot one. But unfortunately, it is the one next to Jace. Yes, you guessed it right. He's Dylan's best friend. Now that I didn't have any other option, I quietly go and sit down next to him. Thankfully, he did not say anything to irritate me but just kept smirking at me.

The rest of the classes goes by quickly and now it is time for the thing I dread the most DETENTION.

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