Detention was pretty much the highlight of yesterday. After detention, the group plus their new friend left school together. Right after Jade got in her car, Dre approached her to ask when she had time for him to tutor her, instead of a reply, Jade sped past him with her middle finger out the drivers' window.

   Trying to avoid yesterday's parking lot event, Dre went to their science teacher to tell her he couldn't tutor her and promising that he'll get a B on his next test with high hopes of the teacher agreeing but she refused blatantly with a laugh and saying good one in the mix. He tried to figure out what was so funny but it seemed like she was already in her own trance. He stepped out of the class and headed to his locker.

Seeing Tori and Carter at his locker, he had a feeling his moody morning was going to go from bad to good. He approached them with a smile on his face, unfortunately, they didn't reciprocate. Instead, Carter with a rare serious face said, "We need to talk, dude." then proceeded to drag him into the male toilet with Tori following behind them.

When they stepped inside the toilet, the stands were empty but to be sure Carter asked Tori to check the stalls, she glared at him until he said "please check the stalls, Tori" with a monotonous voice. She checked the stalls and found the last stall occupied.

"What the hell? You're not supposed to be in here, this is for males, I don't care if you're a feminist or not. You-" the voice continued to yell.

"You have twenty seconds to get out of here." Tori interrupted with a straight face as she slammed the door.
The unknown dude came out with a furious face.

"Stay here," Carter whispered to him as he finally let his arm go.

"Excuse me?" The furious dude said as he stepped closer to Tori's face

" I believe she didn't stutter," Carter said interrupting them while pulling Tori away from the dude, making her stand closely beside him.

"Oh," the dude clearly misunderstanding them and stepped out of her face. "You should have said something." He said slowly backing away from the toilet and winked at them when he got to the door.

Tori seemed like she just understood what he said and tried to go after him but Carter held her back shaking his head. She snatched her hand from him and rolled her eyes whilst approaching him, Carter walked slowly behind her.

"So?" Dre said dragging the word.

"So what?" Carter asked

"Why am I here?" Dre asked almost his rolling eyes

"We want to talk about Jade," Tori replied in a bored tone.

"Oh God, I thought I was the only one," Dre said with a hint of relief. Tori looked confused and raised her brows questioning him.

"She has this mean girl, I don't care phase going on and it's a major Vibe killer," Dre said stating the obvious.

Tori rolled her eyes opening parting her lips to speak but Dre interrupted saying "See, she's rubbing off on you. You hardly roll your eyes but inside this toilet, you've done it twice." She tried to roll her eyes again but caught herself before she finished to which Dre his raised brows at.

"That's not the point, we including you consider her a bit as a friend, and don't you dare to deny it," Carter said and Dre couldn't deny it.

"Isn't it weird if you tried to play her?" Tori asked in a lower tone.

"I know, I know, it's just unavoidable. I can't play her at the same time I can't back down from the bet. Do you know what my mind is going through right now?"

"I know it's hard dude but it's just weird, playing your friend right? It's like me playing Tori." Carter said

"Gross" Dre said shuddering while Tori smacked his head.

"Yeah, that's how we feel about the bet." Carter continued.

"So what should I do? I can't just tell them I'm backing down. I'm going to lose and I don't know what those guys are going to ask me to do," Dre said with a seemingly stressed face.

"I doubt it would be that much, they are your friends," Tori said.

"And their dares are not that bad," Carter said.

"Look, guys, just tell me how to stop it who knows what I'll go through after ending this bet."

"I can threaten them, I don't mind." Tori offered.

"Yeah like you threatened that dude awhile ago?" Carter responded sarcastically.
Tori glared at Carter and somehow it turned into a staring competition Dre couldn't comprehend.

"I'm still standing here guys," Dre said with an eye roll.

"I thought you wanted to do it. Why stop all of a sudden?" Tori asked

"The plan was to get her to tutor me then I'll frustrate her, I didn't have to do anything at all but now I have tutor her and she'll be the one frustrating me and I have to read and prepare with someone, I don't know if you guys noticed but I'm like a lone wolf. It's just too much." Dre replied

"So what will you do?" Tori asked.

The three stood and thought about it for a while it seemed like all hope was lost until

"Ok! Ok I got this! What if the guys think I'm still playing her but in reality, I'm not. They don't need to know I'm not playing her. You guys are the only ones that'll know I'm not playing her or trying to get into her pants. How about that?" Dre said

"That's so stupid."
"That's never going to work." Tori and Carter said at the same time.

"Do you guys have a better plan?"Dre asked with a glare.

" I guess it could work for now but find a better plan soon cause this mess of a plan can blow up in your face sooner than you expect," Tori said.

The bell rang making the conversation cut short.

~•~

During their lunch break, the science teacher called both of them to talk about the plan to get them to get along and at the same time get them to pass more in classes.

"I just don't understand why I need a tutor. I got a D in a test and suddenly I need a tutor, I just started the class there was no way I could have gotten an A. I think it's impressive I got a D for a student that just started the class." Jade started complaining.

"Exactly! You need someone to help you catch on with the classes you missed. You'll still write exams and it's going to cover the whole scheme, so you can't escape it." The teacher said trying to convince her.

"Then why can't you give me extra classes? You're the teacher, it's kinda your job stop trying to push it on a student." Jade said with a glare.

"I'm just trying to help, I would never try to stress a student or make them uncomfortable. I just thought you would feel more comfortable if your classmate helped you and you'll also have a friend since you're new." The science teacher said her voice softening.

"I can make friends myself, don't try to force people on me with a pathetic excuse. If you wanted to help you could've tutored me personally. I never complained to you that I needed a tutor. Stop trying to reduce your stress by acting like you care." Jade said grabbing her bag and storming out of the class.

Looking at the floor the teacher told Dre he was excused. He asked if she was ok, she nodded her head not looking up. He hated seeing her like this, so he left the class without further questions. Reaching the door, the teacher told him not to bother about tutoring her. With a deep breath, he pulled the door open and walked out.

He ran after her and grabbed her arm with a firm grip, "was that necessary? I don't know what you're going through and I honestly don't care. You had no right to act so rudely with your teacher, you are never going to get real friends if you keep acting bitchy to everybody." He said with an intense glare.

"Come on nerdy, I didn't know you were messing with the teacher." She winked, smiling and expecting him to calm down but it did the exact opposite.

"What the hell is wrong with you? You think everything can go back to normal with smiling and winking?" He yelled causing her to flinch and students to stop and stare at them. He ignored them and continued speaking this time in a lower tone.

"I understand if you don't want to feel less than your classmate but you can say that in a less rude way or approach her calmly. There was no point to throw insults at her, I asked her for a tutor and she offered me to tutor a student that was nowhere near her fault. You could have talked to her if you felt uncomfortable instead of trying too hard to be a bitch." He said dropping her arm and walking away.

Dre sat with his other friends Ray and Max. Ray and Max were the ones who dared him. They knew little about what he was going through, they were like the cool guys of the school. They were fun to hang out with and very creative.

Ray writes poems he says it helps him work his feelings out instead of punching the life out of people. He mostly writes about ways to kill them or writes about the girls he likes or girls that broke his heart. Sometimes he sends the letters out, other times he keeps them in a big book. It was like a diary but if you're not a good Poem reader you'll never understand what he writes.

Max, on the other hand, sketches and sometimes paint but the two never mix, he says paint ruins the whole point of the drawing. To him, there's a story behind every sketch and paint. So when they mix it spoils the whole story which makes absolutely no sense to Dre. He makes comics sometimes but most times he draws or paints about his surroundings which were pretty impressive to Dre.

Dre played a few instruments so he fitted in the group. What seemed funny to them was weird to other people, they bet on the stupidest things and if they lost they sent a message to someone, a loved one, or someone they hated. The message has to be something they were really good at.
Like the time Ray lost a bet, he dared to send a message to his crush, she refused his proposal but loved the writing and now they were friends. Or when Max lost a bet and he was dared to send a message to history teacher. To cut the story short, it involved a painting on the teachers' car that says a lot about Racism. It makes Dre nervous about who he's going to send a message to when he lost the bet.

"So how is the dare going?" Max asked

"I think I'll have to back out guys," Dre said scratching his forehead.

"Really? This is the first time you're not going through with a bet." Ray stated

"I'm sure it has something to do with the shouting in the hallway," Max said.

"She's a bit annoying guys, I can't go through with it. I'm going to get High blood pressure before the end of the semester." Dre said smiling and the guys laughed.

"So your dare" Max said smiling evilly
"Drumroll please," he said to Ray and he gladly offered with a quite disturbing attempt.

"Talk to Rachel," Max said
"Don't send a message, he means you should actually talk to her," Ray emphasized.

Rachel was his ex, he couldn't do it. She was the only girl he ever loved, he couldn't do it, he couldn't even think about it.

"Why would I do that? Good riddance! I already played her, what else?" He asked attempting to convince them.

Ray and Max looked at each other then stared as if saying something with their eyes.

"We know you're hurting dude, we only said the playing thing so you wouldn't think about it too much," Ray said

"I-i-i-i can't do it, it hurts guys to even look at her or see her near me. I don't know why she did it. I want to move on, to forget about her, to forget about everything, the memories, the laughter, the pain is just too much." He said holding back the tears threatening to fall.

"We know, you never told us what happened or anything but I know she feels the same way, she stares at you sometimes we've seen it," Max said

"We're not asking you to get back together or anything. You'll feel better if you guys talk about it." Ray finished for him.

"Do I really have to do it?" Dre said in a shaky voice.

Shaking his head Ray said "No, I mean yes but not now but you have to like-"

"What Ray is trying to say is that you have to do it but when you want to. We can't force you to say anything, we just feel that's the right thing to do." Max explained to which Dre nodded his head.

The three looked at each other, in this case, they would hug but ego comes first, so they stared at each other until the bell rang and they laughed. Maybe these guys knew him better than he thought.

The rest of the day went fine, he thought about talking to Rachel for a while but he wasn't sure he was ready, so he left that thought alone. When the last bell for the day rang, the students approached their lockers to empty their bags.

Dre was going to do the same thing until he caught Jade at his locker, she didn't see him coming and continued what she was doing.

"What are you doing?" He said interrupting her

"I- uh- heh- i-" she continued trying to find the right word and she found one

"Bus," she said pointing at the opposite lockers, Dre looked at it then turned back at her and said

"We're in the hallway, what do you want?"

"Bye," she said and scurried away.

"What in the name of.. " He said as he stared at her and opened his locker, a piece of paper fell, Dre picked it up and read

"I'm sorry I was rude to the teacher, I took a bit of your advice and talked to her and I agreed that I needed a tutor for a while. So if the offer is still on; I would love to be your student for now.• _ •"
~J

Dre said smiled at the note, folded it, and kept it in his pocket. He approached her with a smile and said

"I would love to tutor you, my house after school tomorrow?" He asked and she nodded.

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