Walking through the gates I smiled as I saw Josh a few metres ahead with Fin and Lauren. I ran to catch up with them.
"Hey guys" I said with a smile.
"Morning" Fin said.
"How you doing JJ?" Lauren asks.
"I'm doing great. I'm off my meds now" I say happily.
"That's good" Josh says. As we near the entrance of the school, the bell rings signalling form time.
"See ya later" I say to Finn and Lauren as Josh and I make our way to form time with his dad. When we arrive, we walk straight in as some people have already arrived.
"Morning sir" I say, walking past his desk.
"Morning JJ" He responds as we sit down at our desk. Tom registers us and goes through the announcements before letting us do our own thing. I pull out my notebook from my bag and open it to a clean page. I start to doodle whatever comes to mind. See, even though I didn't take art, I still love to draw and create things.
"What ya doing?" Josh asks in a silly way, peering over my arm.
"Doodling" I respond in another silly voice making us both laugh. Soon enough it's the end of form time so I put away my notepad and pick up my stuff.
"Ehh, maths" I groan as we start to head to our first lesson.
"It's not that bad" Josh says laughing at me.
"No, but I still haven't finished the catch-up work and he's probably going to go ape" I say, as we arrive outside Mr Tilson's classroom. Today's Friday so I've been back at school for 4 days. And because it's Friday it also means that we have double maths but luckily, we have a lesson between them. I sigh as we get let into the classroom. I see Mr Tilson walk over to me, so I turn to him.
"Before you ask Sir, I still haven't finished the catch-up" I say, sitting down.
"Enough of the attitude" he says angrily. I huff as he walks away and starts the lesson. As the lesson goes on Mr Tilson sets us work, most of which happens to be the extra work that I've already done from my revision sessions that I have during PE. I raise my hand and wait as Mr Tilson walks over to mine and Josh's desk.
"Yes?" He asks rudely.
"I've already done this sir. I did it during my free period" I say trying to stay calm.
"I don't care. Do it again" He says before walking off. Something clicks in my head and I sit back in my chair with my arms crossed.
"No" I say angrily.
"Excuse me?!" Mr Tilson says turning around. Fin who is behind me is quick to step in.
"She doesn't mean it sir she's just stressed out-" He tries to defend me.
"I. Said. No" I say smugly.
"Get on with the work, or else!" Mr Tilson asks.
"Or else what?" I ask, whilst pushing my chair out as I stand up.
"Right, cooler now!" He shouts.
"Make me!" I say, sitting back down.
"Get to the cooler now!" He shouts again, but I still don't move. As if he knew something was happening, Mr Mead walked down the corridor and heard Mr Tilson shouting. He walked into the classroom.
"Is there a problem here?" He asked, glancing between me and Mr Tilson.
"She's refusing to leave my classroom" Mr Tilson says angrily, pointing at me.
"JJ, come on please. Get to the cooler" Mr Mead says, looking at me sternly. I sigh and grab my stuff before storming out of the classroom, pushing by Mr Mead and Mr Tilson as I do so. Instead of heading to the cooler I Head to the toilets. As I turn the corner I hear Mr Mead calling my name, but I ignore him and walk into the nearest lady's bathroom. I place my bag down by the sink before sitting down on the floor by the mirror. I pull my knees up to my chest and place my chin on my knees. It's only now that I realise I'm crying. I try to wipe away the tears, but they don't stop. A girl from a younger year walks in and looks at me.
"What?!" I shout at her angrily. She turns around and runs out. Not 5 minutes later is someone knocking on the bathroom door.
"JJ?" Great, it was Mr Mead.
"Go away, Mead" I say, through sobs.
"JJ, what's wrong?" He asks, but I remain silent. I can hear him mutter something to someone else.
"Can I come in?" He asks, knowing that there is no-one in here. Yet again, I don't reply so he walks in. He stops and leans against the wall next to me. He doesn't say anything at first, so I continue to sit in silence, trying to stop crying. When I do finally stop crying, Mr Mead hands me some tissue and I wipe my eyes.
"Thank You" I mutter.
"What's going on JJ? It's not like you to act out this badly" He sighs. I shrug my shoulders.
"I don't even know. I tried to tell Mr Tilson that I had already done the work in my revision session and he got all rude at me. Something clicked in my head then and then a few minutes later you came in. I knew once I had stepped out of the classroom I had messed up and then I was crying so I came here" I say so quickly that I'm shocked he actually understood any of it.
"Right. Why don't you come and apologise to Mr Tilson with me now and then you'll only have to do detention at lunch?" He says, reasoning with me. I nod my head and clean my face before following Mr Mead back to Mr Tilson's classroom. Right as we arrive the bell goes so we go inside once everyone has left.
"I'm sorry" I say to Mr Tilson.
"Right well, you need to stop acting out in my class" He says. I grit my teeth, trying to stay calm, so I just nod in response. I leave with Mr Mead and head with him to his classroom as I have a lesson with him now.
"Sir, I can't go back in his lesson, not today. I have again after break" I say, knowing full well if I have another lesson with Mr Tilson today then I will really act out.
"Okay, well you can come sit in my room. I'll speak to Mr Byrne at break time" He says, whilst letting the class into the room. I thank him before sitting down next to Josh.

The rest of the day flies by. I was able to sit in Mr Mead's room for my other maths class on the terms that I went to my next maths lesson. I obviously agreed to this. At lunch I spent the whole of my time sat in the cooler as my punishment for my behaviour earlier on in the day. At 3:30pm the bell finally rang signalling not only the end of the school day but also the start of the weekend and let me tell you something, I couldn't get out of the school gates any quicker than I did. I rushed home to enjoy a girls evening with my mum and truly got to relax once again. On Monday I get to be late to school as I have a hospital appointment which makes me extremely happy as it means I get to miss maths.