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Mr. Bright walked out of his classroom, sighing. He dropped a few papers on the floor by accident, and as he stopped to pick them up, he noticed a group of kids smoking outside the mobiles.

"Oi, you lot!" he yelled, and they all dropped their cigarettes and ran. He didn't recognize any of the faces apart from two. "Hemmings, Norton-Bright, my office, now!"

He watched as the two kids who, admittedly, had been the only ones not smoking, trudged into his classroom. They'd been kissing, however and that was against school rules, too. He sat them down on the plastic chairs behind the desk.

"We didn't do anything," jasmine started, running her hands through her hair.

"Sexual contact on school property is against school rules," he said sharply.

"We- we weren't being sexual," Luke stuttered.

"Sure," mr. Bright said sarcastically. "Luke, I know you were kissing. I'm going to keep you after school detention, ok, so I'm going to have to ring your parents, Luke."

"What about jas?" Luke asked, not wanting to be the only one in trouble.

"Jasmine, may I speak to you alone for a moment?" Mr. Brig asked gently.

"No."

"Ok," he said, strained. "Jasmine, I won't tell your mother if you don't want me to, i'll sign the documents saying you can stay after school."

"What?!" Luke protested. "That's not fair! Can't you sign mine, too?"

"no, luke," Mr Bright said, rolling his eyes.

"Why not?"

they both stayed silent for a whie before Jasmine sighed loudly.

"He's my dad, Luke," jasmine snapped.

"Really?" Luke asked in disbelief. "No, seriously, really?"

"Luke, who do you want me to ring, your mother or your father?" Mr Bright asked.

"Just ring the home phone; my mother doesn't have a mobile," he said, still not believing the girl he'd been messing around with and his English teacher were related. Mr. Bright looked expectantly at him, as if he was expecting an answer about his father, too. "And, um, my dad's dead."

"I'm sorry to hear that," Mr Bright said, as he gathered a few papers from his desk. "I'll keep you until 4:30 and I'll ring your mother to let her know, Luke." the bell rung, signalling for them to get to class. "and luckily you two are in my English lesson next. so you can stay here."

the pair trudged over to their seats at the back of class, next to each other. "Luke..." Jasmine started. "please don't tell anyone he's my dad. we agreed to keep it secret when I started at this school."

"um, sure."

"Thanks."