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The Punisher, aka Ms Foreman, awaited us in her roo black wolasses and an absent-htmare That little façade of hersbeneath I’d lish by lasses She hadn’t even sent aveout toilets, scarring me for life

Crye entered the room a moment later Ms Foreman looked her up and down "Well, now This just won’t do, will it?" she said, condescension thick in her words "I can’t have you assisting erous jewelry" She reached into her desk and pulled out a plastic bag which she handed to Crye "Now you just put away all that jewelry and scrub that horrible ive young Mr Case soet back"

The busy work consisted of taking chalkboard cleaner and, starting with her chalkboard, going to each and every class, spraying the theht-headed and slightly nauseous Crye joined me in classroonored me and that hurt even worse

We cleaned several chalkboards like this until I couldn’t take it any toand hit me in the head with it

"Ouch!"

She nodded in satisfaction "Now that we have that settled, thanks"

I rubbed my head "Seriously? You bonk me on the head and then thankup for ry when you fly off the handle and do soh"

"Thath!"

"Do I hear talking?" said Ms Foreman’s voice from somewhere in the hall She poked her head in the door "No, children No talking during detention"

We nodded She smiled sweet as a razor-laced caramel apple and vanished into the hallway I looked back at Elyssa She looked so s I hated the name Crye From now on, even if she beat me for it, I’d call her Elyssa

The next day was allery and then spent the afternoon with Elyssa and Ms Foreed to whisper and co bouts of silent spashter Elyssa only hither by her real name, but she dressed normally for school since Ms Foreman told her she’d have to do so until suspension was done

"Why don’t you dress like this all the ti her pink T-shirt and dark jeans as we cleaned and dusted the trophy cases in the front hallway

"Because I hate looking like all the other idiots in this place Besides, it’s fun to play dress up I love steaob of whitePlus, Phuc and Harvey are great guys They’re not pushovers like most of the sheep in this school"

I raised an eyebrow "Those are Nyte and Ash’s real nahter because I heard footsteps colove across the cases we’d cleaned "I’m afraid you missed some spots, dears" She cast a disdainful look around the room "I think you should probably do this case over froroaned She smiled in the sa out punishments and walked back down to her classroom at the far end of the hallway

I found an ancient trophy in the shape of a woman whose breasts were uneven and chunky She also had the misfortune of a beehive hairdo I handed it to Elyssa "You win the prize for most misshapen boobs of anyone to attend this school"

She exaned trophy One breast ice as large as the other and hung lower The plaque which was supposed to display who’d won it and why had long since vanished

Elyssa launched into a silent giggling fit I fought against hter The more we looked at it and each other, the hter Elyssa held one of her breasts higher than the other and crossed her eyes I laughed out loud She put her hand over e fro off it

I looked into those violet sparklers of hers and felt a piece of life’s little puzzle snap into place I really liked this girl In fact, I liked her better than anyone else I could think of She was s, captivatedcole" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins>