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"What the…" The black thing she juift? She picked the gun up cautiously, afraid it would go off in her hands She looked around as if help would coun? A wooden stake would have made her feel better, maybe even a bottle of holy water

She ran with the gun into her roo for someplace to hide it Her closet The closet was perfect She yanked the door open and placed it on the top shelf beneath the extra blankets Was he crazy giving her a gun?

"Detention blows"

"No shit, assle," came another voice

Madison looked up from her computer "Hey, none of that now You’re here to learn from your o so I suggest that you do soroup of detentionees

The group consisted of some of her favorite students They were termed stoners, losers and assles by the students and even by the faculty She didn’t care She liked theerated pout she’d ever seen

Chris, her constant detention coive her any proble to suck up She was honest with hiames They respected each other

"Coive me that look?" She chuckled at his pout

He was a funny kid He hat some of the kids called trailer trash, but he was nice Well, as long as you were on his good side There was no doubt he could be a ht mind would provoke him, but from what she knew about hiot in soood reason Otherwise he was one of the most laid back kids she’d ever met

"Miss Soloman, come on now You know this is bullshit That little preppy bastard beats the shit out of his girlfriend over the weekend and we’re paying for it" He gestured to his friends and the two unfortunate bystanders who got pulled into the fight They were decent kids too, very quiet so she was very surprised when she found out that they voluntarily got into the fight

Madison leaned back in her chair "Tell me what happened"

Chris nodded "See, it’s like this That little shit Mike gets aith too much He steals, he cheats on every test, his parents hire tutors who do his homework, all the teachers know, but they look the other way because of his old man and he’s on the football tea to confirirls around I warned hiht I was fking kidding I found out thisthe little shit beat the hell out of Carol When I asked him about it he told me to fk off and no one would believe ht in front of me while the teachers’ backs were turned he pushed her to the ground"

"He’s not lying, Miss Solomon," Ed, a very shy boy, said He hardly ever looked up fro Plus he never bothered lying to her in the past He took his punishht Not once since she’d taken this position had he complained over the circumstances of his punishment

"I don’t understand why Mike isn’t here along with you," she said