Chapter Two

Chapter 2

Leah's P.O.V

"You!!" I say with a glare, hoping it could make him piss his pants. He looked confused.

"Me! Yes. I am so sorry for hitting you. It was an accident-" I throw off the covers and proceed to get up, ignoring the light-headedness I was feeling.

"Woah... woah. Where do you think you're going?" He asks, and I throw him another glare.

"I am going to the principal's office."

"Sweetie-"

"I'm sorry, Mrs. Kings, but if it were any other person, I would've definitely not snitched." I say it to her honestly. I proceed to walk out of the office when Mason blocks my way.

"Move-" I ordered him in a tone that I hope sounded like a king ordering his guards around.

"No- not until you tell me why I am excluded from not being snitched upon."

"Okay." I agree with fake certainty, and once he lets down his guard, I don't wait for him to say anything and go around him, running out of the office.

"Hey! Wait- come on!" I ignore his protests and continue my mission to the office. I looked back to see him still running after me, making me pick up my speed.

"Hey! You're going to-" Picking up my speed was a bad idea because I had collided with someone and fortunately or unfortunately, it wasn't just anyone, but-

"Principal Hollins!" Better for me. I would just tell him what had happened.

"I am so sorry about bumping into you, sir ... I assume you know who I already am and you also know that I wouldn't be in the hal-"

"What are you kids doing messing around in the hallways during class ours!" His prickly, strict voice reprimands us.

"Sir- I was actually comi-"

"I don't want to hear any of your excuses! Come with me." Oh no. He didn't want to listen. This was bad. Hollins was a very strict man and would punish anyone- even if you were the president's daughter, you wouldn't go unpunished for whatever school rule you broke. This was something I admired about him, but right now- being a victim of his strict behavior, I don't admire him anymore.

"Sir this is a misunderstanding. I was-"

"One more word, and you'll be getting worse than I had planned." He says this icily to us before turning his heel and walking back to his office, expecting us to be following behind.

Yup. I didn't like him anymore.

I glance at Mason only to find him already looking at me with concern.

"Are you okay?" he mouths. I rolled my eyes in reply and kept my eyes staring at the back of Hollins' head. I was so irritated at the fake concern he was trying to show me. I knew the real him the first time I came to this school, and that was because I experienced it firsthand.

"Mr. Kings- step into my office." Hollins says once we're at his office,. He opened the door and went in, Mason following him behind.

"I'll try to get you out of trouble." He says it in an assuring manner, which makes my heart skip a beat before he enters the lion's den.

He cares about-

No!! I will not be fooled again!

With a sigh, I put my head in between my hands.

This was not how I saw my day going, but I could say that I expected it. I knew having that juice spill on the first shirt I had put on this morning was a sign that my day wasn't going to be good, and we can see how right I was to think that. Now, in few minutes, I was about to get my very first detention.

I could already see my life playing out from here, as it would be going downhill.

My detention would lead me to be in a rebellious era, which would then hand me my first suspension or expulsion, and then my parents would disown me due to the fact that they had spent so much on me to do well in this school. I will then be living on the streets with the stray cats I find to keep me company and when my parents die, I would be called by their lawyer to inherit what they have given me in their will and that money would be used to get a little house for me and my cats, groceries and milk that will last me till I die-

"You're called Candy," I hear someone say, making me look up. It was Mason who had said that, but I couldn't understand why he would call me that exactly, so I checked around for the person he could be talking to.

"Who are you looking for?" He asks in a confused tone and with a raised brow.

"Oh- the person you're calling candy, because it certainly can't be me." This makes him chuckle, and just for a second- I wanted to say something that would make him laugh again.

You don't like him, Leah!

"It was you. I am calling you candy."

"Well, last time I checked, that was not the name registered on my academic file, nor was it the name my parents gave me." I reply sassily, and I don't know how that sounded interesting for him to smirk at me.

"Oh- I know. That's just my name for you." He tells me with a playful wink, making me roll my eyes.

"Well, too bad, but I wouldn't be answering that." I give him a fake plastic smile before going into Hollins' office.

"I did try to get you out-!" Those are the last words I hear from him before shutting the door. It felt so good to do that, but then that feeling didn't last for long when I noticed the disapproving stare Hollins was giving me.

"Miss Baker, have a seat." He gestures to a seat, still having that look on.

"Thank you, sir." I reply politely before sitting down.

"I'm sorry for not recognizing you in the hallway at first. I already reprimanded some students not too long before I saw you two."

"That's alright, sir. I wanted to actually- "

"Mr. Kings already explained everything to me." That made me smirk.

"Oh did he now?"

"Yes..." he says, slowly making my smirk wider.

"Well, I'm sure he left out the part where he had- "

"Hit you with a ball by accident. He told me that already and had agreed to be punished alone."

"Woah- what?!" This was not how it was going to go. Mason was meant to get suspended.

Oh please. You are not that wicked.

"He admitted that he had hit you with his football while trying to see how fast he could throw to his teammate in the hallways, which is a school rule break, and he is going to get punished for that."

"Okay- but did he tell you that I had been at the nurse because of that and was on my way to meet you after I had recovered?" He nods his head.

"He did tell me that too."

"Wow! Okay... even though I'm a bit confused about why he actually said the truth, I guess I'm good here." Now, it was his turn to have a well-hidden smirk on as he handed me my life ruin certificate (Detention slip).

"You're not all good here, Miss Baker. I know that you are possibly the best student in the senior class and have never had a stain on your academic record, and would like to graduate that way this year but I'm sorry to say that you can't go unpunished."

"But sir- I was in the nurse's office!"

"Did she give you a pass slip?"

"What?" my voice becomes smaller after he asks that.

"The pass slip for being in the hallway during class hours- did she give you one?"

"No, she didn't"

"Did she disagree in not giving you one?" I let out a defeated sigh and slump back in the seat.

"No, she didn't" He rests his back too and clasps his hands together.

"So, you can see that you are actually in the wrong here. You didn't wait to collect a pass slip from her and was just so adamant on meeting me to tell on your boyfriend." I whipped my head so fast to look at him.

"Mason is not my boyfriend!!" I say defensively, and I think I was a bit loud because his eyes widened a bit.

"Okay then. Even more reason why I believe he is or would be."

"What-"I let out a sigh, shaking my head and not saying anything further because there was no point in arguing with the man.

"Well, I'm done with you both, so you can continue your lover's spat as long as its after teaching hours." He says the last part in a strict tone, but I wasn't even scared anymore because I knew that was not the real him, and it made me happy that no one would still know the real him except for me.

Principal Hollins was a matchmaker.

It was a good trait about him. I honestly low-key found it cute that he was shipping Mason and I but then it was a given that ship was never going to sail because one thing I was sure of again was that-

Mason Kings and I would never be together.