by Katy Wong
"I want you to tutor Sebastian." she said.
" ... Sebastian ... " I said, turning my head slowly to look at him.
"Yes." she said.
" ... In which subject?" I asked, I was already dreading this.
"All." she said.
"All?" I squeaked.
"I realized that asking you to do such a big favor, I think I should do something in return. I thi - "
"There's nothing that I want more than to have that detention mark on my permanent record off." I said instantly.
The principal paused looking at me as if to decided if she should do that or not. I banged my head against the wall mentally.
"I can't guarantee anything right now," she said slowly, "but if Sebastian improves on his grades than I will do as you wish, how if you don't you know your consquences."
I nodded. My record will have the word 'detention' written big and bold.
"Ok, than that should be it," she said, "you may go to your last period class."
"Thank you, Principal Lambert." I said as I got up to leave.
"You're welcome, but hurry along." she said.
I nodded.
Thank the Lord that I have a chance to remove the mark from my record, now I just have to take it very seriously. I can't messy up or -
"I'm movin' in." Mr. Rudehead said as the door closed behind us.
"What?" I asked, knitting my eyebrows together.
"I'm moving in." he said slowly.
"What?"
"I am moving in with you. ARE YOU DEAF?" he said, raising his voice on the last part.
"Who are you and what's your name again?" I asked him.
His jaws dropped as if to say 'This - girl - doesn't - know - my - name? - Where - has - she - been - living? - Under - the - rock?'
"You don't know my name?" he asked.
"Yo Sebastian, is everything alright?" Brandon shouted in the hall next to Valentino. I jumped at his sudden presence.
"Yo Brandon, this girl right here doesn't know who I am." he said pointing at me.
Brandon and Valentino smirked, shaking their heads.
"I'm Sebastian Blake, Sebastian Blake. Remember that." he said, "All - star athlete champion of this school, Quarterback of the Tigers, Captain of the - "
"I don't care." I said.
His jaws dropped again.
"She doesn't care, man." Sebastian said to Valentino and Brandon.
They let out a small chuckle, smirking at me.
"Are you even a girl?" Sebastian asked.
"Do I look like one to you?" I asked.
"A little." he said, smirking. Now it was time for him to make fun of me. "Just a little bit undeveloped in some areas."
I grew red.
"Ok, but that's not the point. The point is that you are a stranger to me, we've only meet each other for about," I said and looked down at my watch, "two hours, 36 minutes and 51.3 seconds. And I am not allow to live with any boys or anybody in general without my parent's permission."
"Unless you want to not tutor me and have that detention mark on your record, than ok." he said, turning his heels while starting his way down the hall to last period class.
And without thinking, I grabbed his arm and said, "Wait."
He spun around.
"Yes?" he asked with a smirk on his face, but inside he knew what was going to happen next.
I looked at him and let out a deep breath, "Fine."
"That's why I thought." he said.
"Don't make me take back what I said."
"Don't make me take back my offer."
I rolled my eyes as I croosed my arms.
"I'm going to class." I said, turning my heels and started down the hall.
"Wait," Sebastian said. I spun around to face him.
"I'm moving in tonight." he said.
I opened my mouth to protest, but he cut me off. "Good bye." He started walked down the hall.
"Hey! Hey!" I shouted, "I'm talking to you. Hey!!"
~~~~
I turned the keys to open the front door. Exhausted from the long school day, I threw the door open and dropped the keys down on the nearby coffee table.
"Awh! It's good to be home." I said sitting on the edge kitchen island, eating a banana.
"Fuck this!" a vioce shouted. Getting startled by the sudden knowledge that another person is also in the house with me I choked on the banana. " Hey you, come over here!"
Sebastian.
"You don't have to shout! You startled me!" I shouted back as I followed his voice into the living room. "On day I will -" I stopped.
"WHERE DID YOU GET THAT THING?"
"That 'thing' that you are talking about is a XBox 360 and I obviously brought it from the store and by the way a new TV is coming."
"WAIT, what?! A new TV? For what? This TV," I said walking over to the TV and patting it on the top, "is pretty good."
"Yeah, not counting that the TV is 5 fucking years old, like who owns a TV that old before? And in addition, I have to waste about 1 minute of my life for that TV to actually broadcast what I want to watch." he said.
My jaws dropped. "What's the matter with 5 years old, huh? I am pretty sure you are more than 5 years old and I'm surprised someone didn't throw you out. And it's just 1 minute, I don't see why you need to watch whatever channel you need to watch the second your hand touches the remote. And if you really can't handle wasting 1 minute of your life, than isn't it better of if you don't watch it?"
I took another bite of my banana. I won.
He opened his mouth to talk, but I stopped him at it. I didn't want him to win again.
"So cancel the order of the new Tv, or else ..." I said.
"Or else what?" he asked, smirking. And I can tell by the look in his eyes that she was thinking about something wrong.
"Or else I would cancel it myself." I said, snatching the business card away from him and dashed to the room.
"Hey!" he shouted charging after me, but too late, I locked the door.
I took out my phone and dialed the number.
"Hey! Don't you even dare to cancel the order!" Sebastian shouted.
"Oh yeah? Well than you better listen." I said.
"Hello?" a voice from the other end said. I turned it on speakers just to rub it in this face.
"Oh hi, I would like to talk to you about the order that I made." I said.
"Hey, don't listen to her!" Sebastian said pounding on the door.
The man on the other line stayed quiet.
"Oh, you know, they're just little kids, don't mind what they are saying." I said, trying to make my voice sound as motherly as possible.
"Ok then," the man said, "May I ask you whom's name you put under?"
"Oh yeah, Sebastian." I said.
Sebastian pound on the door again. "Don't listen to that god damn woman!"
"Ummm, is everything ok, madam?" the man said.
I letted out a fake sob. "No. No sir, everything is not fine at home. Everything has been going wrong." I letted out another fake sob. "My son has been misbehaving these days, he took my credit card and starting maxing on it." I sniffed. "I'm scared that I can't control him a - an - and, we - we're - we're GOING TO BE POOR!" I letted out a loud, fake cry at the last four words.
"Oh Lord, what do you want me to do?" the man quickly asked.
"Just please cancel the order." I said, quickly.
"Ok, please hold a second." the man said.
"NOOO!!!" Sebastian cried.
The man on the other line said, "Tsk, tsk, you sure created a great amount of pain for your mother."
I smiled silently to myself.
"It's all done, madam." the man said.
"Oh thank you, thank you." I said and hung out.
I threw my phone down and opened the door. "Point proven." I said, smirking at him.
He looked like he was about to punch me in the face. "Fuck this." he said, throwing his fist down.
"No cursing please." I said, but smi
led even bigger just to rub it in his face, "And if you don't like this, why don't you move out."
"Hell no I'm moving out of here." he said, plopping down on the sofa.
"Why?" I asked, plopping down next to him.
"Personal reasons." he said. I looked at him with interest.
"Come on, tell me." I said, shaking his arm, "Please. Please tell, I won't tell anyone."
"Is it because you have no friend?" he asked.
I let go of his arm. "Excuse me, Mr. Rudehead."
"You're excused."
"What?!" I asked.
"What?" he said.
I paused, "What??"
"What?"
"Huh?"
He smiled before his face hardens again.
I gasped, "Did you just smile? Did you?! DID YOU?!"
"No, what the fuck?" he said.
"You did! You did!" I said, pointing at his mouth, "And there's no need to curse, smiling is good for you, you should smile more."
"Stop that." he said.
"It's ok, I got-chu. I wouldn't tell anybody that you smiled, ok?" I said, pounding a fist on the left side of my chest twice.
"What the fuck - "
"No cursing." I said turning serious. "That should be one of our rule."
"Rules?" he questioned like he never heard of them, "Why the - "
"STOP! No cursing." I said, pointing at his mouth again, "I can tell that you're about to curse again."
He stared at me.
"Anyways." I said, shaking my head, "I got to go."
"Where?"
"To the store."
"Why?"
"I need to buy gifts for the neighbors." I said, grabbing a tote bag.
"Shouldn't it be the other way around?" he asked.
"Yeah, I guess, but I want to give the neighbors, especially Mrs. White, a good impression since she is going to help me a lot." I said, "Wanna come?"
"No, stay." he said, "I'm hungry."
I blinked at him, "Good for you."
"I mean, can you stay and cook something for me?"
"How about no?" I asked.
"Please." he said.
"No." I said, "I'm going to be going now."
"I'm going too." he said.
"Why?" I asked.
"I'll drive you to the store." he said.
I put my hands on my hips, "Did you buy a - "
"No I didn't buy a car behind your back. It was the car I brought along from my old house." he said.
I had to give him credit for reading my mind. "Fine." I said.
I locked the front door and he waited for me in the car.
"Let's have pizza for dinner." he said.
I pursed my lips together.
"How about candy for dinner, I've always wanted to have a candy meal." I said.
He grinned, "Let's go."
~~~~
"No, I don't eat green gummy bears!" I said as I shoved a clear and red gummy bear in my mouth.
He took the gummy bear back and eat it.
I sorta of the gummy bear by colors.
Sebastian poured out more candy into the candy bowl.
"Woahhhhh!" I cheered as I feel the joy.
Sebastian raised his eyebrows.
I grabbed a lollipop and sucked on it as I put more clear gummy bear in my mouth. "BEST DINNER EVER!" I cried at the top of my lungs.
He nodded slowly and put more green gummy bear in my mouth.
"Turn on so musiccccc!" I said, singing the last word.
"Does the candy have drugs in them?" he asked as he turned on the music, "You're acting a little high."
"Having a sugar rush!" I said, giggling at the last part.
I broke a peice of chocolate and put it in my mouth. I grabbed some blue M&Ms and put them in my mouth.
"Ahm nom nom." I said, imitating the cereal commerical.
Sebastian grinned and shook his head.
"You're weird." he said.
I giggled.
We let the music play and eat more candy until we were full and had a big stomach ache.
"I'm so full." I said, tiredly, "I want to sleep."
Sebastian looked at me for a while, "Where do I sleep?"
"Well, that's your problem because you're the one who wants to stay in this house." I said, getting up from the floor to go to the bedroom.
He grabbed my wist.
"Do you have another blanket?" he asked.
"Yeah, in the closet." I said, "I'm brushing my teeth."
He walked over to the closet and pulled out a blanket.
"Awh! That's so kind of you to care about me catching a cold. I thought that - "
"Are you metally challenged? It's not for you." he said.
I frozed, "Oh."
He letted out a small breath of laughter and shook his head. My cheeks burned in embarrassment. I mentally slapped myself on the face.
Did I really think that was for me? I thought.
I left my chin, "Whatever." I said and brushed my teeth. I washed my face and went to bed.
I got into bed and watched as the living room light flicked off. Somehow, I wasn't feeling sleepy even when I am suppose to sleep around this time. Maybe it was the fact that there's a guy sleeping under the same roof as me. Or maybe it was the fact that if I open my bedroom door, a guy is right out there.
I justed stared at the ceiling for about an hour when I felt bad for Sebastian for making him sleep in the living room.
I got out of bed and opened the door. Just seeing a guy sleeping under the same roof as me made my heart beat louder and faster.
"Sebastian?" I asked to see if he was awake.
There was no answer.
Ok, so he's asleep. I thought. I sat down on the floor and stared at him.
"How did you fall asleep?" I asked him even if I know he wouldn't respond.
"Don't you feel uncomfortable sleeping out here? Whenever I am sleeping in a room besides the bedroom, I feel like someone out there is looking through the window and watch me fall sleep. I feel so exposed. I feel bad that you don't get to sleep in a bedroom. But if you are uncomfortable, you can wake me up and I will - "
"So you're willing to share your bedroom?" Sebastian's voice sudden said.
I jumped, "You're awake."
"I never said that I was asleep."
"But you didn't answer me when - "
"I didn't want to break your rule so I had to listen to your whole story."
"Well, you interrupted my last part." I pointed out.
"Whatever." he said, getting up and grabbing his blanket.
"Wait, where're you going?" I asked, grabbing his forearm.
"To the bedroom. You offered me to sleep in there." he said, raising his eyebrow and his smirk appeared on his face.
"Well, I am taking it back." I said.
"Too late." he said throwing themself on the bed, "Awhh! It feels so much better to sleep on a bed than on a sofa."
"Hey! Get off!" I said, trying to pull him off, but after it was no use.
"Just let me sleep, I'm tired." he said.
I debate about it for a few minutes, "Fine, but you can go past this blanket." I said, placing a blanket in the middle to indicate which side is my side and which side is his side.
"Whatever, just sleep." he said, moving over on the bed.
I threw myself on the side and letted out a breath of relaxation.
"Good night." I said.
"Shut up." he mumbled.
I punched him in the stomach, "Hey, when someone is being polite or nice to - "
"Alright, alright. Good night, satisfied?" he asked.
I smiled and mumbled, "Yeah."
He letted out a quiet breath of laughter before I knew he fall asleep.
High School Bad Boys
Getting up in the morning never so awful in my life. I hardly slept yesterday, maybe it was the fact that I had a whole bowl of candy for dinner or maybe it was the fact that there's a guy sleeping on my bed.
I d
ragged my feet to closet and took out my school uniform and dragged my feet to the bathroom.
I brushed my teeth and washed my face.
I took of my shirt and grabbed my bra to put it on. I was in the middle of putting on my bra when Sebastian suddenly bursted in without knocking.
"AHHHHH!!!!" I screamed as I clutch my bra as he wouldn't see anything.
His eyes widened at the sight and turned him back towards me as he walked out.
My stomach squeezed just thinking about the fact that a guy just saw me half naked. I quickly fastened my bra and put on the rest of my outfit as I tried to calm myself down before I walk out of the bathroom.
How am I suppose to face him? I thought to myself. I took some more deep breaths before I finally have the guts to walk out of the bathroom.
"That took you 5 years." he said as he walked pass me to go to the bathroom.
Thank the Lord he acted like nothing happened ... Maybe I should act like that never happened too. I thought.
Just to show him I'm cool with what happened in the bathroom, I flipped my hair back and said, "Whateva. I don't care."
He gave me a strange look. I punched myself mentally again.
Great acting - I - am - totally - cool - with - it act, Candice.
"Never mind." I said as I waved my hand to dismiss it.
"Okkk," he said slowly before closing the door and start doing him own business.
I went to the room and started packing all of my work and essential things for school.
Sebastian was already in his uniform and waiting for me at the front door when I am done grabbing everything.
"I'll drive." he said.
"No."
He looked at me.
"Hello? Have reality not struck you hard enough? Nobody is suppose to find out that we are living together and I am perfectly fine with taking the bus." I said.
"Whatever suits you." he said and walked right out the house.
"Whatever suits you." I mimicked.
"I heard you!" Sebastian shouted to me.
I winced in embarrassment and again, mentally punched myself on the head.
I walked to the bus as fast as I can and waited for the bus.
~~~~
The bell rung signalling that my next period is about to begin; lunch. I letted out a breath of relief. I packed all of my things and rushed out of Mr. Harris's classroom as quickly as possible. I swear, he was watching me for the whole entire period.
I shivered, Creep.
"Miss Rose," Mr. Harris's voice called my name. I banged my head against the wall mentally.