Chapter 4 – Nowhere to Run

“Where do you think you’re going, Miss?” The teacher asserted, just before I could make my desperate escape. “I don’t know if I was under the same impression as you, but I thought you actually had to stay in detention.” She laughed, trying to alleviate the tension, I suppose. Could see feel it too, or was it just me who felt like gravity’s power had been increased ten times over?

            “Is there any way I can just make this up tomorrow?” I asked in a weak voice, not turning around. The thought of staying here for another minute was almost as pleasurable as eating my own ear.

            “I’m sorry, dear, but I’m afraid you’ve got to stay”, She said, sounding genuinely sorry. She could sound as sorry as she wanted – she was still on my shit list. She was the one binding me to this emotional ambush that I’d so mindlessly walked into. I turned around after a few seconds, determinedly not looking in the direction of the still shell shocked couple in the little desk. I begged my body to shut down, just to pass out for a little while, so that I didn’t have to endure this, but alas, like much of my life at the moment, I didn’t get what I wanted.

            I sat down in the desk at the opposite back corner of the room and put my head down into my arms, finally allowing some secret tears to slip through. This was the lion’s den, and I was the sole human corpse who might still be identifiable if you could put together the limbs in each of the lions’ mouths.

I thought about pulling out my homework to try and avert my mind, but that would involve moving. I left my head in my arms, feeling too weak to do much else.

Was she still watching me? She was probably already wrapped in Aiden once more – she had proved before that she didn’t care for my feelings, so why was now any different? She was probably just surprised to see me, and now that the moment had passed, she had moved on…right? My question was answered before I was ready for it.