Jason sat on the wooden bench in the courtyard waiting for Ellie to show for 2nd period. She had kissed him on his cheek and rushed out of history class like a cheetah, so here he sat. It was now 20 minutes into the period and he was beginning to feel foolish, constantly following Ellie around like a little puppy dog. He needed to know what else was going on with her and Hillman, and he knew exactly who to go to.
Jason took the long walk to the basement where the AV geeks could usually be found during free periods. He was happy to find just the girl he was looking for sitting at the monitors doing whatever AV geeks do. He began to explain his plan to her.
"I don't know, Jason. I feel like that's some kind of felony." Meredith whined nervously pushing her black wire rimmed glasses further up her nose. Jason let out a frustrated sigh looking at Meredith with a flirtatious smile.
"Come on, Mere, there's got to be a way. I need to know if something weird is going on."
"So you ask me to bug Mr. Hillman's classroom? No way! I'm not helping you." Jason was trying his hardest not to let his frustration take over ad make him lose his temper. Meredith would do what he wanted, one way or another.
"Then help you." Jason stepped close to Meredith and leaned down to her level resting his hand on the back of her chair. "I know you want to take down the Queen. Everyone does. This might be your chance to do it."
Meredith's slow realization reminded Jason of the Grinch planning grand larceny. "Proof that Ellie and Mr. Hillman are sleeping together would ruin her. Everybody would finally see her for the huge slut that she is." Her lips curled into a sinister smile one might only see in a Dr. Seuss movie. "Actually, I might have something already..."
"Show me." Jason knew Meredith would jump at the chance to take Ellie down, but that wasn't what Jason wanted at all. He just wanted Marcus Hillman to leave his girl alone once and for all. He wanted to have the Queen to himself. He needed her to rely on him and not on their son-of-a-bitch history teacher. Meredith had been smiling the entire time, knowing that the video would destroy Elisa, but Jason had been mortified. He watched as his girlfriend moaned and groaned with pleasure as her teacher fucked her into submission.
"Can you take the sound out?" He asked Meredith.
"Why on Earth would I do that? Then it looks like rape." Meredith asked him quizzically.
"Just do it!" He shouted making her extremely aware of the fact that they were alone in the AV room in a dark basement where no one could hear her if she screamed.
"A-alright, I'll take the sound out." Meredith was so nervous from this point on, her hands were shaking. She could see Jason's face turning red as the vein in his neck bulged and throbbed as the video progressed. He was really scaring her.
They watched as Marcus pushed Elisa down on her knees and she sucked him off, and it only got worse from there. Hillman was slapping her ass and pussy like he owned it, but when he bent Elisa over the desk and drove into her Jason lost it.
"She's really fucking him!" Jason shouted as he grabbed a box of old cords and headphones and threw it against the closed door.
"Oh my God!" Meredith screamed ducking low into her chair. "Jason! Calm down!" Jason was already too far-gone to calm down. His vision was blurry and red as he continued to trash the AV room with no regard for Meredith's safety. He threw everything he could get his hands on. Headphones, microphones, and speaker wires flew around the room as Jason took his frustration out on the AV equipment.
"That son-of-a-bitch is gonna pay!"
"Jason, please! You're not even supposed to be in here!" Meredith cried ducking low in the black office chair and covering her head with her hands.
Jason spun Meredith's chair around to face him. "Give me the tape!" He exclaimed and Meredith hurriedly ejected the DVD and handed it to him. With his blackmail method in hand, Jason stormed out of the AV room much to Meredith's relief.
Elisa felt so out of her element. She hadn't actually gone to gym class all year, but now she was walking around the basketball court in the gym with Megan. Mr. Curtis decided that they could walk around as class participation but since Ellie hadn't been attending class, she of course had to change. She was forced to borrow Megan's spare shorts that on her, were totally cute. On Elisa, however, they were tight and riding up her ass like a thong. Mr. Kurtis looked rather pleased as she walked out of the locker room nodding his head slowly in approval.
"Ewe, girl he is totally eye raping you right now." Ellie laughed as she strode along the rectangular path next to her best friend.
"That's because your tight ass shorts are only covering 1/4 of my ass!" The two girls giggled for a long time just enjoying each other's company.
"Speaking of eye rape, how goes your love triangle over there?" Megan finally brought up Elisa's drama filled love life and she had to applaud the ten minutes of normal conversation she allowed beforehand.
"It's not a triangle. I told you, I'm... dating Jason."
Megan rolled her eyes; her long dark hair wafting back and fourth across her back as she shook her head. "At least try and sound happy about it."
"What do you mean? I am happy about it."
"You're not acting like it. Still upset about the way 'he-who-shall-not-be-named' ended things?"
Ellie let out a sigh as her feelings for Marcus surfaced at the mere mention of their break up. "I guess." She threw her head back dramatically in frustration. Everything that she had been holding in just came flooding out like water crashing over a broken dam. "And believe me I feel so stupid feeling that way, but how can I not? I mean he really just gave up on us! After everything we've been through. And Jason, poor innocent Jason would go to the ends of the Earth just to be my friend. He buys me flowers, and takes me out, and makes me feel special, but it's just not the same."
"You know a lot of girls in this school would kill to have Lee , the runner-up Jason. And you're holding onto the real thing and don't even want it." Lee was the second-string quarterback on their football team that only played when Jason needed a break or was injured.
"It's not like that, Megs! I do really like Jason, but with Marcus it's different. When we're together, no matter how mad I am at him there's always this overwhelming need to be around him. I want our complicated, heart wrenching, soul shattering, drama filled love. I don't know how to love any other way..."
"So why are you with Jason?"
"Having Jason is better than nothing, no matter how fucked up that sounds. Besides, I told you, I do like Jason."
"Well you're not gonna really be able to be with him until you stop pinning over Marcus, so maybe you should just go talk to him."
"The ever logical Megan strikes again." Ellie muttered. "If it were that simple then I'd be over it. But when we're around each other, we're either tearing each other's clothes off or screaming at each other."
"Oooh, kinky." The girls were all smiles and giggles until Elisa noticed that the period would be ending soon.
"We should go get changed now." Just then Dr. Winston's voice came over the loudspeaker calling his daughter to his office.
"Uh oh, think daddy dearest heard our convo?" Megan gave her that classic "ooooooh" face little kids do when a classmate gets in trouble.
"I probably forgot lunch money or something. I'll bring your shorts back tomorrow after I wash them, ok?"
"Yeah, I'll see you later, good luck!"
When Elisa walked into her father's office, she could feel the frustration radiating off of him. He stood in the corner of the room next to the tall wooden bookcase. Elisa remembered everything about this room. Even with freshly painted blue walls and a new Martin Luther King poster hanging over his desk, she could close her eyes and describe any part of it. She had spent a great deal of time on her father's lap in the chair next to that bookcase, listening to tales of that heart-wrenching love she'd thought she'd found with Marcus or a life in the future where monogamist relationships were discouraged. Of course today, she wasn't here to have her father read Brave New World to her.
"Why, Elisa?" He asked her as soon as she sat down.
"Why what?"
He spun around turning his angry hazel gaze on his daughter. "Why would you risk your entire graduation by getting suspended! With your grades, if you miss a week of school, you'll need another year to graduate!"
"I, what?" Ellie looked at the open suspension request on the large metal desk. Scooping it up, she scanned it for the teacher requesting it.
"Seriously?!" Her temper hit the roof. "Daddy, I didn't do anything!"
"You skipped his detention! Elisa you know the consequence for missing detention at this school!"
"I didn't skip it, I just... forgot."
"Elisa!"
"Ugh!" Ellie spun heading out the door and down the hall to the classroom from hell. Now when she got to the classroom, Ellie knew he would be teaching, but being the Dean's daughter gave her a little pull. She opened the door and just leaned in the door frame, watching.
"Can none of you tell me when World War II ended?! My Lord what have I been teaching you people!" Marcus dramatically waved his arms in exasperation looking out at the class where not one hand was raised.
"1945." Ellie interjected relieving the class of the burden of answering.
"Miss Winston, a very unexpected surprise. What can I do for you?" What couldn't he do for her?
"I have this form from my father that he needs you to check out. Can I talk to you outside? It'll only take a second."
"Sure." He smiled knowingly as he strode past her and she shut the door behind him.
"You suspended me?"
"You skipped my detention." Marcus already knew exactly how this was all going to play out. He had been expecting her visit since he put in her suspension request, but he hadn't expected her to interrupt his class for it.
"I forgot! Don't I at least get a chance to make it up?"
"I don't remember that in the handbook." To her utter annoyance, he still wore that smile as they argued.
"I can come today."
"I don't think you're grasping how this suspension thing works, Ellie."
"I'm a senior! You know I can't miss a full week of school now and still graduate! Please, there's got to be something else." Elisa pleaded with her eyes hoping that puppy dog face still worked on her ex.
"Fine. In school suspension. One day."
"Okay! I can do that! Thank you, Mr. Hillman!"
"With me." Right on cue that loud screeching noise of brakes being slammed on sounded through Ellie's head.
"I don't think my dad is going to approve that."
He shrugged and turned back to his classroom, "Fine, regular suspension it is." His hand went to grab the doorknob but she stopped him by stepping in front of him.
