“Detention!?!” my mom exclaimed over the phone as I walked down the hallway to the cafe for lunch.

“Yes I know but in my defense it was a completely unearned detention.”

“Well what were you doing?”

“I made some new friends and our laughter pissed off the teacher.”

My mom didn't respond for a while after I said that until I heard a long sigh “Jaden your only saving grace is that I’m happy you're actually talking to people.” she chuckled causing me to laugh as well. 

“Ok I promise no more trouble today ill serve detention after school and then come straight home ok?” “You better.” My mom warned playfully before I hung up the phone and continued to the cafeteria.

The cafeteria was just as impressive as the rest of the school as they had a variety of options from pizza, chicken, salad, and I'm pretty sure I just saw a kid walk off with lobster tail on his plate. I was debating what to get until I saw my all time favorite: hot wings! Since I was 8, I’ve had a very unhealthy obsession to hot wings and just about anything else hot.

My mom says constantly that this obsession contributed to me being chubbier than most people, but the wings are too good for me to care.

After getting some wings, fries and a soda I slowly walked around the cafeteria until I saw the others flag me down from their table.

“Nice of you to finally join us.” Alvin laughed as I sat down. “I had to phone my mom and tell her I got detention on the first day and that it wasn't entirely my fault this time.” I reply after taking a bite out of my hot wing. “ She promised me i could drive her car if I stayed out of trouble.”

“ Ugh!” Satoya huffed “ I wish my mom was that cool about me getting detention as soon as the word ‘I got detention’ left my mouth she wouldn't stop talking.”

“Well it can't be all bad right?” Darold tried to reassure her as he took a massive bite out of his cheeseburger. “ We all got detention on the first freaking day. How embarrassing is that? And Alexis what are you doing?”

We all turned our attention to Alexis who was staring at a group of girls from across the cafeteria.

“Shh… I’m hunting.” Alexis whispered, now staring with even more intent than before.

“Alexis I'm gonna be honest with you, you're wasting your time with those girls..” Tariq said as he poured way to uch gravy over his rice. “ Those girls are Terrans” 

“What the hell is that?” Alvin asked as he tried to swipe one of my hot wings only for me to smack his hand away lightly. “They’re the school elite.” Darold answered with a twinge of disgust as he looked at the 5 girls. “They're supposedly gifted and ten times better than the rest of us and they also get away with anything and everything.”

As if to prove his statement tru one of the girls pushed some unlucky kid out of her way so hard that she knocked over a dumpster and her tray of food all over her. Many onlookers simply watched her on the ground while plenty others stopped what they were doing to laugh at her.

I don't know what possessed me to get up but before I knew it I was up on my feet and walking over to the girl. At first she flinched as I extended my hand, but once she realized I was trying to help she took my hand with a small smile.

However her smile quickly turned into a frown as I was hit in the face with a handful of mashed potatoes.

Aside from them being in my eyes, they tasted pretty good.

“Hey teletubby!” One of the girls from the group took a step forward with another handful of mash potatoes. “ When I push someone to the ground they’re supposed to stay there.” She threw the other blob of mashed potatoes and I closed my eyes and braced for impact… except it never came.

When I opened my eyes again I saw Alvin standing in front of me holding a tray in front of his face that caught the mashed potatoes. I wasn't sure how he had gotten  in front of me so fast but I appreciated the assist especially when he looked back at me with a smile.

“Who the hell are you his boyfriend?” the girl scoffed as she wiped the rest of the mashed potatoes off her hand and in a nearby boy's hair. “Well i am his friend… and I’m also a guy.. So I’m not entirely sure how to answer that question.”Alvin joked as I could here Darold laughing from the table as the others walked over to do some damage control.

“Oh my god Satoya I think I’m in love!” Alexeis suddenly exclaims as she draped her arm over the girl's shoulder. “ So let me ask you something… who's your doctor?”

“What?”

“Come on girl dont play dumb you know what I’m talking about.” Alexis said with a smirk. “I just wanna know what doctor I have to think for  giving you those enormous-”

“SHUT UP YOU LESBO!!”

“Oh come on you are not telling me those are real,”

“I SAID SHUT UP!”

“So what did he stuff in there? Silicon? Packing peanuts?” Alexis suddenly gasped “ Or is it only air?”

The girl next to me, despite being covered in mashed potatoes couldn't help but laugh at Alexis’s antics and neither could anyone else as Alexis then asked if the girls boobs would make fart noises or sound like a car horn.

The girl was not amused.

And unfortunately for us neither did the teacher witnessing the scene.

“What seems to be the issue here Gianna?” He asked

“Mr. Jameson these three dipshits got in my way!”

For whatever reason the man known as Mr. Jameson looked directly at me, the smile on his face not wavering.

“Is that true son? Did you ruff up my star student?”

“Of course not she rudely bumped into someone and then threw food at us!” I motioned to my face and the girl  covered in food and trash.

“Well i'm terribly sorry that happened if you both go to the clinic they'll give you some new clothes an-”

“Hold the fuck on!” The girl known as Gianna stepped forward “ You're not gonna punish them?”

“Why would I do that if they did nothing wrong.”

“But he's-”

Mr. Jameson suddenly turned to face her so fast I barely saw him move, and in an instant Gianna stopped speaking and looked away unable to meet his gaze.

“Now that that's settled.” He turned to face me and the girl again.” You two hurry on to the clinic and get some new clothes before the lunch period ends.

Since I was apparently getting off without punishment, I linked arms with the girl and hurried off in the direction of the clinic.

Even though I never looked back I could feel Mr Jameson's eyes on me which I found slightly unsettling.

                                                                                                        ~*~*~*~

Getting cleaned up at the clinic took longer than expected since I decided to wait for the girl since she had been covered in a lot more food than I was.

And I mean a LOT of food.

We ended up missing the last two periods of the day but somehow she had managed to get detention after being 45 minutes late to class so we ended up walking to the same place anyway.

For the most part we walked in silence until she decided to speak up.

“I really wish you hadn't done that.” she sighed as she fumbled with one of her braids. “So you would rather I just watch people laugh at you?” “ Trust me no one was laughing because it was funny they were laughing because they were scared.”

I looked at her in disbelief.

“The Terrans run this school while the rest of us are just stuck here and thats how its always been… if anything I’m trying to figure out what you did to impress Mr. Jameso so much that he didn't punish you.”

“Why would he punish me? Like he said we did nothing wrong.”

She scoffed “That's never stopped him before. He's the one who started the Terrans program and decided that anyone not in his program is useless. Dudes not even principle and somehow he runs the school.”

I wanted to ask her more but suddenly the lights flickered above us. Then out of nowhere the others come barreling down a highway.

As Alvin ran past, he quickly picked me up and continued to run while Darold grabbed the girl and did the same.

“Um guys? It's not that I'm not thrilled we're skipping detention but why and how?’

“As for the why none of us felt like surving detention for something as dumb as laughing in class.” tariq answered as we made a sharp left towards the exit. “As for how Darold hacked into the system and set off the alarms in the east corridor.”

Which is why we were leaving through the west” Darold siad as we ran through the exit and into the parking lot.

“Ok now what?” I ask as they continue to run through the parking lot. “ I have a car and can you please put me down?” The girl said as Darold quickly put her down.

We quickly made our way to her car which turned out to be a nice sized SUV. Since the trunk was opened, Alexis and Satoya squeezed themselves  in while Tariq,Darold,and Alvin got in the back.

She quickly started the car and then pulled out away from the school just as security ran outside to try and bring us back.

We laughed the entire way home.