Love against law

Chapter 8: The love of a father:

I looked in my computer calendar, to see when I could hang out with Sonea again. I scanned the schedule for today. Parent meetings… that sucks. But it’s the C’s class, they are fun, and Sonea’s in that class…wait what the fuck!?
Oh God no! Please God, have some compassion! I beg you! I ruffled through my bag, and… fuck no! The papers were in my bag, I had received those ages ago, and I made them the day Sonea and I worked together in my apartment. The papers with the students’ grades, I had totally forgotten about that!
“Fucking monkey balls!” I slammed my computer shut, and jumped of my chair, I put my hands in my hair. “Shit Fuck!” I paused, looking at the small faces that looked up at me, I had forgotten about the class.
“Class dismissed!” I called, I gathered my things, and stormed out before anymore shit could happen.
It gets worse. Sonea told her family about us, and they didn’t seem happy at all. Her family would come to the school tonight, and- and this would all be over. After this I will probably go to jail, I won’t see her anymore, this is over, my life is over.

I burst through the door, I actually made it slam against the wall, the entire classroom fell silent, some students gasped, I must have looked crazy. My heart smashing at my ribcage, my chest heaving like I had run a marathon, my hands were sweaty. I searched the classroom; Sonea sat next to Anna by the window. They too looked scared, then Anna developed a smug and whispered something to Sonea, she immediately blushed and whispered something back.

“Excuse me?!” their English teacher breathed. She didn’t like me, I could see it, after the teachers found out, none of the teachers liked me.
“Sonea” I croaked.
“We are in the middl-”
“Fuck that!” I shot at her, which made everyone gasp again. The teacher nodded at Sonea.
She got up hesitantly from her seat, she exchanged glances with Anna.
She looked so beautiful, well she always did, but today she had a special glow over her. Maybe it was because of the smile, she sent me, or maybe it was because, this would be goodbye, all I know is she looked wonderful, as she walked down the row. I suddenly pictured her in a big white dress, and I couldn’t help but smile a little. When she neared me, I grabbed her arm and yanked her outside; I let my hand fall from her arm, I looked at her, she was in complete shock.
“I nee-” I tried, but my voice broke, I looked at her face, that beautiful perfect face, I would lose her soon. Soon what we had would be over, soon this was gone, and soon Sonea would be gone. I felt tears blur my vision.
“I’m sorry” I croaked, clenching my hands, I had to be strong, I forced the tears away. Maybe we could turn this around. Maybe this wasn’t goodbye.
“Alex what’s the matter!?” Sonea gasped at all the emotions.
“We need to talk” I looked around.
“Alex you look crazy, you never look like this!”
“Yeah…well noting like this has never happened before!” I strode down the hall. “Fuck this! We’re going to my car right now!” I ran down the stairs, Sonea had to jog next to my quick steps.
I tossed my things into the back seat, and sat down in the driver’s seat. I slammed the door shut with such a force; I saw the side mirror shake. Sonea wearily climbed inside, and closed the door.
I buckled my seatbelt, and grabbed the steering wheel tightly.
“Alex?” Sonea was scared.
“We’re done for, Sonea…we’re doomed” the second the words escaped my lips, I relaxed complete-ly. “Sonea…they finally got us, we lost” I looked at her, she off course didn’t understand all of it, but she was now tense and waited the worst.
“There’s a parent’s meeting tonight, well actually only in two hours, you know what this means right?” Sonea’s horrified eyes made sure I knew she understood.
“D-don’t go, you can just pretend to forget it” she whispered.
“I can’t just not show, it will make it suspicious, and then the teachers will have their proof, and they can finally act!” I sighed frustrated. I had overreacted earlier, I know now, but Sonea seemed to think this was worth the same attention.
“Wait…my parent’s doesn’t remember you, well my mom thinks she does, but she don’t, and my dad has no idea as to who you are!” Sonea looked at me, she smiled wider than ever.
I sat like a stone for a few seconds; I couldn’t help but laugh, when I had processed the news.
“Oh God that’s’ good news!” I laughed. “Fuck I was so scared of loosing you!” I couldn’t believe I had made such a mess of everything, when there wasn’t even a problem!
“Me too” Sonea sighed.
“I really messed things up” I sighed, but then I looked at Sonea, and the odd thing was, I couldn’t help but laugh out of pure happiness. This was not the end; we would carry on after this, like nothing ever happened.
“You should get back to class” I laughed.
“Ugh! Do I have to?” Sonea sighed.
“You should go, before they get suspicious” I looked at her, I didn’t want her to go, but now that there was no problem, she had to go.
“Okay…but I really don’t want to” Sonea opened the door, and climbed out. “Thank you for the scarf and the gloves, I love it, and the picture is great! But you didn’t have to Alex it must have cost you a fortune”
“I just wanted to see you smile” I smiled at her. “Now see you later”
“Thank you, and your mission is accomplished” she smiled and waved . The door closed, and I started the engine. No matter what Sonea said, my blood was still pulsating through my veins, my mind couldn’t wrap around anything.
How did Sonea have the ability to make me cry and act like a maniac, and then calm me down, make me see sense, but still keep my heart beating faster than it should?
I had never met anyone who could do this to me, sure when I first met Jennifer I thought she was the one, but complications made me realize the truth before it was too late.

“Mom! I need your help!” I yelled the second I came in through the door.
I heard ruffling and mumbling, which told me they were upstairs. I practically jumped the steps, and ran to my parent’s room.
“Mom!” I called, my mom came hurrying out of her huge double door closet.
“What’s the hurry” she looked at me. “What’s happened to you, you look like a mess, God if Casper saw you like that, he wouldn’t let you go anywhere” she put her hands on her hips in a mom manor.
“Sorry…I need your help”
“With what hon.”
“I’m going to meet Sonea’s parents for the first time, and I was wondering if you could-”
“Say no more!” she held up a hand. “I’ve just found a really old model here in the closet, and I think it would be perfect” I looked at her skeptically.
She sighed. “It’s sophisticated and will make you look even cleverer than you already are, and maybe a little older” she already knew what my plan was; it was a little freaky how she did that.
“Okay I’ll try it”
She dove right back into the closet, and came out with five big boxes; I received them and rushed to my room to change.
It was an old fashioned brown suit kinda thing, it wasn’t too classy, but it wasn’t too normal either.

“It’s perfect, I look completely like a teacher, and wait…where’s my theater glasses?” I spun around to see my mom coming from the closet with the glasses.
“So I guess Sonea’s parents doesn’t know that you are with Sonea?” she handed me the glasses.
“Yeah…they are supposed to think I’m just her biology teacher” I took the glasses, and turned around.
“Oh honey too much, you look like Clark Kent” she laughed.
“They are a bit over the top, right?” I took them off, and looked the outfit over again. I snuck a glance at my wrist watch, just one more hour before the first student’s would come with their par-ents.
“Okay mom I better go now, thanks for the outfit” I hugged her and hurried out of the door. I jumped the steps two at a time; I grabbed my coat from the floor, and trotted to my car. I jumped in, and kicked the engine to life.
My foot made contact with the parking lot’s icy concrete. I nearly fell, I was in a hurry, and the ground being so frozen and smooth just made it worse. I grabbed my stuff, and hurried off towards my classroom. Every teacher got his or her own room, and then one team of students would switch between classrooms, and then a new team would arrive.

“Wow Alex, dude what happened to you?!” Jason nudged me in the ribs as he passed me, and fol-lowed his parents into the room.
“Shhh parents like it when teachers look as old, as teachers should be, this is just an act” I smiled down at him; he winked letting me know that he wouldn’t ruin my cover.

“Well Alex aren’t you looking… mature? How’s it going with Sonea?” Sally smiled from the other side.
“Thanks I think, and ehh I…”
“Well that’s good to hear, now how’s my little Anna-banana doing in biology?” she giggled and ruffled Anna’s hair a bit. Anna blushed a little, and crossed her arms; I would remember to rub this in her face later.
She teased me all the time, just because she had seen some family photos of me and Casper when he tried to teach me ballet. After that Casper had tried to cut my hair, which was the end of his haircut-ting future.
The pictures were sweet, just not sweet enough to let anyone see them, ever.

I was on my third coke when Jessica’s family finally left, I sighed and stretched, this had been one long afternoon. I could sleep like a baby after this, and I probably would.
The door slowly opened, Sonea poked her head inside. Oh yeah, I had forgotten about that. Sonea’s family was now the last, and the one I feared the most.
Sonea just looked at me, and looked at me, and looked at me even more.
“What’s with the clothes?” she giggled.
“It’s my teacher costume” I crossed my arms smiling at her, and leaned comfortably back in the chair.
“Well it makes you look…you know what, it’s perfect” she smiled, noises made her look behind her. “My parents are on their way, so here we go” she disappeared quickly, and I heard her hurried foot-steps in the hallways echo. I got up, took a last sip of the cola, and threw the bottle in the trashcan. I fidgeted with my ‘costume’ and made sure my hair didn’t look like an eagle nest.
Maybe I should run away was my first thought. Yeah I could jump out the window, try not to break anything and-
The door slid open, my heart jumped, in came Sonea, I blushed, her parents came afterwards, and it was too late to flee… right?
I mentally slapped myself No I can’t run, at least not now, I have to finish this, I just have to think of the future.

“Hello I’m Sonea’s mother, Theresa, and this is Jeremy” the woman, Theresa stretched out her hand; I took it and shook it. “I’m Alex, I’m the biology teacher”
Theresa gasped, and clapped her hands over her mouth. I stepped one step back out of shock. Sonea looked terrified; I probably did so too, Sonea’s dad just rolled his eyes and found his seat.
“Is- Is that a Margret Truman complete winter outfit from last year?”
“Y-yes” I managed to stammer.
“That shirt was never released!” she grabbed my arm and felt the fabric. “Oh I wish it had been re-leased, this would have made a perfect Christmas present for Aiden!” Theresa snapped her head up at me, I had to fight the urge to back away, and jumping out of the window didn’t seem like such a bad idea after all.
“Where did you get this shirt?” she whispered.
“I-I…”
“Mom that’s it! We came here to talk about school stuff, remember?”
Theresa let my sleeve go. “Of course honey” she turned to me and whispered. “I’m gonna find out before I leave this room” she then sat down, and Sonea took the seat in the middle of Theresa and Jeremy.
I sat down on the other site, and found my ‘Sonea files’. I was lucky I had had so much practice with being in the spotlight. Because of my parents, I had gotten used to people staring at me. That came in handy now, all three of them stared like crazy at me, Sonea smiled, which made me blush a little.
“So Sonea, I must say I’m surprised at how much you’ve worked with this subject” I started out. “At first you didn’t show much interest, but that quickly turned around, it’s the same for all the students, but mostly the girls though” I looked at her papers again.
“But with you it’s a little different; when you answer questions, it’s almost like you have my notes, and just read aloud” I proceeded telling her parent’s what we had gone through in class, and finished by giving Sonea her grade.
“Okay…any questions?”
“No not really” Theresa answered.
“Okay good…now if you’ll just sign this, it’s just to make sure the parent’s see these papers” I handed her the paper. She took it and let her eyes wander over the paper. She didn’t sign it, she just looked at it.
“Is something wrong?” I asked, I just wanted them to go, so I could go home and sleep.
“Are you Alex Truman?” Theresa asked lowered the paper and placed it on the desk. Jeremy now sat back up, and eyed me intensely, Sonea mouthed no several times. This was not good. Every trace of sleepiness disappeared from my body, and I tensed up a little.
“N- No”
“Then why does it say that you are Alex Truman, and look there’s even a picture and a signature”
“Okay I am Alex Truman” I mumbled.
“Sonea… is this-” Theresa now looked at Sonea with a death stare.
“No! God mom why would you say something like that!” Sonea tried lying convincingly, but failed and even I could see that.
“Alex?” Theresa looked kindly at me. “Your mom… is she?”
“Y-yeah she is” I swallowed loudly. Theresa had completely changed the subject.
“Can I ask you something Alex?” Jeremy asked, with a very deep voice, that made me want to crawl under the table, and hope they would just go away.
“Yes” I gained some strength; this was the moment where I had to show I was mature.
“How old are you?” Jeremy pierced me with his eyes.
“Don’t Alex” Sonea pleaded.
“Sonea shut up, I’ve had it with your behavio-” Jeremy eyed Sonea so sternly, Sonea looked like she was about to cry.
“Don’t talk to her like that!” I snapped before he could finish. Everyone’s eyes snapped back to me. “I’m 22 if it is so important to you” I crossed my arms, just out of defensive instinct.
Theresa gasped and looked down; I think I saw tears in her eyes.
“Sonea go outside” Jeremy said sternly, he never looked away from me.
“What?! No I don’t think so! I’m a part of this too; you can’t just lock me out!” Sonea argued.
“Sonea! Do as I say!”
“No I’-”
“Sonea… please don’t make this worse, just go outside, you don’t want to hear this” I looked at her, making sure she would see just how serious this was.
I thought it had gone so well, but now this could very well, be the end of everything good in my life.
“Okay” she said, getting up and walking to the door, she glanced back, but I looked at Jeremy.
“I’m going too” Theresa announced, and followed Sonea out of the door.

Sonea’s Pov:

“Sonea we are going to the car right now!” mom crossed her arms over her chest.
“No we are not!” I crossed my arms too.
“Don’t go against me young lady!”
“I will go against whom ever I want, understood?! I’m not going to leave this spot!” my heart had started beating very fast.
“Fine we will have the conversation here!” my mom was very good at keeping her cool, but at this point she was close to the edge.
“Mom whatever you or dad say, it won’t matter! I’m not gonna stop seeing Alex!” I screamed, my fists clenched so hard it would leave marks.
“Yes you will! And you will right now! We are leaving and you will never ever see him again!” my mom shrieked.
“Yes I will! You and dad will never be able to stop me!” I was desperate.
“Oh we’ll see about that young lady” mom sneered at me.
I didn’t like the way she suddenly ‘gave up’. I just eyed her angrily, my breathing was still unstable.
My attention left my mom, as I heard angry shouts from the classroom, Alex and dad was probably strangling each other. I didn’t like the sound of it, my dad seemed desperate, and I had never heard Alex as mad. The door burst open without a warning; a hand grabbed my wrist, and pulled me vio-lently down the hallway. I stumbled to the ground, but the hand pulled me painfully up again, and strode with me towards the farthest exit. I looked behind me, to see Alex in the doorway; he looked like a mess of emotion.
Hurt, sad, angry, relived, disappointed, furious, on the edge of crying.
When we turned a corner and Alex was out of sight, something snapped inside of me.
“Let me go!” I screamed. I had to be at Alex’s side.
“Never!” my dad grunted.
I pulled at my arm, and stomped my feet, I let my dad drag me all the way to the exit, kicking and screaming.
“Let me go! Fuck! You can’t do this! I hate you!”
Doors were opened and I was tossed into the car, doors were slammed, and we were off. My screaming went over to crying and strangled screams. My mom and dad argued loudly in the front seat, I didn’t care.
My dad had taken the biggest kitchen knife we had at home, and cut my heart right down the mid-dle. I clutched my chest; I could almost feel the blood, as my heart was broken.
My heart cried as much as my eyes.
Somehow I was dragged inside the house. My dad let my arm go, and I slumped down on my knees on living room floor. I screamed louder than I had ever done, I wrabbed my arms around myself. Jeff and Aiden came hurrying into the room, they were shocked, of course they were. My eyes made contact with Jeff’s, my blood boiled.
“Are you happy now!?” I screamed at him.
“Sonea this is not Jeff’s fault, this is you and that Alex’s fault” my dad hissed.
“What’s our fault, that we like each other!? How can that be so bad!?”
“We will make sure you never see that pervert again!” My mom yelled.
“You don’t know what this feeling is! He tricked you, he doesn’t like you! He just used you, and you were naïve enough to believe him” my dad shot at me.
“He likes me! He would never use me!” I got up from the floor and went for the door that led to the hall.
“I will not allow this, as long as you live under my roof and you are my daughter!”
“He likes me enough to never quit” I mumbled, and with that I was gone, I ignored his last state-ment. I stormed to the far end of the hall where my room was located. I slammed the door shot, and looked around.
“Then I’m not your daughter” I whispered.