“Mason. Jessica and Tim here, tell me there’s something important I need to know about you and Ms. Daniels. Is that true?” he asks, looking between Bianca, Linc and me before focusing on my mom. “Mrs. James, it’s a pleasure to see you again.”
That fuck! The bastard whose been frightening my girl, and the fucker who was too much of a coward to try and take me on his own. I snarl at him.
“Thank you. Can you tell me what is going on?” Mom stands with her hands on her hips.
“I’m not entirely sure.” He turns to Jessica who has now turned an ugly shade of red. “Jessica, now you have me here, would you care to enlighten me as to the problem?”
“They’ve been having sex behind everyone’s back,” she blurts out, a sneer of disgust on her lips.
“Damn straight,” Tim sniggers.
As I open my mouth to defend our actions, Jessica interrupts, “I’m sorry to be the one to tell you, but it’s the truth.”
You could cut the silence with a knife while the principal takes in what she’s said. No one moves and all eyes stay on him, waiting and waiting…
Tim does nothing except glare at Bianca who has her face buried in my brother’s chest. My fists clench at my sides wanting to beat the fucker into a pulp.
Back to the situation at hand, if we deny being together then it will be obvious we’re lying considering a lot of people around here saw us wrapped up in each other. So it’s better being partly truthful, as we’d planned.
“You know what,” I say moving toward Bianca unable to stay away from her any longer especially as she looks nervous as hell. Taking her hand, I pull her into my arms, “I’m not going to lie.”
Jessica shifts from foot to foot in an agitated little dance. Excitement dances in her eyes as her sneer turns to glee. The principal shifts and a wrinkle forms between his brows with worry. “We’ve waited months to be together. We were waiting until I’ve graduated. Well, I’ve now graduated. I’m no longer a high school student and Bianca is no longer a teacher here at the school or any school for that matter. So I honestly don’t see what the problem is.”
“Hmm. So you’re both saying you’ve waited to be together until now?” he asks.
“Yes,” we both reply, holding our breath.
Tim takes a step forward, and shouts, “You’re not going to believe them? What kind of pussy are you?”
The principal looks about ready to burst a gasket, but pulling himself together he turns to meet Tim, chest-to-chest. “I suggest you back the hell off. This is my school and Bianca is no longer a teacher here, and Mason is no longer a student. So there isn’t anything to deal with and whether or not I believe them is irrelevant as o
f fifteen minutes ago when the auditorium emptied.”
Ignoring Tim altogether now, he says to Bianca, “I do believe you’re going back to college,” with a smile on his face.
“I am,” she replies as I wrap my arm tightly around her waist. I grin and barely resist smoothing my hand over her bottom. Not the right time.
“Well then. All the best to you both,” he shakes our hands before turning to Jessica and Tim. “Jessica, I wish you all the best for college, and you, I think you better leave because as far as I can remember you’ve never been a student here and you don’t have any family graduating today.” And with that he walks off to greet other parents.
Jessica stomps off like a spoiled brat toward her friends while Tim stays standing in front of us.
“You’re mine,” he growls.
That’s it. I shove Bianca at Linc. “Look after her,” I tell him as he’s ready for her and before I can take another breath, I tackle the fucker to the ground. Nothing can stop me as my fists fly at him; kidney’s, face, ribs. Anything I can reach, but it’s over all too soon as hands grab hold of me and pull me off him.
“You stay away from her, you fucker,” I spit out, still mad as hell.
I watch as he slowly gets up from the ground.
“This ends here. You stay away from us, and we’ll stay away from you.”
After a few seconds standoff, he nods his head in agreement before leaving the school. I don’t trust him, but I guess time will tell.
As I watch him go, Bianca buries her face into my neck and lets out a shaky breath, sliding her hands inside my graduation gown and clinging to my shirt.
“Hey, baby. Are you, okay?” she murmurs into my chest.
Chapter Fifteen