The day kept getting closer and closer to Detention. I didn't know what I should do. I was kind of confused. What if they met each other?  I was nervous.

The rest of the day flew by in a flash, but that meant that Detention was coming up.

We were in Physics class, when Sarah poked me in the arm and whispered that  Blake was at the door, I asked Mrs. Ikleman if I could use the restroom and she just nodded her head. I opened the door and walked to the hallway. Blake grabbed my hand, and kissed me! Again, wow. His lips kind of taste like strawberries. "What was that for?" I smiled. "That was because I missed you, and I've been wanting to do that all day," Blake said. Aww, he missed me. "Well, I missed you too," I said blushing. "You did?" Blake asked. "Yes, of course, I did," I added. "Missing you isn't the only reason I wanted to see you, I also wanted to give you this." He said, handing me a small box. Aww, a gift for me from a boy! So cool! "What is it?" I blushed. "Just open it," he said. I opened the small box, and inside was--

A necklace!

It was super cute. It was silver and it said 'Blace' "What does 'Blace' mean?" I asked. "It's a mixture of our names, Grace and Blake, Blace," He said. Aww, that is super sweet of Blake to do! "Aww, thank you so much, Blake! This is seriously the sweetest thing anyone has ever done for me. Like, ever." I said. "Thanks and you're welcome" Blake laughed. I smiled.

"Blake, sorry I should get back to class, I don't want to get into trouble," I said. "Of course, I don't want you to get into trouble," he said. He really is a gentleman. He opened the door for me, I whispered 'bye' and he said 'bye' in his cute British accent. I loved his accent. I really do. I walked back into the room, holding the box on my right side, so Mrs. Ikleman wouldn't see it, and get suspicious or even take it away. I went to my seat, and Sarah noticed the small box, I told her all about it and about the kiss.

Soon, all of our classes were over, and it was time for detention. Sadly, Sarah didn't have detention, the only reason I'm sad that she doesn't have detention is that I know there's going to be drama in here, and I don't want drama.

I walked into the room for detention, and there were five boys. Ashton, Blake, Jake, some boy that Jake always hangs out with, I think his name is Hayden. And there was some other boy that I had never seen before. Hayden and Jake were talking. They were best friends. And Blake and Ashton were talking. They were best friends. 

They noticed me and smiled. Everyone said either 'Hi,' 'Hello,' 'Hey,' or 'Sup' but the one boy who I didn't know said, "Vas Happenin'?" I said, "Nothing much, just stuck in detention." 

"Hey, do I know you?" I asked him. "I'm not sure if you do or not, but I've seen you around school, my name is Josh Williams." Oh, no. Oh, no, no, no!!

"Umm, well...yes I do know you. I'm Grace...Grace Walker." I said. He zapped his head in my direction and narrowed his eyes. No, no, no! 

"Wow," Josh said sarcastically. "What are you doing here?" I asked. "Well, I have detention, duh," he said in a little attitude. "Oh, right," I said. "Do you two no each other?" Ashton asked. "Yeah, actually. We do!" I said crossing my arms. "He's my ex," I continued. 

"Yep, she's my ex," Josh said. "Well, when were you guys together?" Hayden asked. "Freshman year through half of sophomore year," Josh said. "How did you not recognize me?" Josh asked. "Well, for one you were facing the other way, and two, I didn't recognize you because of your bad boy looks," I said while narrowing my eyes at him. "How did you not recognize me?" I asked. "Oh, I'm sorry princess, I didn't recognize you with your worn out jeans and straight A's," Josh said sarcastically. "Are you guys going to tell us what happened with your relationship or not?" Jake asked. "Fine..." Josh began. "Grace broke my heart, and she left me for another guy," Josh said. Oh, my gosh! That's such a lie. None of that happened. "He's lying, that's so not true!" I narrowed my eyes at Josh again, and he gave me a little evil grin.

The truth was that Josh and I first started dating during our freshman year of high school. We became friends at first, and then started to develop feelings for each other. He asked me to go with him to our schools dance, so I agreed. I was so excited. We were such a happy couple. We became the schools cutest couple of freshman year. We continued dating during sophomore year, but one day, Josh came to school in black ripped jeans, with a black t-shirt, and sneakers. He changed completely. He wasn't the Josh that I knew. He became a bad boy. He was pulling pranks on people for no reason at all. He enjoyed it though. I still loved him and I didn't know why. I kept dating him because I still loved him. I tried convincing him not to pull pranks on people, and stuff because I didn't want him to get into trouble. I didn't like the things he was doing. One day, I tried to break up with him, but he said that he breaks up with people, not the other way around. I felt so sad, I didn't like him anymore. I didn't want to be with him, with a jerk. He turned into a complete jerk. By then, it was half way through our sophomore year. Another time, he was ordering us some pizza when he got a text. Then I checked his phone, because I wanted to make sure it wasn't another girl. And guess what? It was. I couldn't believe it. He'd been texting other girls this whole time. When he got back, I confronted him, but he denied it. I showed him the messages and all he did was leave. But, unfortunately we were still together, he wouldn't let me leave him. One day, when I was at school, I saw him kissing some other girl at his locker. I couldn't believe my eyes. Actually, I could. But, I was broken. He noticed me and all he did was laugh. He smirked an evil grin and I ran off. I ran right out of the school and cried for hours. I skipped school the next few days, and when I returned he bullied me. People would laugh at me in the hallways, during class, and at lunch. That's when I began starving myself because I didn't want to be someone to sit in the bathroom and eat, cause I find that disgusting and sad, my life was sad. I finally started to forget about everything, about Josh. But, now that I saw him again. I'm even more broken. 

And he's still the same jerk, he always was. 

"So, then what is the truth?" Hayden asked. "What really happened?" Blake asked. "He cheated on me, left me, bullied me, and  made fun of me." I said as I began to tear up but I tried my best to hold in my tears. The boys were all silent. And Blake came over to me, he was trying to make me feel better and calm me down. 

Once, I finally calmed down, I looked around the room. There were desks and chairs. And there was a chalkboard that said 'DETENTION' in all capital letters. With an underline under the word 'detention'.

I had a feeling, I wasn't in Mrs. Iklemans Physics class anymore.

~AUTHORS NOTE~ I hope you guys are enjoying the book so far. Please comment and let me know what you guys think. Thank you. - G

Detention at our school, Oakwood High, lasted about 2 hours. I had no idea what to do in that time. I decided to just relax, and study for our upcoming assignments. Louis and I still need to finish our Atoms and Molecules project.

Blake walked over to me, "Hey," he said. "Hey, Blake, listen, we still have to finish our Atoms and Molecules test," I said. "Oh, right! To be honest, I kind of forgot about our project." We laughed. "Me too," I said. Blake took our project out of his bag and placed it on one of the desks. I took out some markers, and we continued to complete the project from where we had left off. We continued drawing purple circles around the letters of 'M' for Molecule, 'A' for Atom, 'P' for Proton, and 'E' for Electron.

Once detention was almost over, Blake and I had finished our project. We were very happy that our hard work paid off. Well, hopefully, it does when we present the project at the aquarium. I know right, going to an aquarium to present projects is strange, we're not just going there to present our projects. We're also going there to see animals, and species, and to have fun with our friends.

Jake came over to us, "Hey, what have you guys been working on?" He asked. I pointed to Blake and I's project. "We're presenting it at the aquarium field trip," I said. "Oh, okay. That's so cool," Jake said. "Yeah, super cool, Grace is a great partner," Blake  said. I smiled. "And a great kisser" Blake said and blushed while he said it. "What!?" Jake said. 

Oh no, I knew something like this would happen. What do I do? I did the only thing that I could think of, run away. I grabbed my bag and ran out of the room. I was panicking. I took my phone out of my bag, and immediately called Sarah. And now that I left, they could be talking about anything. Oh no.

"Sarah, something happened, I need you, can I come over to your house and we can talk about it?" I asked. "Yeah, sure," she said. "Thank you so much, I'll be there in 5," I said then, hung up.

"Grace, wait!" Blake shouted from down the hall. Wow, I ran far.

"Yeah, Grace, wait!" Jake shouted standing next to him.

"Just leave me alone!" I shouted and ran off. I ran to Sarah's house. When I got there, I went to her room and I told her everything that had happened in detention. She even looked shocked. She could see the nerves from my facial expression. She apologized, and I said that she had nothing to be sorry for. Seriously, she didn't do anything.

Tears started streaming down my face, when Sarah's mum came in and said "Grace, I'm so sorry but your mom said that you should go home and it's getting late, it's already 10:00 o'clock," "Oh, okay. Thank you, Mrs. Coleman." I said tears were still streaming down my face. "Of course," She said. "Bye, Grace," Sarah said. "Bye, Sarah," I said as I walked out of her room, and their house.

And just my luck, right when I got outside, it started to rain. Today was a horrible day, I had detention, Jake found out that Blake and I had been kissing, I'm crying, and now I was walking alone in the rain, with no umbrella or anything. I felt so confused. Maybe, I should try to think of good things that happened, maybe that will make me feel better, "Only, two good things happened today, Blake and I finished our project," I slightly smiled a very small smile. "And Blake gave me the sweetest gift," I said, pulling out the small box the necklace was in. I opened the box and nothing was inside. I panicked. "Nooooooo!" I yelled. I cried even more. Now I felt broken. About 10-15 minutes later, I arrived back at my house, I was soaking wet. I knocked on the front door, and my mum opened it, "Oh, sweetie" she said with a frown. I was still crying, and it was still raining. And the necklace was still lost.

"Sweetie, come on in," My mum said, and put her arm around my back. I was wearing wet clothes, and today was just a horrible day. Sarah told her mum what had happened, and Sarah's mum told my mum. Honestly, I'm not really mad about Sarah telling her mum what had happened. I'm just disappointed about everything. My mum handed me a towel, and I wrapped it around myself, then we both sat down on the couch. "I feel like every second I'm gonna cry, and I also feel as if every minute, a little piece of soul is being chipped away," I said. "I'm just gonna go to my room," I said, crying more. I kept the towel wrapped around me. Before I went upstairs, I went to the freezer and grabbed a container of ice cream and a spoon.

I walked upstairs and flopped down onto the bed, I had my curtains open, so I could stare out the window, from my bed. I watched the rain slide down the windows as if they were teardrops trying to escape to a better, happier place. But, they can't. Mascara started running down my face again. And I lost total control of my emotions.

I took the spoon and dug it into the container of vanilla ice cream. And started crying and eating my feelings away, but it wasn't really helping, I guess I'm just so stressed out about everything that's been going on. I texted Sarah a photo of me, crying, with my mascara running down my face, and eating ice cream, she texted me back asking if I was okay. I replied back saying 'Does it look like I'm okay?' I wasn't trying to be rude, I'm just so upset right now. And that's when it hit me. My past. Getting bullied. All of the crying. All of the mean neverending comments. I knew that I shouldn't focus on my past, but it's impossible for me not to. I can't stop myself. I feel like I'm driving a car, and the brakes broke, so I can't stop. Seriously, that's just how I feel. I tried sending Sarah another picture of me, but I ended up accidentally sending it to Blake!! "Are you kidding me!?" I said. Right now, I was so frustrated. The message said 'read 10:42 pm.' Wait, it's already 10:42 pm? How? I was just at school, oh, right cause after school, I had detention and then I went to Sarah's house, and then came home. And now I've been crying for a while. So, Blake has seen the picture!! Oh no, it says he's replying. A couple of seconds later, 'Grace, are you okay?' the text said. 'No, I'm not," I replied. 'Well, then talk to me, what's wrong? Was it about what happened after detention?' He asked. 'It doesn't matter' I said. 'Yes, it does,' he said. 'I should go,' I said. 'Bye' I continued. 'Fine, bye.' Blake said. He sounded kind of annoyed.

The rest of the night, I just cried and cried. I don't want to go to school tomorrow.

My mum kept checking in on me. "Mum," I started to say. "Yes, sweetie?" She asked. "I don't want to go to school tomorrow," I continued. "Oh, honey. I know you don't, but you have to," She said. "Please," I begged her, while I was still crying. "Fine, I guess you could take a break day," she said. "Thank you," I said. "Your Welcome, now get some rest," she said. "I can't sleep, I'm too depressed," I said. "Well, try," She said. "Okay," I agreed. "Sweet dreams," my mum said. "Yeah, I doubt it," I said back.

A few hours passed, so it was now 3:02 am and I'm still awake, I've been crying all night. Or, all night and morning, I guess. I just can't stop. I finally fell asleep at 3:39 am. I cried myself to sleep.

~ In Grace's Dream ~

"Hey Lovely," Blake said. "Hey, Boo bear," I said. "Halt!" Jake shouted. "Gracie, who is this loser?" Jake said. "I'm Blake, her boyfriend. And at least I'm not a troll, like you!" "You better shut your mouth there, goat boy," Jake said. "You guys stop!!!" I said. "Why you little jerk!" Blake shouted. "Excuse me, what did you just call me?" Jake said. "You heard me, Elephant!" Blake said. Blake pushed Jake. "You wanna go, pretty boy?" Jake said. "GUYS, STOP!!" I said. Nobody stopped. "Yeah, I wanna go," Blake said. "To the renaissance fair!" Blake continued to say. And pushed Jake. 

-- At the renaissance fair --

They were now wearing weird costumes. "I'll kick your-" Jake started to say. But, the knight announced that they shall fight to win the princess, who I guess was me. They were given swords that were so shiny you could see your own reflection, and so sharp they could slice a pineapple in hundreds of pieces.

The boys began to make their mark, and fight. They fought for the princess. But, just then there was a distraction that caught Blake's eyes. It was a fair maiden from the land, she was an enchanted fairy, named Lily. He surrendered, and then walked up to Lily. They talked for a while. Which meant that Jake had won! Wait, Woah, Woah, Woah, that means that Jake is my Prince charming.

I don't know why Jake being my prince charming made me feel the way I did. I felt sad. And I even felt sorry for myself. Why did Blake leave me?

--Thursday morning--

I turned around, it was Jake! "Grace," He said. "Yeah?" I said. "Grace," He said. "Yes?" I said a little annoyed. "Grace!!!" He yelled. "What!?" I shouted. 'Grace, you're dreaming," "Grace, wake up," Then, I got woken up by my mum, wow. "Are you okay? you were screaming in your sleep."My mum said. "To be honest, no. No, I'm not okay." I'm just super upset, and I had a bad dream. After you said 'Sweet dreams' last night, I said 'I doubt it', I knew I was right," I said with a frown. "Well, cheer up, cause later you have visitors coming over," she said. "Who?" I asked because I didn't know I had any visitors. "Blake, Jake, and Sarah, they're  all friends now, and they want to check in on you, and see how you are doing," "Just tell them to leave me alone," I said. "I will not, because they really need to talk to you, and Sarah and Blake said you haven't texted them in a long time," my mum said. "Fine, whatever," I said. I got up and got ready for the day. But, I didn't bother wiping off my mascara that went from my eyes to my chin. And I didn't even bother to spend a whole lot of time picking out my outfit for the day. I just put on a random T-shirt, and some sweatpants, and a hoodie, and put my hair in a ponytail.

The words 'I'm a mess" repeated in my head. 

I'm a mess.

I'm a mess.

I'm a mess.

I'm a mess.

My mascara was smeared and my nose was runny. My eyes get super blue when I cry. I had tissues all over my bed, and another box of tissues in front of me. Well, obviously I won't be able to get out of this situation. I guess I'll just have to deal with it. Ugh. The rest of the afternoon was spent, crying.