Private message between Justin🤢 and Josie😇

Justin🤢
Hey whatcha doing tonight?

Josie😇
Why are you texting me?
We're literally in class rn and you're sitting right behind me

Justin🤢
I didn't want to disrupt Mr. Pierce's lovely speech about history or something

Josie😇
This is English class

Justin🤢
Whatever
What are you doing tonight

Josie😇
I'm hanging out with Zach

Justin🤢
Fuck really
He always gets to you first

Josie😇
Okay?

Justin🤢
You were first on my list

Josie😇
Cool?

*

"Miss Saltzman, Mr. Foley, what is so important that you are both on your phones in the middle of my class?"

Josie Saltzman looked up from her phone with wide eyes. "Absolutely nothing. Just some annoying spam that won't leave me alone."

"Just my mother." Justin spoke, leaning his elbows on his desk.

"Care to share your messages with the whole class, Mr. Foley?" Justin shook his head, chuckling. "Come on, Mr. Foley. We all want to know what has you so enthralled."

The boy sighed before turning back on his phone. "'What are you doing tonight?'" Justin read from his messages with Josie. "'I'm hanging out with Zach.' 'Fuck. Really? He always get to you first.' 'Okay?'" He paused before reading the next line. "'You were first on my list.'" The teenagers sitting around Justin all began whispering among themselves. "'Cool?'" He turned his phone off, and put it into his bag. "That's all, Mr. Pierce."

"Detention after school, both of you." Mr. Pierce put out his hand. "And I'm taking both of your phones from now until after your detention is done."

Josie handed the teacher her phone before sending Justin a glare as he gave his away, as well. "Fuck you." She spat, turning back around. She crossed her arms over her chest, leaning back in her seat.

"You're cute when you're mad."

"Shut the fuck up, Justin."

*

Josie sat in her seat after school, staring up at the chalkboard in front of her. She was pissed off. She had never been in detention before, and now this was going to be on her permanent record.

The girl watched as Justin walked into the classroom, sitting in the seat behind her. "It's nice to see you again, Josie." The boy chuckled as he spoke.

"Shut up so we can just get through the next couple of hours."

"Oh, it's going to be a lot more than a couple of hours." Mr. Pierce spoke as he entered the classroom. "The teachers are having a meeting this afternoon about safety measures in the school, and it's supposed to last pretty late, and neither of you are leaving until that meeting is over."

"You can't do that." Josie stated as she sat up in her seat.

Mr. Pierce shook his head. "I can, though. Have a nice afternoon." He left the two alone in the classroom.

"I'm sorry, Jo."

"Just shut up, okay?" Josie snapped, turning around to look at him. "I don't want to be here, and I definitely don't want to be here with you, so it would be nice if you wouldn't spend the whole afternoon bothering me."

Justin raised an eyebrow. "Why do you hate me so much?"

Josie rolled her eyes. "You cheated on my sister."

"You don't know the whole story, Jo."

"I know what she told me, and that's enough." The girl let out a sigh. "Lizzie's my sister, and I will always believe her."

*

hopeforhope : even tho I'm spending v day alone (for the seventeenth year) I decided to dress myself up to make myself feel better :)

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saltzlizzie : AHHH IM IN LOVE WITH YOU

hopeforhope : thank you, my love saltzlizzie

dempzee : do you know where jo is? She ain't responding

hopeforhope : this is what you comment on my post? dempzee

hopeforhope : no I thought she was out with you dempzee

brycemoney23 : I can't reach Justin either

brycemoney23 : maybe their fucking

*

Josie sat at her desk and looked up at the clock. It was seven-fifteen, and the teachers weren't done with their meeting yet. She groaned, leaning back in her seat. Justin watched as the girl grew more and more upset. They hadn't spoken in four hours.

"Jo?"

"What, Justin?"

"I'm sorry."

The girl turned around to look at Justin. "What are you sorry about? You didn't even want me to hang out with Zach tonight in the first place."

"But you wanted to, so I'm sorry that you're missing, and that's it's my fault."

Josie's anger faded as she saw that we was sincere about his apology. "Thanks, Justin."

"I know that Mr. Pierce has a deck of Uno cards in his drawer." Justin sent the girl a smile. "Do you want to play?"

Josie furrowed her eyebrows. "How do you know that?"

"He gives me detention a lot." Justin chuckled, standing up. He moved to the teachers desk, opening it and pulling out the Uno cards. He walked back to his seat, pulling the cards out of the box.

The two were able to finish three very intense rounds of Uno before Mr. Pierce entered the classroom. "Alright, you two." Mr. Pierce opened a drawer in his desk and took out their phones. "You are all set to go home." He handed them the phones before they exited the room.

Josie looked down at her phone, seeing thirty-two texts and twenty-seven missed calls from Zach. She frowned, and Justin noticed. "Everything okay?"

She nodded before calling Zach. "Jo, what the hell?"

"I'm sorry. I got detention, and Mr. Pierce took away our phones right after it happened and didn't give them back until now." 

"Who's the other person with you?"

"What?"

"You said 'our phones'. Who'd you get detention with?"

Josie looked over at Justin, who was standing next to her and sighed. "Justin."

"Jo, what the hell?"

"We were on our phones in class."

"Come on, Josie."

"I'm sorry, Zach."

Josie heard Zach sigh before speaking again. "We were supposed to hang out tonight, and I was going to ask you to be my girlfriend."

"Shit." Josie's eyes widened. "Really?"

"Yeah." The boy was quiet for a minute before he continued. "So, I guess I'll ask you now. Do you want to be my girlfriend?"

Josie didn't know what to say. She felt that if she told him that she did not like him as much as he liked her at this point, he would be crushed. She did not want to hurt him.

"Yeah, sure."