Skipping School continued from X
Jagged lightning appears in Missy's eyes at his seemingly clever quip. "What's the point? Everyone knows I'm not as smart as Sheldon." It's a tough fate to swallow but she's been swallowing it since she was three. Everything she tries her hands at feels like a failure. Math, English, Science they're all complicated art forms that sail way above the fathoms of her head. Missy wasn't at all a fan of struggling, so she didn't try at all.
Her latest teacher accused her of 'cheating' while taking a test simply because she was whispering with Billy. No one else seems to know what's going down in her family and yet, he seemed to be a remarkably insightful source of information. Correct information. He knew Georgie's baby was a girl before she did. He knew that her father and his mother Brenda were spending evenings alone in the chickencoop. When confronted, Missy lashed out. Saying she forgot, the teacher would know what cheating looked like given the way her husband was carrying on.
Then with a wistful expression she slips an imperative tidbit in under the radar. "'Sides they don't want you in school when you're suspended." Lowering her voice a few pitches, she adds. "Might have to take in this cruddy movie a few more times." So her suspension had an awful lot to do with the turmoil between her parents. "They wouldn't sell me the ticket for Too Hot in Seattle or Raiders of the Lost Ark. It's like they don't think I've ever seen rated "R" things before. I've seen things on Pay-per-view." She grumpily rumbles. Being thirteen sucks. Her weary, stormy eyes return to the screen just in time to watch the Aquamaniac take a dramatic nose dive from a cliff. A sigh unfurls itself from her lungs. As bad as this movie was, she wasn't exactly interested in Grandma goes to Hollywood or any of the other offbrand titles boasted in flashing lights.
Missy shrugs. "It was definitely about me in general." The confession is made between noms on popcorn. Who cares where the blame laid? "They think the other s to blame for my attitude, for all the trouble I've been getting into lately." Her chilled gaze averts, pinning to Murphy the way darts to bullseyes when he speaks again. Bemused wonder melts a little of the anger into something more mailable. "You-- you did?" Her stance in the stiff seat shifts. "What did you do about it?"
Once more young Cooper slinks backwards into the chair. "The police?" She scoffs. "That would be the day." The concept however wasn't that unimaginable. A part of Missy tries to swallow her dear friend Paige's fate down at the expression of his words. "Thank God. I'd just as soon keep my parents out of this--"She grits out. The mention of juvie has her head spinning disastrously. Her parents would go ballistic. As if they weren't going nuclear enough. Her gaze returns to the screen trying to wash the terrorizing reality of his words to abate.
Instead of turning more introverted and introspective, Missy avoids the topic like a plague. "Just how did you find me anyways?" She mutters, crunching down another series of handfuls of popcorn. "And why's it matter to you if I go off the rails?"
