Persephone Underground by Jennifer Russon

Author:Jennifer Russon [Russon, Jennifer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: fiction, Romance
Published: 2019-09-30T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter

16

So…when I went back to school on Monday, it was with a brand new friend contact in my phone. RONNIE SANTIAGO. She was older than my mother, but fun to hang out with – I could see sister potential in the friendship. Plus, who needed a blood oath when we had all this in common? I was crafting just the right response to Ronnie’s invitation to come out to Delray this weekend, when I heard Miz Furr come up to me in the school’s breezeway and clear her throat.

I backspaced over my beautifully crafted text, annoyed.

“Young lady, shouldn’t you be in class? The bell rang a few seconds ago.”

“Ummm. Sorry?” It was hard to look at Hayden’s mother after all that had happened. Hard not to stare. He’d told me some personal stuff about her over the summer. I knew they weren’t close. Hayden claimed she liked working long hours at Bad Ass, so she could pretend her mother wasn’t the most powerful underground voodoo queen in South Florida.

Miz Furr grabbed me under the elbow and guided me toward her office. “It doesn’t matter…” I heard her grumble under her breath. “I know you’re headed to Mrs. Springer’s class and I wanted to talk to you about that, anyway.”

The principal gave a polite nod and forced smile to a security guard in a golf cart as we made our way to the main part of campus. Once in her office, she shut the door and drew her window blinds. I couldn’t believe I was getting into this much trouble for being late to Demi’s class.

I wasn’t alone in the room. Actually, it was pretty crowded. Two vice principals were there, and to my amazement, Marc Springer.

“Demi’s teaching, so she couldn’t make it,” Miz Furr told us. “I’m asking Marc to take notes of this meeting and get it to her after the fact. Unlike his wife, Marc is a wonderful teacher and an asset to this school…”

Everyone was aghast the principal would throw a faculty member under the bus like this, without her being present to defend herself. It was incredibly unprofessional, but just the sort of thing that happened at a school like Bad Ass Academy. We were in the hood and no one cared about checks and balances. I felt sick when I realized why I was here.

Miz Furr wanted me to rat out Demi as a sucky teacher, which, sadly, she was.

“My dear,” Miz Furr said to me, “you’re not in any trouble for helping Mrs. Springer manage her class. I know you’ve been helping grade papers and giving her tips on behavior modification. But it can’t continue.”

“Okay,” I said slowly, looking at the ground. I mustered the courage to stick up for Demi. “She’s not so bad, you know. Mrs. Springer is incredibly funny and smart.”

“We all know she’s funny,” Miz Furr snapped. “I think my husband is ready to offer her a full-time job at The Pomegranate, he loves that act of hers so much.”

I held my tongue, but the malice in Miz Furr’s voice and face was unmistakable.

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