Charlie…8

Chapter 8

I blink and I smile and take out my phone. I’m just holding it but Principal West’s eyes lock onto it for just a couple of seconds. “I’m sure that’s not necessary Mr. Daniels. Keith you too please.” He says to the big guy.

“No…sorry sir but this is kinda like a social condom. I’d rather have it that not need it than need it and not have it.”

He works his jaw a bit. “You do know that the school sets the cell-phone policy don’t you?”

“You had better be looking foe a lot of trouble if you did something rash Mr. West, unless every phone was affected by the same ruling I’d think I was being singled out.”

Again with the jaw.

“Are you determined to be adversarial with me for some reason Mr. Daniels?”

“No sir, but my phone is part of how I protect myself. You asking me to get rid of it or to put it away set’s me on edge like something might happen or be done or said that might not be in my self interests.”

“You sound like a lawyer.”

“I’ve learned a lot in the last three schools. Unless you really make it not worth the while they won’t stop coming at you.”

“I see and if I said you’d be protected here?”

I laugh. “Right…that’s like you going along with two big ole white boys and a length of rope when they ask if you wanna go skippin.”

He stops and turns and looks ate me.

I stare right back.

“It’s just as bad sir, only I don’t even have numbers on my side.”

“Be very careful Mr. Daniels, you’re treading on thin ice.”

“Just so long as we understand each other Mr. West.”

He grunts and continues on.

Yeah I pissed him off but it’s true. When you’re in transition you’re not exactly “Stealth.” You don’t get the luxury of hiding and there’s usually no shortage of people out after your head.

We follow him to the administration office and there’s a small crowd or rather two crowds and some other kids and security guards. From what I gather just by looking is that Lance and his two buddies came to the office to complain about me being allowed to change with the other guys. And they brought some of the holy roller crowd. And that brought out the LGBT bunch and any minute now the rhetoric’s going to start from both sides.

There’s some shouting en masse started by Lance and his bunch but soon the LGBT kids start getting into it and the principal turns and just gives me this look like I’m the start of all his problems.

I get taken with Keith in the office and lance and his two buddies and we’re there just the five of us while I hear Mr. West outside telling security to get both groups to disperse and that this isn’t a matter for either interest group and there’s some other kids there asking questions and stuff with recorders and cameras too.

We don’t catch all of it as the new secretary closes the door but I seen the guidance councillor come out of her office.

Lance and his buddies stare hatred ay me but also at the open phone in my hands.

Mr. West comes in looking tired and pissed. He looks at Lance. “You accosted Mr. Daniel’s here on school property as well as violated his civil rights?”

“I did no such thing; I kept this girl from going where she shouldn’t be allowed to go and defended my rights under the constitution.”

“Excuse me!?” I say, oh yeah the phone’s recording this crap.

“Yes explain yourself Mr. Lawson.” Mr. West asks as well.

“I have the right to practice my own religion Sir. This girl is being allowed to spread her evil and filth and perversion into the rest of the student body and you’re permitting her to fornicate and put the souls of the men in that class at risk.”

I start laughing at him, I can’t help it because if that’s his reasoning. “Go back to whatever hole you crawled out of Lance, the law doesn’t let you do that. Otherwise every wife beating goon like you’d claim it was his duty by the standards of his faith.”

“Mr. Daniels that’s enough!” Mr. West barks. I shut it but I’m still really amused at Lancey-boy…hmm, that rhymes with Nancy-boy I might have to remember that one.

“Mr. Lawson, Mr. Daniels has the legal right to attend school under his legal gender the same as every other student here and the constitution also has the separation of church and state so I’m afraid until you come up with a resolution that changes the school boards policies that you were not within your rights to assault Mr. Daniels.”

“Assault! But I didn’t….” Mr. West cuts him off. “Mr. Dobson you were there was there an altercation?”

“Yeah and it might have been three on one if I hadn’t been there.”

“He’s Lying!, the little cunt is lying, all women lie, she’s little fucking Eve with the apple!”

“Mr. Lawson you’ll stop this right now and you’ll grab your things and leave from this moment on you’re on one month’s suspension.”

Lance get’s this crazy pissed look in his eyes and he’s not even looking really at me but at Mr. West for a minute then he lunges at him and snags a paper-weight off the desk and hit’s Mr. west in the head with it. Screaming “You fucking Nigger! You fucked her didn’t you?! That’s why you’re under her spell!”

His two friends don’t jump in but looked as freaked as we are and lance hit him again and again and Keith tackles lance to the ground and I open the door and yell to the secretary. “Get security!”

Luckily they were right there since getting rid of the two crowds of kids from before and they separate Keith and Lance and end up call 911 for the Principal.

They took him away in an ambulance and everyone was sat down but apart as the vice and the guidance councillor got the superintendant in to go about this carefully and with cool heads.
……………………………We’re there for awhile as our parents and our lawyers show and for a few minutes some of the church types show up with the parents for Lance and the other two guys and there’s a lot of back and forth and yelling before they end up leaving. I’m not really happy about this Reverend Johnson…it was the parents that were doing the yelling and not him and even though he looked at us like he’d wanted the earth to swallow us up he was calm and quiet and reasonable sounding.

Honestly I think he’s a dangerous man.

I only tell them about me having the whole thing on my phone after my lawyer gets there.

Dad shows up with Libby going to be…okay already home from school and that’s why the Step-mom isn’t here.

Lance get’s charged not just with an assault but with the taped evidence it’s a hate crime and the parents were fighting with the cops until the Rev quieted them down and whispered something.

We went over stuff a couple of times about what happened in the office and what happened back at gym.

They were also talking to other people and the coach and getting some of the kids that were still around when all of this happened so that’s why it was taking so long.

And that’s when I see Sable coming in and she’s changed out of her school clothes and into something nice… some nice laid back sheer white blouse nothing fancy but really nice looking and it really showed off just enough and just right her really nice…uhm breasts. And she matched it with these really cool hip hugging jeans that look really expensive.

I don’t ever want to look like that even if I could, hell I don’t even know shit about her clothes. Libby…Libby could probably tell you where she bought it and how much and stuff.

I only know that I really like what I see and not just is she getting let in to see us but she has bags of take out in her hands. I get up from my chair and she comes over and we hug. I look at her in the eyes with this “I like.” look and she smiles and blushes.

“Dad, this is Sable the girl that I told you about.”

Dad gets up and he goes to shake her hand but she gives him a light hug instead. “I’m pleased to see Charlie’s making friends.”

“And I can see where Charlie get’s his handsomeness from, you both have the same eyes and the same smile.”

“Really?” I’m actually interested in that, I mean if you’re like me and someone says that you share some stuff with your dad it has a different meaning, or it does for me.”

She nods. “I heard what happened and tried to get in here sooner but they were really locking it down with all the chaos and stuff going on. So…I thought you’d be here awhile and you’d be hungry.”

“I’m starving.”

“Good, I ordered lots because I know how guys eat so there should be enough for three of us Mr. Daniels.’ She finishes looking at dad.

“That’s very thoughtful of you Sable, Charlie what do we say?”

I lean over and give her a light kiss on the lips making her eyes go wide for a second before she presses to me and returns it. “I think I’d say that it’s a really odd second date but I’ll take it.”

She blushes and ducks her head a little which does interesting things with her cleavage but she’s smiling.

God I love the way that she smiles.