Evie and Mr. Doe have a heart to heart

Evelyn slams her fist against her desk, fuming.

“How dare you! A deal’s a deal!”

Mr. Doe places his hands on his hips, ignoring his student’s theatrics.

“Last time I checked.” He emphasizes each word. “Our deal didn’t involve you and your gang going out and terrorizing the school.”

Evelyn grimaces.

“What are you talking about? I haven’t gotten into trouble with anyone!”

“Then explain those bruises all over your face.”

“I fell down as I was walking to my car the other day.”

Mr. Doe holds back the urge to laugh in her face.

“Don’t patronize me. I saw Christina and Dani having it out the other day. I have to give credit to her, she really knocked you around good.”

“Threw me around?”

“From what little I could gather, it was a real royal rumble. You and Dani and

Christina... Two against one. It should’ve been easy. But you were knocked **** thirty minutes into the fight. Bet that made you tuck your tail between your legs, didn’t it?”

Evelyn’s face turns ashen.

“You little…that’s why you wanted me to stay behind after everybody left to go home, wasn’t it? To interrogate me about some schoolyard fight a few weeks ago that I barely remember? That caramel colored bitch put you up to it, didn’t she? You guys are always the same, bailing at the sight of the next pretty thing with tits and ass…”

Mr. Doe grabs her by the roots of her hair.

“Stop it! You’re hurting me!”

“One of these days you’ll learn that the world doesn’t revolve around you and your playthings.” He whispers in her ear. “At least I hope so.”

“So what do I have to do to get you off my back?”

“What’s in it for you? I continue to honor the silly little arrangement between us, for starters.”

“Pffh!” Evelyn dismisses the offer. “Like I’d want to jump your bones after this!”

Mr. Doe yanks harder, eliciting a yelp from his recalcitrant charge.

“Let’s suppose I let slip that you and your friends assaulted a fellow student on school property. How’d you like that? Then again you always struck me as the type who’d enjoy going to county for a few months. I could see you right now, bent over, fisted by a 300 pound biker named Stella. And you know what? You’d like it.”

“You’d never…”

“Yes I would. But then again I’d hate to lose one of my favorite students. No more afternoons after class, riding the hell out of Evelyn as she screams for release…But the hardest part would be watching Dani and Becky drift. Who knows what’d happen to them in your absence?”

“You’d risk your career to ruin my life? You’re nuts!”

“Did I say I wasn’t?”

“Get to the chase. I got a paper due tomorrow.”

“I want you and your girlfriends to stay as far away from Christina Sanchez as humanly possible. That doesn’t mean from eight until three, or for a distance of five hundred feet. I mean forever. Period. Or else you’ll find out how truly crazy I am.”

Evelyn huffs.

“Fine! Have It your way! Now let me go so I can get home!”

Mr. Doe lessens his grip. As Evelyn walks out, she glances behind her shoulder at the man who confronted her.

“Sometimes I wonder why I ever allowed myself to get involved with you.”

“I could say the same thing myself.” Her teacher sighs.