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[TheLongRider]

Dan Bridger was angry. He had received a call from his daughter's school stating that she had been caught cheating again; she had been pushing the rules and the system to see how far she could go, and now she was straddling the line of expulsion. He came home from work early, his tall frame shrouded with construction coveralls and fire resistant clothing, he waited. This was the final straw; he was going to make sure she graduated, because that was his job.

When the lock jingled open and the front door swung inside, he locked eyes with his darling child, the one he had loved so much, his only piece of life left in the whole world, and sternly let his voice erupt.

"We've got to talk."

 

[LittleOne19]

Elizabeth knew she was in trouble, a lot of it. She couldn't beleive she had been so careless, raising the hand that she had written the answers all over. If cheating was not bad enough, her dad always lectured her on writing on her hands, saying it would lead to ink poisoning. When the principle threatened expulsion, she knew she was in deep shit.

She took the long way home, walking very slowly. She was scared of her dads temper. Her dad was a nice guy, but he could be very strict when he wanted, and elizabeth did not like to be on the receiving end of his anger. She unlocked the front door, and then stood in shock as she saw her dad sitting at the kitchen table.
"We need to talk" he said, in his deep strong voice, with an underlying current of anger and...dissapointment? Elizabeth tried thinking back to the last time he had gotten off of work early, and realized it was 6 months ago when she had a violent case of the stomache flu. She bit her lip as she realized how serios the situation was-her dad hardly ever missed a day of work. She slowly shuffled over to him, and stood next to his chair. "talk about what?" she asked hesitantly.

 

[LittleOne19]

Bumped