Slipping ( Kate west)

  Kate was chewing some gum, leaning with her chin on her hand, staring at the ticking clock that hung on the wall in front of her. Suddenly the door went open with mister de Jong in the opening. Kate didn't change from how she sat, only her eyes moved to him.
  'Eh Kate, could you come over here for like ten minutes?' he asked.
  The girl didn't do anything besides chewing on gum while looking at him. Then a smirk appeared on her face as she leaned back in her chair, both hands on the table. 'I thought I was not allowed to see anyone during school hours?' she asked, in her voice a mix of tease and mocking.

  He blinked, keeping his face straight. 'Does it look like I give a shit?' he said calmly. 'Well get over here.'
  Kate sighed deeply. 'As you wish,' she said as she stood up, walking up to him. She crossed her arms as she stood in front of him. 'Well, what's the matter?' she asked.

  'Come let's go to...' he looked around him. 'Ah maths classroom nice,' he said as he walked up to the door and unlocked it.
  Kate sighed and followed him. She hugged herself from the cold as she walked inside the room. 'Ah, why must it be so damn cold everywhere, jeez,' she complained as she turned around to Nick again. 'So, what is so important to interrupt my counting of how many times the clock ticked?' she asked sarcastic. She actually did do that some time. She forgot how many it were though. Could be because she lost track like a hundred times.

  Nick rolled his eyes as he sat down at his desk and grabbed some files.
  Kate sat on a random table, not thinking about standing the whole time.
  'Well, I am worried.'
  Kate huffed. 'Yeah sure,' she mumbled.
  'About your behaviour and shit.'
  'Mhm.'
  'What's up with you,' Nick asked.
  The girl sighed as she smirked. 'Boi, you couldn't care less. Did Dylan send you or something,' she laughed. 'What do you mean, what's up with me? I'm fine, nothing to worry about.' It was just getting better, she didn't knew why he was asking now instead of the time she maybe actually needed some help, but oh well.

  Nick sighed as he shook his head. 'Kate as your mentor I am the one who gets asked why your grades suck, and at this moment they do. And no Dylan didn't. You are gone for about two weeks, have detention all over the fucking place, isolation for Christ sake and guess who gets all the fucking paperwork? Me so please just tell me so I can help ya out or something I mean look at this mess, your grades are slipping girl, s l l i p p i n g, just like your attendence. Can't you at least cheat your way through school , that's what I did.'
  Kate rolled her eyes while looking away for a moment. 'I got this fucking isolation because Hannes was a dick. If you did something about him, I would have been in class now,' she said as she looked at him again, crossing her arms. 'There was a lot of shit going on the past few weeks, and maybe you could have noticed since you are my mentor, but you didn't. So don't blame me. And it's over now, everything will turn out fine,' she told him, more to convince herself. She knew her grades were fucking bad, but it was logical though. As if she would place school first when she got into the drama of the past weeks.

  The teacher sighed. 'Hannes has isolation and detention aswell so don't bring him into this cause.' He took a paper. 'Here it's clearly stated that both of you fought and believe me, I hate him aswell but I don't him in the face even though I really want to. And sorry that I wasn't there with all of that drama but I have an entire class of mental cases to look after I can't just focus on one individual every single day. All I see of you guys are grades and how you are in class you see.'
  'He made me do it though. It was self defence,' Kate defended herself. He was the one who stepped on her skateboard and kicked her first. She wouldn't have done it if he didn't kick her. The girl sighed. 'Yeah well, at least there was someone...' she mumbled, thinking about how Ronan was there for her the last couple of weeks. She sure was lucky with him being her father. 'So, you know that when something gets bad for a while, there will be a time when it goes better hm?' Kate continued. 'I tell you, it will get better, just give me time. Don't expect of me to prestate one hundred percent again just because everything seems better.'

  Nick smiled. 'Well... I trust you,' he said calmly as he leaned back in his chair.
  Kate frowned for a short moment before a small smile appeared on her face.
  'And I know you can't promise me to stay out of trouble, believe me I have promised that more then a billion times, ask Ronan or Emelie so just try to cheat as much as possible okay, you know... I only see what I want to see,' he said, a smirk on his face.
  Kate smirked too. 'Thanks...' She was silent for a moment. 'What do you mean with cheating though? How do I do that?' she asked.