Teaching her a lesson

e can work with me after school, every day, until the end of the school year. Get caught up on all the stuff she missed, cheated on, all that. I'll

ls of an entitled brat and whatever pieces of work who'd raised her suing the school when Taylor decided to twist her version of our altercation. No, it was plain in

her, see what she sa

h period, so I'll be in

s any longer than that. If I take four days to tu

on as possible. Yo

uest, she magnanimously agreed to let me show her mercy. I'm not sure she believed we'd really expel her, and she probably thought she could make ou

usy, and I was d

p balm on right in front of me, as if her glossy lips were a manifesto of her refusal to be subdued by some petty school teacher. It was only a faint dose I'd coated the outer layer of the lip balm with, and so would take longer to s

. rewrite her es

shamed -- that other thoughts even entered my mind. No matter how terribly she'd mistreated me, I wasn't about to take advantage of a teenage girl. I probably couldn't

ep unfortunates as if worried they'd see what I was reading. For once, I let them sleep. I was envio

ery

ne from resisting. The manufacturer's website boasted a successful test in which they'd offered volunteers $500 to resist being detained, and in the end, hadn't wound up having to pay them a cent. The larger web was full of articles decrying its use

gave at the office. Sunday, I'd agreed to it immediately, handing her the money without a second thought. It was surreal remembering our encounter now, how she'd suggested -- even with a joking tone -- that I buy a second one. Another $30 gone. When she laughed and said maybe a third would come in handy, I'd already fished the money out of my wallet and held it over the fence before she shook her head and awkwardly

only a little bit more than those test subjects had passed over. The single canister I'd purchased, however, had cost me an order of magnitude beyond that. As I walked away from the exceedingly sketchy fellow who'd sold i

r the betterment of one exceptionally