The happiest moment of my life

It was senior ditch day and Ms. Tutwiler was looking forward to a relaxing day. But her dreams were shattered in to pieces when her two favorite students, Cody and Bailey, showed up for class and insisted that she'd teach something. To make things worse they kept fighting with each other over silly things trying to prove to the other that he/she was better. First Ms. Tutwiler assigned them an art project to which they responded by making DNA and Brain models. Then Ms. Tutwiler told Bailey and Cody that they have to be creative, everything is not about school and grades and studying to which Cody responded by asking her "Exactly where did you get your teaching credentials". Sick and fed up of their behavior Ms. Tutwiler send them off to have fun, actual fun that actual kid would actually have. She even told them that they will be graded on it to make sure that they actually have fun. However instead of actually having fun they ended up arguing about who is having more fun. Then Ms. Tutwiler took them to a laser tag game with hope of teaching them how to actually have fun. But that didn't work since they ended up writing a paper about laser tag. Finally Ms. Tutwiler got them to sit down in class and asked them a very important question.

"What is the happiest moment of your life?" she asked "Cody you go first" she said

Cody thought for a while. He smiled remembering the day that his six month plan actually worked, the day Bailey agreed to be his girlfriend, the day he first kissed Bailey. But he couldn't tell her that so he decided to lie. He said,

"The happiest day of my life was the day that I won the math Olympics. I represented my country and won." "Beat that if you can" he said turning to Bailey

"This is not a contest" Shouted Ms. Tutwiler "I am trying to teach you something important here"

"Please Bailey" she continued "please tell me that the happiest moment of your life is something nonacademic"

"of course" said Bailey "I am not stupid" she continued giving a quick look at Cody "Academics are good, but the true happiness in life comes from things like love, friendship, family"

"great" said Tutwiler " So, what is the happiest moment of your life?"

While Bailey thought about the answer to the question Cody was closely observing her. She soon started to smile from ear to ear. Her face brightened and her eyes started to twinkle. Cody had never seen her look so happy and beautiful. "Wow" Cody thought "That must be one heck of a memory". Cody couldn't help but smile seeing her so happy. Then something totally unexpected happened. She stopped smiling, her facial expression changed. Cody could see she was thinking about a bad memory. She looked like she would burst in to tears any moment now. Cody felt like running to her and give her a hug and comfort her. But he couldn't do that he wasn't her boyfriend anymore plus he was supposed to be angry at her.

"What's wrong?" Ms. Tutwiler asked "Bailey, I asked about the happiest moment of your life, not the saddest moment"

"I am sorry" she said "It's just that the happiest and saddest moments of my life are somehow connected"

"Do you want to talk about it?" asked Tutwiler

"No" said Bailey "It's too painful"

"Bailey" said Ms. Tutwiler "Talking about it might help you ease the pain"

Bailey did not respond, Cody could see she was really suffering, she was holding back lot of pain.

"If you don't want to talk to me, I will schedule an appointment with Mr. Blanket" Said Tutwiler once again.

"No" shouted Bailey "I will tell you"

"Few months ago…" she said and then stopped and took a deep breath.

"There was this guy" she started to say again "Who I like, I mean really like" Then she stopped again. Cody's heart started to ache, hearing about this new guy in bailey's life. He didn't understand why because he was so sure he was over Bailey. Yet hearing about another guy in her life made him so miserable.

"Ms. Tutwiler" Bailey said again "do you know the feeling you get when you find out that the guy you love, loves you too?"

"Love" thought Cody, this cannot be really happening. Not only was she over him but also was in love with another guy.

"Unfortunately No" she replied "But I can Imagine, it must have been one heck of a feeling"

"It was" replied Bailey "But an hour after all that he… he… he…" Bailey said tears pouring out of her eyes.

Cody couldn't take it anymore. He couldn't bear to see the tears in her eyes.

"He what?" asked Cody kneeling down next to Bailey and taking her palms in to his. "Did he hurt you? What did he do?"

Bailey took one look at Cody's face and started to cry harder.

"Nothing" she said mustering up all the courage she had. "I got to go, after all its senior ditch day and I am not supposed to be here anyway"

She left as Cody and Tutwiler looked at each other in shock.

To be continued...

A/N: Please Review and I will post the next chapter.