Cale blinked in shock. Somewhere in his mind, his brain was scolding him for being probably one of the stupidest human beings on Earth right now--he just HAD to go push his luck with the old man, didn't he? And now, he really DID have detention and all the panic from before was slowly starting to take over his nervous system once again. His mouth was shut so tightly out of fear of losing more points that he could feel his lips going numb.

You just HAD to open your big mouth, didn't you Newell? You're an idiot. Really. You should just turn in your badge now.

He hadn't even begun to THINK about how angry his fellow housemates would be. And Alexis would most likely hunt them down and kill them when she found out they'd be missing practice. In a state of numb shock, he shook his head to show that he understood the Professor's threat to dock more points, and he tried to think of the punishment Truebridge would have in store for them.