Chapter 10

Suddenly it all went black. I was a split second before sitting with my small select form, in the top of Chesterton, in our much too large form room. The room had gone quiet, it was now all a black silent place. Though there was an oddity about this eerie blackness, I could smell cigarette smoke.

“Hey babe” Guy whispered huskily in my ear. I smiled, thank god I wasn’t blind. He removed his hands away from my eyes and I grasped them with my own.

“You’ve been smoking” I said. It was neither a question nor a statement, it was in-between. He smelt of cigarette smoke and I knew his daily routine, arrive in school and nip off to the local park for a brief smoke before school, and on the walk back from the park to school, find some chewing gum and spray himself with aftershave.

“Yeah” He said looking forlorn, as if I had just wounded him deeply. I gave him a warm hug; he pulled me close and tightly against him. Despite the strong smell of smoke that still lingered, he smelled of summer.

When he withdrew he kissed me on the cheek, I smiled a blushed a light pink. “You get your project here okay?” I asked and held his hand as he leant back against one of the desks. He pulled me to him before he responded and I smiled like a lovesick fool.

“Yep all here safe and sound” He said smiling. “So how are you?” he asked timidly as I rested my hands on his greatly lowered shoulders.

“Oh you know I have a new family” I said casually.

“YOU WHAT?” Guy shouted in surprise. I smiled, he probably thought I was pregnant or something.

“My Dad’s fiancé and family moved in yesterday” I said quietly, though grinning from his little outburst. I toyed with his hair at the back of his neck, lost in my own thoughts. Only to find when drifting out of them Guy was looking at me oddly.

“Right” Guy said sounding confused.

“I’ve got to sort my books out for French and Maths” I mumbled almost apologetically.

“Okay” Guy said looking sheepish and letting go of my hand, as if I was rejecting him. I kissed him briefly on the lips and cruelly tore myself away and walked out of the class room into the halls to my locker.

The halls were packed full of people. Well it was 8.45, everyone was frantically sorting their stuff out before heading to form to be registered and their form tutors discuss things with them. I saw Lucy surrounded by a group of guys who she’d probably previously screwed, I thought snidely. Walking past her I shot a glare which she returned but not quite as well as me because when her face scrunched up u cud see the layers of make up on her face. This caused me to grin as I stopped at my locker.

“Hey Crystallll girl!” Kelsey said perkily. I hadn’t noticed her also rummaging through her locker like a jumble sale to find her books.

“Lost something?” I nodded towards her locker as I started fiddling the code lock on mine.

“Yeah and unfortunately I’ve lost a whole history section. The textbook, the folder, the revision shebang, the lot” She mumbled crossly dropping a non-History folder grumpily into the locker. I smiled; I pulled out my history textbook, folder and revision guides and turned to face her.

“Borrow these” I said smiling and dumping the heavy load on her outstretched arms. She looked shocked then extremely happy, as though I’d made her day.

“Oh my gosh! thanks Crystal you’re the best!” She said smiling. And she closed her locker with a gentle nudge of her hip. I flashed her a grin and pulled out a familiar, albeit battered looking, red folder along with some text books and study books. With no free hands I too closed my locker door with a nudge of my hip, though somehow I doubt hers hurt as much as my hip does right now.

Struggling back to form I felt a sudden load taken off me, literally. There was Leo, smiling at me holding 3 of my textbooks. I grinned back at him.

“Hi” I said almost nervously. Well he was devilishly attractive. “Thanks” I almost whispered. The halls seemed to have become less chaotic and a lot less noisy since Leo came up to me.

“You’re welcome roomy” He said grinning. I inwardly groaned remembering this morning. I’d woken up and in my cute pink underwear I’d walked into Leo’s room, completely forgetting he was there. What a great way to introduce yourself to your new brother there Crystal.

“What form you in?” I asked.

“12JES” He replied.

“Shame I wanted ya to have been in my form, though I s’pose ya can still hang out with us?” I offered.

“Sure” He replied smiling, probably gratitude for me welcoming into the school a bit. Though I’m sure that every girl would welcome him immediately, into their beds that is, I thought to myself.

“Thanks for carrying my books, see you around” I said placing my head next to his awkwardly. I could hug him as I had no free arms and kiss on the cheek seemed too close.

He laughed heartily, a laugh that would have George Clooney whimpering away in a corner. “That was cute, later Crystal” He said throwing me a wave and a grin he walked off in the sea of people.

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French was boring. Madame Chaveau was rambling on in French and only me and the half French girl Claire could understand what she was saying. This was fortunate for everyone else because it was as boring as hell. This lesson was about how to prepare a French salad including the importance of salad dressing. Real useful, I though to myself.

I tossed a folded, well rather scrunched up piece of notebook paper across to Charlie who was sitting behind me and didn’t understand what was going on. My bulletins were helping him understand, and each time I heard him chuckle. Alhough Claire and I would have been standing up at the board translating but shucks, Claire and me liked to daydream.

In French, the bell ringing signalling the end of the lesson was like a God sent gift. Everyone sighed in relief, the boredom, the torture, and for some people at the back the hour’s sleep was sadly interupted.

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I would love to say that Math was any better, but it really wasn’t a great improvement on French. Quadtratic equations were as boring as hell, and no matter how hard Mr S. tried to make it fun and easy and exciting, it just simply wasn’t, though ya couldn’t fail the fella for trying.

He used different coloured pens and drew diagrams and showed us pelanty of ways to do them, but I think he had to face defeat. He was stuck with the dumb set. I sighed for him. It must be demoralizing to have to admit defeat and fail with a set like us.

“Mr Stoeter, can I go to the bathroom please?” Asked Leah the once red haired now a red brown in colour, bounded up out of her seat after Mr S.’s wave of the hand motioning for her to go. He was relaxed and laid back about teaching us, occasionally going off topic or bringing in sweets to entertain us.

“Now if 2x 4mn, what is n?” Mr Stoeter asked our small select group of 11.

I raised my hand to shoot at a guess. Mr Stoeter looked more than excstatic to see one hadn up in the room. Everyone looked up briefly then back down at their math books and then back to Mr Stoeter. “Yes Crystal?”

“ n equals 2x 3c² over 4m” I said hoping that it was right. If not, it showed that at least someone was paying attention, and that there was a point in him teaching our class.

“Correct” His voice boomed with pride. Anne nudged me in the ribs and gave me a funny look. I stuck my tongue out at her. I tried to keep answering Mr S’s questions down to a maximum of 1 per lesson. After I’d answered a question I felt as though I could continue doing my work in the knowledge that it was going roughly correctly. Unfortunately what as written on my piece of paper didn’t make much sense to me.

I nudged Anne, “Wanna give me some gum?” I asked smiling sweelty at her. She rumaged in her pencil case and flipped me a small blue packet over. Slipping out a small white piece of gum I tossed the packet back to her smiling. “Thanks” I said.

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School passed by quickly, I didn’t see Guy at all, at lunch he went to the local park with some mates, and I was avoiding Justin to avoid Lucy. The only people I did really talk to was Charlie and Kelsey, though they were in most of my classes. As I wate late out of sport when I arrived at the bus park there was hardly anyone there and not a bus in sight. I sighed.

I felt something wet land on my head, glancing up; the great grey clouds came into view. Bollocks, I thought to myself, I didn’t bring an umbrella, it was May after all. School finished in two weeks, the torture was nearly over.

As the water began to descend upon me mercillessly I began to walk the 4 mile journey home. By the time I’d left the school gates I was soaked through. Then it was that I met my saviour. Leo came bounding up behind me, and took his coat off. I looked at him astonished and shocked. Well wasn’t he the cutest.

“Hello” He said smiling placing the coat over both our heads. He placed his arm around my shoulders and held the other side of the coat over me.

“You’re my knight in shining armour” I said grinning at him and pulling away some wet hair away from my face.

“Glad to be of service” He laughed heartily.

“You know” I said loking up at his face.

“What’s that then?” He said as we continued walking.

“I’m glad I’ve got a brother like you” I said smiling. He smiled too and we walked step and step along the side of the road home

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