Sinead Hutchinson - Waterloo Road

Chapter 20 - Lisa's back?

Monday moring, I woke up feeling refreshed in my bed, nice and warm and excited for what the day would bring. Last Monday morning I slept on a small plane on my way to Scotland, squished up and cold since the weather in Scotland was freezing cold compered to sunny Spain. I was ready earlier than usual and I sat in the living room, listening to the music channel and watching the music videos while Mum was getting sorted upstairs. Like last Monday, I wore my boots and a pleatted skirt, with my white blouse, school tie and red cardigan.

"Are you ready? It's getting late," I shouted up the stairs to Mum and she didn't reply for a few seconds.

"Just coming, can you lock up?" She shouted back down and I walked into the kitchen, shutting the kitchen window and locking the back door and the window in the downstairs bathroom. The living room window was smaller thant the bathroom and kitchen window and there was no way anybody would physically be able to get through there so I left it open a little bit. I flicked the switch on the side of the tv to turn it off and I picked my school bag up from the dining room table. Mum came running down the stairs and into the kitchen, she was putting stuff into her bag and looking for her phone.

"Have you got everything?" She asked and I looked in my bag.

"I need my Enlgish homework for Mulgrew," I whispered to myself and ran up the stairs and into my bedroom. I opened the draw underneith my desk and got both mine and Bonnie's English books out and quickly shoved them both into my bag.

"Hurry up," Mum shouted up the stairs, quite hypacritical since she was the one making us late. I shut my bedroom door and headed down the stairs and straight out the front door and into the car. Mum had the radio on and the same song that was on the music channel was on. 

"I like this one," I said, turning the volume button right so it would turn up.

"It's quite old," Mum told me.

"Well it's new to me," I replied, plugging my seat belt on. Since we left a little later Mum had to drive down the motor way, which she hated because it always made her nervous. But we still go to school a few seconds after the bell rang. I was the last one into the school.

"Have a good day," Mum called as I walked up the stairs towards Mrs Mulgrew's classroom.

"You too," I shouted back and I straightened my hair, which was down and curled today, up and gentally knocked on the classroom door.

"Sorry I'm late," I said, taking a seat at the back beside Bonnie.

"It's alright," Mrs smiled and I smiled a little back. Scott turned and looked at me and my smile turned south very quickly. I took Bonnie's English book out of my bag and sutilly passed it to her under the desk.

"Thanks. Have you heard who's back?" Bonnie asked with a serious look on her face.

"Who?" I replied, expecting this person to be someone I didn't even know.

"Lisa, Mr Fizegerald let her come back early," Bonnie whispered. 

"What?" I gasped. "She deserves to be perminetly excluded, I could have died!" 

"I know, how pathetic!" Bonnie smirked.

"Something you want to share with us all girls?" Mrs Mulgrew sterntly asked, looking at us with raised eyebrows.

"No, Mrs," Bonnie timidly replied.

"Yes, how come Lisa Brown's back a week early. She could have killed me," I asked, laying back in my chair.

"I doubt she nearly killed you," Scott scoffed, turning and looking at us.

"She cracked my head open in two places. I nearly died," I sarcastically replied, what did he know?

"Scott, since you weren't here when it happened I suggest you hush down," Mrs demanded, sitting at her desk.

"What did she do like?" Scott asked. 

"That's none of your business now turn around and be quiet or go to the cooler," Mrs angrily said and I smirked at him. He turned around and said nothing more to me. 

The bell rang and we had PE with Mr Reed in the hall, ovcourse the rules were I wasn't allowed to do it. Everyone was getting changed in the changing rooms and I was sat beside Bonnie. The changing room door opened and nobody came around the corner for a while. A lanky rat came around the corner, it was Lisa. She looked at me with wide frightened eyes and I scowled and turned away from her.

"She has a nerve," Bonnie said loudly so Lisa could purpously hear. She put her bag opposite me and I looked at her and even Shazney didn't go and sit next to her. Appart of me wants to kill her but another part of me only wanted to give her a huge thump. 

"Hurry up girls, the boys are ready!" Mr Reed shouted through the changing room doors since he wasn't allowed in. I stood up and went outside.

"They're nearly ready Sir, should I just wait in the hall?" I asked and Mr Reed nodded, passing me a stack of cones to put in the hall. I opened the double doors and went straight in, all the boys were messing around and Scott was sitting on the bench looking at me when I went in. I sighed, placed the cones down and sat on the other side of the bench from him.