Derry Girls: A New Arrival Part 2

Chapter 32: Spring the Trap, Part 2

The entourage had been sitting outside the classroom for almost 20 minutes. They sat in a relative silence, which enabled them to hear the sporadic raised voice bellow from inside the classroom. The muffled sounds were distinguishable for them to know who was shouting, and whom they were shouting to.

The group sat on a row of chairs. While Sarah and Geraldine chatted aimlessly amongst themselves; Orla looked up at the ceiling and sighed heavily with boredom as she leant her head on Marco's shoulder who now had Coco Pops on his lap. Erin stroked James' arm tenderly while Deidre bandaged his sore hand, Mary stewed as she stood over the wains. James and Marco then looked up to see Gerry and Joe standing over them. Despite the awkwardness of Erin and James being seen on CCTV going into the storage room together, the men was smiling at the pair of English fellas.

"Ye never guess where we've just been?" Gerry asked. The lads shook their heads.

"We just been speaking to one of the officers who were looking at the security videos." He revealed.

"Aye, we've just seen a wee clip of yous two knocking seven bells outta that Danny prick." Joe laughed. Causing James and Marco to smirk at each other.

"Daddy, don't encourage them! You and you, with us, now!" Mary snapped at Erin and James.

Mary has stewed long enough; as soon as Deidre finished; they walked down the corridor, followed meekly by Erin and James. The young couple frowned at each other as they did as they were told. Before they began, the bell rang on queue for the end of school. Students suddenly appeared from everywhere. Seeing the group together and given the events that had already transpired; many of them sensed that the day's events weren't finished yet and purposely lurked near and around the corridor.

Rumours had been spreading all afternoon that Sister Michael was back. Jenny Joyce struggled to make her way through the malingering crowd of students as they bombarded Michelle with praise for what she'd done for Shannon, Clare, Orla, and Marco couldn't help but chuckle as Michelle failed in attempting to be modest with her newfound celebrity status. Overexaggerating the situation as she always did, but the other students lapped it up as much as Michelle did.

"Oi, Michelle, is it true? Is Sister Michael back?" One asked, croutching next to her, whispering her question.

"Oh aye, it's true!" Michelle confirmed.

The girl dashed off excitedly to spread the word. The huddled crowd was abuzz. Jenny Joyce still struggled to get to Michelle as the students wouldn't budge. Orla now had Coco Pops in her lap, which earnt him an abundance of attention from the students. Orla relished the smiling faces as Coco Pops lapped up the attention. Away from the crowd; Mary stared Erin down with her arms folded, her lips was scrunched tight, while Deidre stood with a hand on her hip, staring daggers at James.

"Well.... We're waiting! What do ye both have to say for yourselves?" Mary demanded Erin to hasten with her explanation.

James went to speak. "Mary, we didn't mean to...."

"Ye didn't mean to do what?" Mary interrupted abruptly.

"Out with it, lad!" Deidre snapped.

"We didn't mean for it to happen." James finally said.

"Didn't mean what to happen?" Deidre asked.

Both Deidre and Mary were unsure of what James was getting at. Erin could see that James was struggling to continue. "Christ, James; Answer them!" Erin thought. Mary and Deidre then looked at each other and gawked at the couple. Erin's wide eyes made them confirm what both their imaginations had concocted.

"Oh shit!" She whispered.

"...... OH MY GOD!" They shouted together, mortified. Some of the students were startled and looked towards them.