Almost The Beginning

3.

"Your Da's way too easy Adalene, I told you we had nothing to worry about", Shauna says while blowing smoke from her feg into my eyes causing me to bat my hands around my face making it look like I'm trying to swat an invisible fly.

"I'm not sure how my Mam's going to take it though, she did say to ask him so technically she can only blame herself when I ultimately get kidnapped by a beautiful French man".

"They'd give you back once they've seen those extra set of hands you call feet", Shauna laughed while putting her feg out on the wall at the gates and began her way up to the front doors of the school while I stood in shock.

"My feet aren't that bad!", I yell to her while running to catch up to her.

"They so are Adalene", she says over her shoulder as we pass through the large glass doors.

"They are n-", I begin to protest against her claims that I have tingers when I'm interrupted by the short, stubby man in front of us.

"Late! Again!"

Shauna gives nothing but an eye roll as I begin to stutter some apology but before I do Shauna grabs my wrist and pulls me away towards our form class.

"It's 9:05, we're hardly late", Shauna says, finally letting go of my wrist.

"I'm still convince he has some kind of kink for shouting at teenagers".

"I think it's basically proven at this point Adalene, remember that time he took us for English and he shouted so much at Kelly J that she started crying", We both start laughing hysterically because we know this story like the back of our hands.

"He got a hard on!!", We shouted in unison.

"Mr Wallace is a terrible old creep", I say as we settle into our shared desk. I never found a point in this class, twenty minutes spent with our form teacher, Mrs Marks, listening to each of us say 'here' when our names are called. Absolutely pointless. Our school day would be much shorter if we could just sign our names on a piece of paper, hand it to Mrs Marks then be on our merry way.

"Adalene?", Mrs Marks shrills from her oversized oak desk in front the chalk covered blackboard.

"Here!", I mindlessly shout back at her.

In front of our shared desk sat Maggie and Niamh. I quite liked Niamh and Maggie, but Shauna says that Maggie is two-faced because last summer she kissed Ryan from the year above when "she knew fine rightly I planned on texting him", in my opinion it was fair game, but Shauna holds girl code to a very high standard. Due to this when Maggie and Niamh turned to face us once Mrs Marks was finished with her roll call Shauna's face immediately dropped and she hushed our conversation about One Directions latest music video.

"So, are you two going on the Paris trip next month during summer?", Maggie asked, quite politely might I add which made Shauna's next words very shocking to me.

"Yes, we are, not that it's any of your business Maggie", my neck snapped to the side to look at Shauna before elbowing her in the ribs.

"Well, I personally can't wait, I heard a lot of the boys from St. Pats are unbelievably gorgeous,", Niamh is quick to say completely ignoring the spat from Shauna directed at her friend.

"I'm much more interested in trying macaroons and visiting the Eiffel Tower, I want to embody a typical tourist the entire trip", I say back matching Niamh excitement over the trip.

"You've had macaroons before, you made us try them after you finished watching Gossip Girl", Shauna replied uninterested in the conversation while taking a picture of herself on her phone.