The Silent Deceivers

Chapter 2

Typical School Day

Just as I was stuffing a change of clothes into my PE bag, my phone went off. It was Grace saying that she and Abby were walking up the Avenue and that they would wait for me in front of the school gates. I texted back a quick reply saying I would be there in ten as I grabbed my school bag and headed for the front door. The school gates were about a seven to eight minute walk away, from my house and every day the teachers failed to see how I was always late for registration and I got the ‘go to bed earlier’ speech. During the part of the walk I had to suffer alone I had music blasting in my ears. As soon as I turned the corner past the Train Station, I could see Grace and Abby making their way up the left side of the road towards the gates so I stuffed my iPod into my bag and ran to catch up with them.

“Here’s to freedom!” Grace said punching the air.

“Hey, hey, hey!” chirped Abby as I fell into step beside them, notably out of breath.

I didn’t need to guess what the conversation was about, Grace always hated being stuck at home; it was living hell as she described it. After school she usually went into town and stayed there until the shops shut, moving from coffee shop to coffee shop. The less time at home the better. She has two older brothers Liam and Ronan and a younger step-sister called Lily. She isn’t close to the wicked witch of the west as she calls her step mum or her munchkin step-sister. Her brothers Liam and Ronan are twins, they are seventeen, and Liam is the elder by two minutes which he will not let anyone forget. Both of them left school with hardly any GCSE’S so how they managed to get into college is a complete and utter mystery.

“Guess who changed their status to single, on Facebook?” Abby gossiped, changing the topic line of conversation. “Maria!”

“No way!” Grace cried. “Maria and Matt were going to be together for ever. It was written in the yearbook.”

“Oooooo they broke the precious words of the yearbook. They must be punished.” Abby joked sarcastically.

 “I didn’t know that! Do we know why they broke up?” I asked changing the subject.

“That’s because you don’t have Facebook and no we don’t.” Abby pointed out.

“It’s not my fault my parents are completely and utterly overprotective. If was allowed Facebook believe me I would have it.” I complained as we continued to walk up the road. “My mum even uploaded some new parent protection software onto my computer before she left so she could track the sites I go on while she’s away. I can’t even access Facebook, to make a secret account.”

“Seriously? What are you going to do? Start World War Three? It is totes not cool.” Abby said.

I rolled my eyes, before I came to this school Abby was one of the popular girls, you know the ones who must have the latest fashion and wear way too much make up. That was Abby, but she stood up and left the group after they started to become bully’s. When I first arrived Abby was the popular girls target ever since she had broken their code of conduct and left. Grace and I convinced her over time to join the dark side and soon enough she did, leaving the world of popular behind her. The only way you get a hint of her past is because every now and again Abby will say one of their words that’s reminds you of it but other than that you would never know. Even the popular girls have left her alone like she was never even part of ‘them’ and sometimes I think that is the best way possible. The first time we met was in afterschool detention. Grace and I were doing a weekly appearance in the Thursday show for ditching that day three weeks earlier and Abby had been court ‘vandalising’ the desks in the science lab. We just clicked instantly and soon enough Abby was joining us as the stars of the show. We might be rebels but we’re still girls. Our main conversation topic is Scott Freeman he is the captain of the football team and the hottest guy in school but he only dated the popular girls, so we had no chance but we still liked to daydream.