Who Were They?

T W O - Last Day

Once Cathy had left the company of her uncle the day started as it had earlier that day; as normal.  Cathy waited for her best friend Marissa to arrive.  Marissa was of an average height with blonde corkscrew curls and eyes one can only describe as if they were referring to a rainforest, those swirling greens and dotted browns.  Although both girls had very little friends, others wished they were  in their posse of two.  I mean the completely unsophisticated boys were always tripping over themselves to stand near them in the lunch queue, they blundered and sprawled and stuttered whilst both Cathy and Marissa stood there in silent fits of hysteria.  While the girls that in the politest way I can call tangerines as their deep orange foundation leaves a tide line at their jaws, stood looking at them with deep-seated jealousy.  Neither Cathy or Marissa thought they were better than anyone else, and stuggled to understand everyone's obsession with them.

Once Marissa found Cathy, they were updating each other with what had happened in their lives in the past seventeen hours they hadn’t seen one another, it turns out Marissa’s mum had gone brunette after her battle with her grey roots.  Cathy had spent all day the previous Saturday traipsing round shops with her aunt making sure she picked the right dress and heels to match!  Which for Cathy's aunt was a breakthrough as on the most formal occasions it was difficult to pull Cathy away from her t-shirt and jeans.

Making their way to the locker room or what was their locker room they both stood in the doorway with the sad feeling in their stomachs knowing that as it was  the last day of school they would never see this over-familiar place again.  Yet neither could wait to leave,  like the road-runner from the coyote.

Passing the usual line of the unsophisticated and the blundering of this world Cathy and Marissa made their way as they had done the five years they’d spent at that school up to the Language Corridor to the west of the school.  It was where memories had been made, like the previous year a friend of theirs, Danni, had stuck a marshmallow to the roof where it sat for week until a group of party poopers knocked it down.  They slid down the wall and sat on the floor, chatting but very aware of what was going on around them as the odd teacher went by giving the occasional nod of the head and a good-luck-for-the-future handshake.

The rest of the morning passed quite quickly as form tutors bid their farewells to their pupils ready for what lays ahead in the big bad world.

Being the last day of school ever meant a fairwell assembly.  Cathy watched as Marissa got on stage with the rest of Mrs Philips' drama group and did a re-enactment of the past five years, which brought a tear to many an eye in that auditorium.  Followed with a hearty applause and a speech the bell marking break rang and like they had always done they sat down in the corner of the cafeteria and ate.  Marissa now spent time going over with Cathy about she was to approach Sam and proclaim her undying love for him until it was interrupted by Danni, Sarah and Kami.  Of course plenty of tears and screaming went on at this point, they were all to head off somewhere else in September.  Cathy was excited for college but was also full of anxiety.  Marissa was coming with her of course but she knew it would mean being miles away from home, her family.

The bell rang and the five girls laden with cards and flowers for many of the staff traipsed up the stairs to English, down to maths, across to ICT, then heading across to the other half of the school they visited Art, Music, Tech, French, R.E, History and Science.  They were given many stares by the kids in each class but each and every teacher looked thrilled and tearful as the kids they had known for five years were about to leave.

After that, dinner passed pretty quickly with a grand walk around the grounds and a sit on the banking where they had spent many a summers day.

Cathy and Marissa lined up with the rest of their form and filed into the hall.  Teachers, dinner ladies and office assistants lined the walls and as they sat down their head of year gave a heart-warming speech that saw plenty of mascara and foundation running.  Their names where called out in groups of ten and there was a bow and an applause, this continued until there was only fifteen minutes left of school where they were allowed to get up and talk with whoever they wished.

RRIIIIINNNNGGG!!!!

Running out of school like nobody’s business, they hopped on the buses after giving out the last hugs and handshakes.  The buses started and at the roundabout at the end of the road each went down opposite directions.  Cathy often got on the bus in the afternoons.  Marissa got off first but Cathy wasn’t sad by her departure as they were to meet at the awards ceremony later that evening. 

As the bus hurtled around the corner near Cathy’s house a black car with a stunning grade-A polish was parked on some one else’s driveway but did not initially belong there.  Cathy bidding her thanks to the bus driver got off the bus and as she walked up her driveway a man appeared out of nowhere or so it seemed and injected Cathy with a sleeping agent and inconspicuously carried her to the gleaming black car and they drove away, driving away from Cathy’s home, family, friends and her wish-to-be-boyfriend Sam Jason. In fact the man in the wrinkle-free black suit and top-notch shades was driving her out of Wales entirely…