After about 25 minutes of eating dinner and my mum politely interrogating Chandler about school, hobbies etc. We head upstairs and go to our separate rooms.
I begin doing my history homework until I am interrupted by a knock at the door. "Come in!" I yell and turn around back to doing my homework.
"Madison" I hear from behind me. I turn around "Mum?" I ask in confusion. She sits on the bed.
"Did something happen between you and Chandler?" She asks in curiosity.
"W-what do you mean?" I ask, pretending to be oblivious.
"It's just... it seemed awkward between you two over dinner. Did you two kiss?" Her voice rises a little at the end, not in anger, more in excitement.
"What? No...we didn't kiss" I lie.
"Maddie..." she encourages, trying to get the truth out of me.
"Fine...he kissed me on the cheek last night to say thank you" I mean it's not completely a lie.
"Okay...if that's all that happened, then fine" she says looking at me in suspicion.
I eagerly nod and she gets up and leaves.
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*School the next day
"Okay class, it's almost the end of term...and you know what that means" the class groans.
"That's right. The clear up...unfortunately for you" Mrs Chambers announces.
"You'll be put in partners and I will tell you what your job is going to be" she tells us.
"Right...Harley and Lydia you're going to be cleaning the tables, mopping the floors of this classroom etc. I hear them both groan.
"Jessica and Matt and Jake and Harry, you four are going to help tidy the shelves in the library and restock the books.
"Chandler and Madison, you two will be clearing out, tidying and restocking the janitor closet" she says, I feels Chandler's eyes burning a hole in the back of my head but I choose to ignore it.
Mrs Chambers reveals the jobs for everyone else and then tells each group what they need to do.
She leads us to the janitors closet. "Okay... you two need to take out everything from this from room and put it into the room next door. Once everything is out, please could you take this mop..." she passes the mop to Chandler.
"And then clean the floor. Wait about 15 minutes, so it is dry enough and then sort through all the scrap bits of paper, any old equipment etc. And put it into the appropriate bins. Once you've done that, put everything back where you found it. I'll excuse you two from your last lessons and email your teachers as this may take longer than expected" she tells us.
We both nod to show we understand and she leaves.
I glance around the janitor closet, now noticing how small it really is.
"Maddie...are you alright?" I am suddenly snapped out of my thoughts.
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