Ange (girlxgirl)

Chapter Nine

The bell goes, everyone gets their bags and heads to their homerooms. Emma headed off to speech therapy and Carol and me walk together to homeroom.

"Why did you come today?" Carol asks me.

"To see my dealer, why else?" I say seriously.

Carol throws back her head and laughs, her red hair tossing behind her. "No, seriously." She urges.

"Katherine and I had a chat. Caught me at some early hour of the wee morning blasting music and smoking weed. Luckily I'm so elusive that I persuaded her she couldn't cope with me at boarding school. Her terms and conditions were to take my pills, stop drugs and alcohol and go to school. So, here I am."

"You aren't going to do any of those things though, are you?" Carol says, seeing straight through me. She holds open the door for me.

"No way! I mean, sorta. I'm not gonna do as many drugs and I'll come to school more often. But, there is no way in hell I'm going back on my meds."

We walk into home group and sit at the back. I look up to the teacher and see it is the one from this morning.

"Fuck." I breathe and put my head down.

"What?" Carol asks, then sees the teacher and laughs.

"Yeah, she is our homeroom teacher," she laughs. "She isn't even bad. Emma just has something against her. She is sorta funny, sorta a bitch, sorta nice. Really just like you."

The second bells rings and Steven Row comes in last, closing the door. Too late to leave now.

"What's her name again?" I ask Carol in a whisper.

"Miss Winnett," she answers quietly.

Miss Winnett gets up and stands in the front of the room, looking over us all and luckily not seeing me.

"Morning, all," she says boredly. "I will do the role and then you can talk quietly between yourselves." She moves back behind her desk and looks down at her list. What am I going to do now? Maybe I should get behind Carol or just face it. She can't even be mad at what I did, it was hardly anything.

"Just raise your hand when I call your name, Ok? Avery? Yes. Sarah B? Cammy? Dylan? Good. Alex? Jack? Carol?" She looks at Carol a little longer then all the others. "Julie? Tony? Mitch? Angelina?" She looks up and around the room.

I slide up in my chair so I'm upright, I raise my hand and smile at her.

"Our very own 007! Welcome," she says sarcastically.

"Miss, you've blown my cover," I reply back in a monotone.

"See me at recess, please." She says narrowing her eyes and then continuing on with the role.

When the bell goes, right after she marked the role, I walk straight out with Carol. Carol speculating what she will want at recess.

"See you, 007," Miss Winnett calls after us.

I turn and give her a fake smile and continue to walk to English.

All classes I have a small feeling in the pit of my stomach, a little nervous, a little excited. Nervous in case she decides to call Dad or Katherine about my attitude, excited to see what will go down. Normally, it would all be excitement but because of Katherine's new agreement I have to worry what will happen if I go out of the lines. My classes pass in a blur and Emma has got back just in time to see me before I leave for Miss Winnett's office, Carol fills her in.

"See! I told you she is a bitch," Emma says triumphantly.

"Yes, you were right," I acknowledge. "Anyway, love and leave you, girls."