Here comes trouble

Becca Williams

Chapter 14:

I zoned out when they went through the usual crap. Billy would tell me all the important stuff later. We were all released twenty minuets later after being told, ’if you get into trouble again, we won’t be so lenient‘. We went to get a coffee and my phone vibrated.

Hi Clara. It’s me, Becca, I know I haven’t text you in a while but that’s because they took my phone off me. Look, I just want you to know that I haven’t forgotten about you and really can’t wait to get out of this hell hole! WHAT KIND OF F**KING BOARDING SCHOOL IS THIS?! I won’t bore you with the details but I just want you to know that in another three years, when I get out of this place, I still want us to be friends. I hope you don’t mind me texting you but yours was the only number I had. Tell everyone I miss them and really want to see them soon. I’ll call you tonight at about one oclock, in the morning that is. It’s when the guards go to sleep. I’ll talk later. Bye xxx

“OH MY GOD! GUYS, LOOK WHO JUST TEXT ME!” I shouted. We hadn’t heard from her in ages. We got into a huge, and I mean HUGE, like colossal sized, fight. The police turned up and we scattered but Becca was in the middle of making the girl she was beating up unconscious so she didn’t run. We admitted to being there but they wouldn’t listen because they had seen Becca and they hadn’t seen us. She said we weren’t there and they believed her. Anyway the girl ended up with a few broken ribs, a broken nose and a shattered toe. She pressed charges and Becca got sent to some boarding school for bad kids where they don’t let her write home, have a phone or leave the grounds except for church. She must have snuck out of church or nicked someone’s phone.

“WHO?” They all asked back excitedly.

“BECCA WILLIAMS!” I shouted back, as equally excited.

“NEVER!” shouted Billy. Becca was Billy’s cousin, but her parents had disowned her. Me, her and Rosie had been best friends since we were six and we had missed her like crazy.

“What did she say?!” asked Rosie.

“She basically said,” I started “that she misses us, that it’s s**t there and she can’t wait to get out. I still can’t believe her parents wouldn’t pay the bail money!” If her parents had, she would have only been there two years, but because they won’t she’s there for another three years.

“I know, It’s a f**king joke. What else did she say? Is she going to call us?” Rosie continued.

“I think so. She said that she would call us at around one am because that’s when the guards go to bed, or change shifts or something. I can’t believe it’s been a year already. I can’t get over that fact she wouldn’t let us go down with her.” I said.

“Would you have let us go down with you, if you were in her position?” asked Lucy.

“No but…”

“Exactly,” said Lucy, “she wanted to protect you. You’re like family to her.”

“OK. I get why but I still can’t believe she did that. It was so brave of her. I bet that if we all got into trouble her parents wouldn’t have been so harsh.”

“We can’t keep with the ‘what if’s’. If she’s calling us, it must be something important.” Lucy said, “Let’s make sure we can all hear her. I miss her, not as much as you guys, I know, but I miss her all the same.”

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We were all sitting in a circle around my phone, waiting for it to ring. It was three minuets to one and we were all ridiculously excited. My phone started ringing-