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Chapter 15

Maddie finished writing her last line that the person running detention had set her. She'd taken the liberty of translating the phrase into the three languages she spoke rotating them as she wrote out the lines. The phrase 'I will obey my teachers and behave in class' was now written in three languages and two alphabets across the three pages she was required to fill so with a tired yawn she made her way to the front of the class passing all the other problematic students.

She placed the paper in front of the teacher who sat lazily at the front of the desk. "Can I go now?" She asked with raised eyebrows as the teacher cast their eyes over the page.

"Sure" he shrugged tossing the paper onto a pile. The whole ordeal had taken about half and hour after after she was promptly told her first attempt, which was realistically just scribbles wouldn't do.

She crossed back through the class to where her bag had been dumped by her previously and picked it up doing up the zip before she made her way out of the class room casting her eyes one last time over the room before heading down the now deserted corridor. She felt pretty relieved that Mark and Johnny wouldn't be picking her up or even be home so she didn't have to explain why she'd be so late out of school.

Her uncle had let her off this time though she was aware that he leniency would only stretch so far. Spending summers with them in Chicago it became clear to her that her own father was unusually strict compared to Johnny or Alice's parents and Izzy had often speculated that that was one of the reasons Maddie went so off the rails, though Maddie didn't agree, she thought it had more to do with her sister than her father.

Despite her uncles constant kindness to her throughout her life she was sure that he would have to be professional and treat her in the same way he would any other student. Maddie followed general signs for the metro station though her Hangul skills weren't polished enough for it to be easy for her. After a while of wondering around trying to find the station she eventually stumbled across it.

Through once she was inside she was only more lost, the maps and Johnny's brief and frankly useless description being no help to her. The bustle of people in the city continued to move past her like a relentless current that Maddie was slowly swept up in. This unfortunately led to Maddie standing on one of the trains headed in a direction she could only hope was right. She cursed herself for making her skirt so short as she held onto the overhead grips.

Maddie didn't wait long, just a few stops, before she decided that it was probably best to get off the mystery train and figure out an actual route home. She sluggishly got off the carriage along with the flow of other people getting off, battling against the people trying to push past to get in. She couldn't help but note how different it was for London the people there having an unspoken order to how they did things.

Maddie wondered around the grimy station in search of another map which even now she couldn't study, the lines and words all blurring to make an almighty mess. With a defeated sigh she tried to make the most out of an unfortunate situation turning and following the exit signs that would lead her out of the underground labyrinth. Once she reached the end of the signs she headed up the steps to street level.

The part of town she was in seemed relatively nice, and it came across as more of a trendy, arty part of town with fashionable university students wondering around with overpriced drinks in hand. Maddie let a small smile ghost her lips, in this part of town no one looked the same, some with dark grunge styles and a full sleeve of tattoos even spreading up their necks, others dressed in tiny skirts and cute cropped sweaters.

This was the kind of place Maddie could stay in for a long time so with nothing better to do she stepped onto the street and began wondering down the high street. As she passed groups of friends she noticed that there weren't that many people in school uniform like her, though there were people her sort of age wondering around, Maddie assumed it was a popular destination with young people for its vibrancy and bubbly demeanour.