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I WANDERED THE HALLS AIMLESSLY,  Effy on my right, Pandora following us trying to keep close as she continued a rant about how she didn't want to do Hair and Beauty like her mum wanted her to. I spaced out for half of the rant, not really paying attention to much of what she said. I was used to just tuning in while she neared the end of her rants so I could quickly say something so she didn't feel like I didn't care for her at all, which wasn't the truth, I liked her, I just rather she didn't talk as much as she did. "I can't understand why I can't do Hair and Philosophy... You can't cause it turns out Hair and Beauty is one subject not two..." Pandora paused for a long breath, then she spoke once again, "Blooming Nora, how mad is that?"

"It's inexplicable, Pandora," Effy said to her, she didn't look over at Pandora as she spoke, she just kept her stare forward, continuing down the hallway. Pandora glanced over at me for a moment, I just nodded.

She had a puzzled look on her face, "Yeah, inexplicable," She then paused, looking at Effy, "What does inexplicable mean, Eff?"

"Can't explain."

"Alright! Suit yourself then..."

We came to a stop in the all, I glanced over at Effy, giving her an annoyed look, "That stupid list you made," I said to her, crossing my arms over my chest, huffing, "It's a load of bollocks, you know that Cook's going to finish it first."

Effy gave me the classic Effy smirk, tilting her head to the side, "So? Enjoy it when it happens, won't you?" She said to me, causing me to furrow my brow at her. She turned on her heels, walking down the hall once again towards our first class. That's when we ran into Katie Fitch, she was chatting with a blonde lad. Pandora came to a hard stop, her eyes lighting up.

"Bonkers, do you think he'll do surf and turf with me?" Pandora asked Effy and I, watching him walk away.

"Don't worry, Panda, we'll ask him," I said to her, smiling.

She looked up at the clock, "Oh! Gotta go, lesson 1: Nail Filing, handy," She said, she started to skip off, brushing by Katie, "I'm Pandora, I'm useless," She said as she finally walked out of sight. She disappeared down the hall.

Katie watched her, then turned to look at Effy and me, "Cute," She said with a tilted head, "I'm Katie, you're Harper Goodman, yeah?" She lifted her hand to point at me, I only nodded at her, "And... You're Effy Stonem... Haven't you got a really cool brother?"

"Oh, Tony's really cool," I answered before Effy could say anything, she let out a groan, giving me an annoyed look. She hated the fact that I used to flirt with Tony while growing up with her, I just thought he was rather fit, I guess I did fancy him a bit back then. I loved teasing her about that whenever he was brought up.

"All my friends fancied him... I wasn't that bothered," Katie shrugged, "Didn't he go mental?" As she said this, I rolled my eyes... God, did she ever stop talking? "Anyway, I have a boyfriend, he plays for the Bristol Reserves!" 

I sighed, I didn't understand why she assumed we gave two shits about her pedo boyfriend, she just kept talking. I was surprised how she never took a breath, "Impressive," I said out loud as I thought about it.

"Listen, we should get to know each other, we are the best looking ones here, sorry, but, it's true," Katie continued on, that's when Naomi started to approach us, Katie's demeanor immediately changing once she noticed her, "Ugh," She groaned out, "Here comes the total lezzer bitch."

Naomi heard this, stopping in her  tracks, "Excuse me," She motioned at the locker that we were all standing in front of, I took a step aside, allowing her to access her locker.

"Like, don't talk to her, she tried to snog my sister in middle school... Pervy, don't you think?" Katie actively ignored the fact that Naomi was right there as she insulted her, I tilted my head to the side, furrowing my brow.

I looked over my shoulder at Naomi, "Hi, Naomi. How are you?" I said to her, I heard Katie scoff as I spoke to her.

"I'm wonderful," Naomi replied with a smile, then looked over at Katie, "Watch out, Katie, I might get confused and fuck you with my big strap-on by mistake," She spat at her, I laughed once I heard it.

"Muff-munching bitch just jumped on you, didn't she?" Katie didn't even think twice about what was said to her, she just looked over at her sister, Emily, who was standing next to her awkwardly.

"Leave it, Katie," Emily said quietly, hugging her books to her chest.

Effy and I walked away from the situation, walking into our first class, we sat down, listening to our professor ramble on. It was about 10 minutes into class when JJ, Cook, and Freddie walked in. I looked over my shoulder at Cook, he was staring at me, I cleared my throat nervously, turning my head forward again, staring at the professor as he rambled. We were supposed to be introducing ourselves, once it was my turn, I stood up, not sure what I was going to say, I thought about it for a moment, "Well, uh- I'm Harper, my parents are arseholes and I don't even want to be here?" I shrugged, sitting down again.

The professor continuing pointing people out, then he pointed at Freddie, he stood this time, clearing his throat, "I'm Freddie, I thought I knew what I was going to say.. I met a girl today, actually two- uh... One's beautiful the other one is like- really cool... That's it," He slid back into his seat, Effy didn't show any emotion when she heard this. I however, side-eyed him, trying to figure out who was who.

I put my hand into the hair, "Kieran," I called out, the professor looked up at me, waiting to hear what I had to say, "I fell quite like shite, think I might pop over to the nurse's office, if you don't mind?"

"Yeah, whatever, go on then," He shooed me out, I stood up, grabbing my bag, slinging it over my shoulder. I walked towards the door, I looked at Cook, raising a brow at him as I pulled the door open, exiting the classroom.

I walked down to the nurse's office, which we didn't even have a nurse, which made it the perfect place to get away from everyone. I sat down on the examination table, slinging one leg over the other, I looked in my bag, taking out a spliff, I lit it, placing it between my lips. I leaned my head back inhaling some smoke. The door opened, Cook walked in, closing the door behind him, his eyes wandering up and down my body, "Would you imagine, we don't even have a nurse here," I joked, blowing some more smoke out from my mouth.

Cook held up the sheet of paper that he probably got from Freddie, "I got drugs and sex left," He said, waving it around. I raised a brow, holding my arm out to offer him the spliff I had. He took it, taking a hit of it before he blew out the smoke towards me as he leaned in, placing a kiss on my lips. This led to a heavy make-out session, then, obviously, it ended with a shag, as we neared the end, there was a scream from somewhere in the room, but, Cook didn't care, he kept going. Honestly, I didn't care either, I was too into the moment.