My eyes furiously scan the crowd. I'm doomed. Compose yourself Alithia I think, wiping my sweaty hands on the tacky school skirt. I hate skirts end of discussion. First days are always hard. Always. I know this school and my old classmates but our classes are reassembled and the only people I know really in my new form are Kloe, Callum and Amy my three best friends, well at least the ones in my form. In the corner of my eye I notice Kloe so naturally I strut up to her in the best way I can and poke her in the back.
"Sup." I say. She pivots round to look at me.
"Morning." She replies. " Where's Callum and Amy?"
"No idea."
"Why you missed me cupcake?" We both whip round to see Callum smiling back at us.
"Callum you know i have a boyfriend." Kloe says glaring at him.
"I know just your reaction is perfect. Alithia do you have those revision notes from last year cause I kinda forgot mine and we have that test first period to see what set we are in." He says.
"Really Callum?? Fine you know where they are in my bag." I dump my book filled back in his arms and watch him throw a few books on the floor and triumphantly pull out several crumpled science notes on aerodynamics.
"What you reading now." He says scooping up the books. " Ah Oliver Twist" He says pretending to know all about it.
"Omg how am I late I mean lolz that I'm late but ya know." Amy says appearing next to Callum.
"If you say omg or lolz again I'll punch you!" Callum says clenching his fist. Suddenly the bell rings, it rattles in our ears as we fumble with our bags in a useless attempt to find our time tables. Form room SC10.
"So need to post this on the snapchat." A girl with curly hair Struts past us, her face caked in makeup and her skirt higher than her ego which was hard to believe. She grabbed her new phone out her pocket and ran it in front of our faces.
"Like my new phone, I ask for the space grey one but My boyfriend surprised me and got me the rose gold one!" She squeals excitedly.
" You know he only likes you cause your pretty and you only like him for the money." Callum says.
"Oh so you think I'm pretty?" Emma says blushing.
"Yeah the spitting image of a pig with pony tails." Callum then gives a smug look at Emma and we follow him away to the science block. "Good morning, welcome, welcome, come along now. Ok welcome to your new class my name is miss Harvey and I will be your new form tutor, oh isn't this exciting. This will be our form room for the next few weeks so I am going to allow you to choose one person who you work well with to sit next to" we roll our eyes at this cheery specimen of a teacher. Immediately Kloe snaps next to me but so does Callum and Amy. Us girls have a stronger bond than that with Callum so naturally we want to be together but someone has to go with Callum. Kloe may as well my sister, She help me around a little thing called depression last year and for that I owe her my world. Callum has helped me as well but then there's Amy who was thrown into our midst after being split up from her best friend Caitlin, which means I can't help but feel like we are just standing in for Caitlin. "Miss can't we please have a group of four not two." Amy pleads knowing she will be the one that's left out. " Sorry guys you know the rules hurry up and decide before I choose the groups." And so I pair up with Kloe whilst Amy trudges off to join Callum. Me and Callum are nearly as good friends as me and Kloe but that's outside of school- at drama camp and no one, no one must ever find out about that. "Ok, ok now you have your seats lets work on learning each other's names. So we'll loop round, when it comes to you say your name, your hobby and what you did in the summer." Slowly the class erupts in discussions over Martha's charity work, Harry's new house and Amy's horse. Then it comes to the final three, me, Callum and Kloe.
" Hi I'm Alithia I enjoy athletics and in the summer I went on a canoeing trip with Kloe." I purposely leave out the three week drama camp.
"Hi I'm Kloe I enjoy hiking and in the summer for two weeks I went to Ibiza."
" I'm Callum I enjoy rugby and spent 3 weeks at a drama camp." He says smiling at me. At least he left out he fact I was there. Once again the bell rings and we begin to pack our stuff to go.
" I haven't said to pack away" miss Harvey says glaring at us like pre-schoolers who have broke one of the legs off a chair.
" Homework." She says smiling.
" But miss we don't have homework for form room." Harry says nochalantly.
" Well you do in my class, A 800 word essay on your summer due in this time next week." We all groan and trudge off to our next class. When Callum exits the class I pull him aside.
"Why did you tell them about camp?" I ask.
" It was the only thing I did in the holidays so calm down There ophelia ." Looking at him reminds me of what we are rehearsing for, Hamlet. I play ophelia the distraught mad girl who eventually drowns herself thanks to hamlet (Played by Callum).
" Ok but please don't mention anything else to anyone else agreed?"
"Fine."
"And for that essay just make something up." I say and walk off. The performance is being held in the Royal Albert hall. I haven't completely learnt my lines but luckily the next three weekends will be spent rehearsing. I run off to catch up with Kloe ready for the first of my choice classes, philosophy. Little did I know this would be the worst mistake ever.
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The flaws of a perfect plan.
Short StoryFollow Callum, Kloe, Emma, Amy and our protagonist Alithia through the strains of school. When Alithia and her out of the box ideas land them in trouble they are forced to make a decision that will either make or break them. But behind the obvious m...
