Summer is the time for family and friends, when all you have to worry about is what time you're meeting them at the cinema or what time you have to be home to go visit great Aunt Doris and be poisoned by her atrocious cooking skills. Summer is a time for relaxing and growing up, allowing yourself to adjust and mature into the person that you wish to be. Summer is a time for fun and summer romances that never make it past the end of summer, but you still swear they were your first love. Summer is a time for healing both, physical and emotion wounds, sometimes even all the time in the could never truly heal you of your fears and nightmares no matter how hard you try. Summer should be spent sat around BBQ's with a cold beer in hand and a nice juicy steak cooking on the grill, with a conversation on last night's Man U game.
However summer should not be spent cooped up in a hospital bed. Watching the world roll by, while you have to stay in bed as per Doctor's orders, when all you are used to, is being active and constantly changing the speed at which you live your life. It shouldn't be spent worrying about whether or not if you are going to be able run your school again, without every time you turn your back someone is talking about you, about how bad of a Head teacher you are or how bad of a person you are, for ever thinking that you could move on from your past and create a better life for yourself. It shouldn't be spent having recurring nightmares of being encased in flames with nowhere to escape from the heat and exit from life that they bring.
No one, no matter who they or what they have done should have to spend the one time in their calendar year where it is scheduled for nothing but fun, holed up in a disinfectant smelling hospital with only the nurse who only rarely ever talks.
Though all this was happening to Rachel Mason, the Head teacher of Waterloo Road. She had recently been subjected to the terror of being stuck in a burning building with no means of escape and only an unconscious man for company, before the roof caved in and covered her with debris.
Rachel Mason, is the kind of woman who knows no bounds, if she sees one of her students in trouble, she will be one of the first to lend a helping hand, no matter sometimes how bad the consequences are. She knows no bounds on whether or not it is safe for her to go back into a situation where she is going to be injured or killed. She uses her experience from earlier on in life and shows the children she governs that it is okay to make mistakes, even ones that sometimes seem irreparable, find a solution.
Life has not always been easy on her and over her first year as Head mistress, she has had some setbacks and headaches to say the least, but constantly she has strived and pulled herself and the students of Waterloo Road through the trying times with the help of one of her most trusted colleagues. Eddie Lawson.
Now Eddie is one of those men that you want by your side in a crisis, he can think fast under extreme pressure and stay calm and assertive in demanding situations. He is a man of a rare breed, wherein he doesn't push you unless he knows that he is right about something and he knows it's the right thing to do to make you face whatever it is that is bothering you. He takes his time and wheedles his way into your heart and once there he doesn't let go. Same as if you give up a tiny bit of yourself he will cherish it and nurture it and make you stronger for sharing it with him.
Together they form a formidable team. They won't take crap from the kids and teachers and when they want to be heard, they make their opinions quite clear to everyone around them. Together they form a duo of calm and collected people who can face any situation without fear or hesitation whilst drawing strength from one another and come out the other end all smiles and laughter.
Lately they were dealt a blow that really rocked them off their feet and it is taking a while to find their feet again in a midst the chaos of a stuffy Doctor and a school being rebuilt.
Time is a luxury that they have fortunately as the school had to break up 2 weeks earlier than planned for summer, leaving the pupils of Waterloo Road with 8 weeks of nothing but fun.
Although for Eddie and Rachel, the time for them has only just begun, with all the flirting and lingering glances, the time is finally making its self known. Time for them to let go of their insecurities and dive, right into each other's hearts and not stop falling, giving into the desires that they so obviously have. Giving those who know them a reprieve from all the sexual tension they exude when they are together, the tension is so great that a chain saw would have to be used to cut it and even then it would at least five of them to make the first scratch.
Summer had only just begun and the possibilities are endless, but lets go meet a few.
