"Don't forget you have a 3 thousand word essay to be handed in on the first Monday back." The teacher called out as the bell rang, quickly followed by the sound of scraping chairs, rustling bags and chattering children.
It was the last day of a long term at West Oak 6th Form and Secondary School and all of the students piled out into the corridor looking forward to the following week full of sleeping, meeting up with mates and, for the sixth formers, parting. Louise Locksley pushed through the crowd of people about a year older than her, her backpack hanging off of one shoulder as she moved through the corridor.
"Outta the way freak!" The voice of one of the many 'it girls' ordered pushing Louise hard into the lockers as she walked past her. The people around her laughed, none of them offering to help Louise as she pushed herself off the lockers and clenched her fists, her nails digging into her palm, in order to stop her hitting the stuck up girl. Taking a deep, calming, breath Louise started back towards the car park.
"Hello Little Locksley." A voice called out as two hands appeared on her shoulders and a person jumped next to her.
"Hello A'Dale." Louise greeted back looking up at Allan A'Dale, one of her's and her brother's closest friends. "Robin's told you our parents aren't going to be home for the week hasn't he?" She asked as they walked towards the carpark, Allan's arm still around her shoulders.
"Yep" He chirped back happily. "Party at your house!"
"Are you joking my parents would kill us." Louise chuckled as they neared the jet black SUV in the car park. Robin had gotten his licence two months after his birthday and his parents let him choose a car for Christmas that year. Everyone expected him to buy a sleek sports car but he ended up buying a jet black SUV instead; when asked Robin explained that he couldn't fit all of his friends into a sports car, though everyone one else believed it to be that he wouldn't want to mess his hair up.
"Why can't they just come straight here when the bell goes?" Much moaned to Djaq and Will, who were already at the car when Louise and Allan appeared. He was of course talking about Robin and Marian, the latter probably was trying to get to the car but Robin had to go and see everyone for multiple reasons.
The car's doors then randomly unlocked and the gang looked at each other in surprise, Robin and Marian were nowhere in sight.
"GET IN!" A voice shouted and the gang spun round to see Robin running towards the car, Marian in tow.
"WHY!?" Allan called back.
"THEM!" Robin shouted as a mass of teenagers rounded the corners. They were all shouting angrily as they raced after the two lovers but that wasn't what made the rest of the gang laugh, the teenagers were covered in bright yellow feathers.
"DON'T JUST STAND THERE!" Robin shouted as he reached the drivers door. "GET IN!"
"Shotgun!" Allan shouted but was elbowed out of the way by Marian who promptly jumped in the passenger seat next to Robin.
"Oi I called shotgun!" Allan called indignantly as Will, Much and Djaq scrambled into the back of the car and Louise opened the boot door to get to the seats in the boot.
"ALLAN GET IN!" Louise roared from the boot as the fuming mob got closer. Allan still kept knocking on the door of Marian's window. "ALLAN!" Louise roared, jumping out of the boot as Robin started the car; she grabbed Allan by the collar, half strangling him, and forcing him into the boot, pulling the door closed as Robin sped away from the school.
A crowd had gathered and was watching the event unravel and they were enjoying every second of it. The gang were the most popular people in the school and the crowd cheered as Robin returned to the school carpark for a victory lap before racing off towards the motorway.
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"Why can't you just be nice to everyone?" Much complained as they drove towards away from the school.
"I'm a lovely person." Robin told him.
"I'm not being funny right but you covered the football team in glue and feathers." Allan pointed out, leaning over the seats to make sure that Robin heard what he said but accidentally elbowing Will in the face as he did so.
"Sit down." Will complained, rubbing his face.
"AHH!" Allan cried back as Louise pulled him back into the boot.
"Allan put your seatbelt on and stop being beaten up by a girl!" Robin ordered, looking in his mirror at his sister and his friend in the boot.
"Why did you cover the football team in feathers?" Djaq asked, over Allan's grumpy mutterings as he fought with his seat belt.
"Cause they're chickens." Robin told them, stopping at the traffic lights and grinning as Marian rolled her eyes. "You enjoyed it." Robin accused Marian; Marian just raised an eyebrow and gave Robin a disbelieving look. Robin reached out and gently pulled a yellow feather from out of Marian's brown hair, his eyes not leaving hers as he removed the feather.
"OI! DRIVER!" Allan shouted from the confines of his seatbelt. "EYES ON THE ROAD!" Robin just flipped Allan off as he pulled away from the traffic lights and, two minutes later, turned into the drive into Allan's house.
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Louise and Robin were not exactly poor growing up. Their parents, Malcolm and Francesca, both had their own very successful businesses but they still managed to spend time with their children when they were growing up. On the other hand saying this Robin and Louise were used to being left alone for long periods of time growing up and Thornton, the head of the the household, was often in charge of them. This was possibly one of the reasons why Louise and Robin were so close; it was also one of the reasons that Louise was advanced academically compared to other people her age.
Louise always was, and still is, inquisitive so when she was younger she insisted that she had to do the same things as her brother, consequently makinging it harder for Robin to do his homework when he started school. Robin was flattered and thrived off of the idolism he got from his sister and so he taught her maths, reading and whatever else he was learning at school, work ridiculously advanced for her age. He spent hours teaching his sister thing which she didn't understand preferring to mess around with Louise then spending all day on a computer or watching the telly.
Although these lessons were useful to Louise she found, when she started proper work in year 2 and 3, that the work she was given was too easy. It took awhile for the teachers to figure out why Louise did act out and so by the time Robin and his friends were in year 5 Louise was also in the same year as him and his friends.
Now the siblings were almost at the end of their first year of 6th form; Robin and his friends were 17 to 16 years old whilst Louise was only 15 (16 in May) and, much to the surprise of the teachers, Louise seemed to fit in fine. Then again Robin and the gang were the 'popular group' in the school and if you were related to, or friends with, anyone in the gang then no one dared hurt you. On the flip side if you were hated by anyone in the gang you were instantly outcasted from the school. Luckily there were few people who Robin or his friends were enemies with in fact there was one, only one and his name was Guy Gisborne. No one really knew what happened between Robin and Guy, not even Louise, and Robin refused to talk about it and no one dared bring it up, not even Marian.
Robin and Marian started dating when they were 14 and soon became the most popular couple in the school, their bickering and arguing didn't stop but it was more teasing than insulting and both parties thrived off of it. They also got a lot of grief from Allan who found the entire thing hilarious and almost 3 years later he still took pleasure in mocking the couple. Will and Djaq officially because a couple just over 1 year ago but the joker of the group didn't find teasing them quite as fun.
Every member of the gang were completely different from each other but they still got on weirdly well because it's true what they say, opposites do attract and that same mismatched gang spent the next two or so hours going to Allan, Djaq, Will, Much and Marian's houses in order to collect their things. All of the gang were staying at Louise and Robin's house...well small mansion, mainly because only their house was the largest to accommodate them all.
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"I can't believe that took so long." Much moaned as they finally rolled up the gravel drive leading up to Robin and Louise's house.
"There's a lot of people houses we had to go to." Allan pointed out as they made a chain leading to the front door of the house.
"We spent an hour at least at your house." Much complained as he caught the first case that Allan threw at him before throwing it to Will who was next in the line after him.
"I had to make sure that I had everything." Allan defended.
"You weren't packed." Robin called out from halfway down the line as more cases arrived from the car.
"How many cases can you fit in that car along with 7 people?" Louise complained as more cases were passed down the line.
"It's bigger on the inside." Robin joked, winking at his sister.
"Last one." Allan commented, swinging his guitar onto his shoulder as Louise slammed the boot door shut and Robin locked the car with the keys, which he then shoved in his back pocket, before jumping forward and grabbing Marian's case before she could pick it up.
"I can carry my own stuff Robin." Marian scolded as he took her hand in his free one.
"You can carry mine." Allan called out as they walked into the house. Allan had his guitar on one shoulder, a backpack on the other and a wheelie case in the other hand; in comparison the rest of the gang only had one suitcase each as it was all that they needed.
"I didn't ask you to move in Allan." Robin grinned as they walked towards the den. 'The den' was infact the basement converted into Robin and Louise's place to relax; it was made up of half of the basement space and was designed purely by Louise, Robin and their friends. The carpet that lined the floor was a light brown, the walls were a sky blue colour except the back wall which was decorated as a forest scene, which took Louise, Marian and Will months to complete and looked as if you just walked into the forest.
There were three, black leather, two seater sofa beds scattered around the room along with a black leather armchair and the seats were facing towards a more or less blank space of wall. The rest of the wall was framed by wooden shelves that held a mix of DVD's, CD's and XBox games, along with an XBox and the controls for the sound system and integrated speakers. From the ceiling a huge projector screen could be pulled down, covering the seemingly blank space, and the projector for the screen could be found hanging from the ceiling in the centre of the room.
In the back corner stood Robin's most prized possession...His guitar, along with a keyboard, Louise's drum kit and multiple amps and leads. One main thing that joins the 7 friends together is their love for music and all of them can play at least one instrument as well as sing, this bond through music bound the friends ridiculously close, so close that they are more like family. Robin played the guitar; Louise played the guitar and the drums, Djaq played the piano, Much the bass; Will the bass and drums; Allan played the guitar and Marian played the piano and violin, although Robin was trying to teach her how to play the guitar as well.
Despite the fact that the gang all play instruments and perform together it never occurred to them to perform to an audience as a real band because they believed to start with that they weren't even that good. One day when Louise and Robin's 'Uncle Jack' and 'Uncle Ianto' were round they mentioned that the gang were good and should be performing professionally, it was them who convinced the gang to start the band and they called themselves 'The Outlaws' mainly as a joke. Jack and Ianto weren't even Louise and Robin's proper uncles just close friends of the family but Louise and Robin didn't care they were their uncles by heart, if not by blood and they all took their words, and ideas, to heart.
Louise hated performing to crowds, she didn't mind performing with the band when practicing but she hated being in front of large crowds and the gang didn't judge her for it. She was their 'biggest fan' and closest friend, she was also the only person who would tell them if their new song didn't sound quite right or the lyrics didn't make any sense.
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The sofa beds were already set up as Louise and Robin did it that morning and were almost late for school, (emphasis on the almost). They were arranged in a makeshift line with more blow up mattresses on the floor; there were always more duvets and beds than needed and for the next week the gang would end up living in this ridiculously large room
Allan jumped on one of the sofa beds effectively claiming his own bed by the wall, he always insisted that it was because he liked sleeping by the wall but the gang knew that it was because he needed to be by a power socket in order to survive. Everyone else just dumped their stuff wherever they fancied it, Louise Marian and Djaq disappearing straight off to Louise's room on the third floor just before Thornton entered the room.
"I thought I heard you lot down here." Thornton said, gaining the attention of everyone in the room.
"Hello Thornton." Robin grinned.
"The chef wishes to know if he is needed this evening" Thornton asked, most of the time when the gang where round they just had takeaways for tea most evenings.
"I don't think so..." Robin told Thornton looking round at his friends. "Pizza?" He asked his friends.
"Yep!" Allan called from his phone, and the rest of the lads nodded. Thornton nodded before leaving the room. It wasn't uncommon for Louise, Djaq and Marian to disappear off to Louise's room for a few hours before meeting up with the lads later on. It was then that Allan began to pull off his blazer and tie, chucking them around the room.
"Allan pick up your stuff." Robin scolded, throwing his tie back at him. "We've got to live here for the next week
"Master has given Dobby a tie!" Allan cried jumping to his feet. "Dobby is a free elf!" Robin, Will and Much all looked at each other and thought the same thing...
...This was going to be one brilliant week.
Hey people this is my new modern AU of Robin Hood's story, including my OC Louise Locksley
Please tell me what you think and whether or not I should continue
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