Ebony Hearted; Blue Blooded
By the age of just six years old, Elizabeth Louise Hunter-Goldie knew she was different from the others in her street. Her house was near twice the size of theirs, her clothes were always tailor made and never anything but pristine, even her dog was of a higher standard than their grizzly mutts. Just months after she realised this difference she began to morph into the girl she was to become. Just like her two elder sisters, Elizabeth began to view herself as different to the others, with their skinned knees and the toes of their trainers kicked into holes. Instead of going outside, climbing trees and jumping the tiny river out back, she played inside with her twin brother, or clung to her mother's side. She wasn't like them. She was different. She was better.
It was not until the age of eleven that Elizabeth started school. A live in nanny from the continent had tutored Elizabeth until that age, teaching her all the maths she could need, some piano, and even causing the young girl to be near fluent in French. However at the age of eleven her parents decided she would go to the school her sisters were at and her mother had been to. In fact every female member of the family had been to this school, and Elizabeth was next. St Trinian's boarding school in the South of England was the place destined for Elizabeth to be educated.
The days of that summer dragged on slowly into endless nights as she waited on September, and her first term of school to finally begin. Her uniform had been packed months in advance and lay untouched in one of the many spare rooms of the house, alongside her very own hockey and lacrosse sticks. Her mind was full of the stories of her sisters. Everything from the usual boarding school shenanigans - midnight feasts, sneaking out of dorms, harmless pranks on fellow students – to insane, chargeable offences – not-so-controlled explosions, accidental assault through sport and illicit gambling run by students. Elizabeth lay in bed each night, awake yet dreaming of the years to come. The parties, the fun, the hilarity... Truth be told, she knew nothing of what was truly in store for her.