Return – Chapter 1 – Day 1
It was weird to return to school after how long. It was October 2011 and I hadn't set foot in the school since July 2010. I'd spoken to a couple of friends over facebook about coming back, but apart from that nobody knew I'd be coming back. Especially given how I left saying that I'd never return as I hated school so much.
I arrived at 10:45 Wednesday morning to speak to Miss Logan, one of the heads of sixth form, about the course and how I'd catch up as I started a month late. While I was there we just sorted out some paperwork and things like that before explain the course in full detail. To be honest Miss Logan's voice droned on a bit "I'm putting you on the BTEC national science, this is a two year full time course which requires full commitment". After about 5 minutes I kind of zoned out and just sat there nodding pretending to listen until the start of my first lesson which luckily was only a quarter hour away.
Miss Logan showed me the way to my first lesson. Physics was Mr Geary. When I arrived I met the first of my new friends, Margaret. She was nice, a good friend. I sat with Margaret outside the classroom for a few minutes while I waited for the lesson to start. After the bell went and the usual stampede from lower school settled, still the same as when I was in year 7, I got a pleasant surprise when I saw Amanda, an old friend I hadn't seen in over a year. I couldn't help myself so I ran up to her with open arms to hug her as that's the friendship I have with my close friends and I missed seeing everyone due to certain circumstances, but that's another story.
I then saw everyone else on my course. There was Lydia, Becky, Nathan, James, and Ricky. They all seemed nice. Through the lesson it was pretty much just everyone asking why I started late and where I was before, stuff like that.
The lesson went fast and after that the day was done as there are only two lessons on a Wednesday and I missed the first. Everybody else from the course went home but I didn't as I wanted to catch up with Olivia another old friend, and to be honest one of the best friends I ever had. I went up to the common room where I found Olivia, when she saw me I went up to where she was sat and we hugged as only best friends can and just sat there catching up. We'd talked on facebook for a few days before and went into Doncaster together the previous Sunday but it wasn't the same as just sitting and talking together, catching up properly. We sat and talked about everything. Somebody she liked, what I've been through, what we'd been up to, just everything and anything.
And that was the first day back. A new life, a new course but with old and some new friends and I wouldn't have done it any differently.