Tandem Story-with Mrs. Layal Sevani.

Cordelia sat in the musty classroom.

Waiting-forever waiting for that moment where she would be called back to Narnia. She still remembered the first time…

England

It had been her first day at school. She stepped out on the pavement, her new shoes clacking on the dirty footpaths of London. Her uniform was starched and stiff. Too stiff. Everyone would immediately spot her as 'the new kid' just by her uniform.

Time to join the millions-well it seemed like millions- of Eton kids walking through the tall wrought iron gates. They all had their separate groups-all so close from spending the summer together.

Wait…there was some hope. Two girls and two boys were walking out of the station- looking just as lost as her. Maybe they were new too?

By this time Cordelia was just gaining the confidence to approach them when...

"Hi, I'm Lucy." A young girl-possibly grade 5 had broken off from the group and was now standing in front of her.

"Hey-Cordelia" she replied hugging the straps of her school bag close to her.

Lucy had straight, stringy brown hair and was wearing the customary blue-checkered uniform dress and navy blazer of Eton. Lucy seemed nice, but if she walked into school with this young girl she would be immediately branded 'loser'-it was just the age thing.

Luckily the other girl she had seen walked up behind Lucy and started talking.

"Hey Cordelia-pretty name! I'm Susan." The boy that had followed behind her interrupted at this moment saying, "Don't trust her, she's really called Phyllis"

Susan gave him the most evilest look-evil enough to melt-and continued on.

"Anyway, me, Lucy, Edmund and Pete just came in from the country-we're living with our uncle cos of the war. Where did you move from?"

Cordelia hated this-as soon as she opened her mouth she would be bombarded with stupid questions and "oh say this" and "you have the coolest accent". Oh well, she supposed she couldn't just stand there and not answer.

"Australia" she mumbled reluctantly.

"Australia? Wow. That's far" came a dry male voice from behind her. Cordelia looked across to see a tall blonde, sexy boy standing behind her. He really could be a model.



"This is Peter" said Lucy brightly.

Cordelia was now surrounded by the group-it looked like it would be easy to make friends here after all.

"So if you're Peter, then you must be Edmund?" she murmured inquisitively, gesturing at the slightly nerdy, acne-faced boy with the glasses.

The boy began to reply-but Susan cut him off sharply.

"No, no-no, that's not Edmund" she groaned, rolling her eyes, "Ed's still in the station, buying some stuff. He's just some random that started following us around."

Deeply wounded-the nerd walked away.

"Wow. Sue" Peter began clapping slowly. "That was harsh."

"Just a tad mean," Lucy added, raising her thumb and forefinger so that only a tiny space remained between them.

"Well I had to get rid of him somehow," Susan retorted crossly, "You saw how he followed me everywhere on the train and…"

As the siblings argued Cordelia's eyes drifted across to the crowds still coming out of the station.

OH MY GOSH-her eyes opened so wide-she could hardly believe what she was seeing. The boy that had come out of the station could only have been described as gorgeous.

He had stunning blue eyes-with flecks of gold, just glimmering through the iris. His dark brown hair was ruffled from the wind in the underground. The Eton uniform he was wearing was just slightly unkempt-as if he had meant that look all along. Cordelia's eyes took all of this in, in the space of a few seconds. Love. She had to know him-would he be in her class? She could only hope.

By this time Cordelia was totally unaware of the hungry look she was giving him-until Lucy nudged her.

"What're you looking at?" she asked innocently.

"Nu-nothing," Cordelia stammered awkwardly-snapping out of her trance immediately.

As luck would have it-that same heart-stoppingly gorgeous guy was Edmund.