Disclaimer: I don't own Enid Blyton's stories. But I made up the characters of the new girls.
I tried to make this authentic, as in, like Enid Blyton's books. Hope you like it.
The Fifth Form Again at Malory Towers! Chapter one
The loud tooting of a car horn outside caught Darrell's attention. She quickly straightened her brown and orange school uniform and grabbed her school hat, lacrosse stick, riding helmet and small overnight case. She hurried outside to find her father, mother and younger sister Felicity waiting impatiently in the packed car.
"I'm coming!" Darrell yelled as she threw her belongings into the boot and leaped in. At the same moment Felicity leaped out the other door, and raced back up the steps into the house, calling something over the noise of the running engine. Mr Rivers, their father, sighed, tapping the steering wheel. "This family never leaves on time. Never I tell you!" Mrs Rivers tried to calm him down, and called for Felicity, who finally scampered back, clutching her roller skates.
"I almost forgot them," she panted, slamming the car door shut behind her and stuffing the skates into her bag. Mr Rivers quickly pulled out of the drive and onto the road before anyone else could hold them up further. Darrell leaned back, happy and excited. Another term at Malory Towers, her boarding school! She thought of the upcoming term. She was going to be in her second term of fifth form, and Felicity in first. What fun they would have!
"You're lucky you don't have any major exams this term Darrell," commented Felicity.
"I know. I hope we have a nice relaxing time, after all the stress of the pantomime we went through last term," Darrell sighed in happiness as she remembered all the hard work the fifth form had put into creating the pantomime 'Cinderella', and what a success it had been! "Moira will still be head girl. She was so unpopular and domineering last term, but she got better towards the end. I hope she learned her lesson!" The car swung onto the highway. The girls were going to be driven to Malory Towers. Usually they gave Sally Hope, Darrell's best friend, a lift as well, but she had recently been on a holiday overseas and was arriving a week late. The whole journey took a few hours. Darrell and Felicity dozed after a quick lunch of cold chicken salad and hard boiled eggs, but woke up just in time to see their first glimpse of Malory Towers.
"There it is!" Darrell pointed excitedly to the tall, grey building by the sea, with its four stone towers, each of which housed one quarter of the girls at the school. The towers were named North, South, East and West tower. Darrell and her sister were in North. Felicity stared out the window, but the car soon rounded a corner, and Malory Towers vanished from view.
"There's the bus of girls from the station," said Mrs Rivers, pointing out the other window. Darrell turned, and saw two long coaches full of chattering students who had come by train driving past. She waved madly to some other fifth formers she knew. "There's Irene! And Alicia! BETTY! She doesn't see me. She must be blind!" Darrell was soon knocked over by Felicity, who leaned wildly out the window, calling to her friends. "Susan! Susan! I'm here! Hello Nora! June!"
"What madness," commented Mr Rivers. "Wind up the windows now, we're almost there."
Finally the car entered the long drive of the school, and stopped close to the steps. Darrell and Felicity jumped out, and at once a crowd of noisy girls gathered around, exchanging holiday news. Mr and Mrs Rivers waved goodbye cheerfully and then drove off. They had to get back home before dark. Darrell gathered her belongings and walked up the steps with Irene and Belinda. Both Irene and Belinda were scatterbrains, geniuses at some subjects, but completely dippy at most everything else.
"We have to go and report to Matron and hand in our health certificates," reminded Belinda, producing her own large white envelope. "Got yours Irene?" Irene had a famous reputation for losing her health certificate just as it was time to hand it in to Matron. She grinned. "Don't worry. My mother sent it by post this time. No more trouble with Matron for me!"
After handing in her certificate, Darrell made her way to the fifth form dormy. She was to share it with Alicia, Sally, Catherine, Irene, Belinda, Gwendoline, Mary-Lou, Moira and a new girl. When she entered, everyone was already there.
"Hello Darrell!" greeted Alicia. Alicia was extremely smart, and had a very sharp tongue, which she put to use far too often. She had a younger cousin in the second form who was exactly like her, hard and rude, whom Darrell disliked immensely.
"Hello Alicia! Had good hols? Hello Mary-Lou. Oh, and hi Moira! Hi Catherine!" Mary-Lou beamed. She had once been a shy and timid creature, scared of everything, but had eventually become a strong and loyal friend to the people she trusted. One person she simply couldn't stand was Gwendoline, who was disliked by everyone. Gwendoline was a rich, spoiled brat, who thought the world of herself and nothing of others. Everyone avoided her if they could. She sullenly unpacked her bag in her corner of the dormy, irritated that everyone had given her so little attention.
Moira stood in the middle of the dormy, looking serious and orderly. She tended to be very strict and bossy, making her quite unpopular among the other students. Catherine smiled around at everyone. She was a very helpful child, and tried hard to please and help everyone whenever she could. Unfortunately for her, most people made fun of her kind ways and acted very ungratefully towards her.
Darrel flung her bag on her bed and looked around. "Where's the new girl?" she asked. "Apart from Sally she's the only one not here."
"Gone with Matron to see Miss Grayling I believe," said Alicia. "She came by train. Tiny thing, looks like she belongs in the second form! Very quiet too. She mentioned something about having a sister in the first form."
"I saw her too," said Moira. "Very timid looking, much worse than Mary-Lou. Her mother came to see her off at the station, and boy did she make a fuss of her child! Lead her directly to the carriage, made sure she had a seat, even carried her case for her!"
"Gracious!" exclaimed Darrell. "Sounds odd! Well, we'll soon see what she's like." And Darrell was right, for at that moment, there was a knock on the dormy door.
To be continued...
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