Chapter 1 – The Little Things

It was now Monday. The run up to Christmas, the Coca-Cola advert was on almost every ad break. Some people were even getting their first Christmas cards. The morning, like any other weekday morning, began with the usual getting up packing my bag and setting off early for school. And to be honest it was, apart from the little things. I spent the start of the day with the usual; meeting Olivia off the bus, walking up to the common room, waiting for everyone to turn up, the usual Monday sixth form briefing. When we arrived at the common room, we were first there as usual, it wasn't long before people started arriving. The first one there was Amanda, then shortly after Emma. When Emma arrived she sat next to Amanda, for the last couple of weeks they seemed closer but looked as if they were trying to hide it, but to be honest I never thought anything of it, like I was just imagining things. After sitting in the common room it was the sixth form briefing and a free lesson, where to be honest nothing happened, followed by our first lesson which was physics. I never really talked much in lessons as I was still catching up from the late start, we were doing circuits which was interesting as most of us didn't have experience with them, I did because I had done electronics at GCSE and even though it had been a while it all came back to me.

After physics we had break where I decided to call to the shop, on the way out I saw Olivia who was her way into town so I lent her my bike to get there on. I walked with the down to the bike rack where I gave her the keys for the bike lock, as Olivia took off on my bike I walked down the school drive and across the road to the shop where I met Lydia, Becky and Zoe. When I went into the shop I spent some time talking to the shop owner, he was my mum's cousin so we usually talked when called in. By the time we set off back to school we were already fifteen minutes late and by time we got into school and signed back in it was halfway through the lesson. When we got there to our relief the usual teacher wasn't there and we had Dave covering the lesson, he was one of the best cover teachers at our school as he wasn't bothered about lates or eating in lessons and so on.

After our lesson with Dave it was dinner where me & Olivia ran the Dr Who club for year seven and eight in one of the English classrooms. We were watching "Fathers Day" while Olivia wrote her Christmas cards with me helping seal them to speed things up.

After the Dr Who club I got my keys back from Olivia and went to help out Chris with his year seven maths class like any other Monday, but to my surprise the class was lovely. They were usually a right handful but something made them knuckle down.

At the end of school I got Chris to sign my planner saying I'd helped his lesson and went to get my bike and head home. To be honest it had been pretty much like any other day, except for the little things which somehow just made the day seem better.