Part One
This will include other pairs at times, possibly Sian/Jez, Jess/Aiden, Tom/Nicki. But it will mostly be Karen/Rob.
Karen Fisher sat at her desk. It was the first day back since she had been reinstated as headmistress of Waterloo Road. She smiled to herself, running a hand along the name plate on her desk. 'Yes! It's my school! I'm back!' she thought to herself. She hadn't see Rob, in over four weeks. He'd texted her to let her know that he had got the new English teacher job, replacing Eleanor Choudry. But other than that; nothing. She sighed knowing that he would be in the building. It was so tempting to just get up, go look for him and ask him why he wasn't texting her back, answering her calls. If he was going to ignore her, she could ignore him. She found it ironic how she always taught her children to be the better person, and rise above it, but she couldn't this time. She looked t her phone, which was flashing next to rob's picture. She smiled hoping that the caller was him.
"Hello?" Karen spoke down the phone.
"Karen." Came the voice at the other end, confirming that it wasn't Rob, but it being Charlie.
"What is it Charlie?" Karen sighed heavily.
"I was wondering if Harry would like to stay Friday night, go to the cinema, have take out, you know. A good old father, son catch up. Just me and him" He asked thoughtfully.
"Erm, yeah. I mean it's up to harry, but its fine with me. I'm sure he'll love that" she replied.
"Great. Thanks Karen" he replied happily.
Karen smiled. "No problem. Bring home any time on Saturday, we have no plans as of yet, but I'll let you know if anything changes there" she smiled to herself as she started to think about rob, wishing they had plans for Saturday. She giggled, before realising she was still on the phone to Charlie.
"...bring anything" she only managed to hear the end of his sentence but did what she usually did.
"Yeah okay" she waited to see if that was the right answer...
"Right, great. Well I better go, see you soon" and with that they both hung up. Karen put her phone back down on her desk and her head in her hands, her elbows resting on the table. She got out her rota for the day ahead and looked to the slot for period one; 'Sitting in on First English Lesson with the new year seven pupils' Oh Great. She sighed. She couldn't deny that she was looking forward to seeing him, because she was. His perfect eyes, his big bright blue crystal like eyes. Karen thought to herself. 'Oh, stop it fisher!' she told herself. She just wished she could be normal with him, but if he was going to play it like that, she was too. She groaned as the bell for the end of form, signalling for everyone to make their way to fist lesson, sounded throughout the school. Well she was going to have to face him sooner or later, anyway. May as well just get it over with, She thought idly to herself. She picked up her phone placing it in her blazer pocket, and picking up her note pat, black biro and her folder, she made her way to Rob's classroom. As she made her way down the hall she was bombarded with students saying welcome back. She looked down at her papers, accidently walking into someone. She looked up. "sorry, I wasn't looking where I was going. I don't believe we've met? Karen Fisher" she said politely, holding out a hand for him to shake, which he took. "ah, so you're the head" he smiled. "Jeremy Diamond, but I prefer Jez. My Wife's Sian Diamond the new science teacher, I don't suppose you've met her yet?" he asked. Karen smiled. "Not as yet, but I'm sure I will later in the day" he smiled at her as she continued to walk down the corridor. She came to Rob's door, and stopped. She felt the butterflies take up the space in her stomach. Why was she so nervous! 'Pull yourself together woman!' she told herself. She shook her head and walked in. Rob's head popped up from what he was writing and their gazes met. She wanted nothing more than to walk over there and simply kiss him, but she knew that wasn't going to happen so she simply broke her gaze away from his and walked to the back of the classroom, sitting down at the back desk, furthest away from Rob. To say he was confused was a complete understatement. The class started to pour in, Rob looked to Karen. "You can start now" she said coldly. Rob was quite taken aback but continued anyway. "Right you lot! I'm Mr. Scotcher and I'm going to be your English teacher for the rest of the academic year. Unless I'm ill then you'll get one of those stuck up supply teachers." He said jokingly. The corners of Karen's mouth twitched, but she managed to keep a straight face. "Today we have the lovely Mrs Fisher joining us to make sure I behave" he winked at her, but she just kept a straight face as the class around her continued to laugh. "Right, Jenny is it?" he said looking in the direction of a girl with browny-reddy long hair. She nodded. "Ooh I'm already starting to learn names" he said, overreacting his actions and his voice going all high. Karen couldn't keep her face straight and she giggled along with the class. This didn't go unnoticed by Rob. "Could you hand out the books to everyone? On the first line, your name, second line, English, third line, teaching group and form, fourth line, my name" he said as he wrote it on the whiteboard. "Right, were going to be studying poetry this term" I'd like you to copy out the rules of poetry off the board into your books on the first page neatly please" he said as he pointed to the board. The class started to write as did Karen. She jotted things down like 'the class listen to him' 'the children respect him' 'his teaching methods are effective' 'he makes lessons fun' she stopped writing as someone pulled the chair beside her out and sat down next to her on it. She recognised the familiar scent and closed her eyes. She couldn't be this close to him and stay mad at him. "Karen?" he whispered. Karen turned her head to face him but didn't say anything. "Have I done something wrong?" he asked, he looked genuinely hurt. "You tell me Rob. I tried to ring you I don't know how many times in the last four weeks, never mind the amount of times I've texted you. No replies, no call backs?" she sounded just as hurt as he looked. Suddenly his expression changed to an amused one. "What's so funny?" she asked rather confused. "I dropped my phone in the bath! I had to get a new one, I wasn't ignoring you! I'd never ignore you!" he replied softly. Karen closed her eyes and when she opened them again, they had softened. He took hold of her hand, holding it in his, sending tingles though her spine. "So you're not mad at anymore?" he asked. She stared into his big bright blue beautiful eyes and shook her head. "No, I can't stay mad at you...Because I think I've fallen for you" she explained. 'FALLEN FOR YOU HARD' Karen's inner goddess screamed at her as she floated on cloud nine.