Welcome to Walford! What fun! It isn't really, but the local high school is quite another story. There is a lot of drama there. It's the only school in the area, but it's the worst school in the country. The students are one thing, but the teachers can cause drama too. And they find it fun too. So how are you going to make a school any better than it is, if everyone in it likes it the way it is. The school manages to make it look really good when the inspectors come, and the kids help a lot too because they want their school to stay open so they get to carry on with the fun. They even sit quietly through actual lessons then. But every other day is just switching between classes and creating chaos and doing whatever you like no matter what classroom you are in.
It's definitely a fun school, but it's not educational. Even the geeks are turned into those who enjoy the school. They're clever enough to figure out how to keep the school open. One of them is a Miss Veronica Mitchell. She's not a geek, by any level. She's just an extremely clever girl. She's about the only very popular girl in the group of those keeping the school open. They named the group the 'Double O'. It stands for Operation Open which obviously means keeping the school open. Four weeks from now was when the inspectors arrived and this was when they started planning. There was a meeting after lunch. Until then, the whole school were in their classes. Not lessons, mind.
Miss Veronica Mitchell had been called to the front desk over the speakers and she had left her Geography room. Upon arrival, she was wearing a white blouse, a black fitted waistcoat, a long silver necklace, a pair of cropped black trousers and large checked grey and black tights. She was also wearing flat black ballet pumps. When she got there she found her sister sat on one of the chairs. Well, more lounged across three seats with her feet up. "What have you done now Rox?" Roxy put on her best innocent face but for once, she hadn't actually done anything. She dropped the innocent face and smiled. "No, honestly. I just came here because I heard your name and pretended I was you to get out of my class for a bit." She shrugged and Ronnie nodded skeptically and went over to the office window. "I got called down here. Ronnie Mitchell."
The secretary nodded and picked the phone up. "One minute." Ronnie sat down again by her sister putting her feet up too. "Check that out," Roxy whispered out of nowhere, smiling. Ronnie looked up from the phone that she was texting one of her mates with to find a boy stood there. Her mouth was open slightly but she snapped it shut and looked down again. "Don't start Roxy." Roxy ignored her sister, caught the boys eye and smiled before she put her head on her sister's shoulder and read her text. The boy's eyes trailed down the older girl's body as he passed them and walked over to the desk. Ronnie forced herself not to listen into the conversation but Roxy didn't even think to stop herself. "He's new," she whispered to Ronnie and Ronnie nodded lightly as she looked at her phone for a moment longer before sliding it shut and putting it into her pocket.
"Ronnie?" She turned her head around to the secretary and smiled slightly. She was nice to the teachers – they let her get away with murder because of it. "This is…" She looked down at her notes. "Jack… Branning. He's new to the school. Could you give him a tour then take him down to the Head? You'll have to wait outside his office though since he'll need to be shown to his class." Ronnie rolled her eyes. "You'll get out of all your lessons till the end of the day." Ronnie rolled her eyes again and got up off the chair. "Aww.. come on! I'm already doing Double O for the next four weeks for this flipping inspector!" She leaned against the counter and tapped the toe of her shoe on the floor. Jack leaned back against the wall where he could see her face.
Jack looked at her puzzlingly, but she wasn't even looking at him. She was looking at the secretary who was looking at her with puppy dog eyes. "Okay, okay." She jerked her head, indicating for him to go out the door. As he went out the door and Ronnie followed Roxy shouted after her, "Ron!" Ronnie turned around and nodded her lightly to say, 'what?'. Roxy smirked. "Behave yourself." Ronnie's face reddened. It was partially with anger, and partially with embarassment at the fact that the secretary had ever so obviously covered up her laughter with pretending to clear her throat. Ronnie glared at the secretary who luckily wasn't looking at her, glared at Roxy and stormed out, the door banging slightly behind her.
Jack was leaned against the wall outside, waiting. He didn't want to interfere in her conversations – at least not until he actually knew her. He hadn't even listened into her conversation, as much as he had wanted to. She didn't know if he had heard, and with the anger in her, she didn't care. She was wound up very easily since… She didn't want to think about it. She shut it out of her mind and put on her happy smiley face again. "Where d'you wanna go first?" She stopped and gestured around. There were five different buildings leading away from the huge central courtyard that they were now in. It felt so safe, being here. The building surrounded you and it felt comforting. She didn't know how her sister and those who weren't boarders left the school afterwards. She had been a boarder since she had started there. She was in year nine now, and her sister in year seven. An irritating first year. Aged fourteen and twelve, Roxy definitely hadn't grown older in her head yet. She was still so childish.
"I don't have a clue." He shrugged. "I don't know where anything is." Ronnie shrugged. "Okay, building one." She took off in the direction of a building that was painted blue. He glanced round and noticed all the buildings were different colours. That was probably how people distinguised between them. "So you're Ronnie?" he asked politely. She turned around as she walked through the doors and the air conditioning or heating or whatever was blowing down hit her, blowing her blonde hair that fell about half way down her back. She smiled at him. "Yeah, and you're Jack. I'm not that much of a dumb blonde you know." He smiled back at her and she marched off across the first room of the building and into the corridors.
"This is English. All the english classes are together. The rooms all start with E then a number. Uhhh.. Languages is upstairs. They start with L again." She walked down the corridor and turned and they entered the next building through a huge arch. "This is the green building." She gestured around. "Science down here, S again. History upstairs." She went through to the next building in silence. "Yellow. Art and Technology." They went through again. "Red. Geography and Maths. Hold on." She got to G3 and tapped on the door. "Excuse me, can I borrow Mia Jenson?" she asked the teacher politely, smiling while the rest of the class were sat either on their chairs or their desks talking and playing paper games. A paper airplane soared across the classroom and Ronnie caught it midflight, aiming it back at a group of boys at the back of the classroom.
A brown haired girl about the same size as Ronnie came out the door and Ronnie closed it behind her. The girl was looking quite nervous. Even if she was the same size as Ronnie, she looked a couple of years younger. "I heard you've been causing trouble with my sister." Ronnie was irritated, but it was easy to tell she stuck up for her sister a lot. Even to Jack it was obvious. She sounded kind of bored when she said it. As if she said it a lot. The girl raised an eyebrow and shrugged. "She's a slut." Ronnie lowered her chin and her eyes bore into Mia. "I beg your pardon?" Mia looked slightly terrified at first, but when she saw Jack out of the corner of her eye she stepped forward to Ronnie's eyeline. "And if it isn't Ronnie… the girl who doesn't exsist without her little sister. I said SHE. IS. A. SLUT." Ronnie grabbed her chin and pushed her back against the wall. "You do not touch or talk about my sister. UNDERSTAND? You've probably heard stories about what I do if you annoy me and the easiest way to do that is to hurt my sister so DON'T YOU DARE!"
Mia ripped Ronnie's hand away from her chin and stormed back into the classroom after giving her one more glare. Ronnie's face softened as soon as the door slammed and she smiled. "And we go…" She carried on walking and cut through to the next building. "Uhh.. orange. Computers, Music." She carried on through again. "Hey… what was all that about?" Jack asked when she didn't even mention it again. She shrugged. "No one hurts my sister. No matter how much of a cow she is." Jack smiled. "The sister in the office before?" She nodded. "I've only got one." He smiled. "You're lucky… three sisters and two brothers." Ronnie looked shocked. "Six of you? Jeez, I'd hate to be your mum."
He shrugged. "So would I… Dad's cheating on her." Ronnie looked shocked and angry for some reason. "How do you know then?" He looked very matter of fact. "I saw them. Some woman that my mum knows too. It'd destroy her if I told her." She looked pained for a minute. "Sorry." He brightened up, and shook his head. "You don't have to be. Anyway, what's your family like?" Ronnie bit her lip. "Messed up. I don't know why my mum and dad are still together. So… are you staying in the dorms here or what?" He nodded. "I thought it'd be better to stay out of my mums way. She's under a lot of stress – my brother and sister are going to college and she doesn't really have the money, but she's trying. Max is causing tonnes of trouble in his new school. And we just moved too, so yeah. It's chaotic. What about you?" Ronnie collapsed into a sofa in the main entrance room of the next building. "I'm staying her too. But Roxy isn't. I've just got to stay away from my family."
"Why's that?" She looked away immediately, putting her feet up on the sofa. He put his up on the table. "It's complicated. Just don't tell Roxy that's why I stay here. She thinks it'd for Double O." Jack raised an eyebrow. "Oh yeah, what is that Double O thing. I got put in it. Got told I have to go to some meeting thing after lunch." Ronnie looked up. "You got put in Double O? Jeez. Do you even know much about this school?" Jack shook his head. "Why, what should I know?" She smirked. "A lot. It's an awful school. Every lesson's a sit off but we start planning for when the inspector comes in a month. When he gets here, we make everything look perfect when it's really far from it. Double O is all the people that plan it. I'm part of it too." They continued going through buildings then Ronnie took him to the office where she had quite a bit of a shock. She stopped breathing for a few seconds and decided whether she should run now or not. But before she could make her choice, it was made for her as the figure turned around to face her.