Chapter 1
Molly looked around at the big castle like building that was now going to be her home, and school for the next five years. She bowed her head, letting her blonde hair fall in front of her face, shy of the rowdy older kids greeting each other loudly, wishing, that she didn't feel so alone and lost already, she took a deep breath and walked inside.
Sherlock's car pulled up, Sherlock got out quickly, trying to escape the lecture from his older, brother, but Mycroft followed and quickly grabbed Sherlock before he could run off. Mycroft sighed at Sherlock's moody face, and looked over him, in his new uniform, that was too big for him slightly, with his grey blazer with the red trim, dark grey trousers, white shirt, black and red striped tie, that was slightly wonky, hidden beneath his un-regulation blue striped scarf.
"Brother, do try not to get in trouble before I even get back to the house, we don't want a repeat of last time, please and you know how it all upset mummy."
Sherlock scowled, and took his case and his shoulder bag from the boot of the car, before walking off. He will have already accessed the schools CCTV system, Sherlock thought, there are advantages and disadvantages to having a brother in the government. Sherlock was just walking into the main building, when he heard a high-pitched woman's scream, Sherlock's head snapped up to look where the sound was coming from. All the students, also in the entrance around Sherlock, also stopped in their tracks, and turned to look. Then people started to run toward the direction of the sound, curious to what they'd heard. Sherlock left his case, and dropped his bag, and ran in the same direction. The sound was coming from the nearest set of classrooms, the first one, (room 12) the door was open, and Sherlock and the other students, rushed in to see what had happened. Sherlock could make out the matron, who was on the floor, sobbing and turning her face away from the floor, and as Sherlock looked down, he saw a young girl, dressed in the school's uniform, lying motionless on the floor glassy eyes staring upwards, and blood from her head pooling around her, as Sherlock looked over to the whiteboard, he saw written in her own blood, a single word, 'Rupunzel.' Sherlock tried to push through the crowd, to try and get a closer look to examine the body, but the teachers we already there, pushing the children out of the classroom away from the crime scene.
Molly heard the screaming, faintly from the other side of the school, and didn't think it was anything but first day back delight, at seeing friend's again after the summer, she didn't think that there was anything wrong, until Sherlock burst in. She had started emptying her suitcase, into her set of drawers, after having found her dorm room,. All the girls in the dorm were chatting together, making introductions so on. Molly had joined in and was just about to tell the group of 11 girls her name, when the door to the dorm burst open. Sherlock ran in, his hair looking like a messy dark curly birds nest, and his scarf trailing behind him,
"Molly!"
he shouted and ran up to her like a tall hectic whirlwind, he had an unnerving grin on his face, and a wild look in his pale blue eyes. Sherlock grabbed Molly, and twirled her around, the rest of the room- eleven pairs of eyes stared at the newcomer.
"Guess what Molly! There's been a murder!"
Sherlock shouted at her gleefully
"In the school! Finally something exiting is going on after the long and boring summer with Mycroft! There was a note too! Ah it's Christmas!" Molly stared awkwardly at Sherlock as the rest of the dorm stared intently
"What?"
Sherlock said as he looked around and then he saw the rest of the girls, he looked over them all briefly, before declaring
" Isn't it exciting, a murder! By the way you are all idiots, and I can tell just by looking at you that I will never need your assistance in anyway, and that I wouldn't like any of you purely for you lack of intelligence, so there is no point in trying to get to know you!"
Sherlock ran from the room gleefully shouting
"Bye Molly! A Murder! How exciting!"
he said enthusiastically and laughing he ran out of the room. Molly and the rest of the dorm, stood their for a while, staring after him, before one girl said
"Who the hell was that?!" "Do you know that guy?" said another asking Molly with a disapproving look on her face.
"Uh well yeah I do know him, um" she paused for a second before continuing "That's Sherlock he's um well, my boyfriend."
Molly mumbled
"What? Your boyfriend?" said one girl
"no offence but he is like super weird and he was really rude!" said another,
"what did he mean that their had been a murder?" said a short girl, worryingly.
"Whose been murdered?" another girl said
"someone's been killed? Like here?" squeaked another,
" how can your boyfriend be happy over a murder?!"
" That's just so morbid!" said one
"and sick!" said another the comments continued, and Molly turned around, and tried to ignore the tears forming in the corners of her eyes.