Chapter 2.
Rachel, Hollie and Charlotte had all arrived at Waterloo Road Boarding School at 7.32am, 32 minutes behind schedule due to Hollies wardrobe malfunction. The car journey was very quiet as Hollie sat in the front passenger seat still sulking with her earphones in while Charlotte sat in the back seat texting Lauren. The large brown brickwork school stood there completely empty as the parents of the pupils didn't start bringing their kids until 8.30am.
The Mason/Ryan family got out of Rachel black Land Rover Sport that had completely black out windows, and began to make their way to the front entrance of the school with their suitcases. Charlotte rushed ahead with her large, pink suitcase as she was always excited for a new term at school. Hollie slowly stuttered behind with her black suitcase in her left hand and her school bag which contained her laptop over her shoulder. Rachel reached her left arm out and placed it around Hollies neck while pulling her luggage on her other hand.
"Come on cheer up sweetie. You look great. You don't need to dress like that to look gorgeous." Rachel was fed up of Hollies moods every time she didn't get what she wanted. She knew it was a typical teenager thing but it was really beginning to irritate Rachel. When Hollie didn't reply and carried on walking Rachel began to get even angrier at the young teenager.
"Hollie stop the moods now. You know I don't approve so you shouldn't have even tried. Now get out of this mood now or you can sit in the cooler until I call the assembly. You're choice." Hollie had a blank expression. She pulled her earphone out her left ear and looked up at Rachel with her dark brown eyes.
"I'm sorry Aunt Rachel." Hollie responded in a miserable, petted voice.
"Come on you, let's go and get some hot chocolate to heat us up before everyone arrives." Rachel turned and looked at Hollie and gave her a small smile that just ever so slightly moved her mouth. Hollie returned the smile back to her aunt. She had finally got out of her mood.
Rachel and Hollie dumped their suitcases inside the front entrance of the school as Rachel had specifically asked the security guards to search every pupil's suitcases for items that weren't allowed. Lucky for Hollie she had put her laptop in her schoolbag which means it wouldn't get searched. They made their way up to the second floor of the building where the staff's offices, bedrooms, etc. where situated. Hollie followed her aunt through the long, wide hallway and into her office which was massive. It contained two couches, a flat screen TV, a coffee, tea and hot chocolate machine, desk, computer, bookshelf and many more. It was an office anyone would dream of. Hollie stood in the doorway in complete shock, eyes wide open and her mouth shaped in a 'O'
"Is this seriously your new office? What happened to the old one?" questioned Hollie as she was completely oblivious to what was going on.
"The school got refurbished other the summer holidays, we needed it to be a bit more updated. We were giving money from the government to improve our school and this is what we done"
Hollie made her way over to the hot chocolate machine, placed the polystyrene cup in the hole and pressed the "Hot Chocolate" button.
"This is amazing Rach, seriously. I hope this is what our rooms are like." Rachel giggled at Hollies comment, the rooms had been improved, each pupil had an individual bed instead of bunk-beds, and they had their own bathroom and had a TV with Sky but didn't have everything the office had.