kk[A/N: Hey! I'm here with the new chapter and because I want this to be as realistic as possible and I want to get the characters right I've even done some research and looked up their characters on wikipedia! Wooh! I'm going to put as much effort into this as I would with a real book]

Chapter 2 -

'Mum, c'mon! I'm going to be late for school!' I grumbled as she scrolled through her BlackBerry.

'Hmm, oh, uh, what?' She asked suddenly returning her attention to me.

'School! I'm going to be late!' I moaned.

'Oh, uh, sorry. You're going to have to walk.' She told me, 'I have a client I need to see to.' She said before heading upstairs, 'If you're going to make it to school you should probably head now.' She muttered.

'But I haven't even had breakfast yet!' But she was already running the showers by the time I spoke. Quickly I popped some bread in the toaster and buttered it quickly. By the time I left the front door i still had a slice of toast in my mouth and was fiddling around with my bag when I heard someone call my name.

'Effy!' I heard again, I looked up to see Dynasty waving at me. I walked over to her smiling. 'Hey.' She greeted.

'Hi.' I muttered through a mouthful of toast.

'Aw did someone not get up in time?' A familiar voice cooed. I groaned and looked up to see Barry trudging along behind Dynasty, he was still doing up his tie and his shirt was all untucked and scruffy, the words kettle; pot and black came to mind. I just ignored him and carried on walking beside Dynasty.

'I didn't know you lived so close to us.' Dynasty pointed out smiling, 'If I did I would've walked back with you the past week.'

'Oh but you wouldn't wait to walk back with me though? Cheers sis.' Barry muttered sarcastically.

'That's because you're always im detention and you're no fun to be around.' Dynasty pointed put which resulted in Barry doing a very rude thing with his finger.

'I didn't realise either.' I said as I couldn't be bothered to explain the whole ordeal with me having to walk back with Barry on my first day, Barry didn't seem to object to this as he stayed quiet. I noticed a girl a year or two younger pegging along behind, she was quite tomboyish.

'Oh yeah,' Dynasty exclaimed grabbing the girl. 'You haven't met Kacey, my baby sis.' She introduced, I smiled at Kacey.

'Hey, I'm Effy.'

'I know.' She said smirking, 'Everyone has been talking about you.' She stated.

'Everyone?'

'Well not everyone but quite a few.' She corrected. 'You know, you being the new girl and all.' I just smirked. 'Oh yeah why does Barry look as if he's all set to kill you or something?' She asked, all three of us turned around to look at Barry to see of he was listening, he wasn't. He had his earphones in. I turned back to Kasey and shrugged innocently.

'I don't know.'

I was about halfway through my maths lesson when I felt a tap on my shoulder, I looked up to see the teacher towering over me. 'Miss Boston would like to speak to you, she's outside the class room, if you'd like to bring your bag with you.' He told me, I furrowed and glanced over at Connor who was sat next to me, his expression just as equally confused as mine.

'What did you do?! You've only been here a week!' He whispered.

'I haven't done anything!' I whispered back defensively before grabbing my bag and walking out the classroom to greet miss. As sir said she was stood outside the door smiling.

'Good morning Bridges.' She greets.

'Hey miss.' I greeted. 'You wanted to speak to me?' I asked.

'Yes,' She said, 'The thing is we've noticed that you've been struggling in maths and considering that you were below your target in your GCSE's we've decided that it'd be best if you had your maths lessons in the PRU. This is only to help you reach your target and acquire the grades that you need.' She explained. I bit my lip.

'Are my parents going to be know about this?' I asked.

'Yes, it is regulations that we inform them. This is just so we can help you reach your full potential.' She smiled patronisingly. I just sighed and followed her until we reached the PRU. She typed in the combo stretched to the door, I raised my eyebrows slightly at this. Surely that was a health and safety issue locking the door whilst there were students inside. The moment I stepped inside I instantly recognised Barry's face.

We both looked at eachother in surprise for about a second until we both groaned, 'Ugh.' We moaned in unison.

'Miss what is she doing in here?' He demanded.

'Same reason you're in here Barry now zip it and get back on with your work.' Miss commanded walking over to her desk. I looked around the room, there was about 10 other people in there. One of them being Rihannon. I sighed in relief and sat down beside her.

'Hey.' She smiled, 'So you're utterly crap at maths as well then?'

'Yup.' I replied, 'So what's it like in here then?' I asked.

'Pretty boring, Barry usually livens it up a bit though.' She answered gesturing over towards him. I glanced over to Barry who was typing something into his phone under the table. I rolled my eyes, typical of him. He then look up from his phone and smirked at me. Looking me up and down.

'I think you've got something on your shoe there Effy.' He sneered, I glanced down at my Doc Martins to see a bit of tissue sticking put from underneath. In my feeble attempt of kicking it off he continued, 'Most of had a pretty starchy dinner yesterday, if you know what I mean.'

'Ugh.' I Glared at him, finally getting that bloody piece of tissue off my foot and grinned. 'OK Barry, you on Facebook? Anything interesting?' I called out to him loud enough for miss to hear, she immediately came stomping over to Barry's desk and reached her hand out and opened up her palm.

'Hand it over now Barry.' She demanded. He snuck a dirty look towards my director before looking up at miss innocently.

'I've not a clue what you're on about miss.'

'Phone. Now Barry.' She declared once again looking clearly annoyed.

'I'm not on my phone miss.' He lied sneaking it into his pocket from under the desk.

'You can either hand over your phone or receive an after school detention.' She decided, Barry reluctantly handed over his phone realising that it'd be a lot of effort to go through just to hold on to his phone for a few hours.

'Thank you.' She uttered turning around, 'You can have this back at the end of the day.' She told him walking back to her desk. I smiled, satisfied. After miss explained the work to me I grabbed a textbook and answered the questions, highlighting anything that I thought might be useful for my exam at the end of the year.

'Ugh, miss I don't feel too good.' Rihannon suddenly cried clutching her stomach.

'Urgh, miss! Rihannon is going to chunder everywhere!' Barry yelled causing a commotion in the class.

'Shut it Barry!' I snapped then turned back to Rihannon, 'You're not going to? Are you?' I asked giving her a weary look.

'Everyone be quiet!' Miss Boston suddenly snapped, 'I'm going to take the Rihannon to the medical room, in the meantime I expect everyone to get on with their work!' Miss said escorting Rihannon out, Rihannon began to make wrenching noises. 'Oh god.' Miss muttered under her breath before closing the door.

I bit my lip trying to hold back a laugh, bless Rihannon but Miss's face when she began to make those wrenching noises. Someone beat me to it to because the sound of laughter filled the small classroom. It wasn't a laugh that I was familiar with but I was certainly familiar with the voice afterwards, 'Oh Rihannon, she's eating too many dodgy pork pies. That's her problem.' Barry laughed and I couldn't help but share the laughter with him and when we stopped we both glanced over at eachother and starting laughing again, except this time of wasn't even fully aware of what I was laughing about. I just had this rum long feeling in the pit of my stomach and it wouldn't leave. I had the full on giggles. The rest of the class stared at us as if we were mad, it would of been quite a beautiful moment if we didn't actively hate eachother. We calmed down in the end though.

Whilst I was still trying to return back to my normal breathing pattern I noticed Barry getting up from his seat and walking over towards Boston's desk. 'What are you doing?' I asked.

'Going to get my phone back.' He muttered.

'Just wait till the end of the day.' A girl called Ellie in Year 10 answered in a duh tone.

'Why do that when I can easily get it now?' He asked which I think was meant to be a rhetorical question but she answered anyway.

'Because you're just going to get into trouble Barry.' She stated in a matter of fact type of tone. Barry just ignored her, rolling up the sleeves to his leather jacket. I watched as Barry rummaged through draws and stacks of paper and folders.

'She's probably has it on her.' I said nonchalantly as I rested my head on one hand. 'Just give it a rest.'

'This is your fault so I'd shut up if I was you.' He seethed.

'Asshole.' I muttered under my breath. I turned back to my work but I could still hear him routing around Boston's desk when suddenly i heard an 'Found it.' And the sounds of his steps as he walked back to his desk. Right on time the door clicked and miss entered the room again.

'Right, sorry about that. Where were we again?' She said as she walked over to her desk. I glanced over at Barry who had a smug smile plastered all over his face.

'Where's Rihannon?' Imogen asked as I walked up to her from the PRU

'Dodgy pork pie.' Barry answered quickly before walking off.

Imogen just frowned. 'Really?' I just smirked and shrugged walking along with her to Jack, Connor and Kevin.

'Hey, where did you go in Maths?' Connor asked.

'PRU.' I sighed rolling my eyes.

'How come?' He asked furrowing his eyebrows.

'Because I got a D in maths and I haven't shown any sign of improvements.'

'Is Barry in the PRU with you?' Jack now asked.

'Yeah but so is Rihannon so its not all bad.' I told him. He just muttered something under his breath but I decided not to question it.

'Come with my to my locker?' He asked gesturing to the opposite direction.

'Yeah, sure.' I answered following him. We made our way to his locker in silence until he opened his mouth.

'So I was thinking since you are still new to this area maybe I could show you around, y'know show you a good fish and chippies or whatever after school.' He babbled out his little offer.

'Yeah okay.' I smiled.

'Really?' He asked sounding a bit shocked.

'Yeah, where do you want me too meet you guys?' I asked as we stopped at his locker.

His face fell a bit, 'Guys? Oh right yeah um yeah. I'll ask them.' He muttered.

'Cool.' I grinned.

I walked over to Jack, Connor, Imogen, Kevin and Dynasty in a red plaid shirt, not very skinny pale blue jeans and my makeup the usual and smiling. 'Hey.' I greeted them which they all returned.

'So where are we going?' I asked them.

'This cool cafe.' Imogen answered me.

'Great, I really want a milkshake.'