Jack looked at Ronnie, who had froze. She had paled out completely, and the blusher she was wearing looked very red against her now white skin. She felt shaky, and her legs felt like jelly. And then he turned around. "Ronnie. Good to see you." Ronnie choked on her words but knew she would have to answer. "Liam…" she really wished she hadn't choked there. She may as well have run in the opposite direction because she was still showing a weakness she didn't want to show. "So you do remember my name?" he was smirking and the anger flooded right back through her. She brought her fist back and punched him as her approached her. The Head came out of her office just as he went flying into one of the chairs and Ronnie held her hurt fist.
"What the hell's going on here? Veronica Mitchell, you are on a warning. Inside my office now. Not a brilliant example to set to a new student is it?" Ronnie marched past her, not even looking at Jack or Liam but glaring at the Head. As if she would even bother discipling people for a fight normally. Teachers normally just took the rest of the class out of the classroom and let them fight because it really wasn't worth it. And the Head rarely found out about it because it happened so often. There was normally at least one fight per lesson and normally a couple of fights during lesson changeovers.
She collapsed into one of the chairs, blood boiling with anger still. The Head was muttering outside and she came in, closing the door and sitting down in her chair. "Now, Ronnie. I want to know the reason for your violent outburst." Ronnie looked back at her smirking. "And I want to know why you care all of a sudden and why you'll have a go at me and no one else!?" The Head looked angered too. Her hair was pulled back tightly and her very white skin was now becoming redder. "I do not accept criticism from my pupils, thank you very much. You're on detention for the rest of the week and I'm pairing you up with the new boy until the end of the month." Ronnie stood up and put her hands on the desk, leaning towards the Head threateningly. The door opened after a small knock and Ronnie muttered, "You gonna fucking make me?!" She smirked and walked out. "You're still paired up with him Veronica! I will check!" Ronnie turned around once she got past Jack and out of the eyeline of the Head. She put one finger up at her and Jack smirked. "Just follow Veronica, you're in all of her classes and she's been paired up with you. She's in Double O too, so she can take you. You're in the dorm next to hers, 232." Jack just nodded then chased after Ronnie who was waking slowly away. This could be very fun. Being forced to hang around with one another pretty much all of the time.
"Wait up," he said as he caught up to her. Ronnie bit her lip to stop herself from laughing at his cocky swagger. "What?" she asked softly. "You said every lessons a sit off. So do you get away with skipping?" Ronnie nodded. "There's just no real point." Jack stopped himself from smirking. He could think of a few reasons. She wasn't looking at him, luckily. "No, I was just thinking we could go to one of those rooms so I can talk to you." Ronnie raised an eyebrow. "About what?" He put his head on the side. Ronnie had to look down at the floor. He looked too damn cute when he did that. She bit her lip. She did not just think that. He noticed, and smirked. "What, is you threatening someone, punching someone and swearing at the head for no apparent reason just a normal day then?" Ronnie looked at him and smiled. "You'd be surprised."
"Oh god." He was starting to worry now. Maybe this school was worse than he thought possible. "Come on then." She lead him towards the nearest common room. Maybe this school could use a little explaining. She collapsed onto one of the sofas and took out her chewing gum. She held it out to offer him one and Ronnie returned them to her bag. "So about this school… it's just chaotic basically but you'll find that out. We all do what we like. The teachers… and us… like it that way. Double O is Operation Open. We make plans to keep the school together and keep it open when the inspectors come. We start planning now cos it's a month till the inspectors come. We help the teachers, organise plays, that kind of thing. It helps keep the place open. So are you still in on that?"
Jack smirked. "Sounds fun." She shook her head. "There's a party after the inspectors leave too. And everyone normally arranges to stay in their friends dorms if they don't stay in a dorm normally. We all switch dorms and everything to. It's quite fun actually. It costs a lot like, but it's worth it." He smirked. "What, so it's like an all night party?" Ronnie nodded. "They play music through the speakers till about seven or eight the next morning which is just about when everyone's passed out. Lots of alcohol, obviously, since we store it in our dorms and bring it out after all the parents leave." He smirked again.
The buzzer went and there was the sound of lots of doors opening all at once and lots of noise errupting into the corridors. "Right, you ready?" He shrugged and stood up. "We're in.. uhh… actually I haven't got a clue." She scanned the people milling around them and spotted a familiar face. The boy from the office was there again. He had disappeared by the time she had got out of the office before. Presumably to go to the medical room or something since there was very little blood around his nose now. He walked towards her and she froze. Jack looked worried before he stepped in front of her. "This better not be another boyfriend, you cheap slut!" Ronnie pushed Jack out of the way. "You can't talk!" She didn't really want to share her business with the entire corridor that were watching carefully. "You're the one that cheated on me," she muttered. "And you knew. You knew everything and you still did it you son of a bitch." Her voice was full of bitterness and empty of any other emotion. Just how she liked it.
"How's she doing Ronnie?" Ronnie was really in his face now. "Wouldn't you like to know?" She walked away from him, dragging Jack along after her by his sleeve. She didn't want him to say anything to Liam, or Liam to tell him anything. She knew she had a secret back in her dorm. She wanted to be there right now, and what she wanted, she would damn well do. "You okay to get to next lesson on your own?" Jack looked confused. "Why? Where you off?" She looked distant. "I need to go to my dorm." He nodded. "You can show you mine while you're there." She sighed irritably. "Fine, come on." She didn't want him to come, but what could you do? "What number?" He shrugged. "I forgot. She just said next to yours." Ronnie rolled her eyes. "Idiot." Ronnie dropped him at his dorm and unlocked and relocked her dorm quickly where her best friend sat waiting for her. The young light brown haired girl was sat on the floor looking very pretty while playing with a little baby, which wasn't what you normally expected in a senior school dorm. Bekki looked at her with concern. "What's up?" Ronnie slid down the door. "Jesus, I so nearly got caught. Liam's back." Bekki's eyes went wide. "WHAT?!" Ronnie put a finger to her lips to try and make her talk quieter.
"I know, I know. We just can't let him near Rubes." She kneeled down by Bekki and her friend put her arm around her. To anyone other than her and Bekki, this would look totally weird. Bekki was the only one Ronnie opened up to because Bekki was so like her. They broke down only when they were with each other because they trusted each other and knew nothing went out of these four walls. They had managed to get just a double dormitory and cleared with one of their teachers that they each had half a day off so they could switch shifts and look after baby Ruby.
"It'll be okay Ron." A tear went down Ronnie's face and she sobbed. "No it won't. We've got a new person in the next room that the head's forcing me to watch and I'm in double O with him too and she's forcing me to stay with him constantly and was all 'I will check' and all this shit." Bekki hugged him. "Hey, hey. It's fine. You'll get through it. Just flirt a bit and he'll leave you alone to go gossip with the guys about his big ego." Ronnie laughed through her tears, wiping them off her cheeks. "As if his ego isn't big enough…" Bekki smirked. "And what else?" Ronnie shrugged, looking confused. "What else what?" Bekki smirked. "Apart from my obvious 'what else is big?'…" Ronnie smacked her on her leg softly. "…you only hate it because you can see something in him you like, can't you? What is it with you and people with big egos?" Ronnie smirked. "He's nice, I guess."
Bekki smirked. "But Ron, your version of nice is like most peoples 'oh my god he's fit'." Ronnie smirked. "Okay, maybe a bit." They giggled. "Eh, you'll have plenty of flirting time anyways. Think I should get us marked in then we can sit here for the afternoon?" Bekki asked. Ronnie nodded. Bekki unlocked the door and opened it part way to find a boy there. "Is Ronnie there?" Ronnie recognised his voice and picked up Ruby, looking around for a place to hide. She ran into the bathroom. "One minute!" she shouted, laying Ruby on the changing mat in there. She knew that it was impossible to go out and explain without opening the door wide enough for him to see Ruby. No one knew about Ruby. They managed to hide it well. They took her out, but between lessons and when no one else was about so they weren't caught. It worked cleverly, but it didn't take too much brains. The people at the school were just idiots.
Ronnie checked Ruby couldn't reach anything dangerous, prayed she wouldn't cry and went back out. She would have to make this quick. "I'm not coming back in. I've got work I missed here… I'll take you to your lesson and get me and Bek marked in. Come on." She closed the door on Bekki who was basically in quiet awe of Jack. She opened it again, took the keys out the other side, winked at Bekki and reclosed and relocked the door. "Come on." She led him down the corridor and toward their art class now she finally knew what class they were supposed to be in and knocked. She went in straight away, Jack took a seat and Ronnie whispered something to the teacher and left assured that her and Ruby wouldn't be marked as present.
She returned to her dorm to Bekki layed on the bottom bunk, knees up with Ruby sat against them and ticking her. Faint little giggles came from the three month old baby. Ronnie relocked the door like routine and Bekki moved over on the bed being careful with Ruby. The TV was playing Loose Women as Ronnie sat next to them on the bed, feet up. There was a tap on the door. Ronnie put on her usual I'm busy and rushing around voice and said, "Who is it?" The voice that came was one that they definitely wanted to hear least of all. Ronnie, luckily, managed to stop herself from vomiting but both her and Bekki looked at each other with wide eyes. "Ronnie, I'm not kidding! You keep this door shut and I kick it down."