Hi everyone hope you are having a wonderful day. A few notes about the next chapter:
Firstly John/ Harry have 3 other siblings. 2 boys and a girl. Thought it would be nice for us to see some brotherly from John as he doesn't have a good relationship with his sister.
And secondly in this story, Molly and Greg are half siblings. I thought it would add to the drama a little bit and it fits really well into the story
Just thought I would tell you that each chapter is rated depending on homophobic language, violence, possible sex/ sexual activities etc. So its best if you just look at the warnings before each chapter if you don't want to read something that may be upsetting for you.
I also wondered if people think that Sherlock, Molly and the others should board at school or simple just have classes and then go home? Leave a review or PM me your opinions
I also wanted to say thank you to all my reviewer:
-Jamie: thanks you so much! That was the plan! I have read so many stories in which they Sherlock and john are kissing straight away or the story being basically only about John and Sherlock which is slightly one sided. I am finding it quite hard to be original as I have read so many amazing stories but hopefully I will find it easier as my story begins to get interesting
In this chapter we meet John (but only briefly) and I thought I should warn you that Sherlock seems to like Harry more than John for the time being…
Disclaimer: unfortunately I have to inform everyone that I do not own Sherlock or any of the characters in the books or on the BBC series. Although I do own most of the characters that have a posh name because I just imagine everyone with a posh name and a posh accent… no not really just need them to be posh to fit in with the story ;)
Chapter 2: Meeting Molly's Mates
Location: Hyde Park
Date: 02/07/09
Age: 10
Rating K+ (for mild swearing)
These were the kind of days that Sherlock hated the most. The days when he had to socialize with his 'peers'. Although, the word 'peers' implies that their academic knowledge is at the same level which, in Sherlock's opinion, was not close in the slightest, unless everyone in his year knew the periodic table off by heart by the age of 9 and could translate a level Latin by the age of 10.
Molly had texted him last night only a few hours after they had last seen each other, to tell him that he had to come to the entrance of Hyde park tomorrow because she was going to introduce him to some of the people who go/ got into St. Edwards High School in the hope that Sherlock would make some friends before starting school so he wouldn't look like a loner who could be picked on easily. Molly was aware of Sherlock's previous attempts of schooling and did not want her friend to get hurt and end up being home schooled again. She liked the idea of being able to see Sherlock at school as well as outside of school so she quickly asked people on the St Edwards group chat on Facebook if they fancied meeting before school started. In the end John and Harry Watson, Rachel, Imogen, Henrietta, Anastasia, Greg, Fredrick, Tobais, Hugo and Edmund decided to come, making for a good gathering.
Sherlock got up early that morning not looking forward to the day ahead but having to go, nonetheless, because he didn't want to disappoint Molly. At least there would be a mixture of boys and girls so he wouldn't get bored when the girls started to talk about making and boys and when the boys started to play football but just incase things started to get boring, he picked up the first book he placed his hands on when packing his bag. He quickly got dressed into his only informal clothes (he didn't want to look too weird when he was meeting people for the first time) and raced out the door shouting that he was going out with Molly and that he would be home in time for dinner.
When he finally reached the park, he swiftly managed to spot Molly sitting on a bench close by with another girl.
5ft 4
slim, petit build
mousy borwn hair
11 years old
low class (second hand clothes) or possibly punk (unlikely)
2 cats
parents together
3 brother and 1 sister
loves music. Plays guitar, piano and sings.
Her life story popped up in front of Sherlock's eyes and floated around as he tried to focus on the smaller details.
"Sherlock! Lock! Come over here" molly said ushering him over with frantic arm movements until he reached her and she pulled him into a very tight hug. She smelt nice, as always. "Sherlock this is Harriet, Harry this is Sherlock. We've been friends since her mum started tutoring me about 7 years… was it 7 years ago? Yes it was. It was just after I broke my arm. I remember now! But anyway Rachel is going to St. Edwards as well. She's really clever, just like her mum! She even managed to get in on a *bursary* and she got a music scholarship!"
"Nice to meet you Harriet. You probably although you managed to get into St. Edwards with a music scholarship you shouldn't let your practices slack. You probably should have had at least a 10 minute piano rehersal today considering that your music exam is in 2 days." Sherlock stated like it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"How.. What… Molly… What did you tell him! You know it is rude to tell people information about others that some would consider personal." Harry pointed out to the taller girl.
"Harry. I promise I didn't tell him anything about you. You know I wouldn't do anything like that." Molly declared trying to calm the situation down a bit, "You see, he has this kind of party trick that he does, it's bloody amazing! He can tell you everything about yourself without even knowing who you are."
"Wow that's… cool.. I suppose. A bit nosey…but cool. Can you just try not to… read me again please. I like to tell people about myself when I am ready to tell them… when they have gained my respect. I am a little bit shy… sorry." Harry muttered getting quieter and quieter with every word.
"CAN PEOPLE PLEASE STOP CALLING IT A PARTY TRICK! It makes me sound like a clown, which I am not. It's called deucing and its actually quite useful. That's probably the best reaction I have had to it though… except for Molly's. Adults have too many secrets to hid and they don't seem to like it when a 10 year old can realize their secrets in minutes."
"Yeah adults just like to hide things from kids cus they think that just because we are younger, we don't understand anything about life." Harry said warming to the younger boy quite quickly after his little temper tantrum. "Most of the time though, I am the one teaching my parents things not the other way round so really I should be the adult and not them."
"Yeah that's exactly how I feel on the matter. I'm much clever than my older brother even though he insists that he is the brainiest." Sherlock smirked, liking the older girl more and more as the seconds when on. He could now understand why Molly was her friend even if it was obvious that they were from two different backgrounds.
"I have an older brother too. John. He's over there playing football with Greg. He goes to St Edwards too on a bursary just like me. He's only a year older than me but we always argue over who is cleverer but mum usually breaks it up before it gets too heated. We don't really get on that well. If my brother had to decide who would get kidnapped out of my younger siblings and I, it would take him about a second to hand me over to the kidnapper."
Sherlock continued to talk to Harry until gradually all of Molly's mates started to appear, introducing themselves to Sherlock after giving Molly a very friendly hug and sometimes even a kiss on the cheek. Most of the girls were obviously from very rich families because who would seriously give their child the name Anastasia or Henrietta unless they have a reputation to keep up with.
It was a nice day out so after spending a few hours together, catching up with each other (even the boys joined in with this conversation, leaving their football in the middle of the field so that they could catch up on the latest gossip). Stories ranged from fabulously expensive holidays, to whose dating who and then onto football scores. Suprisingly Sherlock listened to the conversation intensly and even managed to add a few comments in which, everyone laughed at because they had infact been quite witty and very true. But eventually the boys and girls formed two groups, talking about gender related topics, both of which bored Sherlock but tried to be polite for Molly's sake.
After another hour of gossiping (although they would probably call it 'catching up with the guys' even though they were definalty gossiping) the boys went to play football, having to dodgy the numerous children who were also out enjoying the good weather with their parents or friends. Sherlock stayed sitting down with the girls but quickly got bored so excused himself from the conversation and quickly telling Molly some nonscence about outstanding homework which was a complete lie because he had done his only homework, a book review, on the first day of the holidays. He got up, grabbed his bag and walking towards a near-by tree hoping that the shade might cool him down. He pulled a book out of his bag and started to zone out, focusing all his energies on taking every detail about the book.
The tree, unfortunately did not help to cool him down so in the end Sherlock had to take off his shirt just like many of the boys playing football had to done. He wouldn't say that is body was what girls would call "hot" or "fit" but he was slim due to the many meals he skipped and toned because of the boxing and karate lessons that his parents made him do as, according to government recommendations, children were suppose to get 1 hour of exercise each day and regrettably, Sherlock's parents did not count completitng experiments as exercise.
This action did not go unnoticed by Molly's friends and after many minutes of staring and admiring the view, something which they had not thought they would be doing 3 hours ago when they first met the boy. His body wasn't the typical "hot" celebrity body in a magazine or anything but he was much better looking than half of the boys at their previous school and most probably their new one.
"Friggin hell. Molly. Your boyfriend is really fucking fit. Some may say that he even has a better body than Greg and he's like… mind blowingly hot! Greg can catch me getting dressed in the changing rooms whenever he wants!" Anastasia laughed after he saw the face that Molly was pulling and everyone quickly joined in with Annie's laughing.
"Oi, that's my brother your talking about and he's 5 years older then us… well 4 in your case… but that doesn't mean that you try and put your fantasises into action. Anyway I don't think he would be interested in any of you." Molly remarked trying not to be too embarrassed. Since her half brother, Gregory Lestrade, had been staying with her after his mother died 3 years ago, all her friends ever did was talk about how 'fit' her older brother was. In some ways she could understand why some might think that he is attractive. He did do a lot of football which have him a faboulously toned body and when they went on holiday he tanned really well making him look like a model from Hollister but she just didn't like her friends talking about him in that way! It doesn't help when her friends decide to come round her house and instead of spending time with her, they spend all their time trying to get his attention. Half of the girls at St. Edwards were praying for a date with Greg as he was pretty much famous among the school population and was probably going to be head boy in a years time." don't take it personally or anything. Your all really nice and very beautiful. Its just… you just… aren't his type." Molly continued without making it too obvious what she was implying because only a few people knew what Greg's type was…
"Come on. What's going on with you and the bloody gorgeous but also weirdly brainy brunette? He seems like a nice kid. A bit weird but his body all most certainly makes up for that!" Anastasia simply stated like it was more of a fact than a statement.
"What! Sherlock! Nothing is going on between me and Sherlock. He's just a friend. A good friend. He will never be interested in me. I don't think he will ever like anyone in that way. It's the one thing he cant deduce from anyone…. love."
"He could be asexual I suppose. Which is ashame cus he is really sexy with his hair and all." Another one of Molly's friends, Imogen said.
"So you like him? You just don't now if he like you back." Annie replied.
"Yeah… kinda. But he's a good friend. I don't want anything to change between us. Plus we are too young to be doing all that. We need to focus on studying. Our GCSE's are only a few years away and a relationship would just ruin them." Molly tried to convince the girls who always seemed to be talking about boys and never about things that matter such as schooling and homework. Harry was the only one who seemed slightly normal on that front.
"SHERLOCK AND MOLLY SITTING IN A TREE. K-I-S-S-I-N-G" They all chanted while molly blushed, putting her head in her hands and wishing to just disappear. But when she saw Sherlock's face, she concluded that she had to shut them up quickly because he punched one of them in the face.
Luckily for Sherlock, two of the boys who were playing football, came over to him and told him that he had to help get everyone some food. The two boys, whom one of which was Greg and he thought the other one was Harry's brother John, quickly grabbed Sherlock by the shoulder and pulled him towards a local café to get the others some sandwiches. On the way they tried to calm Sherlock down as much as one can after being embarrassed in front of people he only met a few hours ago. They tried telling him to ignore the girls and that they meant nothing by it but in the end they saw their words weren't helping the situation so they talked about other subjects until they reached the café.
Sherlock quickly paid for the wide variety of sandwiches that they had picked up, before either of the boys could object. His parents didn't like it when he came home with any of the money that they had given him as they thought that it meant that he didn't have any fun so he didn't mind paying for all the food. On the way back, the boys tried to tell him that he didn't need to pay for the sandwiches, that it wouldn't make them like him any less if he didn't but after a lot of arguing the boys just decided to leave it. Sherlock Holmes was not one to argue with because he always won. No matter what.
Later on, after hours of football, laughing, hide and seek and eating, Sherlock actually realsied that he had managed to enjoy his day out and even made new friends in both Greg and Harry. They had attempted to teach Sherlock the rules of football after much whinning and complaining, but failed miserably because Sherlock just couldn't see the point in running around kicking a rubber sphere about a muddy field, while getting hot and sweaty. All the friends decided to leave at 5 as it was getting dark so they all went their separate ways after exchanging numbers with Sherlock and telling him to get a facebook account to which he refused. Sherlock spotted Harry and John leaving the park the opposite way to the others and noticed that they were bickering, rather loudly, about how Harry hadn't stopped the girls from embarrassing Sherlock but she simply argued that it wasn't her place to step in.
"Not everyone who was there today will be in our year. As you already know Greg is 5 years older than us so will be in Mycroft's year but John and Tobais are in the year above us. Although everyone else is in our year so hopefully there will always be someone from today in your class." Molly explained as they walked down the country lane towards Sherlock's house. Most of Molly's friends lived in the village so they had been left alone to talk for about 20 minutes now.
"Yeah Harry seems nice. Quite clever. I think I remember her being on my class list so I should be able to follow her around as much as possible until she gets bored of me. Hopefully I wont be called a freak on the first day if I hang around her." Sherlock mentioned, not even realising what he said until he did. Molly just calmed him down so much and listened despite his moaning and he always found that he couldn't help just blurting out things that he considered 'too personal' for anyone to know, not even his family. Especially not his family.
"Sherlock, you know, if anyone threatens you or anything, just come and find me and… I will sort it out… if you want. Or if you can't find me, im sure… Greg would sort them out for you. He knows that if he does anything to make me angry I can easily make his life hell so he is bound to help you for me."
"Thanks." The younger boy muttered not wanting to admit help but figuring that it might be good if he had some one to turn to if things got complicated.
As they reached Sherlock's house they quickly said goodbye and Sherlock entered his house, utterly drained after such an exhausting day.
*so for people who do not already know a bursary is basically a kind of scholarship but what happens is, if your parents cannot afford for you to go to the school then they state that the child needs to be looked at for a bursary. They do the same exam as the other kids but if they do really well then they get an interview so that the school can find out more about them. Then if they get into the school. Depending on their parents income and sometimes if they have siblings at the school as well, you only have to pay a percentage of the school fees (which can sometimes be very low). It also means that you don't have to pay the full price for school uniform and if someone cant afford to go on a school trip that will help them academically, then the school will pay for them to go.
Hope you all enjoyed this chapter although personally I think the next chapter is the best. I will post it hopefully on Sunday! Having a bit of a problem writing at the moment because even though I have planned out every chapter, I am finding chapter 4 really hard to write.
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