Chapter 3 – Marion And Much.
As they were walking back to school arguing Marion kept feeling as if someone was watching them, however every time she looked back there was no one there. It made her feel uneasy but she put it to the back of her mind, she had bigger things to worry about now.
When they arrived back in the common room Much sidled up to Marion.
"Umm… well…. You see…." He stuttered,
"Will told you about the pregnancy didn't he?" said Marion calmly.
"Well… yeah." Said Much, looking at his feet.
"Well please don't tell anyone!" said Marion, "especially not Robin!"
With that she walked off, leaving Much worrying about life in general and how he was going to keep this major secret from his best friend, but at the same time he felt honoured that Will had decided to tell him and not Robin.
When the morning came Marion was awakened by Robin stroking her face.
"Robin!" she said in an angry whisper, "what are you doing her, you know you'll get expelled if they find you in here with me!"
"Yeah I no." said robin in a sulky voice, "but we need to talk."
"Robin now is not the time!"
"Fine! but when you plan to tell me then just bear in mind that I might not have time for you!"
"Plan to tell you what?" asked Marion but he was already gone in that mischievous way of his.
She sighed; it was going to be a long day. Then she remembered, it was Tuesday, and that meant that after lunch she had the weird history teacher, Mr Drof who was always staring at her and never changed his jacket.
She groaned, she hated Mr Drof and could not understand why any one could stand him for more than two seconds.
Surprisingly the morning went by in a flash and before she knew it she was in registration chatting to Djaq while their form tutor took the register. They walked very slowly down to the history room, dragging their feet and trying to miss as much of the dullest lesson they had as possible.
"Right class, today we are starting a new topic," said Mr Drof, looking all the time at Marion, who had , on purpose, worn her zip up jacket zipped up to the top. "We are going to learn about the Napoleonic wars." Everyone groaned, they hated history this year because last year they had had Ms Deerc who was nice and let them chat for the whole lesson and do no work.
"No need to worry, this is one of my favourite topics!" said Mr Drof, handing out lots of sheets.
"What a bore!" whispered Allan to Robin.
"Yeah even Mrs Yarb was nicer than him!" replied Robin.
"Hey Locksley!" whispered Vaysey from the back of the class, "Watch out! He's got his eyes on your girlfriend!"
Robin decided to ignore him but did start to monitor the situation with Mr Drof and Marion closely. He always walked past her and pretended to drop his sheets so that he could get down to her eye level when she was sitting. However he did notice that Marion squirmed whenever he did this and that comforted him. Suddenly a thought struck him, if Marion was pregnant then it couldn't be his baby and that was why she hadn't told him! So he started a mental list of all the possible suspects: Vaysey, no, Guy, no, Will, definitely not! Allan, doubt he'd have the guts! John, no way! And that just left Much! His own best friend! He couldn't believe it, but when he thought about it, Much was talking to Marion just after she returned to the castle yesterday, Marion did help him with his homework, which left them hours alone, and also that time in truth or dare he had seemed pretty eager to kiss her. It all made sense. As he was thinking about this he didn't notice Mr Drof standing right in front of him banging his stick on the desk.
"Mr Locksley do you know the answer to my question: where was Napoleon born?"
"Errrrr, no sir."
"Well you would if you had been paying attention instead of gazing at Miss Fitzwalter then you would, wouldn't you!" shouted the history teacher and walked off.
Robin looked over at Marion who had gone bright red while the rest of the class burst out laughing. He could feel his own face flushing and sank down in his seat, willing the day to be over so that he could beat the living daylights out of Much.
That evening Much was sitting in the common room thinking again, it was not a hobby he normally indulged in, but recently he had a lot on his mind, especially Djaq's pregnancy. He was worried by it, not because of her refusal to get an abortion, but because it meant that Will and Djaq were a whole five bases above him and Dean, he felt like the only one who was scared and at the same time he was worried what Dean thought of him, she was his first girlfriend and before her he had only ever kissed Marion in Truth or Dare. He felt like crying but he couldn't because everyone else was there and they would have laughed at him. When Robin came in he looked like he was angry and Much was even more scared, especially when Robin saw him and made a beeline for where Much was sitting by the fire.
"Robin…" Much started but was knocked out cold by a strong punch that hit him square round the head.
Much woke up in sick bay with all of the gang apart from Robin standing around him.
"What…What happened?" he asked propping himself up.
"It's all my fault!" sobbed Djaq. "I didn't tell anyone and he heard me and Marion talking about the abortion so he thought that Marion was pregnant with your child!"
"But why? I thought that he would know that I would never do something like that!"
"I'm not being funny right but No one told me and you don't see me knocking people out do you!" commented Allan unhelpfully.
"Shut up Allan!" shouted Marion, "this is terrible! Robin thinks that I am pregnant and as he ran off after hitting you much, no one has seen him, and all we found was a note that fell out of his pocket!"
"what did it say?" asked Much.
Will took the note out of his jacket and read it out:
"Dear guys,
Please look after Marion and Much's child for me, I just whish that it was mine. If you want to know how I figured it out just think of Mr Dorf's class this afternoon and hopefully you can put two and two together. I will be watching you from the sky so please don't cry, especially you Marion, I couldn't handle that. I hope that you all do well in your exams and never forget why you're here.
Robin"
"But…" started Much.
"Yes we know!" said Marion, "that's why we need to find him, he might do something stupid!" with this she broke down into tears, sobbing on Djaq's shoulder.
On top of the School Robin stood, looking over the edge. He prepared himself. Took a deep breath and…
