It had been a week since lacrosse training and ever since Harriet had been making not just mine, but the rest of my dorm's lives a misery. Drippy had been especially upset when Harriet told Matron about her secret stash of Wagon Wheels.

The girls and I decided to give her a taste of her own medicine and have devised a seamless plan. Being Head Girl meant that Harriet had certain privileges, like her own parking spot in the teacher's underground car park and she could go into town during her free classes. Harriet was also a stickler for school rules, so Kate and I had gotten our hands on one of the school flags, which bore it's crest. We then set to work covering over some of the images on the shield. We replaced a book with pictures of alcohol and a bouquet of lilies with a muscled and very tanned man in only a pair of underpants. And on the other side of the flag we stuck a large image of Harriet with a drawn on moustache, beard, mono-brow and gold crown.

We then snuck down to the teacher's car park, which luckily was empty. We attached out new flag to a sturdy stick and sticky-taped it to the back number plate of Harriet's car.

So she wouldn't see it, we bent the stick back and tucked the corner of the flag under the wheel, so once she drove off, the flag would spring up and she wouldn't know about it.

"What are you up to down here?" I heard someone ask and Kate and I spun around to see Freddy looking skeptical.

"Nothing." I said.

"We dropped something and it rolled down here." Kate said calmly.

"What did you drop?" he asked disbelievingly.

"Duct tape." I said, holding up the roll of tape, my poker face on point. "It just got away from us so easily." I added shaking my head in disappointment.

"Right." He said slowly as footsteps came down the steps of the carpark.

"Crap!" Kate hissed.

"Quick, under the car." I said and we crawled under the car beside Harriet's as Freddy watched in amusement.

"Freddy. What a surprise to see you down here." We heard Harriet's voice say.

"Harriet." Freddy greeted.

"I'm just heading into town. Did you need anything?" she asked getting into her car and I had to nudge Kate to stop her from giggling.

"No thanks." Freddy replied.

"Okay, bye then." Harriet said and started her car. We watched as the back wheel rolled off the flag and it sprang into the air, and from underneath the car we watched Harriet drive up the ramp with our flag waving proudly in the air. We couldn't keep it in any longer and we burst into laughter.

"So that's what you were up to." Freddy said as he looked under our car. Kate and I wriggled out and managed to get our laughter under control.

"Keep your mouth shut, Kingsley. Or I'm afraid we'll have to kill you." I said seriously. He held his hands up in surrender and backed away.

At lunch, later that day the girls and I saw Harriet in her car, returning to school, without the flag, which meant she'd probably seen it along with most of the town. Mission Accomplished.

"So, what classes does everyone have?" I asked.

"Maths." Kiki and Josie said together.

"English." Kate said.

"French." Drippy sighed. "What about you?"

"I've got a free period." I replied. "I need to make a start on this geography assignment."

"But don't forget girls. We have the social coming up." Kate said and seeing my confused face she explained. "This term, we have two socials. One hosted by our brother school and the other hosted by us."

"Yeah, and then at the end of every term there's a ball." Drippy added.

"Wow. British people like to party." I said. "When's the social?" I asked.

"Saturday." Kate said.

"Is it compulsory?" I asked.

"Oh, Charlie you just have to come. You'd be mental not to." Drippy insisted.

"Oh, but I don't have a thing to wear." I said dramatically. "Nothing wintery anyway. I didn't think it'd be this cold here."

"I know the perfect place." Kiki said.

"It's settled then. On Saturday morning, we shop." Josie said pretending to hold her fork in the air like a sword.

After lunch, I collected my textbook and notebook from the dorm, and since it was such a lovely day I decided to sit outside on one of the benches near the field to do my work.

I put my earphones in and settled into my note making. I'd only gotten a page written before someone pulled out one of my earphones, making me jump. I looked over my shoulder and saw Freddy leaning on the back of the bench, looking over my shoulder at what I was writing.

"Studying?" He asked.

"Yep. You probably didn't recognise me. After all you've only ever seen me making a fool of myself; dropping my books everywhere or covered in mud." I replied.

"Or half naked. You forgot that one." He added jokingly.

"I see you haven't." I replied.

"Of course not." He laughed before looking back over my shoulder. "How the hydrosphere interacts with the biosphere." He read.

"Yes, and unlike you I am working hard." I said as he jumped over the back of the bench and sat next to me. I tried to keep reading but I could feel him watching me, so I crossed my leg and sat on the bench sideways so that I was facing him. "What's new, Kingsley?" I asked.

"Are you going to the social on Saturday?" he asked.

"I don't know. This assignment has to get done and socials aren't really my scene." I shrugged.

"Well you should consider coming. It's always good fun." He said.

"I'll think about it." I shrugged.

"What's your assignment on, anyway?" he asked.

"Biophysical interactions." I said. "How the spheres interact with each other."

"Wow, that sounds…fun." He said and I chuckled.

"Don't you have something called 'work', to do?" I asked.

"Unfortunately, I do. So, I'll head off and you, can go to…maths?" he read looking at my timetable.

"Crap! I do." I started, jumping off the seat. "It was nice to see you again and uh…maybe I'll see you on Saturday." I said, facing him as I walked backwards towards the school.

"You'll have a good time. I promise." He said and I waved before hurrying off to class.