Here is another chapter for all my lovely readers. A big kiss for all who have reveiwed so far. I have not gotten a chance to write another chapter this week. I still have 5 more chapters done already, then I will have to start getting my writing butt in gear or I will be in trouble. This week will be spent writing. I also have another story that I actually started before this one and it involves Tyler and OFC. Let me know if I should start posting it or wait until this one is done. Now enough of the author babble, on with the story!
Yes, it was official. Corin Evelyn Danvers was hated. By whom, you ask? Well by the clothing gods of course. She was currently standing in her room at a quarter to eight in the morning, Monday morning to be exact. Her uniform was on. Well almost. The skirt was on, the socks, the shoes, the tie and cardigan. Where was the shirt you ask? It was on alright, even buttoned up, though decently, NO! Her shirt that she had gone and gotten measured for was too tight in a certain female body parts area. She could do up the buttons, but if she planned on breathing at all, those suckers were flying off and knocking someone out. Either that or her boobs would come springing out from their hiding place and knock some poor unsuspecting person out. No matter what way you looked at it, someone was getting a concussion courtesy of Corin Evelyn Danvers' boobs. Payton came walking into the room and whistled.
"Shut up. Come over here and help me." Payton walked over slowly. Even she could see the danger.
"What happened? I thought you were fitted."
"I was."
"Maybe they sent you the wrong uniform order." Payton was trying to be helpful.
"Nope, it had my name on it."
"Maybe they got your name and someone else's mixed up? You know, put your name on someone else's order and their name on yours? Maybe there is someone out there right now that has your shirt on and is wondering if they are supposed to go parasailing with it."
"Thanks" Payton could always be counted on to cheer anyone up.
"It really doesn't look that bad. It is a little tight, but hey, maybe you can get out of homework. Just lean over the teachers desk and voila, no homework." Corin shook her head.
"What am I supposed to do?" Corin felt like crying.
"Oh sweetie. You'll just have to wear it today and then after school, go back to the shop and order some new ones. It's only for one day and you can keep your cardigan on." Payton really was trying to help. Corin nodded her head and resigned herself to her fate.
They arrived at the school and Corin pulled into the parking spot. Payton was already out of the car and heading across the lawn.
"Wait up."
"Hurry, we have to go to the Provost office first."
The two girls entered the office and made themselves known to the secretary, who did not look happy to be there. They were told to sit and wait. A few minutes later, or forever, according to Payton time, they were called into the Provost's office.
"Well ladies, I have had the opportunity to review your transcripts and I must say, I am truly impressed. Especially you Miss Danvers. The teachers have agreed that we should test you right now and just place you immediately into any classes that are appropriate. You can go into the teachers lounge and begin. There will be a teacher with you at all times and whenever you're done, just hand your papers into them." To say both girls were shocked. Payton started to panic and Corin wasn't feeling so hot herself. To lighten the mood, Payton leaned over to Corin and whispered,
"at least now you won't have to worry about killing someone with your lethal boobs." Corin tried hard not to laugh and almost made it. The Provost turned around and gave her a look that clearly said, laughing was not appropriate.
"Sorry." They sat down in the lounge, Payton on one end and Corin on the other. They noticed there was a teacher sitting between them. A stack of papers was pushed towards them.
"Now girls, these tests are only to see where you are in each subject. The British way of schooling is a little different from ours, so we just want to see what class it would benefit you the most to be in. You may begin and when you are all done, come back to my office. There will be eight tests you are taking, they are the basic core subjects taught here. Math, English, Science, History, Geography, Music, P.E. and Art Appreciation. We also have many alternative courses you can take if you are interested, but I will go over those with you later, when you are done. If you don't get them all done today, you can have tomorrow to finish. Good luck. You may begin." The Provost left the room and Corin looked down to her paper. It was science. She was good at science, so this one should be easy. She saw that this test included all the sciences and wondered if each one would be like that in the other subjects. She glanced up at Payton and saw she was furiously scribbling away. She put her head down and began.
Corin was just starting on her fourth exam when a bell went off. Looking up to the clock, she noticed it was noon already.
"You ladies may take a break for lunch, but be sure to come back here right after. Leave your papers there and I will get them. We will do your P.E. testing after lunch. Bring your shorts and be ready." The teacher stood and Corin and Payton left the room. They followed the crowds to the food and grabbed some lunch and sat down.
"How do you think you've done so far?"
"Ok. I am going to be so brain dead after today though."
"Tell me about it. Have you seen the guys yet?"
"No, I'm too tired to look." Corin mumbled into the table.
"Hey there's Kate." Payton stood on her chair and waved Kate down. Sarah was right behind Kate and both girls bolted towards Payton. Pogue saw where Kate was headed and followed.
When they got to the table, Payton hoped down.
"Pay, I don't want you standing on the chairs again."
"Don't worry big bro, I won't fall off. I can stand all by myself now." Payton gave Pogue an innocent smile.
"I know that, just someone could try and look up your skirt. Why do you have it so short. Pull it down, right now."
"What are you talking about? It is pulled down. This is the same length skirt that every other girl is wearing."
"Well it's a little too short."
"What are you, the Spencer fashion police? Bugger off."
"Pogue, honey. The skirt she is wearing is the same length as mine. It's just that she's got such long legs, the skirt looks shorter. Don't be so anal." Pogue looked conflicted and Kate raised her eyebrow, so he decided to drop the subject. Caleb came over and sat down beside Sarah.
"So how has your first day been?"
"I wouldn't know. We've been in the teachers lounge all morning, doing testing. They want to see what level we are at." Corin rolled her eyes and put her head back down.
"We have to go back after lunch and do more testing." Payton filled in. There were sympathetic nods all around. Corin just managed to finish her lunch when the bell sounded.
"Where were Reid and Tyler?"
"Detention."
"Ah!"
Corin and Payton made the trip to their lockers to grab their gym outfits and then back to the lounge and were greeted by the same teacher. "Your tests are on the table, finish it and when you are done, we will do the P.E. test. I will give you fifteen minutes to change and then we will head outside." Corin sat down and got back to work right away. She finished this one fairly quickly and then read through it again, as she waited for Payton to finish. Twenty five minutes later, Payton was handing her paper in. "Ok ladies, go and change and meet by the front entrance."
Corin pushed the doors open and was greeted by the brilliant sunshine. At least it was warm out. She had french braided her hair and her and Payton joined the teacher on the lawn.
The testing started off slow. Mostly running and doing some warm ups. The next part surprised, but pleased both girls. They were doing gymnastics. Both Corin and Payton were excellent in gymnastics. Before they knew it, they were heading back inside and preparing to finish the rest of their tests.
The final bell of the day had rung and Corin was ten minutes and one question into her last test. The one just before that had been maths and it covered everything from calc, trig, to regular everyday fractions. Math was Corin's strongest subject and one that oddly enough, she loved. This last one, she was hoping to avoid. History, her worst subject ever. She worse than sucked at it. This one was going to be a killer, or she could just race through it and they would put her in a lower class and then she wouldn't have to worry about it. Then again, it would mean she would have to come back for another year to earn one more senior credit. She needed to do well on this test. Glancing once more at the clock, she determined to finish this test before school tomorrow morning and at the rate she was going, it was going to take that long.
Corin cracked her stiff neck and set her pencil down. She was done, finally done. After glancing back to the clock, she realized there was still enough time to get dinner. She looked over to Payton and saw her face scrunched up. She scribbled something down and slammed her pencil down.
"Done!" Corin couldn't help but chuckle at Payton's excitement. The teacher that had replaced the last one, grabbed their papers and stood.
"The Provost will get these to the heads of each department to mark and you should have your results by tomorrow morning. Come to his office first thing." He walked out the door and the two girls followed. They noticed there were a few teachers in the main office. They must have been the Heads. They smiled and left quickly.
"What do you say we stop and pick something up and head home. I want to take a shower, eat and crash."
"Sounds good." A few minutes of silence was interrupted by Corin cursing under her breath.
"What's up hun?"
"The store is closed and that means I can't get my shirts till tomorrow night."
"Oh crap."
"Yeah."
"Well couldn't you just, you know, change them yourself? No one's around and it's not like I would get freaked out or anything."
"Oh my gods, I never even thought of that. I've been preoccupied with starting school, it completely slipped my mind. I guess I could, just this once. I can count on you to watch my back?"
"You even have to ask!" Corin smiled. She closed her eyes and could feel her lungs expand. She looked down and smiled at the results.
"Ok, lets go and get dinner." The two girls entered the little cafe and were soon heading for home.
"Where were you?"
"Testing. The Provost wanted to test us and place us in the right classes right away." Evelyn smiled at the two exhausted girls.
"The boys headed over to Nicky's. They were wondering where you were." She told them.
"We are too dead. I don't know about Pay, but I'm going to eat, shower and crash. Night mom."
"Night sweetie."
"Night Mrs. D."
"Night Payton honey." The girls trudged up the stairs with their food and disappeared from sight.