Chapter 7 – Issy.

Issy is actually based on someone in our (mine and Sophie's) form at school who wouldn't stop pestering me to put her in! (don't worry she's not like this in real life!) So here you go Issy!

Issy was upstairs unpacking her things. She thought about the people in her new form, there was that annoying girl who kept asking her questions, she thought that she was called Marian. Then there was the girl who had shown her up here and the other girl sitting by the ugly boy in the hat, she didn't like them, they were too weird. Then she turned her thoughts to the guys who had been there. There was the fit guy who had told her that they were in 10 Alpha, but she thought that he might have been going out with that Marian girl, not for much longer she smiled to herself. She cast her mind back to the other guys, they were all right, and maybe she could start with them.

"She seemed nice," commented Robin downstairs in the common room.

"Hmmmm," said Marian, "I'm not sure."

"What are you not sure about?" asked Djaq.

"She just seemed to be a bit weird," said Marian.

When school started again it soon became clear that however nice she seemed, Issy was not the brightest spark in the box. She constantly needed help and was always living up to her blonde hair.

"So Napoleon killed everyone then?" she asked at about midnight when Robin was helping her study.

"No! Napoleon was annexed and sent away!" said Robin in a tired voice, reading from the book.

When he looked up Issy's face was inches from his.

"I really appreciate you helping me," she said, fluttering her eyelashes, "I mean, really."

"Thanks," said Robin feeling very self-conscious with Issy this close, he looked around, they were the only one's down here, he sort of whished they weren't.

Issy leant forward and kissed him lightly. He pulled back and ran up to his room with a look of horror on his face, surely she knew that he was going out with Marian, but then again, she was very pretty and she appreciated his help, unlike Marian who just told him that he had got the answers wrong. But he wasn't the kind of guy who went around kissing millions of girls. He decided that he would just sleep on it.

In the morning Robin awoke to find all the boys in his room (Will, John, Much and Allan) laughing at him. He rubbed his eyes and his hands came back bright red.

"What!" he shouted

"Mate, I know that you and Marian get on well, but you really should wash your face before you go to bed!" laughed Allan; everyone else was too hysterical to speak.

Robin got up and looked in the mirror. He gasped when he saw his face, it was covered in bright red kisses! He rubbed his eyes hoping that this was all just a dream and he was going to wake up back in his bed and with a clean face. But, no he was still here, trapped in a nightmare.

"Help! Does anyone have any tissues?" he asked, peeking round the door that led to the stairs down to the common room, "Marian is down there and I can't let her see me like this!"

"Wait a second, are you saying that these aren't Marians?" asked Much, abruptly stopping laughing, "whose are they then?"

"Well…. You see…. Issy's" said Robin, looking at his feet. "Last night I was helping her with her history and well….

"OH MY GOD YOU DIDN'T!" shouted Allan really loudly then covered his mouth, remembering the door was open and Marian was downstairs.

"What's wrong?" asked Marian, coming up the stairs but stopping when she saw Robin's face. "Robin?" she asked with tears in her eyes.

"Marian… it's not what it looks like…" started Robin but Marian had run off back to the girls dormitories followed by Djaq, Paula and Dean who all gave Robin a nasty look.

"Good morning everyone!" said Issy cheerfully coming back into the common room after going to the showers. She stopped dead when she saw Robin glaring at her, put on her innocent face and fluttered her eyelashes.

"I…AM…GOING…TO…KILL…YOU!" shouted Robin, breathing heavily.

"What have I done wrong?" asked Issy sweetly.

"YOU KNOW WHAT YOU'VE DONE!" screamed Robin.

Issy saw this as her cue to leave and ran out of the common room into the girls loos, where she stayed until first lesson.

Robin sat down in one of the armchairs and put his head in his hands, then he remembered that he still had lipstick all over his face, he whished that he had never said that he would help Issy, he had been flattered when she had asked him to help but now he understood that it wasn't because she thought that he was smart, she had just wanted him; and now he had lost his girlfriend over it.

Marian was upstairs in the girls' dormitory crying. How could he do this to her? She thought that he loved her and would do anything for her. Now she understood what the girls in books felt like when they discovered that their boyfriends were two timing them. She had hoped that this day would never come. She wondered who the cow that was sleeping with her boyfriend, sorry, ex-boyfriend was. It couldn't have been Djaq, Paula, Dean or Alice; they all had boyfriends and would respect hers. It must have been someone in their form; Robin didn't really talk to anyone else. If she crossed out them that that only left one person, Issy. But Marian didn't think that Issy would have done something like that if she was so new, but it must have been her.

"Marian," came a soft voice. "Are you Ok?"

"No," cried Marian, "my boyfriend has cheated on me! Why on earth would I be ok?!

"Well I can't defend his behaviour but I know that he is sorry."

"Who are you?" asked Marian

"Guess."

"ROBIN!" screamed Marian, "HOW DARE YOU COME IN HERE AFTER YOU SLEPT WITH THAT SLAPPER!"

"I'm sorry Marian, I didn't sleep with her, I promise."

"But how come you got up this morning with Issy's lips all over your face?"

"Well last night while I was asleep, she must have come in and…. Well you know."

"Yes I do know, I said that I didn't trust her and now I know that I can't trust you!"

"Please!" begged Robin, "I have something important to tell you but I need you to forgive me first."

"What?" asked Marian curiously.

"I can't say unless you promise that you forgive me."

"But I'm not the one at fault here!" shouted Marian, "You and her….

"DO NOT EXIST!" shouted Robin, "It's just you and me."

"Well not anymore!"

"Yes there is and that is why I want you to help me!"

Marian ran out of the room once more leaving Robin sitting on her bed wondering what to do; if Marian wouldn't help him then who could?

"Hello Robin." Came another voice out of the darkness, Issy appeared wearing only a very short skirt and a tight top. Robin gritted his teeth, now was the time to make up for his mistakes.