Disclaimer: I don't own Alex Rider
The first part of the first prank and the prank just after she leaves the school belong to allenterrill.
I hate colds - my friend thought it would be fun to organise a hike. She didn't even come on it! Good thing its half term.
It was now the middle of July and the last day of summer term. Well for this boarding school at least.
Everyone had packed their things the night before and it was now morning. A blissful calming quiet had covered the school and everyone was asleep. Well every one except Kat.
A scream echoed through out the school. Everyone recognised it as the headmistress's. Kat heard all the other girls hurrying to put on their dressing gowns and run as fast as they could to the headmistress's room. Kat just lay on her bed, in camouflage trousers and a tank top with white wing printed on the back grinning and listening to her MP3 player. Her eyes where closed and she was just waiting for the fireworks to start.
Five minutes later her door was flung open so hard it dented the paint work on the door.
"Katrina Toon where are my clothes?" A seething headmistress demanded.
Katrina didn't open her eye but had a look of distaste on her face.
"Your not walking round nude are you miss. I think the girls minds would be scarred for ever, well more than they already are. The sneak out to go to the movies with boys. I'd understand if the boys where cute but a pigs cuter than them." Kat rambled on.
"Those boys are highly respectable young men, you should feel privileged if even one of them looks at you." The headmistress told Kat, "Back to the matter in hand however. Where are my clothes? The parents are going to be here soon and I refuse to met them in my night gown and i'm definitely not going to be seen in those disgusting track suits you replaced them with."
"Your clothes are at the dry cleaners. I thought that you'd want them to be professionally cleaned, I wanted it to be a surprise, especially after all the pranks i've pulled, I thought this could be a sorry present. I'd better be going though, my Taxi will be here in five minutes. You clothes should be back from the dry cleaner at the same time." Kat told the headmistress, she had the sorrowful look and pulled of the about to cry look perfectly.
"Ah, well i'm sorry for yelling at you but in future please let me know before hand." The headmistress told her in a what she meant to be a soothing tone. With that she left Kat's room.
Five minute later and Kat had got all her luggage to in to the taxi when the dry cleaners van arrived. The headmistress rushed to the van and almost fainted when she saw that all of her clothes had been dyed pink and yellow. Kat was driven off laughing as she saw the men from the van try to calm her down.
Kat wasn't around when the headmistress found out about the school sign being changed to
URSURLA'S SCHOOL FOR SILLY IDIOTS
NO PRIM OR PROPER AROUND
Kat was being sent to a B&B for the holidays. An old couple had agreed to keep an eye on her.
The summer passed by very quickly and Kat was ,surprisingly to anyone who knew her, well behaved. The couple treated her like a grandchild that the had never gotten to see. All of there real grandchildren lived in Alaska, but it was too cold for them there. They spoiled her and in return she treated them like grandparents. They even told her some classic pranks and how to pull them off.
One the last day of the summer holidays Kat bid the couple farewell after getting them to agree to hold of anyone who came to take her back to school for as long as possible.
She jogged to the train station and got a ticket to Waterloo. It was an hours train ride and she kept away from the windows that could be seen from any stops made, just in case anyone was looking for her.
For the rest of the day she wondered pointlessly around, blending into the crowd. A it was mid September most children where in school.
She was passing Brookland school at 3:00pm, letting the school children rush around when she saw him.
"Kat?" He asked.
"The one and only. I haven't seen you since Easter. How are you?" Kat asked, careful not to say his code name.
"I've been sick lately, what are you doing here?" The boy asked.
"My brother sent me to an all girls posh pansy boarding school. I stayed with a couple over the holiday's and there keeping anyone that comes busy as long as possible." Kat explained.
"Hey Alex, who are you talking to?" A different boy came up and asked.
"Hey Tom, this is Kat. Kat this is Tom, my best mate." Alex introduced them, "You two want to come back to mine?"
"Yeah, my parents are going bonkers again." Tom told him.
"Sure, i've got nowhere better to be. As long as you can handle it when who ever was sent to get me finds me." Kat told him.
"Sure, Jack is always happy when I bring friends home." Alex said before leading the way, wheeling his bike.
When they got to his house he led them into the kitchen, where Jack was waiting with a cup of coffee.
"Hey Alex, Tom." Jack greeted before looking at Kat.
"Jack this is Kat, she's the girl from the SAS camp. Kat this is Jack, my house keeper." Alex introduced. Tom made a noise of surprise when he heard this while Jack just smiled.
"Pleased to meet you Jack." Kat told her.
"Pleased to meet you to, although I would prefer it if you didn't play any pranks in the house, well at least not one me. The boy are fair game! Jack finished with a grin.