It was the last day of term at Waterloo Road. Chris was up bright and early to get ready. He was walking around his bedroom getting ready trying to avoid the suitcases that were on the floor before their holiday tomorrow. He went downstairs and saw Lydia was downstairs already.
"Bloody Hell. Who are you and what have done with my daughter." Chris said as he walked into the kitchen.
"I'm the same person, just up really early this morning." Lydia said. Lydia walked to get her toast out the toaster. She had her cast removed at the weekend.
Alice came running through the kitchen door and nearly taking out Chris.
"Woah. I have preference to not spending the down A&E and the day before we go away." Chris said trying the catch his balance.
"Sorry daddy, mummy said I need to get her my t-shirts so she can pack them away." Alice said as ran out the kitchen again.
Alice, Mia and Emily finished school yesterday so they were going to be at home helping Nicole pack before they go on holiday tomorrow. Nicole came into the kitchen.
"Next time don't tell her to sprint she nearly killed me. What time are you going to your mums to change the cars around?" Chris asked.
"About midday." Nicole said as made herself a cup of tea.
Half an hour later Chris, Lydia and Megan left for work and school. Chris was sat in the staff when Sian walked in alone.
"Still no Jez then" Matt said.
"Do I detect trouble in paradise?" Grantly asked itching to get in on the gossip.
"Come on you lot wind your necks in" Chris said defending Sian.
"Morning" Michael said walking into the staff room.
Michael stood and explained how to the day's prize giving awards would work. When suddenly Jez walked into the staff room.
"Hey your back." Matt said.
"I'm not staying. I'm just getting me stuff and my kids." Jez said.
"Your leaving?" Chris asked.
"I haven't got much choice. When my boss has been shagging my wife," everyone sat in silence awkwardly looking at each other. "Grantly as you're my union rep, I need to talk to you."
Jez and Grantly left the room and Sian followed. Michael continued with the morning's briefing. Before everyone left to get to form. Chris went to his office when walked in he saw Sian sitting at her desk.
"You ok?" Chris asked. Despite everything that had gone Sian was still a good friend of his.
"I'm fine." Sian replied disinterested.
Chris grabbed a few things and then left the office. He went back to his classroom and sat at his desk. He started marking some of his book seeing as he wouldn't be doing any of that over the next so he wanted to get on top of things before he went away. The hour that Chris spent marking flew by and before he knew it he was letting in his next class.
"Today guys we will be looking the different types of bonding. Look at the board copy what's on it down. You have five minutes."
Jez knocked at the door.
"Mr Mead, could I have Zack please?" Jez asked.
"Sure." Chris agreed.
"Bring all stuff mate." Jez said as he left the classroom.
Chris went back to teaching. Chris was walking around his classroom helping people on the activity that he set them off on when Sian walked into the classroom.
"Can I have a word?" Sian said. Chris made his way to the front of the classroom. "Jodie Allen has made some serious accusations about her foster father."
"You believe her?" Chris asked.
"At first I didn't know what to believe but something is not right." Sian answered concerned.
"Have you spoken Michael yet?" Chris queried.
"I was just about to. I just thought you should know" Sian left the room.
Chris went back to teaching his lesson. The bell rang for the end of the lesson. Lydia walked past his classroom with Em. They were going up to see Scout. Lydia and Em walked into the room were Scout was.
"Everything ok." Lydia asked.
"What have you done. I can't believe you wrote that, I thought it was going to be hating them or something." Scout protested.
"Em what have you done?" Lydia asked.
"Lydia shut up. It's guaranteed to get you of there though. They got to Bristol you stay here. Job done" Em said defending her actions.
"Simon's not like that though" Scout said annoyed.
Lydia stood against the wall trying to work out what was going on.
"But he might be"
"He's not"
"Look it will be fine. It wasn't anything really bad. You'll get moved they'll be gone," Em sighed. Scout shook her head. "Or if you'd rather tell them it was me and see what happens."
"Em what have you done" Lydia asked again.
"I'll tell you later." Em said getting her to be quiet. "You can go to Bristol. I'll get permanently excluded. You asked me to sort it I did."
"Why did it have to be so bad." Scout asked.
"I'm doing it so we can be together. Just trust me." Em said.
"Alright I will. If you think it will work." Scout sighed.
Sian walked in to the room. "Hello you two. I'm going to have to ask you to leave I need to speak to Jodie alone."
"We were just checking if she was ok. I can't believe it's happened to her just like it happened to my sister. You'll be ok, I promise" Em said holding Scout's hand. Em and Lydia got up and left the room.
"Em what did you do?" Lydia asked again.
"It doesn't matter. All that matter is Scout won't be going to Bristol." Em said.
It was lunchtime. Scout had been let out for some air. Lydia, Scout and Em where walking through the car park.
"I can't go back there and lie to the police. They'll guess I made it all up." Scout said worried.
"Just act traumatised. You'll be fine" Em said trying to get Scout going to get along with whatever she had done.
"I don't understand why she's doing this." A female voice said.
"Quick hide it's your foster mum." Em said as all three of them ducked behind a car.
"This is a nightmare. What have you done." Lydia said to Em.
"Come on let's get out of here." Em said pulling Lydia and Scout towards the main gate.
All three of them ran towards the park.
"Everyone's going think Simon's a peado now." Scout worried.
"He might be. My dad was." Em said as calm as anything.
"Were in it deep now though." Scout said once again worried.
"Only because you chickened out on me. I stuck to my part of the plan." Em said defending herself again.
"If someone don't tell me what's going on. I'm actually going to go crazy." Lydia said from the bench she was sat on.
Scout told Lydia what had gone.
"Em have you actually lost your mind." Lydia said shocked.
"We supposed to be best friends. But as soon as something's gone wrong your blaming it on me." Em said angrily.
"All I meant…" Scout said trying to say something.
"You don't get it do you. Me and Lydia are all you've got. No-one else cares about you. I do anything for you but you just a back-stabber. You pretend you care but go on stick the knife in." Em shouted at Scout.
"Will you just shut up" Scout shouted back.
"Scout go on." Lydia said calmly.
"She's a bully, I'm bowing down for everything you say. I wished I'd never made friends with you." Scout said before she walked off.
"Go walk away just like they all do. If you try and drop me in it. I'll just deny it." Em shouted at her.
"Come on. Let's go somewhere else." Lydia said.
Back at school Megan and Charlotte where walking down the corridor with Finn and Trudi when Scout came past crying.
"Woah." Finn said stopping Scout.
"Scout has someone upset you." Trudi asked rubbing her arm.
Scout nodded and she began to walk off. Trudi followed her.
"I'll come with you" Megan said going after her to.
Chris was walking with Michael to his office to discuss plans for this afternoon's prize giving ceremony. When his mobile rang.
"Linda…What...I'll be right there." Michael hurried out. "Chris with me please. Wayne Johnson is on school site and he's just dragged Sian into Grantly's classroom."
Both Michael and Chris hurried out of his office. When they got their Linda was stood outside. They could see Wayne through the window. Michael went straight in Chris and Linda followed.
"Here he is hero of the hour." Wayne said.
"What do you want?" Michael asked.
"The truth. An apology. I ended up in intensive care." Wayne shouted.
"What's he going on about?" Chris asked.
"Go on tell them how you threatened me, attacked me and pushed me in front of a van. Tell them how you left me for dead." Wayne said waving his arms about.
"I didn't do any of that." Michael said trying to defend himself.
"You left me though didn't you. Didn't you!"
"Wayne calm down" Linda pleaded with him.
"Stay out of this" Wayne shouted and then suddenly he fell to the floor and broke down into tears. Michael went over and removed Wayne's hand from his jacket pocket. He had a picture of a baby in his hand.
"I can't be in here." Sian said rushing out the classroom. Michael followed her. Chris and Linda stayed with Wayne.
Despite everything that had happened during the day. The highlight of the day was the prize-giving ceremony. The Waterloo Road band with amazing performance of Waterloo by ABBA to conclude the afternoon. Lydia walked out with Denzil, Phoenix and Scout.
"Oi. Reckon I'll police caution today because of you." A voice shouted. It was Em.
"Denzil come on." Lydia said pulling her boyfriend away.
Em came storming out of the building.
"Em! Em! Emily!" Lydia shouted after her.
"What Lydia?" Em said annoyed.
"I was checking to see if you were ok." Lydia said.
"Fine. Just want to go home and not have to see her for the remainder of the holiday." Em said.
"I'll text you when come back off my holiday. Maybe hang out or something." Lydia said.
"I'd like that. I'd like that a lot. At least I still have one friend in this place." Em said more calmly.
"I not saying what you did was right but your still my best friend and you have been since we both joined the school." Lydia said hugging her friend. "I've got to go Dad's probably having a melt down because were leaving tonight."
Lydia walked over to Chris's car with Denzil and Em before driving off home. When they got home they could see that Nicole had packed her mum's car.
"Come on. They'll be here in a minute." Nicole said when they walked through the door.
"We'll be fine. We've got plenty of time" Chris said.
Chris went upstairs and had a shower. Lydia and Megan did the same. When they got downstairs Nicole's sister pulled up onto the drive. They were going to follow each other down to a hotel tonight and catch the ferry the next morning. Chris was dreading the thought of having to spend possibly over 5 hours in a car with 5 children was a joyful thought.