Part 26

The bell rang for the end of school and for Rachel the bell couldn't ring soon enough. Davina had completed her first lesson and was awaiting feedback which she would receive tomorrow in her meeting with Rachel, as the inspector had to inform Rachel of the decision first.

Davina was quietly confident as the class had responded perfectly to her instructions and for one day they actually gave the impression that they were interested in English. Rachel who knew what it was like waiting for the news; she felt it too when she didn't know what her future may have been like at the end of last year, found Davina and explained to her that the inspector had been impressed so she passed the inspection and she was officially a teacher.

Immediately on hearing the news she hugged Rachel and ran off to find Tom, thrilled that she could tell him the good news. Rachel was about to turn and return to her office when she saw a familiar face get out of a car that had just pulled into the car park. His eyes caught hers so she was unable to get out of the way claiming she hadn't seen him.

He made his way into the school and said "Hello Rachel, I come to ask you if you want to go to dinner with me?"

Rachel hesitated "um, I don't know tomorrow's a school day so I normally have a quiet night in". On realising that it sounded like an invitation for him to go to her house she continued saying "actually one evening isn't going to make any difference; I'll just need to go home and get changed".

"No you don't look like fantastic as you". Rachel walked up to her office and packed up her belongings so she would be ready for the next day. She hadn't seen Eddie for the majority of the whole day but as she had nothing important to say she decided she would see him tomorrow.

Rachel left the building with Jamie and proceeded to get in his car, Eddie who had finished marking his books, walked to her office and saw her outside getting in a car. He immediately felt jealous but he couldn't help it, he just hoped for Rachel's sake that Jamie would look after her and make her happy.