CHAPTER 37
(Poppy's POV)
I went straight to the toilets and got to work. My hair got messed up a bit, I added a lot more eyeliner, I undid a few more buttons on my shirt and pulled my tie down, my sleeves got rolled up so you could see my bracelets and wrist bands and my laces got untied and tucked in... Poppy was back!
First lesson was just about to finish and I thought it was about time that Amy Porter got a little reminder of who was boss. She had chemistry like I should have so I waited by the lockers. It didn't take long for her to walk along the corridor laughing and joking with Siobhan. I grabbed her by the shoulders and slammed her into the lockers.
"I think you need a little reminder of who I am" I told her
Siobhan grabbed me from behind pulling me away from Amy. Amy came closer but I used both my legs to kick her backwards into the lockers again. Then I smashed Siobhan into the wall before running my foot under her legs, she landed on the floor on her back. I punched Amy in the face and she went flying.
"What on earth is going on!?" Rachel yelled coming down the stairs
The cheering crowd of pupils put their phones away and disappeared in different directions. Siobhan stood up and looked at Rachel who was stood with her hands on her hips looking unimpressed. Amy who had been still on the floor behind me had stood up and gone to grab me, I spun round and landed another punch straight in her nose. Rachel grabbed hold of my arms.
"Get upstairs now!" She yelled
"Bite me! You're not even my mum!" I said bitterly
I could tell that stung.
"Maybe not. But I'm your headmistress and while you're in my school you follow my rules. Cooler now." She said
I started walking slowly up the stairs and I knew Rachel was right behind me.
"I'll deal with you two later" she said behind her to Amy and Siobhan.
She took me up to the cooler where Lara happened to be on duty. I took a seat over by the window.
"When you've calmed down we'll talk" She told me
"Why bother? Why don't you just get someone else to do it!? Like everything else to do with me!" I yelled
She came and sat on the desk in front of me.
"What's going on?" Rachel asked
"Why do you care?" I asked annoyed
"You know I do Poppy"
"Yeah you care that much that you sent me to live with my aunt that's not really my aunt!" I turned to Lara "No offense..." Then back to Rachel "Oh and you couldn't even be arsed to tell me to. My. Face! You know after everything that happened with Em, I thought I meant something to you!"
(Lara's POV)
This wasn't doing either of them any good, when Poppy got angry she shot her mouth off and hurt the people closest to her, we all knew she didn't mean it but when she got worked up there was no point arguing because she'd just get worked up and flip out.
"Okay, I'm going to leave you to calm down. I'll come back in a short while. We will talk about this" Rachel said to her before leaving us alone
Poppy just completely lost it she jumped up, her chair flew back and then she kicked the table forward. Then she sunk down on the floor in the corner, shaking. Her knees were pulled into her chest and her head in her hands. I approached her slowly and knelt down.
"Come on calm down... Count to ten..."
(Rachel's POV)
I'd gone down to the kitchen to try and find Adam and he was arguing with Rose and Candeece as normal.
"Adam can I have a word please?" I asked
Adam stopped arguing with the pair and came over.
"We're going to have to tell Poppy..." I said
"But we agreed to wait until she was 100 percent better..." Adam replied
"Well she's not getting better, she thinks this is her fault... She's taking all her anger out on Amy Porter and that's not helping her get better. She's heading down a path to self destruction and she's blaming herself. We need to be honest"
"And you think if we tell her that only you and her are moving into the new house that she's going to be fine with that?" He questioned
"Of course she won't be fine but we can't keep her in the dark..."
A/N: So Rachel and Adam are on the rocks... How's Poppy going to react? Who will she choose to live with? Rachel or Adam?