Chapter 53

Tilly got up and got ready for college. Now Sinead's allegation had been exposed as a lie she'd be able to walk around without anyone commenting about her and Miss Gilmore. Maddie came and got Tilly as usual. "Tilly, Maddie's here." said Tilly's Mum. "Coming." replied Tilly. Tilly's Mum told Maddie to take a seat in the living room while she waited for Tilly. Tilly came down a couple of minutes later in a new dress. "You look gorgeous Tils, who's the dress for?" asked Maddie, standing at the bottom of the stairs. "No one, just fancied a change, you look pretty good too. Come on, let's go." answered Tilly. Maddie opened the door and off they went to college.

On the way they met up with Bart and Jono. "Alright Tilly, off to see Miss Gilmore?" asked Bart. "Haha, very funny Bart. No Bart I'm not going to see Miss Gilmore." replied Tilly. Sinead quickly slapped Bart around the ear and told him to shut up. When they got to college, they headed straight for the common room. Mr Keeler was there with the other sixth formers, it seemed important. They sat down on one of the sofas and listened to what Mr Keeler had to say. "Good Morning guys, just to inform you all Sinead is suspended for her inappropriate allegation. If I hear anymore talk about the matter I'll have to do the same. It isn't appropriate behaviour for sixth formers to talk like children in the playground about their teachers. Now off to your lessons or continue to your private studies." said Mr Keeler.

People began to make their way to their lessons; Mr Keeler pulled Tilly over to one side. "You were absent since the end of your first lesson yesterday. Where were you Miss Evans?" asked Mr Keeler. "I'm sorry sir I went home. Yesterday was just so stressful; I needed to clear my head." Tilly lied. "Well yesterday was stressful but you know the policy about going off school site without a valid reason or before lunchtime. You are to report to detention this afternoon. I will talk to your last teacher of the day and they shall keep you behind." Tilly nodded, she didn't try and defend her actions, and she'd already lied about her whereabouts yesterday, so she took her punishment without complaint.

Tilly went to grab some books from her locker and check her timetable. She had Jen for her last lesson of the day, maybe her luck was changing. Tilly's first two lessons flew by; everyone had seemed to take Keeler's warning seriously and had stopped talking about Tilly and Jen. Now Tilly had a free period for the next two hours. Maddie joined her for the first hour and Esther joined her for the second. Tilly couldn't concentrate on her studies or the work she'd been given to replace the hours she'd missed yesterday. She spent most of the time thinking about Jen and saying yes and no in the right places to make them think she was listening.

Lunchtime was spent outside in the quad. Maddie had ordered pizza to celebrate the rumour being over, but had told Tilly it was because the canteen food sounded revolting. After their lunch of various pizzas' Maddie had brought, they all headed off to registration. Registration lasted five minutes before they were sent to their last lesson of the day or back to their private studies.

Tilly lined up outside Jen's classroom along with the rest of the class. She got a few looks from some of the other students but nothing was going to ruin her mood. She was getting to see Jen for an hour after school. Tilly would of probably minded if another teacher was taking the detention but as it was Jen she didn't seem to mind.

Jen came to the door and explained the instructions to the students. "Okay guys, when you go in you'll see your projects around the room. You are to continue them from where you left off. Any questions let me know." Jen let the class in and everyone seemed to begin on the projects without any complaints. Tilly was the last one in the line, so Jen pulled her out to talk to her. "Someone's a bad girl. I didn't know you'd get detention, otherwise I would have brought you back." said Jen. "It's fine, besides if I came back I wouldn't have got to spend my afternoon with you." replied Jen. "What do you mean?" Tilly gave a cheeky smile. "Well Mr Keeler said he'd talk to my teacher who was teaching my last lesson and tell them to keep me behind. So Miss Gilmore you've finally got me in detention." Jen smiled before walking away down to the stationary cupboard, so it would look like she wasn't talking to Tilly unnecessarily. Tilly had walked into the classroom and continued working on her project. So far she'd finished the background and now she needed to add detail, of course she changed her plan to take away to silhouette so it would avoid some questioning from the other students.

Jen and Tilly stole glances at each other during the lesson, avoiding the other students looking. Of course Jen continued to walk around the room with her one to one teaching method. Jen had made her way around the room one student at a time and finally made her way to Tilly. "So Tilly how's it going?" asked Jen. "Fine Miss." replied Jen. "Keep up the good work Tilly." The lesson was nearly over and Jen told the class to pack up. All the other students packed their backs and waited for the bell, whereas Tilly took her time. When the bell rang everyone else walked out off the classroom and off home to enjoy the rest of the day. Tilly and Jen were left stood where they were. Jen had emailed Keeler and told him that she would keep Tilly behind for her detention. "So detention hey?" said Tilly. "Yes, detention works like this: You sit there and you don't say a word for the whole hour. Do you think you can manage that?" asked Jen sarcastically. Tilly nodded, and sat down were she was.

Jen sat at her desk and pretended to read through some paper work, but she had no intention of making Tilly stay quiet. About fifteen minutes into the detention Mr Keeler popped in and said he had an important matter of business to attend to and would Jen mind locking up. Jen had a key to the back door to the school. She said she'd lock up after the detention was over and Mr Keeler left. Jen stood up and went to the back of the classroom to collect some folders, moved them onto the other class pile and stood behind the desk Tilly was sat at. Tilly was totally unaware that Jen was stood behind her, and Jen began to kiss Tilly's neck. "Jen?" In-between kisses Jen said "I thought I told you to be quiet, now I'm going to have to punish you Tilly." By this point Tilly had turned around and began to kiss Jen back. Both women knew this was risky and with the school crawling with CCTV they knew they had to be careful. As the art room didn't have any computers there were no camera's in the room. Jen began to kiss Tilly's neck again. "Jen, really? We can't do this here. I've got a free house, we can go back there." said Tilly. Jen stopped and told Tilly to get her stuff and meet her outside. Tilly did as she was told and got her stuff. Jen had also gathered her stuff and waited for Tilly to leave before she left. Jen met Tilly a couple of streets away and they went back to Tilly's.

They knew they had to make the most of it.