Hi thanks again for the reviews and all your questions will be answered shortly i promise. Also anything questions you have please ask them so i create something which ties up all the lose leads and i also make reading this pleasureable. I hope you enjoying the following passage and also i have named Sydney's 3rd child Francie in memory.

Isabelle and Mandy hung out together at the first break of the day.

"Hey Is, everyone's talking bout you standing up to Cassandra, well done my friend." said an excited Mandy.

Isabelle looked over as Mitchell came waddling over to her and Mandy, waving his hands in the air. "Yeh, well she deserved it. I don't take crap from anyone."

"Isabelle" Mandy suddenly screamed.

Cassandra whacked Isabelle over the head with her bag and then grabbed her hair. "You little bitch" she screamed as she pulled Isabelle's head back and smacked it into a nearby wall. Isabelle fell to the ground and held her now bleeding nose.

"For goodness sake Cassandra, you just smashed her head into that wall." Shouted Mandy trying to stick up for her new friend.

Cassandra grabbed Mandy's throat. "Yeh if your friend ever humiliates me again, I swear I'll do more than that" Cassandra let go of Mandy and walked away, her friends trailing behind sucking up to her.

Mandy went over and picked Isabelle up. "Come on, I'm going to the head."

Isabelle shook her head. "No, I don't want anymore trouble, she's shown us whose boss and I don't want to be on the receiving end if she knew I told on her."

"Fine then I will. She grabbed my throat and just about choked me. Isabelle this is serious."

Isabelle ignored her. "I can handle it myself, I'm not some tell tail tit, what you said earlier, we are growing up and teachers wont be around us all the time, we have to learn to look after ourselves. But you can go and tell the head if you want, I don't care, just as long as you don't include me." Isabelle stormed off, leaving Mandy holding her neck, and Mitchell smiling.

Mandy turned and saw him. "I thought you were her friend but instead you help distract her while Cassandra sneaks up on her, some friend you are." Mandy stormed off as well heading in a different direction from Mitchell and Isabelle.

Mitchell walked over to Cassandra. "Hey that was pretty cool you know, now eh my payment?"

Cassandra turned from her friends and laughed in his face. "I was joking about kissing you. Do you actually think I would in front of fit lads, I don't think so."

She turned away from him in disgust and laughed again.

Mitchell started walking back to his group of "geeks" and told them it was worth a shot. He started to feel bad about distracting Isabelle all for a kiss however he soon forgot about it all when his friend suggested they should play dungeons and dragons. "I'll be the troll." Said an excited Mitchell.

Isabelle sat crying in the toilets again. It was the worst day yet she had had of high school. She wished she still lived next to the beach where she felt free. Now all she felt was enclosed and trapped. Things were simple when it was the 5 of them. Her, Sydney, Michael, Jack and Francie were all happy until her father had got a job at a stupid French bank.

She wiped her eyes and blew her nose one last time and then opened the door. She threw the toilet paper in the bin and washed her hands with warm water. She dried her hands and went over to open the door to find it locked. She tried again but it still wouldn't budge.

"Hello, anyone there?" She started to shout. "Dammit" She whispered under her breath.

She bet it was Cassandra playing a stupid joke. She wanted out of this school straight away and when she left the toilet she decided she would go straight home.

She rattled the door handle again and then heard a flush from a toilet. "Thank god someone else."

She peered round to see who had come out the toilet but saw no one. "Hello" she called out. No one answered.

She started to walk towards the locked cubicle, hoping it wasn't Cassandra or one of her friends.

She reached the door and knocked. "Anyone in there? You alright?" There was no answer.

She grabbed the handle with a sweaty handle and pushed it open. "Are you…"

Isabelle gasped as she saw Mandy lying with a cut across her neck. "Oh my god Mandy. Someone help, please." Isabelle shouted out.

"No one can help you."

Isabelle swung round to see who had spoken.

A piercing scream echoed through the corridors and the playground, making everyone turn silent.