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Chapter 6:
Jesse, as I had predicted, did not turn up to escort me to school the next morning, so instead of taking a ride with Sleepy, I called Adam. Adam loved his car, so I didn't think he'd mind coming to pick me up. I dialled his number and as I'd hoped, he said he'd be happy to take me. So I rushed upstairs, with no time to re-straighten my hair, and was outside the door quicker than you could say 'Ryan Cooper is a hottie'. Adam appeared trundling up my drive way after a couple of minutes saying he couldn't get the car up it due to the fact that there was a flower delivery van blocking the entrance. I thought that they were for my mom from Andy so I didn't think twice and followed Adam to the road where he'd been forced to park his car.
As we approached the gate, a tall shaggy haired man exited the van and came towards me. " Excuse me, but does a Susannah Simon happen to live at this residence?" I had to say I was pretty shocked that he was asking for me but what could a girl do.
"Yeah, that's me." Adam just burst out laughing. "Hey," I said, "What was that for?" Adam tried to control himself but he couldn't bring himself to say it. But I soon saw what he was laughing about. Six Bouquets of red roses descended from the van.
"That's one heck of an admirer you got there Simon." He said with a huge grin across his face, "What did you do this time? Elope with a florists son?"
I just stared at him not amused, "Oh ha…ha, very funny." I reached over to one of the bouquets and pulled out a card, which was placed in between some of the flowers. It read: " To Suze. The most amazing girl I've ever met. These roses symbolise every hour I've spent without you. Love always, Paul x x x'. I mean it, I could have been sick right there and then, but I didn't want to ruin my new Jimmy Choos. What kind of a delinquent was this guy anyway? The shaggy haired man, whom I'd noticed name was Steve, asked me what to do with the flowers. "Uh…. could you take them up to the house please, I would myself but I'm already going to be late for school. I mean this guy drives like my grandmother. "Hey!" Adam protested. I thought I'd add that last part in as payback for him laughing at me. Steve the florist let out a chuckle and said "right away miss." I thanked him and then followed Adam, who was now in a bit of a sulk, to his car.
We arrived at the mission at around ten to eight, so I had plenty of time before role call to speak to Father Dominic about something that he'd obviously forgotten to tell me about. "Hey Father Dom," I said sauntering into his office.
"Good Morning Susannah," he replied in a less than cheerful voice.
"Hey, you better start lightening up or I'll have to start changing your name to Father Grumpy head." Father Dominic frowned.
"Not to sound rude Susannah, but what exactly is the reason of this visit?" I shook my head and sat down on the big comfy chair, which Ryan had been sat in the afternoon before.
"I have reason to believe that there is a new student starting here today." Father Dominic's face cast over with a look of shock. He opened his mouth to speak again when suddenly the door to his office burst open again.
" Good Morning Father Dominic. Isn't it a lovely day." Yeah. You've guessed it. It was Paul, who hadn't seen me right away. "SUZE!" he cried when he saw me, " How've you been? Did you get the flowers?"
I smiled sweetly and said, "Yeah I did, you really shouldn't have." I wanted to say, "You really shouldn't have you raving lunatic. What part of I don't like you stop trying to exorcise my boyfriend don't you understand? But obviously I couldn't say that because a) raving lunatic would have been substituted for more colourful language and I didn't want poor father D to have a coronary right there in front of me, and b) Jesse wasn't my boyfriend. Even though I wanted him to be. He didn't think of me that way, and hey, he just thought I was a silly little girl remember. His romantic sentiments just fill me up sometimes. Paul then came closer to me and tried to embrace me in a hug, but I stopped him by saying " Nuh-uh. This sweater is Cashmere. If you dirty it, I'll have to kill you." Paul didn't continue trying to hug me, but thought I was joking. If only he knew how deathly serious I was.
"Right…well…Why don't you two run along to class before Sister Ernestine catches you and gives you both detention. I shall see you after school Susannah to continue our little chat."
I threw Father Dom an angelic smile and in response I replied, "Okay Father Dom, but not unless I see you first," I think he got my meaning of my last words when I signalled my finger running along my throat when I said see you first. Paul however didn't see this. He was too busy trying to figure out how to work his new Fossil watch. God, I swear that guy must have a share in the company or something. I waved to Father Dom and closed the door behind me. This, I thought, was not the end of the conversation by a long shot. I just hope he had a good enough reason to let Paul into our school, to stop my fist from plummeting my fist into his face. Paul's face that is.