Chapter 4 – Math's and P.E.
The gang walked purposefully down the hall, Robin in the lead, flanked by Much and Marian and on each side. Will, Allan, Djaq and John walked behind them, Will unable to take his eyes off Djaq.
"Hey bro, stop drooling," Luke called to Will as he and Davina laughed at Will's bright red face.
"I hate him being friends with her," Will muttered, "She's a bad influence."
"You sound like my mother talking about Robin," Allan joked as they arrived at Math's.
They sat in their usual row of seats, at the back. Robin in the middle Much, Allan and Will to his right, John, Djaq and Marian to his left. Guy and Vaysey sat in the middle row, groaning that they had taken the best seats again.
Five minutes into their least favorite lesson John was half snoring, Robin had thrown at least six paper airplanes at the back of Guy's head, Much was staring at Eve, who was listening intently in the front row, Will and Djaq were trying to mouth a conversation over the others heads while Marian stared out of the window, thinking about her first kiss with Robin.
It hadn't really been how she'd imagined it. No moonlit walk along the beach, no dates beforehand, no romantic words from the teenager she couldn't stop thinking about.
"Marian Fitzwalter are you going to answer my question?" Miss. Taylor's sharp voice brought Marian back to earth.
She looked around desperately, hoping some one would tell her the answer before Miss. Taylor, one of the strictest teachers at the boarding school who would send you out of the room for coughing too loud, realized she hadn't been listening.
Her eyes fixed on Robin who was desperately mouthing, "Twenty-seven."
"Is it, twenty-seven?" Marian asked tentatively.
"Yes," Miss. Taylor looked upset that she had missed the chance to send someone to detention but carried on as if nothing had happened.
The day crawled by like a snail, until there final lesson, P.E., which they were all forced to take at least one lesson of to keep fit, came.
"Ok, today we're going to do…" Mr. Hawkins paused for effect, "Sprint training!"
This was followed by groans from everyone as they all got grumpily to their feet and lined up.
"Ok, firstly sprint to the first red line and walk back, then to the second red line and walk back and then to the third red line and walk back. Keep going until I say stop," Mr. Hawkins sat down as the students began to run, Robin would have sworn he saw an evil grin on the P.E. teachers face as he watched them suffer, while he was sitting down comfortably.
"Ok, finish." Mr. Hawkins shouted after five minutes, "We're going to play indoor cricket, Guy, Robin you pick the teams and Much, Allan, you get out the equipment."
Guy stood in front of the rest of their class not knowing who to choose, he had firstly chosen Vaysey and Robin had chosen Much but now he was stuck. He hated all of the others; they were all stuck up, stupid, nerdy teenagers who wouldn't know that position was the most important thing in the world if it hit them in the face.
"I'll have Alice," Guy grunted, which caused John to glare at him, Alice looked very annoyed that she had to be with Guy and Vasyey.
"Allan," Robin chose without a second thought.
Then Guy clicked, he'd pick the person that Robin liked most, "Marian."
She sighed inwardly as she walked over to his team standing next to Alice and not sparing Guy a second glance.
It took Robin a minute to get over this loss but in the end he said, "Will."
"Eve," Guy continued reluctantly.
"John."
"Sarah."
"Djaq."
"Right then let's beg…" Mr. Hawkins was cut off by the sound of a hard slap.
"Don't you dare, he's mine!" Sarah screamed after slapping Marian.
"Oh shut up, you're just a spoiled brat who thinks you can everything you want, I'm just teaching you a well needed lesson," Marian shouted back.
"Whoa, ladies, break it up, can't you talk about this after the..." Mr. Hawkins was shoved onto the floor by Sarah who started pummeling Marian with her fists.
"Sarah stop it!" Robin shouted, rushing over to help.
"No way, I loved you…"
"And then you cheated on me, you idiot, I'm never going to take you back so move on with your life you silly cow!" Robin screamed straight into her face.
"Mr. Hawkins, are you ok?" Djaq rushed over tot h groaning teacher who had hit his head on the laminated plastic floor of the gym so hard he had fallen unconscious, "Someone get help, we'll tell them he fell over." Djaq looked at Sarah who nodded in thanks before rushing from the room, embarrassed at her outburst.
"Are you ok?" Robin asked, grabbing Marian's arm.
She nodded but said nothing, Sarah was never going to give up, may be she should just let Robin go.