Chapter 7

The following day Rachel woke up to find that she was lying against Eddie, once again. Much to her surprise it sounded like it was raining outside, so she went to have a look. She pulled back the curtains and let out a sigh at the sight in front of her. It was absolutely tipping down with rain and also incredibly windy.

How the hell are we suppose to entertain 40 teenagers on a day like this? She thought to herself

Eddie woke up to the sound of Rachel moving around the hotel room.

"Everything alright?" Eddie asked sleepily

"Look at the weather" Rachel said opening the curtains once again to show Eddie the miserable weather

"Maybe it's just a shower" Eddie said trying to be optimistic

"I somehow doubt that"

Elsewhere in the hotel the kids were all waking up to the rain, and it was fair to say no one was happy about it.

"Typical" Molly said to Emma as she got back into bed "it has to rain when we're here"

"I know, we get enough rain in England" Emma moaned

Everyone came down to breakfast a lot later today, despite the fact that they were meant to be down by eight. The teachers didn't mind though because they knew today was going to be a very long day anyway.

"Why are you being like this Jan?" came the voice of Bolton loud enough so that everyone in the room could hear. It seemed as though the weather was dampening everyone's moods and causing arguments to break out over the smallest of things. Rachel had had enough of it and knew she had to do something to stop it.

"Right everyone, I know the weather isn't ideal but we're still on holiday, so we're still going to have a great time" Rachel started

"But what can we do in the rain?" Danielle interrupted

"After breakfast we're going to go upstairs and put our swimming stuff on. We're then all going to run down to the beach and have a swim."

"What? It's raining, we're going to get wet man" Bolton said

"That's generally what happens anyway when you go swimming Bolton" Rachel replied causing everyone to laugh

Once everyone had finished they all headed back upstairs.

"Are you sure about this Rach?"

"Why wouldn't I be. You know how fun swimming in the rain is"

"I've never been swimming in the rain actually"

"Seriously? Well then Lawson I'll have to show you what you've been missing out on"

Once everyone had got changed they met back at reception.

"Right, everyone ready?" Rachel asked

"Yes Miss" everyone replied

Following Rachel's lead, they all started to run as fast as they could down to the beach. They received a lot of strange looks from people out of windows on the way down. But who could blame them? They were pretty mad going swimming in the torrential rain.

After arriving at the beach they took off their saturated clothes and all ran into the water.

"What was I thinking? Have you seen the state of my hair?" Steph moaned to Matt. As of yet, Steph had somehow managed to not get her hair wet once. When she swam she held her head back her eyes practically looked straight into the sky. The kids had given her the nickname apple cheeks because she swam with her cheeks puffed out.

"Mmm.. what were you thinking?" Matt teased

The boys started to run into the sea and then dive, along with a few girls.

"What's wrong? You jealous Eddie?"

"What? No I can dive"

"Go on then"

"Now?"

"Yes, Eddie now. What's stopping you? Afraid you'll be shown up?"

"I already told you I can dive, and most probably a lot better than you can"

"Let's see shall we"

Eddie walked out of the sea. He then ran back in and attempted a dive, but ended up belly flopping.

"Ahh, good try" Rachel said squeezing his arm before walking out of the sea herself

She then ran into the sea and pulled off a near perfect dive. Everyone was really shocked that their head teacher could dive, let alone do it so well.

After a little while they all started to feel a bit cold so decided to head back up to the hotel.

"Okay, lets go up for some nice hot showers. And then we'll meet back down here and have a game or something" Rachel said once they got back to the hotel

"A game of what?" Aleesha asked

"You'll have to wait and see"

What game do you think they should all play?