Chapter Three

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I was woken up by Jane nudging me to wake up. "Wake up Lizzie," Jane said," it's the last day of summer vacation."

"What time is it?" I asked Jane half asleep. "It's 9 am," Jane responded really loudly," You better wake up; mum might get very cross with you getting up late."

I tiredly got up and got dressed. I decided to wear sweatpants and a basic tee. I went and brushed my teeth and put my hair into a pony tail. I ran downstairs and saw that everyone was already sitting at the table ready for breakfast. I took a seat next to Jane as our mother brought a large plate of waffles and placed it in the centre of the table. Immediately everybody grabbed a few and placed it onto their plate, happily eating away. Breakfast was quiet, besides Lydia and Mary fighting over who was going to get the last waffle. My father was quietly reading, Jane and I were looking at each other both thinking of what my mum's punishment would be.

After breakfast Jane and I rushed upstairs to avoid our mum. I was on my bed peacefully reading as Jane asked me, "What do you think mum's punishment will be? No more parties? Get grounded for a week?"

"To be honest Jane I just don't know." I responded. At that exact moment there was a knock on our door.

"Who is it?" I said.

"It's me, can I come in?" my mum asked and opened the door without waiting for our response.

Jane and I sat quietly while she continued," It's time to talk about the consequences of yesterday. You two are grounded until further notice, NO going anyway just school and straight back home, unless you have work, do you understand?" We both nodded.

"I don't understand what you guys were thinking sneaking out looking like that, it'll make our family name look appalling," She exclaimed and walked out the door.

"How are we supposed to enjoy our last day of summer break if we're grounded?" Jane whined.

"I don't really care I was going to stay home anyway." I answered her and went back to reading my book. Jane slugged onto her bed and started playing games on her phone. An hour went past and we were bored as ever. We both decided to have a little slumber party but instead during the day. First we put on some face masks. Next we watched The Vow followed by Valentine's Day. We gave each other makeovers and played with our makeup. After lunch we decided to use that time to think about what we were going to wear for the first day of school. We went through our closet matching things together. We didn't want to wear anything to revealing but something that was appealing. I settled on a summer dress with some wedges, while Jane went with some denim tie-dye shorts with a singlet and a cardigan on top.

Occasionally Lydia came in making front of how we got grounded. Finally it was dinner time. Everyone sat at the table; I was sitting next to Jane as usually. Throughout dinner everyone just talked about how exciting it was to be starting school.

"Did you know that Charles Bingley will be attending your school?" mum asked.

"Yeah we know, Lizzie and I met him at the party yesterday." Jane said, "He's a really nice guy."

After dinner Jane and I laid there talking about Charles and Darcy. We soon drifted off to sleep.

'BEEP BEEP BEEP!' I was woken up by the deafening sound of my alarm clock. I got out of bed still exhausted even though I got well over 10 hours of sleep. I took a quick shower by the time I got dressed Jane finally woke up. She went and took a shower, while I did my hair. I didn't want to do much with it. I straightened a few flyaways, went downstairs started making toast. I was eating my toast when Jane walked downstairs. She had her hair in a side braid. We both finished our toast and went to check if Lydia was ready to go.

We stared at Lydia, our jaws dropped. She had makeup caked onto her face. Jane and I hardly wore makeup only mascara, lip gloss and light eye shadow. "Lydia!" Jane exclaimed. "Take that make up off right now!"

"What? I look so pretty, you two are just jealous of how pretty I am with makeup." Lydia fumed and walked out to the car. Jane and I decided to let her off this once, plus we didn't want to be late on the first day of school. Our house was a ten minute drive away from school. We arrived 5 minutes before the bell rang. I was walking to my locker when I got scared by my best friend Charlotte Lucas. It's like I've known Charlotte my whole life, even though we only met last year. She understands me and knows what I'm thinking and vice versa. Our lockers were right next to each other. We were in the same home group but had many different subjects. The bell suddenly rang and everyone was off to their first class.

Most students hated school, but I enjoyed it a lot. I was able to socialize and learn.

I had English first, it was my favorite subject. I walked into class and sat at the desk next to Henry. I've known Henry since pre-school. Mr. Kelley soon walked in, asking everyone to pay attention. He finished calling the role and started the lesson. By the end of the lesson he gave us lots of assignments.

It was now recess and I wasn't really hungry so I decided to go into the library to start on the English assignment. I only did a third of it when the bell rang.

I headed to my next class which was art. My stomach was grumbling by the time I was heading to my next class, mathematics. Even though many people dread maths I quite enjoy it. Finally it was lunch time. I was starving.

I went to look for Jane and Charlotte. When I finally found the both of them we quickly grabbed lunch and sat down at one of the tables outside. We mainly talked about classes and rumors that was going around. I saw Charles walking towards our table, "Do mind if I join you?"

"No not at all," Jane said and shifted over so Charles could sit next to her. "Are you enjoying you first day?" I inquired.

"It's going very well, thank you for asking Elizabeth."

"Please call me Lizzie."

We all sat there silently eating our lunch.

"Oh there you are," Charles said to someone behind me. "Yeah sorry, I got lost I don't really know my way around school yet." I turned to see who he was talking to, it was Will Darcy. He took a sit next to Charlotte. "How was class?" Charles asked Darcy.

"It was okay." Darcy said and ate his lunch. Not long after the bell went for class.

I had history. It was extremely boring. We mostly just read from our textbooks. I liked reading but I don't like reading in class as people are very distracting. The bell rang and I headed to me next class astronomy. I walked into the room and I immediately saw Darcy sitting down at the front of the room engrossed in an English novel. I decided to take a seat at the back. I sat there watching all the girls fighting and calling shot-gun to sit next to William Darcy. It was pretty amusing. Darcy just ignored them while he read his book. The teacher did the role and got started in the class.

By the end of school I had stacks of homework.