While Anna was sat in her classroom, most of the other teachers were in the staff room.

'Has anyone seen Anna?' Tom asked half way in to the break time.

'Missing your girlfriend?' Grantly goaded.

'Get lost Grantly,' muttered Tom, 'I just wanted to talk to her about how Mika's doing in maths. Anna teaches Mika's class first today.'

'Don't listen to him,' said Eddie, ' I saw her earlier. I handed her a letter that was in the office for her then she said she had something to do and went back in to her class room.'

'I guess I'll go down there and... talk to her about Mika's studies.' he said making towards the door.

'No need to lie to us,' Grantly called after him, earning a disapproving looks from Steph.

'Leave the man alone, it's nice that he's got someone.' she reprimanded.

Tom made his way to the maths department and knocked on the door of Anna's class room.

There was no reply so he pushed the door open slowly.

He wasn't prepared for the sight he was faced with.

Anna was sat in her desk chair clutching something in her hands.

She jumped up quickly when she heard him come on, and relaxed a bit when she saw it was him.

She threw the thing she had been holding in the waste bin beside her desk.

He walked over to her and stopped in front of her, surveying her intently.

She looked a total wreck. Her face was blotchy and tear stained, and her mascara was smeared down her face.

'Anna? What happened?' he asked in concern.

She attempted a smile, 'I'm fine.'

'And I'm not blind. What's happened?' he asked pleading with his deep brown eyes.

She simply refused to look at him, 'Nothing, I'm fine.'

He reached out and tried to take her hands, but she took a step backwards, to his total confusion.

He spent five whole minutes trying to make her tell him what had caused her so much upset, but she kept on insisting she was fine.

After being asked for what felt like the millionth time she finally snapped.

'For god's sake Tom! Leave me alone!' she yelled.

'I'm trying to help,' he snapped in response.

'I don't need your help!' she fumed as she stormed out.

Tom was left wondering what the hell was going on wth her. Why had she suddenly become moody and upset?

He thought about going after her but decided it wouldn't do any good until she had calmed down.

He knew what he was about to do was quite rude and nosy but if she needed help then it was for her own good.

He reached down in to the waste bin and pulled out the crumpled piece of paper that she had thrown in in a hurry.

He folded it out and once he had seen what it was , he felt sick that anyone would send such horrible things to another person.

The message was mostly horrid names and general hate mail but the part at the end was what triggered his curiousity even more.

'Now that you're back here, It's time the boy learned the truth. You can't run from the truth forever my pretty. He deserves to know.'

Underneath were two dates, set about nine months apart, Tom had no idea why the dates were significant but he was sure as hell going to find out.

11/04/1991

11/01/1992