Corridor Hobos.

"Tomorrow we party don't we?" I asked Megan B on our way up to meet the guys at the Diner. Quite a few of us had chosen to go up early, despite the fact that we were the only group of people in the whole hostel, so we were in the middle of our own crowd of people.

"I think so, it says on my list that we are." She replied. There was something strange in the air; it was as if I had known everybody since before we had arrived here. Truth is, I'd only ever talked to Sam, Hannah, Megan M and Philip before and that was because most of them did the school play with me each year.

When the doors were unlocked, the band wandered in awkwardly and looked for the food. The teachers had told us to sit only at tables 7,8 and 9 so when we found food, I claimed table 8 for my own. Soon enough, Megan B sat next to me with Shaun to her right and Philip opposite. When Will and Elliot approached, I suddenly became aware that I had only managed to grab a few pieces of bread and probably looked like the skinniest thing ever. Pulling out a packet of crisps from my bag, I tried to sound a normal as possible as Caleb brought up the rear and took a seat next to me.

"Is this it?" Philip asked me. He was right in questioning the food; all that was at the buffet was a few pieces of bread and cheese so we could make a sandwich. There was also a bag of Nutella packets, I could tell by the way Will and Elliot had came back with at least 5 packets each.

Trying to talk to Philip, I couldn't help but notice the way that Megan and Shaun were extremely close for two people who barely spoke. Taking extra care with eating, I finished my meal quickly and sat quietly as the others talked. Eventually, one of the teachers stood up to talk to us.

"We'll be having a rehearsal at 7 tonight and we'll also have a Samba rehearsal straight after so you know what you're doing. Dinner will be at half past 5 each day unless we tell you otherwise and we will tell you when you need to wear your school uniform for a concert. Oh, and a few rules. None of the guys are allowed on the girl's corridor and none of the girls are allowed into any of the boys rooms." He said. Casting me a slightly worried look, Megan mouthed the words "what now?" to me. Scanning through my own mind, I looked for a loophole out of this. Pretty quickly, I found one.

"Nobody be late for dinner, off you go." He finished. Pacing back to the rooms, I pulled Megan B aside.

"We're not allowed in their rooms." I said, grinning.

"I know, I just heard him say that too you know." Megan mocked.

"Well, nobody said anything about sitting in the corridor…right outside their rooms."

"Kirsty. You are a Genius." She smiled. Informing the others, we went and sat in the corridor. It was a nice little group; Megan, Philip, Will, Elliot, Caleb, Shaun and I were all gathered around. As we all piled in, I spotted something immediately. Shaun and Megan were holding hands. A pang of jealousy swept through me; that was the second relationship this week and we'd not even been here a whole day yet. On the coach, Hannah was able to fall asleep on Calvin's shoulder and wake up knowing that his smile was the first thing she would see. Now, Megan and could live here knowing that every morning when she woke up, she could simply run upstairs for a hug good morning.

Me? I had nobody.

Well, nobody here anyway. Nobody to hug me the way my friends back home did. Last night, I fell asleep on a cold, hard surface alone and woke up exactly the same way. The only thing I got to see when I woke up was Sam's foot narrowly miss my face. If anything happened to me during the week, I'd just complain to Sam and be done with it within a few minutes. Sure, I had two of my best friends here, but a best friend won't hold you like a lover.

Standing at first, I couldn't help but die a little inside when I saw who was coming out way. Jack.
Jack had to be the single most annoying person on the whole trip. I should know; I mentored him when he first arrived at school in year 7. Single handed, he had managed to work his way through 4 different "Heroes" before the school decided somebody "different" should sit with him in form and help him with every single problem he managed to obtain. By the time mentoring had finished, I had grown insane. Most of the band had previously been annoyed by him too; the latest being Megan F who ended up in a massive argument two weeks ago.

"What do you want, Jack?" Megan B spat. Personally, I think she could sometimes make the situation worse that it needed to be,

"I just want to sit." He spat back, pulling out his DS and sitting down onto the green carpet. Smiling, I thought he'd just sit there and we could all get along. Sliding down the wall, I sat down on the opposite side of him and gestured to the others to sit down. A few people took photos and without thinking, I pulled scary faces and sat in such strange positions right next to Caleb. I'd probably regret it when we arrived back in England.

Across from me, Jack, Shaun, Megan and Philip sat looking as if an argument was building. Listening in, I tried to find the arguments root.

"Can't magnets erase saved game data?" Shaun asked Philip who nodded and replied with "and if it's really strong it can delete the absolutely everything off it to the point of it just being a limp of plastic."

"You're planning to do it to my game aren't you?" Jack sighed. Typical. Everything had to be about him.

"Fuck off, nobody was talking about you anyway." Megan yelled. For a year 7, she was loud. After a few more accusations, both Jack and Megan got up and ran to Mr Stansfield, both yelling.

"They've all been threatening me!" jack yelled.

"Lies! He was saying he'll get his dad to sweep the floor with us!" Megan also screeched.

I rolled my eyes and got up to assist sir.

"I'm sure you can both just ignore each other." I sighed. Mr Stansfield was the one teacher I could go to with anything and he understood me better than any of the others did. It was expected that when he had to deal with students, I'd be there too.

"Yes. I'm sure you can all jus get along fine if you could stop with all the stupid threats." He sighed too. The last thing anybody needed was a bunch of teary eyed year 7's running amok the place.

"But he started it!" Megan snapped.

"And I'll end it. All the girls can go down to their rooms and won't come back up to the boys corridor at all now."

"WHAT!" I screamed.