Author's Note: Thanks a million to CSI Encyclopedia, Waterlooroadfan & pinkpiglet1996 for reviewing the last chapter! Glad to know you three are enjoying it. :D

Danni x

I decided I would stay at break (which was after my double science lesson) and ask Sir if it was a normal bruise from his perspective. I helped pack up the books before asking, "Sir. Please can you have a look at this bruise for me? I just want to know if it's okay."

"Yeah sure. Let's have a look." I rolled up my blazer sleeve, showing the bruise. It had gone a bright purple now. It's a good thing it's not a hot day, "How did you get it?" He sounded very concerned but I knew I had to lie. I couldn't tell him that his boss hit me, could I?

"Whacked it on a car door yesterday when I got home after school." I lied, using the excuse that I got told to use this morning.

"It looks like it'll take a while to heal but it'll be fine." He said whilst I pulled my arm away and rolled my sleeve back down before anyone passing by would notice. He asked me why I was so bothered about hiding it but I told him that since it's a bit obvious, it'd be better to keep it hidden. If anyone questioned it, they'd see through me straight away.

"You okay Pandora? I haven't seen you since yesterday lunchtime." Karla approached me and asked after I left the classroom. We continued to walk down the corridor and headed outside to enjoy the rest of our break.

"Yea. I was just asking Mr Mead about some homework he just gave me. Nothing big really."

"Was Mr Tyler okay with you? He seemed annoyed when he was parked in his car waiting for you."

"Yea. He was wondering what Miss Mason wanted to speak with me about before I left school yesterday. She was just checking how my first day had been. I don't think those two get on really but what do you expect?"Karla just nodded in agreement before we walked around some more before heading to another lesson with Hopeless Hopewell.

I went into English and sat down with Karla and she introduced me to Philip. She told me that he is Rachel's nephew. This made me feel a bit better about the fact that my dad and I were in the same building.

"How you live with him I'll never know." Philip told me whilst we were supposed to be doing our work. We were doing it I suppose, just multitasking.

"You get used to it. Miss Mason has been great."

"If you need anything her door is always open. She's helped us before." Karla said.

We then finished the work just in time for the lunch bell. We all got up and left, going on to the school field. Luckily there were no other fights or anymore of this girl gang crap. At least for today. Apparently, there have been rumors going around about Bolton being a rapist. Lindsay was on about it to me in science earlier in the day. I said I wouldn't say anything since I didn't know the lad. I decided I'd be going around to Karla's tonight so I texted dad saying so. I waited with Karla for a reply and it didn't take long to get one.

'Don't you have homework to be doing tonight?' He replied to my question. I decided to ring him to tell him that was the reason I was going round. We were both struggling a bit with our homework and we decided that two heads were better than one. He didn't seem happy about it at all. He accused me of lying to him, saying that I was going to mess about. I told him that it's already been arranged and I'll come home when I'm done.

"Are you alright?"

"Yea. He's just being an idiot. He thinks I'm going to mess around so I've said I'll come home with the work complete."

Karla and I then walked back to her place. When we arrived she introduced me to her mum, who seemed happy to see me. She was probably just happy that Karla had another friend. We went upstairs to her room and got our English notes out. It was poetry analysis and I was better at Maths really as was Karla.

We heard a knocking on the door before Karla's mum walked in, "Hey Pandora. Does your dad know that you are here? He's just rung."

"Yea I phoned him before leaving the school and said I was coming here. What has he said?"

"He's said that he doesn't know anything and wants you home."

Annoyed with my father, I got out my phone and went into my call history and showed that I had rung him and I also showed Karla's mum the text telling him that I was coming here.

"Do you want me to call Miss Mason and tell her? She'll want to know that he's been lying."

"No it's fine. I'll be home as soon as me and Karla have cracked this."

"Alright. I'll call him back and let him know."

I breathed a sigh of defeat as the parent left the room. I got a few looks of concern from Karla but I just brushed it off and got back on task with the poem.