It was dinnertime and she and Danny were sat on the wall.

"God Danny it's killing me. I just want to kill her I really do" Alice said. They got up and started walking. "I know I made the promise to my mum but it's getting harder to keep it!" she said

"You can do it Alice. I know you can, you'll never let your mum down." he said.

"But Danny my mum is dead. To be honest I don't think it makes a difference whether I break this promise to her or not.

Neither Danny or Alice noticed that Sarah had walked past. So her mother was dead! Well not that was news her parents had speculated that she was dead and now she knew for sure! And she exactly how to get a reaction from her now.

Alice saw Sarah. "I'm looking forward to our next lesson Alice. The fun we are going to have. Or shall I say I will with the information I have learned."

"Right Danny I've had enough." she dropped her bag and started to walk towards Sarah.

Danny stopped her "C'mon Alice calm down." She looked past him.

"No Danny.""Alice." he said softly. "Look at me."she did and his green eyes immediately calmed her.

"Thanks." she whispered and they walked in the opposite direction.

The bell rang and they walked towards science. Mrs Craig stopped her.

"Hello Alice how are you?" she asked. "You can go to your lesson Daniel."

Alice pulled out her report.

"OOO all "S's. I'm impressed."

"You sound surprised." Alice said cockily.

"You surprise me." Mrs Craig admitted. "You haven't used your card either."

"I don't want it." Alice said. "I'm not running from her." Alice said.

"Just keep a hold of it for the time being." She said. "You'd better be getting to your lesson.

Alice walked quickly towards science block. She hated Mr Simmons!

"Sorry I'm late." she said as she walked in.

"OO you decided to grace us with your presence then." He said dryly. "But you are late!" he said.

"By about 2 minutes and I apologised!" she said angrily.

"Why were you late?" he asked.

"I had to speak to Mrs Craig." Alice answered trying to contain the anger coursing through her.

"I don't like pupils being late to my lessons!" he said.

"OOOO I bet I've missed something important. Like watching you write the date!" she then cocked her head towards the board and saw that the date was half written.

"Take your seat!" he told her, his voce held a angry tone.

She threw her report onto his desk.

Mr Simmons flushed red. "You will come here and hand me your report or you will leave my lesson."

Alice walked over and picked up her report. She then turned and went to walk out of the room.

"Where are you going?"

Alice's blood was pumping. She could feel the anger lodged into her chest.

"You gave me the choice and I decided to leave I'm not putting up with your crap anymore."

"Give me your report!" he said.

"No coz you told me to pick it up so I have!" and then she walked out of the room.

His followed her and tried to take her report but she put it in her pocket and smiled. "Too slow!" she said and laughed at him.

"Face the wall!" he said.

Alice pounded her head off the wall. "Great start Alice. First day back and already chucked out of physics. She thought she would have at least waited till her second lesson. You just couldn't take your seat and keep your mouth shut!"

The double doors squeaked.

And it was about to get worse. Mrs Craig was walking towards her.

"Alice tell me there's a reasonable explanation about you standing outside your physics lesson. Tell me that I won't get angry." she said

"There is a explanation." Alice replied.

"But I will get angry right?" she asked.

Alice nodded. "Probably."

"Your first day back!" she muttered.

She then walked into the lesson. The door hadn't closed so she listened.

The chairs scraped across the floor as the class stood to greet Mrs Craig. Alice hated that it was so pretentious!

She heard Mrs Craig why Alice was outside.

Mrs Simmons reply was, she was rude insolent, cheeky , disrespectful and she threw her report at me and then refused to hand it back.

"Liar!" Alice yelled and stormed into the room. "I did not throw my report AT you. I threw it ON the desk! There is a difference" she said. "And you told me to pick it up so I did!" Alice was beyond angry and breathing heavily.

"And I'd love to know what damage a piece of paper is going to do even if I did throw it at you but I didn't!"

"Alice get out of here right now!" Mrs Craig told her.

Alice went to walk out of the room.

"I refuse to teach her!" Mr Simmons said.

"Well good! Coz I refuse to learn!" she shouted and slammed the door.

Mrs Craig left the room 5 minutes later with her science book and a text book. Alice opened her mouth. "Not one word Alice." she said coldly. "Not ONE word."

She was taken to sit with Mrs Gibson, head of science.

Mrs Craig went over and they were whispering. Alice rolled her eyes. God were they scared she was going to turn these sweet little year 7's into hellions?

"Sit over there Alice!" Mrs Gibson said.

"Sorry my parents told me not to talk to strangers!" she said.

Some of the year 7's jaws dropped.

"Alice!" Mrs Craig warned. Alice did as she was told. "Your to complete these questions and if you finish them which you probably will just to keep on going." Alice pulled put her pencil case and settled. She quickly got on with her work. Within 5 minutes she'd finished the first page.

It was 5 minutes from the end of the lesson. Mrs Gibson came over to talk to her.

"How many questions did you complete?" Mrs Gibson asked.

Alice turned back 4 pages.

Mrs Gibson looked shocked that was quite a lot of work for less than an hour. "What did you do? One word answers?"

"No!" Alice said insulted. "If I'm going to do my work I may as well do it properly!" she added.

Alice really shouldn't have been cheeky. She was in enough trouble without pissing more teachers off!

"Well it seems the troublemaker is clever!" Mrs Gibson seemed to be deliberately goading her. Pushing her buttons.

"I'm not a troublemaker!" Alice hissed angrily.

"Don't back chat me girl!" Mrs Gibson told her.

"Well don't label me when you absolutely nothing about me, first impressions can be deceiving. See my first impression of you is that you're a bitch!" Alice retorted and realised what she had said. Oops she was in for it now! She heard a few year 7's behind her gasp.

Mrs Gibson was furious. "Give me your report." she said in a controlled voice which radiated anger.

"I don't have it!" Alice replied.

"Well who does?" she asked.

"I don't know Mrs Craig - the Easter bunny?" she added in defiance.

The bell rang and Alice gathered her stuff. "I'd love to say this had been fun but I'd be lying!" Alice said as she pulled on her coat.

"Don't you dare leave this classroom. I haven't finished with you!" Mrs Gibson fumed.

"OOOO I never could resist a dare! Plus I think you are finished with me. I have no desire to listen to any lectures which will last 2 hours. I'll be late for my next lesson! Can't have that." Alice stopped at the door. "Toodles." she said and grinned. Ha-ha victory! Score one for Alice

She walked towards the PE block. Her saving grace. They had tennis today.

She saw Danny stood with a group of people. She walked over and they greeted her. He handed her her report. Mrs Craig brought it back to Mr Simmons.

"Oh Great detention and codes!" she groaned.

"Can't believe you did that to him. He looked like he was going to burst a blood vessel.

"yeah well I'll be in more trouble later. Mrs Gibson was being a bitch and working me. I really didn't want to put up with her crap so I called her a bitch and walked out mid flow."

"OOOOOO your brave" nearly all of the group replied.

"She'll have you for that!" Danny told her.

"Yeah well keep your eye on the PE block coz Mrs Craig will be up here having kittens!" Alice replied.

Everyone then walked into the changing rooms.

The class was stood in the sports hall with rackets and tennis balls. The teacher was droning on and Alice tuned out. They were paired up to have a game.

"Alice you partner Sarah!"

Alice jaw dropped. She'd been told that Mrs Craig had told everyone to keep them separate. What a fucking liar! Alice walked over to the net absolutely foaming. How the fuck was she supposed to hold her temper with her as a partner. She may as well give up now. Rather than let her goad her just bat her here and now!

She breathed deeply. Keep calm! She thought. She concentrated on bouncing the ball on her racket as the teacher was pairing people off. She heard Sarah muttering but ignored her snide comments.

Sarah was smiling. She had Alice exactly where she wanted her. She was gonna get her expelled then work on Danny. He loved her and she was getting him back. All she had to do was get rid of her and she knew exactly how to do it! She'd overheard Danny and Alice talking about her mum being dead at lunch.

"I must admit I was wrong about your mum. I apologise from the bottom of my heart about that! Truly!" she said sarcasm evident in her tone.

Alice's eyes narrowed but she continued bouncing the ball pretending to ignore her but really she'd heard every word.

"Your mum isn't a whore. She's dead. Bet she's happy too. To get away from you I mean!" Sarah said evilly and then laughed.

Alice froze and looked at Sarah. She thought this was the height of amusement. Right she'd had enough of this shit!

"Let's just play tennis shall we?" she said and threw the ball high into the air. Alice was seething.

The bitch was getting it this time and she soooooo didn't care if they chucked her out for it! She was sick of this and it was ending NOW!

"Hey Sarah, insult this!" she said.

The ball was falling and she hit it with all her strength. The ball hurtled towards Sarah at top speed. She had no time to react. She didn't even have time to gasp before the ball hit her in the stomach. Sarah hit the floor with a "Oomph and was holding her stomach gasping for breath - Winded.

Mrs Nelson looked at Alice. She dropped her racket and went to walk away. She was getting out of here!

"What happened here?" she asked.

"Well DUH! She got hit with the ball." Alice said and crossed her arms.

"I can see that. Was it an accident."

Alice laughed but the sound held no humour. "The woman asks if it was a accident!" she muttered. "You got TOLD not to let us near each other so you do the only thing you can. Pair us together! Are you stupid or what?" Alice said angrily.

A crowd had gathered. Sarah was sat on the bench face flushed with Mrs Matthews.

"Come with me!" Mrs Nelson said.

"O So she separates us now the damage is already done brainiac!" she said.

They walked into the office where Mrs Nelson filled out a serious incident form and put a paragraph on her report.

"That's not just for you you know. Other teachers write there too!" Alice said sarcastically.

Mrs Nelson ignored her. They then walked to the changing rooms.

"I want 5 minutes if I'm changing!" Alice said.

"Your not changing - I'm taking you to your head of house. I refuse to teach you!"

Alice looked at her and said, "Get in line behind Mr Simmons!"

They walked to Mrs Craig's office which was empty. They then walked to the French block. They knocked on her classroom door which was also empty. She then walked into her tutors room after knocking. Mrs Hedley was sat at her desk marking books. She had a free period.

"I understand you have a Alice Collins in your tutor group." Mrs Nelson said.

She heard Mrs Hedley exhale. Mrs Nelson walked over and handed Mrs Hedley the serious incident form and the report.

"Alice come in." Mrs Hedley said. She looked at me in my tracksuit bottoms trainers and my red t-shirt. Mrs Nelson left the room.

"I wasn't allowed to change." was all I said.

Mrs Hedley read her report and serious incident form. "You just can't make life easy for yourself can you!" she said annoyed.

I sat on a chair arms crossed and just looked at her. I chose not to respond.

"Well?" she asked.

"Well what?" Alice said. "No matter what I say isn't going to make a difference so what's the point?"

Mrs Craig walked into the room - fuming.

"And now it's a party!" Alice muttered.

"And again I'm speaking to you!" she shouted. "I've had Mrs Gibson in my ear saying you swore at her and were offensive and now Mrs Nelson telling me you assaulted Sarah!" she said.

Alice stayed silent again.

"What have you not got any denials for us."

"No." Alice said simply. "What difference does it make what's done is done and let me tell you if you gave me the choice I'd do it again. It's the teachers job to help me but whenever Sarah says or does anything to me the ONLY person who has punished her is Mrs Hedley so excuse me for sticking up for myself. And let me ask you something, are you like this with all your new kids or is it just me? The kids who come here from the beginning get away with everything and can treat the new ones like crap and nothing gets done!" Alice said angrily.

"Tell us if you have a problem!" Mrs Craig said.

"God have you not listened to a word I've said?" she asked.

"I don't know if there's anything else I can do for you! You've had more leeway than I give 10 kids put together."

"I didn't ask you too." Alice said quietly. "Look - it wasn't my fault I was paired with her today. I didn't ask to be! What was I supposed to do? Nothing works. She's been on at me all day and I finally snapped. This is not my idea of fun ok. 10 hour lectures which hold no significance for me. Can you not just expel me or move me to a class lower than I'm in now because the way things are going my education will be in tatters anyway! I just can't take it anymore!"

There was only one more thing Mrs Craig could think of. "Are you friends with Daniel Trevanion?" she asked.

Alice nodded.

She was going to put them in a buddy system. Daniel was to try and keep Alice calm. He'd done it at dinnertime and she had been amazed. He had just distracted her and she calmed almost instantly.

"Ok Alice. There's one more thing for me to do. After that any more incidents and your expelled." she wrote something on the back of her report. "You can finish this lesson writing codes in here, if you don't mind Mrs Hedley.

Mrs Hedley nodded her head.

"And as of your next PE lesson you can play football with the boys!"

Mrs Craig left the room.

"Did you not use your time out card?" Mrs Hedley asked.

"No I'm giving it back. What is the point I'll leave and she'll start again when I get back and because my mum taught me to face your problems head on and show 'em the Collins spirit!" she mimicked her mums voice as she said it and smiled when she realised she sounded just like her. "Leaving when Sarah is working me constitutes running away." she started writing.

"No Alice it's not. It gives you time to calm down. Clear your head. I like you and know that you can do well but you have to learn to control your temper!" Mrs Hedley said softly.

"You may as well not waste your time on me anymore Mrs Hedley. I'll be expelled before the end of the week and Sarah will have won." Alice said sadly.

"Why doesn't she like you. It seemed to me like this thing was instantaneous!"

"Basically in a nutshell. I met her boyfriend we hit it off straight away. Then she was moved away from him in English. He did good work as I was sat next to him and I got moved there full time. She was jealous. I also worked her a little bit but not to the extent she's going with me!" Alice admitted.

"Anyway don't worry about me. Like I say I'll be gone soon. There's no way I'll be able to keep my mouth shut so bye bye Alice!" she said.

The bell for end of school rang. She pulled her coat on.

"I'll see you in tutor tomorrow Alice" Mrs Hedley said.

Alice waved and walked out of the room. A sombre mood had descended upon Alice as she remembered what Sarah had said. She hated how Sarah had made her feel at that moment when she' d said it. She saw Danny at the gates.

He grinned. "Remind me never to piss you off!" he said and kissed her cheek, his eyes twinkled.

She grabbed his hand. "I've had the worst day Danny." she murmured.

"Why'd you hit her?" Danny asked.

"She told me that my mum was happy to be dead coz she got away from me. What angered me the most was because for a second I believed her. I doubted my mothers love! Can you imagine what that felt like. that's why I hit her!" Alice said.

"Oh Alice!" he said an put his arm around hers as they walked. "You know that your mum loves you and she would never have wanted to leave you. She didn't have the choice to stay! Sarah's just a jealous bitch because your everything she isn't smart sexy great sense of humour friendly. And most of all gorgeous!"

She didn't answer him. She was imagining her mum berating her for believing she didn't love her. It was driving her mad. She just couldn't get that image out of her head!

He walked to his house. She kissed him softly at the door.

"You not coming in?" he asked.

"No Danny I need some time alone. Love you Danny!" she said. And hugged him tight.

She then walked towards her house. She let herself in and walked upstairs dejected. She walked I and lay on her bed. The lock on the door didn't matter. Who cares what happened to her? She was wrapped up in the foetal position. She looked out of her window at the clouds. She was so sick of her life! School Sarah josh! What was keeping her here? Danny she wondered. He'd move on quick enough if she was gone. I mean she wasn't special! She thought of the knives downstairs in the kitchen. No she pass out she couldn't stand the sight of her own blood. There were tablets in the bathroom. A mouthful of them and then she'd go to sleep. She'd just close her eyes and never wake up. She'd never doubt her mother again. Alice got up to walk to the bathroom. Her phone bleeped telling her a text had arrived. She debated ignoring it but her curiosity got the better of her. She walked over to her coat and looked at it.

Sorry abt ur bad day hun x but remember tmrws another day. I miss u wen ya nt here darling x lv u hun xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo xDx

Alice smiled at the message and sat on her bed to text back all the bad thoughts forgotten. Danny didn't know it but he'd just saved her life.

A/N so sorry it took so long to upload but ave been in the garden everyday with my lil boy mite b awile 4 the next upload am so nervous 4 monday :O