The Next Day

Alice had decided to go to school. She knew she could have stayed off if she wanted. The school nor the teachers couldn't have blamed her. Her shower this morning had been a complete farce. She chuckled. The doctors had told her to try and keep her cast dry so she'd used some brown tape and a black bag and taped it to her cast, she also tucked it down so no water got inside her cast. She'd then stood, one leg hung outside of the shower curtain, it's not easy balancing in a slippery shower with 2 normal legs, with a broken leg it's nigh on impossible. She had to go in the shower though, she was minging!

So her shower was finished. "Ouch!" she yelled as he pulled the brown tape off her leg. She dressed and pulled on her trousers. She had 1 pair that flared enough to fit around her cast, what she was going to do for the rest of the week was another matter. Her getting down the stairs was another matter for amusement, she made sure that no-one was watching her. She made it downstairs after saying a few choice swear words.

Danny knocked on the door at 8:25.

"We might need a little bit more time to get to school!" he said grinning.

"No we won't we'll get there quicker!" she said indignant, then grinned at him.

She grabbed her bag and then they walked to school.

"I still can't find my picture!" she said after 5 minutes.

"Don't worry Alice, it'll turn up!" he said.

By the time they reached the school gates it was 8:55. "This gives us 10 minutes to get to the RE/French block. Do you think we can make it?"

Alice grinned at him. "Race you." she said.

They made it just before the bell rang. "Wanna hand upstairs?" he asked.

"No I'll be fine. See ya later. Love ya. Mwah!" she blew him a kiss. He grabbed her and kissed her quickly. "The real thing is much better!" he whispered and walked away.

Alice walked into the French block. It was the little things like that made her love him. He said he was no good with words, but that was nice because she knew when he did think of sweet things to say they came from his heart. O she loved him, more than anything else on this earth!

She found these stairs quite easy to walk up coz they were fairly wide. Thankfully the door was open, she walked in.

"Good morning." Mrs Hedley said. "How's your leg?"

"Pretty good, could be better!" she said and grinned. She sat in the chair nearest to the door. Alice was feeling in a upbeat mood. She was feeling so intoxicated from Danny's love!

Mrs Hedley grinned. "We weren't expecting you in. we thought you'd be off for the rest of the week. We expected you still to be in hospital actually.""Na tough as old boots me, plus the break wasn't as bad as they thought so here I am."

Sarah walked into the classroom.

"Good morning Sarah." Mrs Hedley said

"Morning Miss" she replied. As she walked passed she kicked Alice's chair, her injured leg hit of the table. She groaned involuntarily.

"Sorry Alice." Sarah said, she sounded anything but!

Alice didn't say or do anything. The last 2 months had seen a change in Alice. She was calmer and more reflective. Ever since she and Danny had that little talk about her mother and she cried she felt much better about her mum. She felt more able to handle snide comments. Sarah had lost her power over her. She knew Mrs Hedley was proud of her improved attitude. Mrs Craig had been too until yesterday. The register was taken quickly and the bell rang. History first, Alice's favourite besides PE. (A/N I made Alice's favourite lessons the same as mine. Just again easier 4 me to remember otherwise at different points of the story she end up loving them all lol) PE was now a complete wash out as she wouldn't even be allowed to step foot on the pitch. That was just completely crap!

The first 2 lessons passed quickly and break time had been and gone. She was sat in RE literally falling asleep when a young girl knocked on the door.

"Mrs Craig wants to talk to Alice Collins." she said to Mrs Allen and then walked away.

Alice frowned, Mrs Craig hadn't spoken to her in a while except for her accident and of course the incident with Mr Simmons. If this was about that she was gonna go wild! He'd put his hands on her first! She fumed as she walked out of the RE block. She wasn't having that if they were going to blame her she was going higher. It all just shows that teachers don't care. All they do is stick up for each other and cover each others back. Sod the pupil! She turned the corner to French and saw Sarah standing there. This was weird why wasn't she in RE with the rest of their class? It didn't matter she was going to ignore her like she had been the past 5 weeks. She tried to walk around her but Sarah wouldn't let her pass. It was hard to do with crutches in the first place. Alice looked up and glared at her.

"Excuse me." although it was a polite request her voice was deadly.

Someone suddenly ran behind her and grabbed her crutches. Alice nearly toppled backwards but regained her balance. She was left stood on one foot. Sarah pushed her back hard and she fell, her head hit off the concrete.

"Aaa." she said and clutched her head in both arms. She was seeing stars. Her vision focused and she saw Sarah above her holding her mothers picture.

Oh God she had her mothers picture. If she did anything she was fucking dead! Alice vowed.

She used the wall as leverage to pull herself up to standing.

"Sarah give me the picture!" Alice said calmly.

"Give me Danny!" she replied.

Alice went to grab it but with her left foot useless she couldn't get the leverage she needed.

Sarah waved the picture in front of her.

"I don't want any trouble so give it to me!" Alice demanded getting angry. She again went to grab it but missed.

"Hmmmm." Sarah said. "I wonder what you would do if I was to do this!" she said and ripped the picture down Alice's mums face.

Alice saw red. She felt rage build and sweep through her entire body. She forgot all about her injured leg. "I'm gonna kill you!" she said and took a step forward.

At the moment Alice's foot touched the ground Sarah hit her in her injured leg. Alice went down on her knees in pain. She heard another tear. She jumped on Sarah from her knees and head butted her face. She'd hit her in the nose. Somehow balanced on one leg she was hitting her. Sarah kicked out and hit her injured leg again. Sarah pushed her back onto the ground, she straddled her and grabbed her head and hit it off the ground once. Alice's head felt fuzzy, her eyes wanted to close but she forced them to stay open. She wasn't giving this bitch the satisfaction! Alice hit Sarah in the stomach and she groaned and climbed off her. Sarah stomped on Alice's leg hard - twice. She went to stamp again but Alice rolled and used her arms as leverage as she heaved herself off the ground in one fast movement. She again was balanced on her uninjured leg. She got clever and dodged a punch Sarah threw then hopped when she went for her leg. She threw a punch which land in Sarah's right eye. Hopefully she'd just blacked it! She got one more punch to Sarah's lip before Mrs Craig dragged Sarah back to the French block.

Mrs Craig had looked out of the French block window and saw Sarah on top of Alice. She saw her pound Alice's head off the ground. Alice then hit her in the stomach. She had sprinted out of the French block at top speed down the stairs and now saw Alice was hopping on one foot punching Sarah. She'd give this to Alice if you wanted to put her down you had to keep her down. She never gave up! She grabbed Sarah and pulled her over to the French block doors.

"Stay there!" she warned.

Sarah was holding her blazer to her lip trying to stop the flow of blood from her burst lip. Alice had hopped over and was sat bent over clutching her head. The fucking bitch had been trying to knock her out! It's a good thing she had a hard head. Doesn't stop it feeling there was a little man with a hammer and chisel in there!

"You ok Alice?" Mrs Craig asked.

Alice ignored her and tried to block the pain from her head and leg. God there wasn't a word strong enough to describe the pain in her leg. She'd be lucky if there wasn't any permanent damage done in there.

"Alice!" Mrs Craig said more sharply this time.

Alice looked up and saw the worry in her eyes.

"I'm fine." she muttered. "You'd better go and deal with her coz as soon as I'm recovered if she's still there I will kill her." there was a deadly glint in Alice's eye.

Mrs Craig handed Alice her crutches and went to deal with Sarah. If you can go up to my room, if you can't wait and I'll help you up there. Sarah will be gone."

Alice nodded. Mrs Craig took Sarah to Trinity going through the back way of the RE block. Alice went over and bent down awkwardly to pick up the ripped pieces of her mothers picture and stuffed them into her pocket. She then ignored the pain in her leg and went upstairs to Mrs Craig's room.

So she hadn't lost her mothers picture, no doubt she and Josh had rifled though her things! God she fucking hated this! She swore she was gonna stand in front of a fucking bus! Screw the whole fucking world! She kicked the table. Her injured leg throbbed with a unyielding intensity. She wanted, no needed to pace. Her leg hurt too much though. She tapped her hands on the table, nothing. She could feel something building in her chest. It needed to be released before she exploded from the force of it. She stood up picked up a chair and threw it across the room. That had helped - marginally. She heard a door open and someone walk down the corridor. She picked up the chair she had thrown.

Mr Lautret walked in. "Waz that you?" he asked in a voice thick with a French accent.

"Yes actually!" she said piling on her own Scottish accent. He looked confused like he didn't understand her. "You got a problem sir?"

"Er yez I do haz ze problem you see I am trying to teach ze class." he said.

"Ze class isn't bothad." Alice replied in a mock French accent.

"Wat iz your name?" he raged.

She looked him up and down. "Sorry I have standards."

Mrs Craig returned and saw Alice's folded arms and belligerent expression. Mr Lautret was a funny purple colour.

"Thiz girl iz a dezgrace!" he exclaimed. "She is very rude and disrespectful and was discrimatory about my accent!" he said.

"I will deal with her Mr Lautret, you can go back to your class, I'm sure Alice is very sorry!" Mrs Craig said.

"Am I hell!" she said.

"BE QUIET!" Mrs Craig fumed.

Mr Lautret left the room or more like stomped from the room.

"Sit down Alice, come on take the weight off your leg!"

Alice did as she was told.

"Why are you out of your lesson?"

"Well I've been getting my ass kicked off Sarah." she replied sarcastically.

"First thing first drop the swearing. Second you can drop the sarcasm too. It's not my fault this happened so don't act like it is!"

"Well it IS actually your fault, if you had requested my presence then Sarah wouldn't have been able to come near me!"Alice said fuming.

"Ohh that girl is in big trouble!" Mrs Craig said. "I never wanted to speak to you Alice!"

"Enough trouble to expel her?" Alice asked.

"No." Mrs Craig replied.

"Am I still walking a fine line?" She asked.

"Don't even think about it Alice!"

"It's me or her! I refuse to stay in this school while she's here. Coz I swear the next time I see her I'm gonna batter her then stamp on her head!" Alice said angrily. There that's should get her expelled threats against another pupil.

"Alice shut up I know what your trying to do!" Mrs Craig said.

She tried another tactic. "How about no teacher will be able to teach their class without disruptions!" she said.

"I'll isolate you then, which in turns solves problem 1 too."

"God just expel me!" Alice shouted and banged her hands off the table. "I can't stay here!" she shouted.

"What happened this time did she call you a nasty name or something?" Mrs Craig asked with scorn. She was sick of the trouble between these girls!

Alice pulled her mothers ripped picture from her pocket and slammed it down onto the desk.

"Is that enough for you? None of this was my fault ok. I came under the pretence that you wanted to talk to me. When I turned the corner she was stood at the wall and wouldn't let me pass. Someone ran behind me and took my crutches from me. She then ripped this picture right in my face and then booted me in my injured leg. As I went down she ripped it again. She hit me first, I defended myself. Personally after that I think she deserved everything she got!" she said. "Oh and don't ask me how she got the picture coz I sure as hell didn't give it to her! She was round visiting Josh while I was in hospital - they must have went in my room."

The bell rang for next lesson. Alice closed her eyes and winced as pain whistled through her head.

"There's a lesson in here next, we'll go in Mrs Hedley's room. I'll get in touch with your teachers and explain why your missing."

"No we won't!" Alice replied. "I'm going home, I hate this whole fu.." Alice had went to swear but seen Mrs Craig's expression and stopped herself. "I hate this whole place and everyone in it too and I swear to God I'm not coming back!"

Alice got up to leave the room but Mrs Craig blocked her.

"You are going to Mrs Hedley's room." Mrs Craig said calmly.

"NO I'M NOT!" she yelled, breathing heavily. "I'm getting out of here!"

Mrs Craig backed off until they reached Mrs Hedley's room and again won't allow Alice to pass her. Mrs Craig knocked and then entered.

"I understand it's empty in here next?" she said.

She must have nodded because Alice didn't hear a affirmative.

"In!" she said.

"NO!" Alice yelled at her. In a fit of anger she threw one of her crutches off the wall it fell to the floor with a clatter. At this point Alice was beyond angry , she was furious, enraged, irate!

Mrs Hedley appeared at the door. "Alice." she said softly.

The voice pierced her angry haze.

"Come in and sit for 5 minutes. Just 5 minutes to calm yourself down."

It was the tone which did it. Yelling Alice could deal with. It stroked her anger kept it burning but a soft soothing tone always melted her resolve. She picked the crutch which had been thrown and walked into the room.

(X)

The pupils had started entering the building for their lesson. Alice sat on a chair and closed her eyes. Her forehead rested on her hand. She breathed slowly and felt her anger begin to dissipate fully. Now she felt tired, weary even. Whenever she felt that bone deep anger all she wanted to do after was crawl into bed and sleep.

Mrs Hedley opened her mouth to speak when a knock at the door interrupted.

"Come in." she said.

The door opened and a young man stepped in with a coat and a bag. It was Danny. Alice's anger returned 10 fold.

"You!" she snarled at him.

Danny was shocked.

She stood up and got her mothers picture from her pocket. She threw the pieces at him and snatched her coat.

"If I hadn't of met you this would never have happened and Sarah wouldn't of tried to use my head as a hammer against the concrete ground!"

She shrugged into her coat, not the easiest of tasks when holding 2 crutches.

"Alice get that coat off and sit down. Daniel go to your lesson." Mrs Craig ordered.

Alice had got her coat on and had picked her bag up. She looked at Mrs Craig.

"Go to hell, you don't tell me what to do!" she shouted.

"Alice what's wrong?" Danny asked softly and laid his hand on her arm.

Alice snatched her arm away. "Stay away from me Danny! Your psycho girlfriend had won!" she said and stormed from the room.

Danny looked at the floor and saw the photograph. It lay sadly on the floor. He picked it up and recognised Alice's mothers smiling face. She recognised the laughing eyes which Alice had inherited.

Oh no, Sarah! He thought.

Screw his next lesson, he walked after Alice. "Alice!" he shouted.

Mrs Craig had followed him. "Daniel get to your next lesson."

He ignored her and quickly caught up with Alice. He put his hand on her shoulder. She spun round surprisingly quickly for a person on crutches.

"What's wr…" he started but she cut him off.

"Oh he's going to ask me what's wrong. Well I'll tell you, I wish I'd never met you! I hate you!" she said and left him.

He stood there stunned. Ouch that had hurt!

"Go to your lesson Daniel." she repeated.

He walked mechanically towards IT. What the hell had happened in the last hour? he thought and the big question. Why did Alice hate him? He honestly never thought he would have heard those words uttered in her musical voice directed at him ever. Her tone had been so venomous. Her eyes had been flashing fire. Twin pricks of anger in their blue depths. He opened the IT block door and walked inside.

Alice was home, she went straight up to her room. She lay down on her bed to rest her aching head. She fell into a feverish dreamless sleep.

She awoke and looked around her room. She was disorientated. She always was went she had a sleep in the afternoon. She checked her clock. 15:20. Wow she had slept for a good 3 hours! The depth of her anger must have exhausted her more than she thought. She heard her phone going off. Pink save my life was her ringtone. She saw it was Danny. She let it ring off. She didn't want to speak to him, she didn't want to speak to anyone! Her dream had disturbed her, it had full of dark images and flashing lights. She'd felt she was suffocating under a black cloud. The phone rang again. While listening to the song she became resolved to do something. Nothing was stopping her this time!

She walked into the bathroom. She'd had enough of life, she was better off not being here anyway! She had emailed both Missy and Shauna last week and they hadn't replied so they obviously didn't miss her that much! Her dad hated her and the only thing Josh would miss was the occasional perve! She thought of Danny again. Her heart broke. She loved him so much and had been so mean, he was better off without her! He should be with someone who treats him right. Who isn't mean and judgemental. Who hasn't got a hair trigger temper. She grabbed the box of sleeping pills and a glass of water. She walked into her room and put the Pink song on called Save My Life. She thought it strangely fitting. She closed the door and opened the box.

A/N okie dokie people. how was that? today i was supposed 2 b studyin jane eyre 4 my test 2moro but i decided 2 do sum typing instead. i no am daft but i h8 jane eyre with a passion! hpe u enjoyed my story review please u guys r gr8 :)