Forty five

Blake's POV

The runaway's were scared. I know why. Most of them hadn't been to school in years. Holly and Lily it had been a year and half, Zach was four years behind, Jade had spent a year out of school and Charlie. Well he was possibly the most behind. Seven years in fact. I was surprised by how well he could actually read and write. He also had pretty good maths skills. He was meant to be in year 10. The start of the GCSE years. He'd missed five months of work though so it was going to be a struggle for him. Luckily we had checked he had a sound knowledge of year 9 maths which he did so that would make it easier.

Zach was also going to struggle. We were in our final year of GCSE's and he hadn't done any of the work. He had also confessed he found maths and English hard. The school had placed him in year 9 maths and English lessons so he could work on building his general skills but for subjects like PE, Music, Drama and geography he was in year 10 lessons with Charlie.

They've been here a week now and settled in really well. I like all of them, a surprise for me. Jade is a little bit grumpy though but that's the only downside. Oh and Lily doesn't talk to me. She doesn't like me for no apparent reason.

"Why do I have to go to school?" Zach moaned. "I don't want to go to uni. I don't want to get a good job." Mike sighed.

"Because it's the law Zach. You have to go until the end of year 11. Then you can drop out this summer and get an apprenticeship or something. We are next making you get your GCSE's. We just have to send you to school," Mike explained for the fifth time that morning. Zach sighed and sulked into his chair.

We caused a bigger stir at school this morning what with five additional people in our group. Most of us being used to the stares just ignored it but poor Holly couldn't cope and she started crying. I was stood next to her so I crouched down. "Hey, Holly. Don't cry. Everything will be fine. You're starting in year 7 so you'll make loads of friends. Think how hard it's going to be for Lily." She sniffled slightly and nodded. She held my hand and then smiled up at me. I liked Holly. She was cute and very nice to me. I led her into school as Jessie led the others into school. We stopped at the office. Mrs Jane looked up when she saw us and groaned.

"You lot cause so much paperwork. Right you must be Holly, Lily, Jade, Charlie and Zach. Holly you are in from 7J, Jessie you know what room that is so you'll take her there won't you," Mrs Jane said quickly. Jessie nodded but Mrs Jane had already moved on. "Zach you are in 11L with Blake, Jade is 11J. Charlie you are 10K and Lily you are 10M. You two know where those form rooms are don't you?" she asked. We nodded. "good. Here are you timetables and planners. Enjoy your time at Lakemead school." She hurried off and left me and Jessie blinking at the spot where she had been.

"Come on guys, let's go get you to form," Jessie said and I nodded. We led the way down the stairs until we found a maths room with the form name 7J on the front. Jessie knocked politely on the door. My maths teacher answered it.

"yes," he demanded. I cowered a little bit. I hated him.

"Hello sir. You have new member in your form. This is Holly," Jessie said calmly, refusing to react to his pig-headedness. He looked at Holly and smiled.

"hello Holly. Welcome to 7J. Come in. The rest of the class will be here soon," he said nicely. We waved at her and then turned around to head towards the English department for the year 10 form rooms.

"What forms are there?" Jade asked as we walked.

"There is J, K, L, M, N, O in each year and an additional R and S in year 12 and 13," I explained. Jessie smiled. It was the exact same sentence Elektra had given me when I had asked only three weeks ago. We stopped outside the English department. "Shall I take Lily and you take Charlie?" she groaned but nodded.

"Miss London, this is Charlie Thomas," I heard Jessie say as I led Lily further down the corridor to her form room. Miss London was Jessie's English teacher and Lily's form tutor was mine. We got to the door but she wasn't in there so I just left Lily there and went back to Jessie who was sat waiting for us outside her English classroom.

"She hates me, she actually hates me," Jessie told me. I laughed and we headed towards music and PE. They got to their form room, a PE classrooms we said goodbye and carried on down to the music room that was 11L's form room.

Zach and I walked in and our teacher looked at me. "sorry miss. I was taking some of the new kids to their form room. This is Zach," I added. She nodded.

"Nice to meet you Zach. There is a spare seat next to Blake so you can take that one," she said and we hurried to the back of the room. Today was going to be interesting for all of us.

A/N: sorry it's short. It's more a filler chapter to get the kids at school so I can do some more play rehearsals. Indigo :)