Holly and Paul were sitting at the back of the bus, Phil was sitting with Aimee and Michaela and Bolton were sitting together.
"All right Kids, lets have the rules before we set off" Rachel called over the noise of the children rambling. "Come on, quiet".
Once they had quietened down, she started to talk again.
"There will be 6 people in each bedroom, girls in the East wing, and boys in the West, no boys are allowed into the girls corridor, and no girls into the boys, that is one of the centres rules as well as our own"
Bolton started to groan, he wanted to spend some time with Michaela alone.
"No alcohol, and no smoking, this is also the centres rule, the building is wooden, so girls I'm sorry but hair straightners are not allowed, again, not our rule, no aerosols are to be used in the bed rooms, they will set of the sensitive fire alarms"
The girls all started moaning except Karla and Aleesha, they didn't mind the no hair straighterns rule.
"OK, now onto our rules, Breakfast will be at 7am, then you will have one hour to be ready for our activates, Lunch will be from 12 to 1, then afternoon activates, Dinner at 6, then you can have free time till 9. The doors will be getting locked at 9, so you need to be back in the building by then, and into your rooms by 10. Lights out at 10.30"
"10.30, pft" Michaela moaned.
"Yes Michaela, and if any of these rules are broken, you will be grounded, I have all your parents consent to do so" Rachel said "And finally last rule, listen to the instructors, they are there for your safety and finally, enjoy yourself, now lets get going"
Rachel sat next to Eddie "Are you ready for a weekend of fun" he said, and she laughed, she was, but pity she was sharing a room with Kim.
Holly leaned over to the seats in front "Mum, she packed hair straightners, don't tell anyone, but maybe we can sneak to her room and use them"
"Yeah, can't imagine Aunt Rachel going without them, can you"
Holly leaned into Pauls arms and moved her mouth towards his, soon they were making out.
"Oh, you two get a room" Aleesha shouted at them causing Rachel and Eddie to turn round.
"Ohi, Holly, Paul, we'll have none of that Thank you" Rachel said as she looked firmly at her daughter. Holly's face went bright red, she leaned back on her seat as did Paul who was just as embarrassed. Aimee started to laugh at her cousins misfortune.
"It's so unfair" she whispered to Aimee and Phil, "I bet she'll have her tongue down Eddies throat at some point in this exciting trip, not to mention they'll have wine I bet, and can use hair straightners"
"Yeah, well, their grown ups, aren't they" Phil said.
They stopped off at the Gretna services, where they managed to get served some alcohol for the holiday, and off they went to Burger King, before going back on their journey, they arrived hours later at Ardintinny.
"Wow, look at this place" Paul said "It's beautiful" he said pointing out to Loch Long.
Everyone was off the bus, and the driver opened the storage area.
"All right Kids, get your cases and Bags and stand over there with them" Rachel said pointing to the Larger foyer "Boys on the left and girls on the right".
"Whats she doing" Holly whispered to Aimee and Paul
"I bet their going to search our cases for alcohol and stuff, I mean we were told not to bring straightners with us before we came" Aimee said
"Did you bring yours, and what about the vodka we bought in Gretna?" Holly asked worriedly
"Oh, don't worry about that, its hidden somewhere they won't search" Aimee said
"What, where?" Holly asked suspiciously as she put her case down in the Foyer
"It's in Aunt Rachels case, she kept hers on the bus with her, and when she and Eddie disappeared at Gretna, I put it in, now, all we need to do is got get Phil to carry it upstairs for her, and have one of us distract her while the other gets it" Aimee explained her cunning plan to her Cousin, Danielle, Aleesha and Michaela whilst Phil filled in Paul and Bolton.
"Allright, Mr Lawson and Mr Clarkson are going to check the boys cases, and Miss Campbell and I will check the girls" Rachel explained as a man and woman came out of the centre.
Rachel walked to the end of the line to where Aimee was standing.
"OK Aimee, open up" Rachel said, Aimee sighed.
"This is totally unfair" she sighed, "I bet its against our human rights"
"Aimee please, do it for me, don't make me force you"
Rachel checked hers and Holly's cases and the Man and Woman from the centre made their way over to Rachel.
"Miss Mason" they said and Rachel introduced herself.
"We are just checking their cases, you know to make sure there is no contraband" Rachel explained
"I'm glad" the man said, "some schools don't take the no alcohol seriously, but its for everyone's safety, we ask that Adults don't drink either" he explained
"Yes, of course" Rachel said, but at the same time thinking "aye right," she had a bottle of red in her case.
"A Friday night without wine, how will you cope" Holly said sarcasticly, and Rachel turned round and glared at her.
The man and woman though this was slightly odd, not the normal exchange they were used to hearing between a pupil and teacher never mind head teacher.
Once the bags were all searched and a few things had been taken off the children some beer and cider, which Eddie disposed of the trainers were ready to talke.
"All right Children, we have split you into your 6 bedrooms, Girls are over there and boys over there, the bedrooms are upstairs and in the middle is a Common room with a TV"
"Brilliant a TV" the kids chorused.
"Before you all get too excited, there won't be much time for watching TV, and we only get 3 channels here in the valley, now each room had a teacher who will be in charge of that room, so in Loch Etive we have Aimee, Michaela, Danielle, Aleesha, Karla and Holly, you will be with Miss Mason"
Karla smiled, she was happy, she liked Miss Mason, although she had never been away from her parents before.
Rachel went to lift her case, but before she could Phil came running over "I'll carry that upstairs for you" he offered.
Rachel laughed "Phil on you go back, I'll manage myself" she said, he went back to the other side of the foyer, their plan wasn't working already. Although Aimee could use some help with her cases.
The girls went into their room and dumped the cases.
"Holly your on a bottom bunk" Aimee said, "I'd better take the top" she added know what happens when her cousin sleeps on the top.
"What are we going to do Aimee, how are we going to get it off her now" Holly griped worryingly to her older cousin.
"Chilax Holly, look, go tell Aunt Rachel that we need her in here, Karlas upset, Ill hide out in the toilets and go in, get the booze out" Aimee explained to Holly and the others.
"But I'm not upset" Karla said honestly
"We know your not Karla, just pretend, its just so we can get something out of Miss Mason's case" Aleesha explained
"But, I can't" Karla said, starting to get worked up
"See Karla, your doing great" Michaela said, but holly and Danielle were starting to feel guilty about doing this to Karla.
Aimee ran to the toilets and Holly knocked on the door she seen her mother go into.
"Come in," Rachel called, and Holly entered.
"Hay Honey, is everything Ok" Rachel said
"Karla's a bit upset, can you come" Holly lied to her mother, who immedietly went to Karla.
"Karla, what's wrong" Rachel asked concern hinting in her voice
"She said she misses her Mum" Michaela explained
"Oh, Well you know its only a few days, and you'll see her so soon" Rachel explained, Karla was starting to calm down, it wasn't her Mum that was upsetting her, it was the lying, but she knew, everything would be OK, and once Karla had calmed down Rachel left.
Aimee had went into her Aunts room, and take her stowawayed contraband out, she hid in the toilets again till the coast was clear and went into her room.
"Party down on the beach tonight" Aimee said showing off the two bottles of vodka and something a little stronger.
"Aimee, that's drugs, we can't smoke that" Holly said
"Why not, its not like your new to it" Aimee replied back, getting a little fed up of her cousins scardy attitude.
"Yeah, but that was different" she explained
"Why" Michaela said "because you ate it, it was still drugs"
"Look, just hide it somewhere, you so know their going to do room inspections" Danielle said, and thy hit it all, the vodka poured into water bottles and the drugs into toiletry bags. They put the Vodka bottles right at the back under one of the beds and hid it behind empty suitcases, the contents of which were strawn across the floor.
"Ha, I'd love to see them try and search the place, they wont find anything here" Aleesha laughed.
They heard a knock at the door.
"Come in" Aimee called and Rachel walked through the door.
"Girls, honestly, look at the mess of this place" Rachel scolded as she looked around and seen mountains of clothes and makeup all over the place.
"Karla, it's time for your medicine Rachel said as she handed her a pill and glass of water.
"Thanks Miss" she swallowed the pill with no objection.
"You have 15 minutes till lunch, I suggest you make a start on tidying this place up. Oh, and Holly, I want you in a bottom bunk" Rachel said which caused the others to laugh and Holly to go red.
"Why do you all think that I'm incapabale of sleeping on a top bunk"
"Because you are" Aimee replied, "you fell out on the cruise, and everyother time we've been away somewhere, just take the bottom and stop whining"
"My Mum said I have to sleep on the bottom too" Karla said "Michaela do you want the bed above?" she asked, which was obvious to everyone else since Danielle and Aleesha would be on the other one.
"Holly, just do as I say, I don't fancy having a hospital run in the middle of the night" Rachel said and left the girls in peace.
It was soon lunch time, they had their lunch before heading out to their first activity climbing and absailing.
They were split into 4 groups Rachel was with Phil, Aimee, Holly, Bolton, Paul and Karla and they were taken to a crag not far from the centre.
"For Fuck Sake, how the hell are we meant to fucking climb that" Bolton said, looking at the size, gradient and smoothness of the crag in front.
"Bolton, Language please" Rachel scolded.
"Miss there is no way I'm climbing that" Paul said
Holly laughed "Scared are we" she teased him, before the instructor started to talk.
"Everyone grab a harness" he said, They all got one and after instruction on how to put it on, they all geared up including Rachel.
"Aww, Miss, are you going to climb too?" Bolton asked.
"Well you hardly think I'm going to let you lot have all the fun" she replied and the instructor laughed, he thought Rachel had a brilliant relationship with her pupils, they respected her, but without them being intimidated by her.
The Instructor explained how to climb, and how to abseil back down, but the kids were all terrified, except Holly who had done it before, on several occasions.
"So, who's first?" he asked the group
"How about one of the boys" Rachel said
"well not me" Phil replied
"Nope not me either" Paul said
"I ain't doing it" Bolton replied
"Oh, come on boys, don't be scared" Rachel said.
"Yeah, don't be scared" Aimee replied back
"OK Girls, lets show the boys how it's done then?" the instructor said "Who ever climbs to the top, gets a point"
"Fine, your on" Aimee said starting to get competitive, especially against her brother.
"Yeah, and Miss Mason should join your team, you'll need the help"
"Yeah, I think I will then" Rachel said enjoying the competition as well.
"And this little competition, I think we should keep it up all weekend, for our other activates too" the instructor said
"All right, bring it on" Bolton said starting to feel up for it, ready for the climb "I'll start, and I'll show you how it's done" he moved to the cliff, and tried to find somewhere to put his foot, the instructor pointed him in the right direction, and he started to climb, he got less than half way up before he was wanting back.
"I don't like it up here, I want down" he said
"Oh, Bolton your doing great" Rachel said
"Yeah come on Bolton it's easy" Holly called from the ground and laughing at the same time.
"Just wait till its your turn Mason" he called down, and Holly started to laugh, she knew she and her Mum would get to the top no problem, and Aimee and Phil had came with her.
The Instructor still didn't know that Holly was Rachel's daughter and the twins her niece and nephew, he thought Bolton had just said that to his head teacher.
"Oh, come on Bolton, all that boxing you have been doing, I'm sure you can manage the wall, you've done great so far" Rachel replied back to him.
"I can't Miss, I need down"
The instructor told him to lean back, which felt like the most unnatural thing to do, but he did it and was lowered down the cliff.
"All right who's next" the instructor said once Bolton was on firm terrain. "One of the girls I think"
"Holly, you go" Rachel said.
Holly was getting a little fed up of her Mum badgering her on this trip, about kissing Paul, sleeping on the bottom bunk and now forcing her to climb the wall before the other girls.
"Will you please stop telling me what to do" she griped in a teenage daughter fashion
"Oh, go on Holly" Karla said, "your so brave, Miss I don't want to do it".
Rachel didn't want to force Karla onto the cliff, but she knew that she could do it, so was trying to nudge her slightly to give it ago.
"Karla, Why don't you wait and see a couple of the others go" Rachel said
"Yeah, remember what your Mum said Karla, if you think you don't like something you have to try it at least twice more" Holly said, and Karla vowed that she would try it later.
"OK, I'll go now" Holly finally said, the rope was strapped to her, and she followed Bolton's trail up, and kept going within a minute or so she was right at the top"
"Wow, look at her go, she's like spiderman" Paul awed in amazement
"So boys, who's winning now" she called down before abseiling back to the ground.
Next up was Paul, who got higher than Bolton, but still didn't manage to get all the way up. Followed by Karla who after some encouragement, actually got fairly high up, well higher than Bolton anyway. Aimee was next and she too, got to the top although struggled a bit more than Holly, Phil went next and got all the way to the top, and finally Rachel climbed up, and got to the top.
"Wow, Miss Mason, you were amazing on that" Bolton said.
"So 3 – 1 to the girls then" Holly said taunting her boyfriend, his best friend and cousin.
"Oh just wait till the canoeing", Bolton said, "you'll lose the race"
"Bring it on" Aimee and Holly replied
They headed back to the centre for Lunch and were soon back out, this time with wet suits on.
They walked the short distance to the beech where there were canoes waiting for them to go out onto Loch Long.
Paul grabbed Hollys hand and pulled her behind a large rock and started to make out with her, their passion was growing and the had lost track of time, until Rachel and the instructor popped their heads round.
"That's enough you two" Rachel said sternly "were you not listening to what you were being told to do"
"Mmm, to Canoe, I've done it before its hardly rocket science" Holly said
"Enough holly" Rachel scolded, "now go and join the others"
They both walked over to where the others were getting ready to go into the canoe, which fit 3 each, and Rachel went into one with the instructor.
"Now, you have 10 minutes to practice, before we have our race, the winner gets 3 points" the instructor said.
"All right" Holly said, the most powerful stearer to the back"
"That's you Hols" Aimee said,
"And the next to the front" She replied
"Karla do you want to go to the front" Aimee said
"No, can you go, I'd like to be in the middle please" they got into their boats and after some quick tips from holly about steering off they went, the boys had no clue, and ended up going round in circles, it was soon time for the race and the girls won by a mile before they boys somehow managed to tip their boat over, they all ended up rather wet.
"Ha, 6 – 1 to us" the girls shouted at the boys, who were starting to get rather annoyed at themselves.
They headed back to the centre for dinner and then it would be free time.
"Paul" Holly said to him in a whisper on the bus "when we come down the beach tonight, do you fancy a wee walk, just us"
"Yeah, sounds brilliant, can't wait"
They had dinner before Rachel and Eddie instructed that as per the rules, they could go out so long as they stayed in the gardens, or play in the games room, but they had to be in their rooms for 10pm. So the kids all went off.
Holly found a spare bedroom where she and Paul sneaked too, they were making out on one of the beds, when Aimee finally knocked on the door.
"Allright you two love birds, its 10pm by the way, Aunt Rachel is looking for you", so Paul managed to sneak out the girls corridor, and Holly went to her room where her Mother was waiting.
"Holly its 10 past 10" Rachel scolded
"Sorry was just playing a game" Holly said as Rachel looked at her in suspicion.
"Well go get ready for bed, everyone else is" Holly got her stuff and came back into the room at twenty past ready for bed.
"Karla, heres your medicine" Rachel said, whilst handing her the pill, Holly went into her bed like everyone else was.
"Holly, your inhaler" Rachel said handing it to her daughter who took it and handed it back.
Rachel kissed Aimee on the head "Night Darling"
"Good Night Aunt Rachel"
And she leaned down to the bottom bunk and tucked her daughter in, like she sometimes still does. "Good Night baby" she kissed her head too, before leaving the room.
As soon as Rachel had left, everyone except Karla was out of bed and ready to head to the beach.
Holly was ready, she had pulled jeans on and a nice top, she done her make up and the girls got their supplies for the beach.
"Have you got matches or a lighter" Aimee asked Michaela, she pulled a box of matches out her pocket, before they quietly walked downstairs, the girls went out the fire exit first, followed by the boys who put a stick between the door and doorframe so the door would not shut over, but it was barley recognisible as being opened. The walked quietly to the beach.
Holly was holding Paul's hand whilst Bolton and Phil found some driftwood and started a fire which had blue and green flames instead of orange.
"Why are the flames that colour?" Bolton asked. Paul replied he always was the good one at science.
"It's because of the salt on the wood" he replied and Holly leaned back into his shoulders as she drank coke, she had decided that she didn't want to get drunk, but the temptation to smoke a joint was too high, so she took it in her mouth and smoked it, she started to cough, it wasn't something she had done before, and soon it was making her woozy.
"Holly, no, don't smoke anymore, I mean it, we need to get you to bed" Paul said concerned about his Girlfrind, he got up and managed to half carry, half drag her back to the building, they got in without being seen, and he took her into her room, got her into her pyjamas and put her to bed, all without waking Karla up, but on the way out, he bumped into Kim.
"Paul, why are you dressed and in the girls room" Kim asked sternly.
"I just wanted to say goodnight to Holly, that's all Miss"Paul made up, but she's asleep now.
"Say goodnight, is that all you were doing" Kim asked
"Well, we wouldn't be doing anything else, especially not with Karla in the room"
"Karla in the room? what about the other 4 girls in the room?" Kim asked, she knew something was wrong, and decided to get Rachel, and they could check.
"Paul, can you go to your room please, it's late" Kim said before heading back to Rachels room, she knocked the door.
Rachel was asleep, she heard her door being knocked, and jumped up, when she was away with students, she pulled her housecoat on and opened the door, her eyes still bleary.
"Rachel I think we have a situation," Kim explained to Rachel about Paul being in the girls room and how we said that Karla was there without mentioning the others.
"All right Kim, I'll check my girls room, you check yours" Rachel said as she walked to the room her 6 girls were in. Kim knocked on the door that her 6 girls were in. No one answered either of them.
Rachel pushed the door open and could hear gentle snoring. She walked to the middle of the room and seen Karla was in her bed, as was Holly, but Holly she would normally wake up when someone knocked her door. "Oh well she thought, she must be exhausted after today", but she also noticed the other beds were all empty. She pulled the covers up over her daughter and left the room, meeting Kim outside.
"There's no one there Rachel" Kim said worriedly.
"Only Holly and Karla are in there, both sound asleep" Rachel said. "Go get dressed, I think they will be outside somewhere" Rachel said, she ran to her room, pulled on some clothes and ran to wake Eddie up.
"Rachel, whats wrong" Eddie said concerned
"The girls rooms, their empty only Karla and Holly are there" Rachel said and Eddie ran out to the boys rooms.
"Paul, he's the only one there, he's still awake"
Paul came out of the room, he now had his pyjamas on.
"Paul, where is everyone?" Rachel said
"You didn't hear it from me right"
"Fine, Paul, but where are they all"
"At the beach, Holly didn't want to go, so we stayed here" he replied not wanting to drop himself or his girlfriend in it.
"All fight, go back to bed" Rachel told him, and Tom came out of his room after hearing the commotion.
"Whats going on?" he asked.
"The kids, their all away, only Paul, Holly and Karla are here" Kim explained.
"Tom, Kim, you stay here, we can't leave the 3 that are here, Eddie, get dressed and come with me,"
Eddie went into his room, got changed and he and Rachel left the centre.
"I'm furious at them" Rachel said as she walked quickly with Eddie at her side.
Eddie took her hand "Rachel, calm down", they both stopped and he hugged her, "don't worry, everything will be Ok", he bent down a little and kissed her, this did relax her as she melted into his kiss.
"Eddie," Rachel said composing herself "We need to go" they pulled apart and walked towards the beach and soon seen the smoke from the fire.
"WHAT'S ALL THIS" Eddie bellowed at the 21 kids on the beach.
Suddenly everyone froze on the spot.
"Right, get this place cleared up, all those bottles and cans in the bags" Rachel said pointing to the plastic bags they had brought the stuff down in.
"And get this fire out" she added
"Mm, how do we do that" Bolton asked he was rather drunk.
Rachel threw him her strict look, and he immedietly started to help tidy up and Eddie threw some sand on the fire and it extinguished. Once they were statisfied all the rubbish was gone Rachel looked at the kids in front of them, most of them drunk.
"Get back to the centre, and go into the Dining room" Rachel said, as everyone started to walk back. Aimee was dawdling at the back hoping that Holly was OK.
"Aimee, hurry up please" Rachel said firmly to her niece. Aimee waked a bit faster and cut up to where her Aunt was.
"Aunt Rachel, I'm sorry" Aimee said
"Sorry, you'll be more than sorry young lady, now get in there with everyone else"
Kim and Tom were waiting in the dinning room with water for the children, they assumed they would be needing it.
The Children all went into the Dining room and Sat down.
"Do you know how disappointed we are in all of you!!" Rachel said as she noticed the kids all dipping their heads, not one of them looked at her.
"Do you remember what I said about if you misbehave you will be grounded?" She added
"What Miss, you can't do that, its not fair" Michaela said.
"QUIET" Rachel roared at her. "I can do it, and it would be perfectly fair on you, but not on the others, who have been in no trouble"
Kim and Tom gave them all a glass of water.
"So what you going to do then?" Aimee asked
"I'll be informing all of your parents for a start, and those of you who fail a breath test will not be going onto quad bikes tomorrow" Rachel said.
The boys all groaned, they really wanted to go biking, it was the activity they had all been looking forward to.
"How are you going to do a breath test?" Bolton asked.
"Then centre had lots of them, everyone gets tested before they go on to a motorised vehicle" Eddie explained
"you can't force us" Michaela said.
"Well I have your parents consent, it was written into the consent forms, and no one will be going onto the bikes without one, and if there is so much as a trace of alcohol on your breath you won't be going on to one, do I make myself clear"
The room was silent.
"I SAID, DO I MAKE MYSELF CLEAR?"
"Yes miss," the kids mumbled
"It's 3 Am, now get to bed, and I'll see you all for breakfast at 7Am, don't be late now"
Aimee , Danielle, Aleesha and Michaela went to their room.
"Your stupid little cousin, grassed us up" Michaela said
"No, Holly wouldn't you seen the state of her, she could hardly talk" Aimee said
"Yeah well, she should be in trouble too" Michaela said
"Oh come on, if Aunt Rachel finds out about Holly, she'll go off on one, and know that we all had drugs too, best to leave it" Aimee explained.
Rachel walked back to her room, and bumped into the girls on their way.
"How did you find us Aunt Rachel" Aimee asked
" You were not as smart as you thought, the stick in the fire exit, come on girls, and honestly, do you think we were not going to check up on you all" Rachel said.
"So you checked up on us and the rooms were empty"
"Not quiet, Miss Campbell checked the other girls room first and when that was empty well I checked yours, Holly and Karla were fast asleep, now enough questions, go get ready for bed"
"See, it wasn't Holly," Aimee explained, "now please don't tell on us, it will only get us into more trouble honestly"
The girls got ready for bed. Karla and Holly had both woke up by now.
"Aimee, how was the rest of the party" Holly asked she felt better and was now a bit more like herself.
"Good, till we got Busted, Aunt Rachel and Eddie went off their head, but don't worry, they caught us after you were here in bed, they don't think you came"
Suddenly their was a knock at their door "Come in" the girls called, they were now in their own beds.
"We all in bed" Rachel asked
"Duh, obviously" Michaela said
"Enough Michaela, now go to sleep its late, if any of you start to feel sick please try and make it to the bathroom, or come and get me"
"Mum, I don't feel very well, I have a sore head" Rachel touched her daughters head, her temp was OK.
"Do you to come into my room tonight"
"No, Mum, I'll be OK here"
Rachel kissed Holly and Aimee again, before leaving the room and going to bed herself.
Holly woke up the next morning quiet early, she was feeling better, and went for a shower, she noticed Karla was already awake and Dressed.
"Hay Karla, your up early" Holly commented as she peeked outside to see the weather.
"It's raining" Karla said
"Yeah, well, we are in Scotland, what do we expect"
Holly got dressed after her shower and noticed that everyone else was still asleep. She glanced at her watch 7.05, "we better go to Breakfast Karla, its 5 past already" Karla didn't like being late and left to the Dining room, a little surprised that no one was awake.
Holly climbed up to her cousins bunk "Aimee, you better get up, it's late" she said to her older cousin who groaned and closed her eyes again.
"Fine" Holly said to herself and went to the Dining room where Rachel had just given Karla her pills.
"Holly, where is everyone?" Eddie asked.
"In bed" she replied honestly , well that's where they were. Rachel came over as she noticed her daughter entre.
"Good Morning honey" she said as she kissed her head gently.
"Morning Mum" Holly said as she sat next to Karla, "are you looking forward to quadbiking later?" Holly asked Karla.
"Not really, it's the one thing I really don't want to do" Karla replied as she ate her last spoonful of Cornflakes.
"Oh, well you know they won't let us do anything dangerous, and you'll have a helmet on" Holly tried to reassure her just as Paul came in and sat at their table.
"The lads are all still asleep except Phil, hes nearly ready" Paul said as he poured a glass of juice, and Rachel and Eddie came over to their table.
"Paul, are the others in your room up yet" Eddie asked
"Em, No Sir, their still asleep, except Phil" he replied back
"Holly, the girls in your room?" Rachel asked
"Still sleeping too Mum" she replied.
"Right, give them 10 more minutes" Rachel said to Eddie before the 2 adults walked to the table they were sat at, and Karla left to go to the bathroom.
"Paul, I think we should tell Mum we were there, I mean before someone else does" Holly said
"No, are you daft, Why, we got away with it"
"But, my Mum, she has a way of finding these things out, trust me we should tell her"
"Fine, tell her, but please not about you smoking, we were there, and you didn't feel well and we came back early, leave it at that"
"We should tell her, and Eddie, not just me, tell them I have a sore head, I said that last night."
"Holly, your Mum shes scary when she's angry and Mr Lawson, well he's worse"
"Fine, I'll do it myself" Holly said and she stood up and left the table.
She walked over to the table the teachers were at.
"Mum, can I talk to you, its about last night" Holly said timidly.
Rachel looked at her, and glanced at the table, Phil had just came in and Paul had left.
"What about last night?" Rachel asked firmly, she had an idea her daughter was not completely innocent in last nights debacle.
"Well, I was there, I mean at the beach, with Paul" she confessed.
"Thank you for confessing, but you know how serious this is," Rachel said.
"I'm Sorry Mum" Hollys head fell, she hated to make her Mum angry, but was glad it was off her shoulders.
"Go to my room, I'll be there in a few minutes"
Holly left the table before Eddie spoke to the other teachers "well that puts a new spin on things, Kim seeing Paul in the girls rooms, you don't think that Holly was drunk and he had to carry her home"
"I don't know Eddie, she doesn't seem hungover, and she does get bad migraines at times, remember she had one last year she was off school for 3 days"
"Yeah, Rachel I remember, it was just a theory" Eddie said
"I know, I'm sorry" Rachel said
"Well, we'll find out when she is breathalysed, won't we, for the Quad bikes" Kim said, and the teachers agreed.
"I'm going to talk to Holly, Eddie can you talk to Paul,?" Rachel asked
"Ahh," Tom said, "Divide and conquer"
"Something like that" she said as she took a drink of her tea and left for her bedroom where her daughter was waiting.
Rachel turned the knob of her door and walked through Holly was sitting on her Mum's bed.
"All right Young Lady explain?" Rachel said
"Everyone was going, and my head got sore once we were there, so Paul brought me home and made sure I went to bed, that's it"
"OK, but like everyone else, you will be breathalysed before going on the bikes and if there is even the slightest hint that you have been drinking, you'll be in trouble"
"Mum, I swear, I wasn't drinking"
"Good, now your inhaler" Rachel said passing her the medicine, and then they went to get the others wakened.
Rachel and Holly went into the girls room, Karla was dressed and ready with her shoes and coat on, the others were all in bed. Holly sat on her bed and put her shoes on, she wanted out before her Mum shouted, she knew what was coming.
"Come on Karla, lets go" Holly said and they made their way out to the TV area between the boys and girls rooms. Holly could hear Eddie shouting, and could faintly make out her boyfriend apologising, before Paul left his room. She looked down that corridor and seen them.
"Holly" Eddie said "Where is your Mother?"
"Shes wakening everyone up"
"When you see her can you tell her I want a word with her?"
"Yes Sir" .
Meanwhile in the Girls room Rachel pulled the Curtains wide, she turned the lights on before saying a word.
"Girls it's 8pm we are supposed to be up and ready my now" she said in her normal tone of voice, no one even stirred. "GIRLS, WAKE UP" Rachel said louder this time, still no one was wakening, they all turned in their beds muttering, but none of them made an effort to wake up. So Rachel pulled the covers off Aimee's bed.
"AIMEE, UP NOW" she rolled over before finally opening her eyes
"Can't I just stay in bed"
"No, you can not, now I'll go to the bathroom, get some water if you prefer," that was the threat that she needed, she was awake and out of her bed in seconds. "The rest of you have 20 minutes, if your not ready, then you will be staying in your room for the remainder of the day"
Aimee got ready, and Holly walked back along to the room, just as her mother came out.
"Mum, Mr Lawson wants to see you" she said, and Rachel headed off or Eddies room.
Holly managed to wake the others up, before sneaking into her Mum's room for a go on her hair straightners, and they were all ready soon enough.
Rachel met Eddie in his room.
"Hello beautiful," he said as she came in and pushed her onto his bed, they started making out. "Eddie, these beds are really uncomfortable" she said.
"I know, a big boy like me has little room in them" he laughed to himself as Rachel started the kiss up again.
All the kids were waiting downstairs. They were late as it was and Eddie and Rachel were no where to be seen.
"I'll go get them Miss" Holly said to Kim, "I think I know where they are, and she ran off", she knew they were in Eddies room, and she knew which one it was she had heard him mention the name to her mother before, she knocked on the door.
Rachel and Eddie were still making out, Rachel's shirt was off, her hair messed, and Eddies shirt undone. They suddenly heard a knock at the door.
"God, I hope that's not Kim or Tom" Rachel whispered, knowing there was no where to hide.
"Who is it?" Eddie called.
"It's Holly, Mum I know your in there can I come in"
"Yeah", Rachel shouted, her bra now on but her top not quiet, Eddie was quicker off the mark his top was back on.
Holly opened the door "Eww, Mum, you might have finished getting dressed first"
"We didn't do anything Holly, do you think we could, I mean the size of those beds" Rachel said.
"Ew, TMI, and I know, I mean Paul and I hardly fit in……oops" what had she just said, she had just admitted to her Mum and Eddie that she and Paul had been in one of those Beds together.
"Oops indeed Young lady" Rachel said.
Eddie looked at Rachel "This is awkward" he thought to himself as he shifted uncomfortably. Holly looked at her Mum, she knew what was going to happen, she knew for a while it would be coming soon anyway, but not now.
"Holly, you and I need to have a little talk" Rachel said as Holly groaned.
"Em Rachel, everyone's waiting on us" Eddie said, he just wanted out the room, this was embarrassing for him and for Holly.
"Yeah, Mum we need to go" Holly said as she edged her way out the room, her face a little flushed.
Holly ran downstairs practically into Kim.
"Did you find them Holly?" Kim asked
"Em Yeah Miss, they are coming" Holly said as she ran to Paul.
"We're going to be in trouble, I just said something stupid and Mum knows we were together in that room last night"
"Holly, what did you say"
"I don't know, something about us fitting into a bed, she's going to go mental"
Rachel and Eddie came downstairs, and they got on their way to the quad tracks.
The Instructor started to brethalyse the Kids, all failing at the moment, until it was Karla's turn, she of course passed and was handed a helmet. She nervously walked towards a bike and stood next to it. A few others failed until Holly took hers and passed, Rachel was slightly relieved that she had passed, at least that was one thing she hadn't lied about. She got a helmet and stood next to Karla. Finally Paul was last and he passed too.
"I can't believe that out of 24 of you, only 3 passed a breath test, now the rest of you can go back to the centre, go straight to the dining room, you can spend the morning in there!" Eddie said angrily.
Rachel walked over to the other 3 who had passed the test.
"See, told you I wasn't drinking last night" Holly said
"Yes, very good Holly"
"Miss" Karla said to Rachel "I don't want to go on the bikes"
"OK Karla, if your really sure, you don't have to, and you two, you can just go in with everyone else, since your not completely innocent in lasts night party"
"Yes Miss" Paul said, embarrassed to look at Rachel.
"Karla, what do you want to do today before Lucnh"
"Hm, I'd like to draw Miss".
Rachel took Karla out to a table in the games room which overlooked the Loch, where she drew the Loch, and told Paul and Holly to go into the Dining Room, where Eddie was just about to start his lecture.
"We, are furious, with you all, when we take you out of school we expect you to Behave" Eddie said as Rachel came into the Room and Michaela started to laugh.
"Michaela do you find the funny, because I don't in the slightest" Rachel said.
"You have all really let me down, and not just that you have let the school down, your school, which you should all be proud of, now until Lunch, you can all sit in here, and I don't want to hear a word from any of you"
Rachel turned to Eddie, Tom and Kim "I think an hour should do them, Eddie can you check on Karla, and I want to take Holly out and have that chat with her"
Eddie left to makesure Karla was OK and Rachel walked to where Holly was.
"Holly, a word please" Rachel said, Danielle who was next to her looked at her in a compassionate way, everyone could tell Rachel was in a bad mood.
Holly followed her Mother out of the room.
"Mum, we don't really need to do this, honestly" Holly said as Rachel quickly walked to her bedroom and opened the door.
"In you go, and Holly we do need to do this, its long overdue"
Holly sighed and went in, she sat on the bed and sighed again.
"Come on, enough huffing and puffing, I'm not going to torture you, I just want to know what went on between you and Paul"
"Fine, it was last night, we were in the empty room next to Miss Campbells, we didn't do anything though"
"Was this after the beach?"
"No Mum, it was before, remember when I was late into the room before lightsout"
"And you and Paul, did you…"
Holly interrupted her Mother "Mum, we didn't do anything, why won't you believe me, I'm not like you, I don't shag everyone in site" Rachels face fell, she thought her and Holly were over that. "Look I'm sorry, that wasn't what I meant to say"
"Honey, what happened in my past, I don't want you to make the same mistakes again"
"I won't and Mum you have nothing to worry about, Paul and I, We haven't had sex"
"Holly, how far have you and Paul went"
Holly was embarrassed, how could she tell her Mum that he had touched her, although they hadn't had sex she was sure she had went further than what her Mother would have wanted her too. Rachel could sense she was nervous.
"Darling, I won't be angry with you, I just want to make sure the we talk, you know you can tell me anything"
"We've Made out, and well maybe we've touched each other a bit" Holly closed her eyes and looked away from Rachel, she was embarrassed and wanted to stop talking about it, but Rachel was going to ask her more, she could tell.
Rachel put her hand on her daughters shoulder to reassure her. "Where have you touched each other?"
"Mum, do we really have to do this, I don't ask about what you and Eddie get up to"
"Well that's a bit different isn't it, and if you wanted to ask me, then you can"
"Eugh, No, I don't want to know what the pair of you get up to, that's gross"
"OK Holly, but I'm asking you about you and Paul, you can tall me honey"
"Fine, look, everything is from the waist up OK, we both no that we're not ready to have sex yet, now, can we just leave it"
Rachel knew not to push this any further, she was glad that Holly had been honest, and she knew that what she said was the truth, and to be honest, she was happy her daughter was still a virgin,
"OK, that's it, but Holly, you know you can come to me for whatever you want, and I mean this, when you are ready please come and talk to me first"
"I will Mum, I promise"
Holly hugged her Mum glad that the talk was over with.
"OK, now off you go back to the Dining room with everyone else" Rachel said
"Mum, do I have to, it will be well boring"
"Em, yeah, you were at that party too, don't think you'll be getting off with it, now off you go"
Holly left her Mum's room and met Eddie on the way back, he had just left Karla.
"Where are you off to?" Eddie asked her
"Back to the Dining room, Mum's in her room on her own if you want to go see her, I'm sure she would like that" Holly said with a little smile. She was glad that her Mum had found Eddie, she knew he would never replace her Father, but he was the first man she had been with since her Father died, and well, maybe her Mum did deserve to love again.
"Em, Thanks" Eddie said not sure what to make of Holly's remark, but as she went to the Dining room, Eddie turned around to Rachel's room.
Holly arrived back in the Dining room, and Kim noticed her.
"Holly have a seat, and no talking" Kim said as Holly sat down and glance at the clock, was she really only with her Mum for 10 minutes, still 50 to go.
Rachel started to get change her top, she had spilled coffee all down her top as she heard the door creak open, assuming it was just Holly she continued to pull the top of.
"Well well Miss Mason, seems like I came at the right time" Eddie said as he pushed her against the wall, pinning her arms up and taking her mouth in his. Rachel was in Heaven as Eddies tongue explored her mouth. The moved over to the desk in the room and Eddie sat Rachel upon it, she wrapped her legs around his waste as their kiss continued Eddie found the strap of her bra and unfastened it, Rachel moved her arms to rid herself of it as she was pushed down onto the desk and climbed on top of her. They continued to kiss as their hands explored each others body, Eddie loved Rachel's curves, she had an amazing body, even though she didn't think so. Rachel undid Edde's best, and he pulled her clothes off hurriedly until they were both naked.
Rachel moaned as they were making out whilst Eddie slipped into her, he was surprised by how well they fit with one another.
"That was nice" Rachel said.
"Yeah, it was" Eddie agreed as he began to tickle her, She started to giggle.
"Although, it would have been nicer if it were in a nice big double bed" Rachel joked
"Yeah, I agree, a desk, that's a new one for me" Eddie said, Rachel laughed
"Well Mr Lawson, there's a first time for everything" she joked. Rachel glanced at the clock. "We better go, their hours up in 5 minutes," Rachel said pulling her clothes back on.
"I'll need to wait here for a bit first, cool off a bit" Eddie said, Rachel understood and laughed.
"I'm glad I have that effect on you Mr Lawson" she whispered to his ear and left.
Rachel left the room, fixing her hair on the way and walked into the room.
"All right Boys and Girls, time's up, and I hope that will be the end of this bad behaviour" Rachel said. "Now, lets enjoy the rest of this trip, shall we, now, go get changed for canyoning and then back here for Lunch" She added in a slightly better mood than before.