'Alicia rise and shine, it's school today'

Alicia rolled over and mumbled '...no'

'Now' Rachel said a bit more sternly

'5 more minutes pleaseee' Alicia begged her mum

'Nope' with that Rachel pulled the duvet of her daughter

Alicia winced at how cold it was, but decided it was better not to argue with her mum, she was in full swing headmistress mood, not someone to be messed with

'Fine...' Alicia grumbled

'That's better, be downstairs in 15 minutes'

The downside of your mother being headmistress was that you had to get to school at stupid o clock. So by seven in the morning, both were in the car ready to start the new term

'Right Alicia, I want you to work hard this term you have your AS levels coming up and they're very important - so I don't want anything being fed back to me about you being in trouble in class, ok?'

'Yes mum' Alicia had loved her time with her mum over the holidays as there was no miss Mason involved 'anything new this year?'

'Im not telling you missy, it'll end up round the whole school by registration - you'll find out like everyone else in assembly, but yes there's quite a few changes'

They got to the school, and Rachel dropped her daughter just outside the school gates, this was where Alicia had her 'early morning smoke' she had got used to doing it with one hand now, due to her sling

Although Rachel hated her daughter smoking, she'd rather know about it than for Alicia to do it behind we back

'Meet me in my office at the end of school, and bring some work and your headphones as I'll be having a meeting, oh and don't forget to see me at lunch for your inhaler''

Alicia groaned, like any other students she hated school, and as soon as the bell went for home time she wanted to get out of there. Another downside to being the headmistress' daughter, that never happened

'I'm not a baby mum, can I walk home tonight?'

'No Alicia not with your arm, and it gets dark early now.. No arguments' before Alicia could open her mouth, Rachel had put the car window up and drove into the school and parked in her usual spot

Alicia went into school and curled up in the sixth form common room, she was so tired and bored. However, it wasn't long till Sam got there, as her mum had to get in early too for kitchen duties.

They hugged each other for ages as they hadn't seen each other all holidays

'I can't believe you got hit by a car, I didn't believe it when you text me'

They both laughed 'what the hell were you doing?'

'I was just walking and it came out of no where!' Alicia lied 'anyway how are you and Bolton'

'I'll tell you later' Sam grinned back at we friend

Soon, the school got busier with students who had finally got out of bed to start the new term, they got to registration and were waiting for Mr Mead, Lauren was really excited as she fancied Mr Mead and hadn't seen him in ages

However, she got a nasty shock when Mrs Haydock opened the door
'Bonjour my new class, I am ze new teacher of ze class' she said in a sickly sweet French accent

'Oi Miss, think you have the wrong class room, our tutor's Mr Mead'

'Alicia Mason I am not stupid, but all will be revealed shortly'

Mrs Haydock took the register and then the form filed out to assembly

They took their places, and automatically everyone started talking to each other

'Where's Mr Mead I want another term of him staring at me every morning' Lauren said

Sam and Alicia laughed 'dream on Lauren, he totally had the hits for Miss Mason' Sam replied

'Ewww stop it' Alicia couldn't imagine her mum with Mr Mead 'yuk' she said under her breath

'How is that gross, you never know he may have liked you as you look just like you're mum' Lauren said a little enviously

'Nahh he's definitely not my type!'

Unbeknown to the trio, the headmistress had just walked on stage and had quietened everyone down, but they had carried on talking, gossiping about their favourite types and guys in their year

'Sam, Alicia, Lauren settle down, now' Rachel said sharply

'Oh god she looks pissed off, tonight's gonna be fun' Alicia whispered

The headmistress continued 'unfortunately we have some bad news to start the term, Mr Mead decided to leave us at the end of last term due to personal issues, on behalf of everyone of you I have wished him good luck for the future'

Again the students started talking, all the teachers tried to quieten them down in vain

'I never got to say goodbye' Lauren exclaimed

Whilst Alicia and Sam discussed what personal reasons would have made him leave Waterloo Road

The talking was getting louder and louder until the headmistress shouted 'BE QUIET' silence abruptly passed through the hall

'And with that I'd like to introduce our we deputy head, he's a familiar face to some of you lot, and I hope you help him settle in again without problems, welcome to the stage, Mr Lawson!'

Suddenly the hall erupted in cheers, especially from Bolton and Paul, Sam and Lauren looked happy 'aw sweet' Sam said

Alicia sat there shocked at the reaction Eddie received - some students were even on their feet, she wasn't expecting this from the normal 'not bothered' teenagers. Alicia was also happy Eddie was here, it mean her mum had someone else to worry about at school and could lay of her back a bit (very wrong!)

Alicia then caught the eye of a guy behind her, he had blonde hair the sweepers across his face, bright blue eye and his cheekbones were very defined

He smiled at her, she smiled back 'he must be a new guy, I wonder what year he's in' Alicia thought to herself

Lauren had seen the look crossed between the two 'oi Alicia put your tongue back in your mouth' the boy laughed and Alicia blushed. Lauren continued in a whisper so just the guys could hear it 'that's Nathan Bannister he's in year 13 just moved his from the city'

Alicia pretended not to be interested in this new information, but really she wanted to find out more about this new guy

First period came and went, and soon it was morning break. Alicia left Sam and Lauren to go and get her maths book from her locker, ready for the next lesson

She turned round to go back to the common room when an arm stopped we passing through the door

'Oi let me out' Alicia said annoyed

'Nope, not till you tell me your name'
Nathan replied

'And why would I do that, maybe I don't want you to know my name'

'Liar, I heard you in assembly, I know you wanted I know my name, so I only think it's fair that I find out yours'

'Well if you must know, it's Alicia'

'Hmm that's a nice name I guess, now Alicia can you tell me where I can have a good smoke round here?'

Alicia tried to look offended 'only nice?'

'What, fine, not nice, lovely. Anyway answer my question'

Alicia laughed 'if I showed you I'd have to kill you'

Nathan leaned across and muttered into her ears 'I can think of a few other things you could do to me before killing me'

Alicia whispered back 'follow me'

Even though Alicia had been caught here so many times, it was the first day back her mum would be too busy or preoccupied with Eddie to come outside, so she chose the communal garden

'Here' she pointed to a bench just underneath a window'

'Perfect'

There was an awkward silence, whilst they both lit up

'So uh what brought you to Rochdale?'

'Ha you sound just like Miss Mason'

Alicia laughed, she didn't want Nathan to know about her mum just yet

He continued 'I got into some trouble where I was. So the fam thought a change of scenery would do me some good, why are you in this dump?'

'My mum loves this school, so sent me here' she wasn't strictly lying although she had enrolled herself, her mum didn't have anything to do with her at this point but it was too soon to tell the truth to a boy she hasn't known for five minutes

'So Alicia you got a boyfriend?' He said in between drags

'No and I'm not interested in one' she replied

'My kinda girl ten'

'And what do you mean by that?'

'Well if you're ever in the mood for anything, come see me'

Although Alicia found his menacing look attractive. She replied 'I'm not a whore either'

Nathan had finished his cigarette, and without Alicia preparing herself, he had attacked her lips, and soon his tongue was looking for hers, and to her surprise she kissed back

His hands were going through her auburn hair, chills of excitement rushing through both of them.

Suddenly they were interrupted

'Oi what do you think you're doing? A voice bellowed

They quickly broke away, Alicia saw who it was and muttered 'ahhh shit' under her breath

'What the hell do you think you're playing at? It's second lesson already and you're out here obviously thinking you're too busy'

'Eddie calm..'

'It's Mr Lawson at school Alicia' his eyes dropped down to her hand when she saw the not quite finished cigarette 'and you've been smoking?' He continued shouting at the girl

'Right you' Eddie pointed at Nathan 'cooler at lunch - now off to lessons'

Nathan went to grab Alicia's hand to take her with him, she got up and was about to leave when Eddie said

'Alicia wait here please'

Alicia rolled her eyes, Nathan kissed her before running off, much to Eddie's annoyance and Alicia's amusement

Alicia turned to look at Eddie 'please don't tell mum about this, she'll freak out'

'Im not making any exceptions, regardless to who your mother is' Eddie stopped to think for a second 'Alicia Mason, you will be in the cooler at lunch as well, and detention for the next three weeks after school for smoking on school grounds'

'Are you fucking kidding me?' Alicia felt a rise of anger towards Eddie. He couldn't just waltz into her personal life, then return here and start ordering her about it wasn't going to happen

'And now make that a weeks detention for foul language, now go to your lesson and make sure I see you at lunch'

Alicia just glared at Eddie, and without saying anything she flung her school bag over her shoulder and walked off - she was now seriously in a bad mood

Eddie looked back at the girl, knowing full well where she got her temper from.

Alicia walked into her English lesson late

'Sorry sir'

'Alicia sit down quietly and read the last scene of Romeo and Juliet please' mr Clarkson said sternly

She chose the empty seat at the back, right by the window. Alicia tried her best to read the book, but her thoughts grabbed her mind like a tornado, they got stronger and stronger until she wasn't even looking at Shakespeare's words and was just gazing at nothing out the window

'Alicia mason, can you please get on with the work I set you'

She snapped out of her daydream, and got angry again why were all the teachers on her back today

'No I don't wan too, this play is crap, I can't even understand what he's saying'

'Alicia I'm not arguing with you, read t and then answer the questions on the board'

'No. I don't want to just leave me alone'

'Right you obviously don't want to be here, so get to the cooler NOW.' Alicia had a deja by, this was just like her first day at the school, she smiled, the thought amused her

'Alicia this isn't a funny matter at all, now get out of my classroom and get to the cooler'

She got out the classroom, and slammed the door, however obviously not knowing her own strength the whole door had shaken, and part of the window in the door had smashed

She heard Clarkson yelling, so decided to leg it to the cooler - at least the teacher there wouldn't know how much trouble she was in

Mr Lawson had been put on Cooler duty, but because there were no students in there Rachel had gone to keep him company she had her arms wrapped round his neck and was nibbling his ear softly

Alicia walked into the cooler

'Oh shit...'

The head teacher jumped away from her deputy, but quickly seeing it was her daughter, her embarrassment disappeared and her stern composure returned

'Yes missy, you're in big trouble, over there and sit down, now'

Bit of a boring chapter but wanted to put Eddie back to where he belongs (sorry for Chris fans)

Please review and tell me should I continue with this school day in the next chapter or just set it 'in a few days time' that sorta thing :)

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