Chapter 2: Elaine meets Freddie
Everyone gathered in the gymnasium for an introduction and sorting for classes. Effy, Elaine, and Pandora sat on the bottom row. Pandora was going on about doing 'it' with a blonde guy but Elaine didn't listen as she glanced up to the group of guys the twins met before coming to the school. Elaine gave them a small smile before she turned her head back to the front of the gym.
The curly haired boy looked down with a smile on his face.
"She smiled at me." The curly haired said.
"Cool." The skateboard boy said.
But ruining his hope of being smiled at by a girl, the tanned boy next to him his eyes on Elaine.
"She, erm, didn't smile at you, JJ." The skateboard boy said.
But the one now known as JJ didn't give up though, he didn't meet his friend's eyes as he quickly responded.
"I think you'll find she did." JJ said as the third friend with the red shirt looked over to his other mates whilst chewing on a pen. "Mum was right. A lack of pubic hair isn't necessarily a drawback."
"It is a drawback." The skateboard boy said.
"Girls are more interested in my character than my cock. That's just been proved." JJ replied and it was like he was desperate to prove a girl smiled at him.
"She was not looking at you. Fuck me, you're blind." The tanned one snapped back, wiping the smile from JJ's face.
"On the contrary. My eyesight is keen." JJ said.
"Yeah? How many fingers am I holding up?" He questioned, holding up his hand showing five fingers and smacked his friend in the head before he got the chance to respond.
The sound of the gym doors opening and walking in two women and two men who Elaine assumed were the head of the College as the speakers blared.
"WELCOME TO ROUNDVIEW COLLEGE. A MEETING PLACE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE." A voice said.
Elaine let out a subtle laugh, looking over at Pandora and her sister.
"This is shit." Elaine said, looking back to the adults in front of them.
One of the women who was looking more red in the face than someone would usually look began to speak which caught the attention of the majority of the large group of students who settled on the bleachers.
"Could I have your attention, please? Yes, we are starting. Excuse…" The woman said but not many people actually listened. Just as she was about to speak, the sound of loud whistling came from a mega phone the man behind her held.
"Shit- that's loud as well." The twin said as she flinched at the sudden noise with an annoyed expression on her face.
"ATTENTION! PAY ATTENTION, LOOK YOU!" Doug yelled, the megaphone feedback squealing and bouncing off the walls once he finished getting the students attention.
"Thank you, Doug." The woman said, turning to the students as she took a few steps forward. "Welcome to Roundview College. We are a designated four star educational establishment under the National We're All In It Together Initiative leading to Ultimate Improvement status. Anyone who screws that up will be officially burnt at the stake."
"And expelled." Doug added.
"Yes, and expelled. God help you all, you're gonna get some qualifications. Any questions?" The woman said.
Elaine was already sick of the day and the spliff she smoked hasn't helped her which she silently cursed. She looked down, picking at the skin at the edges of her nails.
What broke Elaine out of her zone was a fart sound echoing throughout the gym which made Pandora and the majority of the students laugh aside from her and Effy.
"Thank you. Now before I turn you over to your form tutors, I'd like to tell you something about the way in which we organise our…" The woman stopped, getting interrupted by a louder fart. "Right! Very funny. This is a further education college, not a primary school." She wasn't entertained by the immature noises but what made her smile was how happy their friend looked. She cared for Pandora, unlike Effy. She appreciated being friends with the girl despite how distant and snappy she can be. Once again, a fart interrupted and it was much louder and disgusting which made everyone laugh again. "Stop it! Stop it! I'll cut your balls off, you cheeky little turds! You hear me?" The woman screamed, very angry at what she believed was the students' doing.
"I do apologise. I think I might be at fault. Too much rhubarb on my Ready Brek. Havoc." Doug said, looking rather embarrassed.
"Right." The woman responded but once again was interrupted by Doug.
"You are looking a little flushed. Do you want me to…?" Doug asked.
"No! No. Just…" The College Director said, taking a deep inhale through her nose before exhaling and turning back to the students.
"Last year, we had some intolerable incidents so, I want to make this easy for you. The following will result in instant expulsion smoking on the premises, setting fire to the premises, consumption of alcohol on the premises, consumption of drսg on the premises, consumption of pornography on the premises, teacher abuse, glue abuse, self abuse, sеxual intercourse with any other student, teacher or animal or combination of the above including oral sеx and/or use of sеx toys, on the premises." As the college director went on and on about what was not allowed in the College.
Elaine looked back at the three boys who were focused on the director just as any other student was before she turned her head back.
"Got your eye on one of them?" Effy asked.
"What?" Elaine responds which causes Effy to roll her eyes.
"You fancy them don't you?" Effy asked more clearly.
"You seem to, too. I saw how you were looking at them when Dad was bitching at an old woman." Elaine said, bumping Effy's shoulder with a playful smile on her lips.
The director once again began to speak which elicited a sigh in unison from the twins.
"Miss Reedy, our new head of communications." The woman said, urging a very stressed looking woman to step forward. "Miss Reedy is joining us from... Where are you joining us from?"
"Um, I had some time off. Seven years. It was stress-related but I'm feeling a bit better now, hopefully…" Miss Reedy said.
"Oh, Christ." The woman said.
Miss Reedy looked at the students with a nervous expression on her face.
"Form BD1, say your name, please, when I... Put your hands up, please, when I call your, erm, name. Emily Fitch?" Miss Reedy asked, the nicer looking redhead raised her hand after hearing her name.
"Katie Fitch?" Miss Reedy asked, the other redhead raised her hand as she looked around for people to look at her.
"Jonah Jeremia Jones?" Miss Reedy asked.
"JJ, present." JJ said, making his presence known as he raised his hand.
"James Cook?" Miss Reedy asked.
"Yo!" James responded as he raised his hand.
"Helen Stonem?" Miss Reedy asked.
Elaine raised her hand silently, the group of boys glancing down at her and her sister.
"Elizabeth Stonem?" Miss Reedy asked.
Effy raised her hand, Cook pointed his fingers like a gun which aimed at Effy and her sister, making them his target.
"Mavis Jarundi? Dob...rislawa W... Wieczorek? I'm sorry, you're foreign. Frederick McClair?" Miss Reedy asked.
The tanned boy she had her eyes on raised his hand.
"Yes." He said, catching Elaine's attention and they locked eyes which made her smile again.
Elaine turned her head to her sister, who mocked her smile.
"Oh shut up." Elaine smiled, hitting her sister playfully on the shoulder.
"Denise Adebeyor?" Miss Reedy asked.
"Yes! The integrity of the unit is preserved. I'm still deeply unhappy with you, mind, on account of the unwarranted violence." JJ said.
"All right, I said I'm sorry." Frederick said.
A few more names got called until a girl named Naomi Campbell was called.
"And Naomi Campbell? Naomi Campbell?" Miss Reedy asked.
Elaine wondered why someone would name their child after her but she just shrugged and impatiently waited for it to be done. The name that had been called didn't have a face to it until Doug decided to scream into the mic again.
"NAOMI CAMPBELL?!" Doug said.
The loud voice called and the girl eventually raised her hand with an annoyed expression.
A few minutes went by of mindless name calling and a short conversation between the three girls' voices echoed throughout the gym.
"Excuse me?" Naomi asked.
"Yes? What is it?" The woman asked.
"The boy next to me is acting inappropriately." Naomi said.
"How?" The director asked.
"He wants to show me his tattoo. And not in a nice way." Naomi said.
"Right. You!" The woman said.
"Me?" James asked.
"Yes! Why don't you show us all your pathetic tattoo. We can wonder at its magnificent stupidity." The woman said, catching Elaine's attention and she turned her head towards James and his friends.
"I wonder how stupid this…tattoo is of him?" Elanie asked, nudging Effy's arm with a sly smirk on her face.
"I don't think you'd like it." James laughed, amused by what's going on.
"RIGHT LAD! SMARTISH! YOU'VE HAD AN INSTRUCTION. SHOW HER THE TATTOO NOW!" Doug demanded, so everyone can see this tattoo James had.
James pulled down his pants, revealing hand prints on his ass and a tattoo on his dick. Everyone laughed, including the three girls sitting at the bottom. Elaine found this funny unlike the farting that happened earlier in the meeting. Miss Reedy screamed, begging to be let out as she ran to a door to try and escape the situation but instead she opened a closet which held balls in it that fell on her almost making her trip as she ran into it to hide. Elaine looked at her sister who was smirking over at James, a smile showing on her own as she figured Effy was aiming for James.
Elaine was busy with her locker, putting notebooks and books she brought into it along with Effy and Pandora with her and stuck them to the door with a magnet. She looked over at her sister who was bending down to get a snack and revealing her ass and knickers to the three boys who went unnoticed by Elaine. She was too busy with getting the books out she didn't notice her tin container falling from her bag. Once she closed the door to the locker, Frederick was standing next to her with her tin container in his hand. He seemed to be observing the stickers and words written on it.
"Hi." Frederick said.
"Hi." Elaine said, looking up at him with furrowed brows. "You're got my tin." She continued, a smile on her face as he handed it back to her.
"You don't mind if I take this locker?" Frederick asked.
Effy walked over, going unnoticed by the girl who was lost in Frederick's dark eyes until she spoke which snapped the girl out of the trance she was in.
"You can take anything if you want it enough." Effy said, causing Elaine to look at her twin.
"Great." He said, turning his attention back to Elaine. "Everything's new and I suppose we should probably, like, you know, all get to know each other." Frederick said, a smile on his face.
"Why?" Elaine asked, skeptical of his intentions.
"Well, um... I dunno." Frederick said. "You definitely looked at me this morning, twice. I just thought, you know, maybe we could get to know each other."
"I look at lots of people. That doesn't mean I want to get to know them." Elaine said, shifting her weight to her other foot. She was just about to walk away before Effy had taken her hand and pulled her back.
"Do you want her to want to get to know you?" Effy questioned, leaving her twin confused on what she was doing.
"I, er, I wouldn't mind." Frederick wanted to get to know Elaine, she seemed nice.
"Thing is, they want to get to know me too." Effy said with her eyes on JJ and James.
"They're just wankеrs." Frederick quickly said.
"They're your best friends, right?" Elaine added as she mischievously glanced over at her sister and then back to Frederick.
"Okay, so they're my best friends." Frederick said.
"Well then that makes it complicated doesn't it?" Elaine was getting annoyed, hoping Effy didn't try to go after someone she had her eyes on. They vowed to never let boys come in between them so she prayed she was just toying around.
"Um, I was hoping not. I'm Freddie." Freddie introduced himself properly, holding his hand out for Elaine to take.
"I'm Elaine." Elaine said, taking his hand firmly and shanking it.
"Tell you what, Freddie. Fill in a form." Effy said.
Effy gave Freddie a look down at an eight piece of paper to do: Smoking. Alcohol. Drugs. Arson. Porn. Teacher abuse. Sex in School. And Glue.
"What's this?" Freddie questioned.
"A list of things we're not allowed to do. Like that head director said before your bestest mate got his cock out." Elaine smiled, answering for Effy as she caught onto what her twin was doing. She wrapped her arm around hers and tilted her head with a mischievous look remaining on her face. "I was gonna see if I could tick 'em all before the end of the day. But…"
"This is much more interesting." The twins said in unison, causing Elaine to let out a soft giggle.
"First one to fill that out gets to...get to know me." Elaine said with a smile.
"And no cheating. I'll need evidence." Effy said.
"Okay." Freddie said.
"Come on." Effy said.
"Cos I wouldn't fսck a cheat." Elaine said.
"Sorry?" Freddie asked, as he turned his head to Elaine.
Elaine turns to Freddie and smirks, closing her tin and putting it in her bag whilst walking away with Effy arm in arm with her.