Hilary really wanted to believe liola, but she knew it was not true! She sighed and said “let’s forget what happened last night, and move on!”
Liola looked up at her mother and smiled “what are you talking about mum, what happened last night?”, she said.
“That’s my girl”, Hilary smiled as she spoke. “Well let’s go take a look at the house then shall we?”
“Yup, we didn’t have time to last night”, liola at her mother.
They walked around the house looking at everything, smiling and laughing like nothing had happened!
“So you want go see your new school?”, asked Hilary.
Liola turned around shocked “you got me into a school”, said liola
“Of course I did, what did you think? I was going to leave you schooless?”, smiled Hilary “well it is not that all girls school, because they wouldn’t let you in, but it is still a very nice school!”, said Hilary.
“Yes lets go”, said liola
“Okay, come on, we'll take a cab" said Hilary.
So so very sorry I cant post more, but I promise after exams I will!!
As they were driving the car, Liola thought to herself if what she did was right, even though it had calmed things down, she wasn’t sure she should keep all these secrets to herself. She had given up on keeping diaries for a long time!
They stopped at the school, Hilary tipped the guy and they jumped out of the cab, Liola looked up at the school, it was called St. Ridge high school it was grey and blue and looked very glum! Hilary said “well you know your not supposed to judge book by its cover, so I guess the same applies to a school!”.
Liola looked at her mum and glumly replied, “yeah I guess so”.
They entered the principals office, which had ornament and trinkets displayed every where.
The principles, Mrs. lockert was a very sweet lady, warm and welcoming, she gave many compliments to liola. She also hinted that there was therapy for those who wanted it. Liola for some reason got angry and hotly said, “I don’t need therapy”
Mrs. Lockert looked up in surprise to Liola and said in a stern tone, “I did not implicate in any such way that you needed it”, and smiled sweetly.
Hilary tried to break the tension between the two by questioning what extra curriculum they offered at the school. Mrs. Lockert showed them the brochure and said, “I am not implying that you have to do any of these, Liola”.
Liola looked at her mother and politely said where the bathrooms were. Mrs. Lockert gave the directions and she walked out.
Liola didn’t really want to go to the bathroom, she wanted to explore the school by herself, she entered the main building and walked down the corridors, she could hear the teachers talking to the pupils in the classrooms. The graffiti on the wall was disgusting and to think that nobody bothered to clean it up. She grimly looked at the notice boards, mostly filled with out of date notices and decided to go back o the office.
As she walked past the classrooms, she suddenly started to miss home, her school and everything else. Even though she had no friends, she liked her school because nobody ever made fun of her because of her parents. She wondered to herself if people would pick on her here, it seemed like a very un-orderly school. She could imagine it, everyone crowding around her and laughing and pointing fingers. A tear trickled down her face smudging her eyeliner; she gave a small sniff, and then began to realize that she was being stupid, crying over something that hadn’t happened yet.
Like a bolt out of the blue, the school bell rang and surprised her, here heart beated fast and her breaths becoming uneven. She started to run before she got trampled by the crowds of children who were waiting to get home. But for some reason her legs were stiff she couldn’t move very well, she had been standing in one spot for too long. All she could do was a barely a hobble. She let out a quiet yelp of pain as she strained her leg. Her eyes darting everywhere any minute now she was going to be trampled. The second bell rung, the classroom doors burst open as children screamed and chatted and laughed. She felt as if she was invisible, everybody bumped into her, nobody even glanced her way. She thought of maybe asking for some help, but for some reason all the children had backed away from the middle and leaned against the lockers. She was so confused, maybe there was a parade or something she thought to herself, she swore under her breath she was in the middle. She tried again to move her stiff leg, but it was no use.
Everybody went silent. Liola looked round, she saw three tall girls, with great figures; they had short skirts and halter necks. Everybody was awed. As they got near her she got scared, she couldn’t understand why she got scared, I mean they were just three girls, but they seemed to give of this vibe of coolness.
The three girls stopped and inch away from liola. Everybody’s eyes were on her. Liola wanted to scream, but she couldn’t. She realized one thing; she was going to have an awful time at school!
The girls looked at her, glaring with their beady eyes. Liola stuttered speechless, a shiver ran down her spin. She decided to tell the truth. “Sorry, my legs are stiff and it hurts real bad when I walk”, she whispered softly looking down at the floor. The three girls said nothing and instead went around Liola. A sigh was about to come out of her mouth as she thought they had forgiven her, but the girl in the middle turned around and said in a soft but harsh voice, “you will pay for this”.
The girls left an aww in the corridor, as the students heard the door slam they all went back to their usual self. A girl came up to Liola and helped her up, as she was saying thanks, she saw her mom running towards, “O there you are I was worried about you”.
“Thanks mum I’m fine, lets go”.
As they were sitting in the cab, Hilary asked Liola what she liked about the school.
Liola looked down at the seat and worriedly said, “do you think any of the other schools will accept me?”.
“But, Liola I thought you liked the school, did something happen?”, questioned Hilary
“err no, but the vibe I get isn’t that nice”, replied Liola
“o well I thought it was nice, but if you want I can phone the other schools and check”, said Hilary.
“thanks mum, that would be great”.
They sat in silence right until they got home. Hilary started the kettle ready for tea, when the phone rang. Hilary answered the phone and started talking in a very serious voice, nodding and saying tank-you so much.
Liola looke dat her mother, when she had put the phone down, “who was that”, she asked.
“the school, said hilary beaming, they have given us an excellent price for the school fees”.
“o” said liola. “so I guess I will have to be going to that school then”.
“Well look hon I don’t see anything wrong with it, so I think you should go”, said Hilary.
“Yeah, you right”, said Liola sighing.