Westwood, I thought. It certaintly lived up to its name, there was a large wood extening of into the distance on my left and the instute itself an old and an unapealing brown colour. The uniforms were even themed around the woods With a dark grey skirt and a green blouse.
Their was no rush or hubub around me either as I was ariving miday, half way through the spring term - good, I thought grinning to myself, spring time was the best time for pranks. I started walking up to the building dragging my trunk along the uneven stones and then up the stairs to the front doors. There was a womman typing franticaly at an ancient type writer, undearneath a small wooden sign saying OFFICE. "Err hello?" I said to the woman uncertainly "I am Skylar Windsor I am starting here this te-"
"Yes, yes i know who you are Windsdor....Windsdor," she scanned her clippboard "Ah yes, Skylar you are on floor three seccond door to your right. You cant miss it. Students are currently in class but I suppose you shall be starting tomorrow which is wendsday no-no- friday, yes friday." She said this all very fast and franticlaly with the air of a womman who had much work to do and not enough time to do it. Poor womman, I thought, she was obviously overwoked and under payed. I lugged my trunk up the stairs and turnned to go up the next flight when I saw a boy standing in the corridor he had tanned skin and dark hair, I expected him to have dark eyes too, but when he looked up at me I saw that instead they were a penentrating blue unlike my jade green eyes.
He aprochad me with a grin tugging at the corner of his lips and a mischevious glint in his eyes. "Do my eyes decive me or do we finaly have a knew student here," he said grinning all the while.
"Indded we do" I said straightening up, "no need to bow it just makes it to painfuly obvious that i am above all you common phesants."
"Do my ears decive me or do i have a buninking buddie?"
"I thinnk you might just," I said holding out my hand, "names Skylar, Skylar Windsdor"
"Robin, Robin Loxely, Pleasure" He bowed low and waved his hads in at least 10 different directions
"So" I said, dropping the posh tone. "Are you going to show me what you guys do here for fun or what?"
We ran back down to the bottom of the stairs - leaving my case abandoned in the middle of the corridor - sliding down the banisters and banging into walls. We ran all the way past the front office making so much noise that the secretery even looked up from her typing.
"Skylar I trust you found your room alright you are sharing with- Mr. Loxely what are you doing here dont you have class.?"
"Yes, yes I do..or did yes the class....was.... was cancled Mrs.Burn has chicken pox...yes and uh- anyway I am Miss.Windsors official tour guide." He said pausing frequently and winnking to me at the end.
I roled my eyes and dragged him out the front door laughing all the while. "Smooth," I said "looks like you had to think,must have been hard."
Robin diddn't answer that and instead grabbed my hand and dragged me around to the little grassy area infront of the forrest.
That evening we went all through the woods and around the building; to the back of the school where I added my name to the wall of fame; back up to the first floor where we went to the library (were we got kicked out); into unused classrooms (we nearly got caught) and all the way back up to the third floor were we went to find my room.
I was dragging my suitcase agin - it was still where I had left it in the middle of the corridor. We stumbled laughing to my room where I read the names on a bronze plauqe on the door:
Year 9 Girls
Sally
Lyra
Summer
Charlotte
Skylar
My name was crammed in at the bottom in what looked like an old sharpie. I dumped my trunk onto the bed farthest from the door, Robin was already sprawled across the bed next to mine with the name summer written at the foot.
"Wont she mind you lying like a sack of potatoes on her bed?" I asked raising one eyebrow.
"Nahhhh," he said then paused and thought about it "Well actualy I broke up with her last weekend so mabye." He said this lazily and with his eyes still shut he recounted a list of all the gils he had ever dated and their highlights and worst moments. I let this go on for about 45 minuets while I unpacked my trunk, hiding my fireworks under the matress and stashed my other less, you-will-be-expelled-if-this-is-found-in-your-possesion prank objects under my bed aswell as my list of 101 pranls to pull.
"Thats great and all," I said interupting him talking about Betina who he dated three months ago today and the cake they ate, "But did I ask?"
"Did I ask if you asked," He replied - finaly openting his eyes.
"Fair enough I said," raising and lowering one shoulder. Just then the bell rang signaling end of lessons for that day.
Robin saluted goodbye and left the room no doubt to escape seeing probably four of his exes at once. I fell backwards onto my bed grinning at the ceiling, Robin had mentioned in one of his storys that he had a particular dislike of spiders. I wonder how he will react to finding out their is a live turantula on his shoulder, I thought grinning to myself as I took out my notebook of The Bestest Most Mind Blowingly Awsome Pranks and checked of number 57.