2. Megan was often online chatting
with Allain after school. They were
becoming quite good friends
now, even when he wasn’t
babysitting – or ‘hanging out’ as
they called it. Today he needed a
favour, could he come round?
3. He was in a bit of a
jam. He was meant to
be off sick, but he saw
someone badmouthing
him on facebook so
had gone to school at
lunchtime and beaten
the guy up a bit. He
was bound to tell, so
he needed an alibi.
Everyone at school
knew Megan was one
of the only people he
liked rather than just
tolerated, and saw
outside school… So the
headmistress was
bound to call her into
the office to question
her. Would she lie for
him?
4. Megan agreed straight away. But on the
bus to school the next day she started
getting pretty nervous. She prided
herself on looking the part, but she
wasn’t actually much of a bad girl. If she
was called into the heads office, would
she be able to pull it off?
5. Everything happened like Allain said it
would, but then he probably had plenty
of experience with being in trouble.
Megan tried to stay calm and ignore the
butterflies in her tummy.
6. Yes ma’am, she had heard
about the fight. But Jake Dawes
was always making stuff up.
Like the lies he put on facebook
about Allain in the first place.
Or that he had an uncle who
had been to space.
Why yes Ma’am, she had seen Allain recently.
She’d been round his house to cheer him up but
he’d been too sick to let her in so she’d just
pushed the card under the door. There was no
way he could have come to school to beat up
Jake. She bet he’d run into a wall and had seen
an opportunity to get Allain into trouble.
7. The headmistress believed her. She
knew Allain was a bit of a wild card,
but Megan was a good kid. She
wouldn’t lie about something serious
like this. She let her return to class.
8. Megan left the office in a daze. She’d
gotten away with it! Her heart was
still beating fast, and her hands were
all sweaty… but it had worked.
Back home after school, with more
time to think it over Megan was
thrilled. It had been so easy! Allain
would be impressed. And this could
be only the beginning, she could do
anything!
9. Ambrose was still upset over the loss
of her agent, and her moping about
had finally forced Bernice out of the
house and into a job. She’d managed
to get a place working behind the bar
a local dive.
10. After work, she’d often get chatting to
either the customers or the friendly cop
who made sure last drinks were served
on time each night…
11. In fact, she was bringing a guy home after almost every
shift. She’d never really had time to date when she’d
been caring for her parents 24/7. As she saw it, she
was making up for lost time.
12. But Ambrose was worried about her housemate. A bit of fun was one thing, but
Bernice could get herself into real trouble.
13. Bernice was careful about her choices though. The men were always happy
for a one night stand and nothing more. She avoided the vulnerable who
might want more, or get obsessive. In fact she was avoiding emotion of any
kind. But was this making her happy?
