Shotgun

Remembering this is a time to reinvent yourself you reach for the front door and sit inside.

"A new confident me" you think. Plugging your seatbelt in you look over to Miss Williams who's legs are still hanging out the side of the car,

"fucking heels, and the head has got me on pick up duty on a Sunday too" she says annoyed, sliding into the correct position Ms Williams hands you her heels,

"make yourself useful, hold these" she says dropping her heels onto your lap.

Feeling offended you look at her confused,

"Please" she says realising how rude she was.

"At least she knows what manners are, bitch" you think.

"Is it a long drive to St. Herma?" you ask placing her heels upright on your legs,

"around half an hour, its a bit from the city centre, it is private ground after all" she says driving out from the car park.

Ms Williams flicks through radio stations before settling on one thats playing chart songs.

Looking down at your hands you realise your struggling to keep her heels in place, the heels are at least twice the size of your hands. Peering inside the shoes you can she dark toe prints at the bottom of the heels, they look well worn,

"Jesus, she's a UK10!" you say aloud in your head.

You move you head slightly closer to double check the size, its then that you inhale a pungent cheesy odour making your head jerk back.

"How rude" Ms Williams says offended,

"they don't smell that bad".

Realising your offence you tell her that it was you falling asleep and your head jerked up as you awoke,

"well your lucky then, those heels reek" she says cackling. "Put them on the floor for the time being" she says, placing them on the floor you're not quite sure what to make of your English teacher,

"she's beautiful but has an intimidating side to her" you ponder.

The rest of the journey passes quickly as you focus on the new scenery passing you by, you are now in a wooded area with trees visible from both sides. The car drives slowly up the road until the trees fade away and the road opens up. Its then that you see St. Herma, the school is huge, there are living quarters on the left and right side of the grounds and the main campus sits in the middle.

"We're here, ain't it just....lovely" Ms Williams says unenthusiastically.

The car bends around a few roads till it stops outside the living quarters on the right side,

"here are your keys, students live in their own rooms, in mixed gender dorms. One of the teachers will explain it all to you tomorrow, that's not my task" she says handing you the keys.

"Thanks for everything" you say exiting the car,

"you can return the favour sometime" she replies,

"promise" you say grabbing your luggage from the trunk. Ms Williams gets out the car and approaches you,

"I take promises seriously, promise?" she says looking intently in your eyes, taken back by her sudden forwardness you can only nod your head in reply,

"Be ready, i'll call that favour in whenever I want" she smirks returning to her car and driving off.

"That was weird" you whisper, dragging your suitcase along. Climbing the stone stairs towards the building, you prepare yourself for what awaits inside.