Erin The Fire Goddess: The Beginning

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  Today, everything went by quickly. Even at lunch time, when I sat outside to eat, it felt like I'd only just opened my lunch box when the bell rang.

  There weren't really any lessons, per se. Mostly we played games, which made time go faster, and the other students actually spoke to me. Not really to make conversation, just because we were put into teams and had to talk. Either way, it was good to have other people to talk to. Most of the time the only conversations I had were with the teachers.

  When the final bell rang, I quickly grabbed my bag and went to look for Kasey-Ray. I found her outside flirting with Matt.

  “Hi.” I said breezily, as I saw my sister blush. “Ready?”

  “Give me a second!” She smiled as she turned back to Matt.

  “Okay, I'll go sit on the wall.” I slowly made my way to the wall next to the car park. I pulled a handmade fan out of my bag, that I had made it in one of my lessons. I started to wave it in front of my face, whilst closing my eyes.

  “Someone's watching you.” I heard Kasey-Ray coyly say.

  “Eh?” I opened my eyes to look at my sister, but she was looking past me towards the car park, as I tried to follow her gaze she stopped me.

  “Don't look.” She put her hands to my face. “Jessica's there."

  “Okay.” As soon as she said her name, I quickly looked back at my sister. I watched her for a while as she continued to look past me towards the car park. “What's going on?” I could hear arguing and it took all my will power not to turn around and look.

  “Jessica and the red headed guy are arguing.”

  “That's her boyfriend, Justin.” I told her. Mainly so she could use his name and I wouldn’t get confused. “Well, he is standing between her and Jacko. She's pointing at him and hurling abuse.” She stopped me again, as I tried to turn around to see why. “Justin is dragging her away now.” Kasey-Ray finally looked at me. “She's a fiery one, that one!” She tutted as she pulled me to my feet.

  “Wonder why she was having a go at Sean?” I mainly asked to myself.

  “Dunno. Maybe you can ask him on Friday!" She winked, making me laugh even though I was still nervous and worried. Maybe she'd found out about the Friday nights. Tomorrow I was sure I would feel her wrath and would probably not see Sean on Friday. The sense of disappointment washed over me, making me feel sick at the thought of not talking to him again.

  “Anyway,” Kasey-Ray breezed, itching to change the subject, “Matt asked me out." She squealed as she squeezed my arm. “He wants to take me out on Wednesday night.” She crooned. She was acting like she'd won the lottery.

  “Where's he taking you?”

  “Bowling and here's the thing.”

  “Uh-oh.” There always had to be something with Kasey-Ray, something that would involve me covering for her.

  “Well, there isn't a bowling alley near here, so we would get back late. Ooooo...” She smiled at me, “Claire suggested she could tag along and Matt could bring Liam, mainly cos she fancies him.” She laughed as she rolled her eyes, “and then afterwards I can sleep over at Claire's.” She smiled like it was a perfect plan.

  Kasey-Ray and I both had a curfew of 10pm, which even I thought was reasonable. I couldn't even imagine how late she would arrive back.

  “Claire's going to ask her Mum when she gets home and call me. Her Mum's pretty laid back, so she reckons it'll be fine.”

  I didn't know much about Claire. I just knew she was an only child to a single Mum.

  “So where do I fit into all of this?” She hadn't actually said she wanted my help, but I knew I was involved somewhere.

  “If Mum and Dad ask, don't mention bowling or Matt. Please?” double close quote mark She dragged the last word out as she gave me her puppy dog eyes. Sighing I gave her a serious expression. I hated lying, especially to our parents. “Look, hopefully they won't say or ask you anything, so you won't have to lie.” She moved to stand in front of me. “Please sis?” She begged. “I promise I won't ask you to do anything like this again.” I laughed at this statement, because even though she meant every word she had said, I knew there would be a next time.

  “Okay!” I sighed.

  “Yay!” She picked me up in a bear hug and swung me around.

  “You owe me.” I raised an eyebrow. “Big time. If you get found out and they knew I was covering for you.”

  “They won't.” She assured me, she took my arm again as we turned into our street.

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