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The classroom erupted into loud squeals and gasps. Kingsley Nightshade was one of THE best young adult authors in the WORLD. Aged in his late twenties, there had been talk in the media that he was taking to teaching... but at our school?! Everyone was in utter shock. "Yes, of course class, youre quite right, this is a big deal. I am leaving in 6 days, so the rest of our lesson today will be spent getting ready for the arrival of Mr Nightshade."

The rest of the class passed in a whir. The time was spent moving the classroom around, scrubbing desks and cleaning the white board. All of the cupboards were gone though and re organised and new text books and exercise books were handed out. After what only seemed like a short while, the bell went for break time. Break, as usual, passed without much excitement. I saw Beth, one of our little group of friends, and spoke to her about the whole deal in English. She didn’t seem too excited. I ate an apple, and then i headed to double science.

Double science was not a very interesting lesson, i spent most of it listening to Tyler ramble on about some football match I hadnt watched. The rest of it, I spent staring out of the window, watching two cats chasing each other around the school field. The lesson seemed to drag by slowly, but maybe that was because i was waiting for the bell. I had decided to go home at lunch. We only had double P.E last period, and in all fairness, I didnt really do anything anyway. If i went home early, then it meant i could continue working on my novel that i was writing imagine having the chance to get Kingsley to read it!

 

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When the  bell for lunch finally rang, I went off to look for Beth. I guess you could say that she was the one in  our group that i was closest to, but i still wouldnt say that she was my best friend. I wandered through about four corridors before i found her. Or should i say, before she found me. "KELSEYYYYYYYY" Oh My God. What happened to her shirt?!? Being one of the only secondary schools in Britain with no uniform had its perks, but not when there were spillage accidents. "Look! It was all Jack White's fault! He spilt some red chemical down me.... and now look.!" Her facial expression was quite hysterical. I didn't quite know what to say. "You're going home at lunch, right?" I nodded. "I'll come too... steal one of your mum's shirts, she wont mind"  "Err, okay" is all i managed to say. I was torn between laughter and fear. I'd hate to see what Jack White looked like after this little incident.

We headed off to find the rest of our gang, to tell them where we were going. We had an hour for lunch, and I only lived two blocks away, so we had plenty of time. We found them sitting outside, in the sun, at a picnic bench. Our gang went like this: Me, Beth, Ally, Jakey, Will, and Alec. To be honest, i was never really close to any of them. Of course, they were cool with us going back to my house, so we decided to leave them to it. We started towards the main gates of our school. Our campus was quite a big one, so this involved us walking through several departments , a small picnic field, and across the carpark. There was a path around the edge, but in reality, it just wasted time.  The gates to our school were like those big, iron, rusty things you see in horror movies. I always found it strange, how modern our school was, considering how old fashioned it looked. The gates were never shut at lunchtime, so that we could go home if we needed to. They opened out onto a small road.

The same road that me and my mum drove down every morning. Not a very busy road at lunchtimes... only before and after school. Most of the time, there was no reason for people to be driving down it at all. This day was no different.  A few cars slowly made their way down the road, so we waited for them to pass. Then, when they had all gone, I began to run acoss the road. I always ran across that road, because it was quite a wide one, and i didnt like the time it took me to cross it. Several cars could zoom your way in that time. I got about halfway across and realised that Beth wasn't following. I turned round to look at her and tell her to hurry up. The look on her face confused me. It looked like shock. Or maybe fear. But why?

I soon found out. Coming towards me at a riduculously fast speed was a big black jeep. I tried to get out the way before it could hit me. I failed. The impact of the hit sent me flying, and i remember thinking to my self as i made contact with the ground: "This is it, I'm gonna die" . I could feel myself slide across the hot tarmac of the road and I tried to ignore the searing pain ripping through my body. I heard Beth scream: "No, Kelsey, No!" I heard the screech of tyres and scurrying of feet. I looked up and was suprised to see a boy about my age looking down at me. I had never seen him before. He had chocolate brown hair with a cute little fringe covering one of his eyes. He was wearing a band teeshirt of some kind, and he was looking at me as though he was extremely worried. I tried to speak, but no sound came out. I tried to move, but my body refused. The boy looking down at me frowned. "You're going to be okay" he said, kneeling down at my side and moving my hair out of my face. That was the last thing I heard. Then, it all went black.

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[Chris]

Good chapter. I can definitely say that I'm beginning to get hooked onto the story now.