High Jinx by Sara Lawrence

Author:Sara Lawrence [Sara Lawrence]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780571317288
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2014-03-13T16:00:00+00:00

As she stuffed twenty-pence pieces into the soft drinks vending machine just outside the common-room door, Jinx looked at her watch. A silver TAG Heuer that her dad had given her for her sixteenth birthday, it was one of her most favourite and precious things. She wasn’t too fussed about designer clothes or flash handbags, but the one item she’d never be seen dead with was a cheap watch.

She also loved it because she’d wanted one for such a long time and her dad had chosen it himself. It wasn’t the exact one she’d thought she wanted, the one she’d pointed out to her mum – it was better. And since everyone knows it’s rare for dads to get matters of fashion right she loved it all the more because of that.

It was twelve o’clock. Jinx leaned down to grab her Diet Coke before it got trapped in the temperamental tray at the bottom – she was addicted to the stuff and could never contemplate finishing an essay, tidying her room or making an important phone call without an icy can in her hand – and realised she had at least another six or so hours before Stella and Liberty got back from Brighton.

She flipped back the ring pull and took a long swig of the stuff she called brain fuel. Forget fish oil, DC was the business. She pushed in three more twenties and a back-up can released itself with a loud bang.

Muttering an apology to Lulu whose room was also next door to the common room and who was – given the anguished moans she let out every time the noisy machine was used – obviously trying to have a lie-in, Jinx turned left instead of right and started up the small flight of stairs that led to the third floor.

She rarely ventured up here as most of her friends lived on the first and second floor and she much preferred seeing people in Chastity’s room anyway as Chas always had the best booze in her cupboard.

She walked down the dimly lit corridor peering at the names on the doors. Gosh, Chloe lived up here too – Jinx had no idea. As she approached the bathroom at the end she saw Stella’s name badge stuck to the fourth door on the right and looked around before pushing it open.

Not that anyone would question her. And, anyway, if anyone did ask what she was doing in there she could say she was returning something … or borrowing something … or leaving Stella a note. Anything really. There was very little stealing at Stagmount in general and there’d been none whatsoever in her year since they’d caught Tiffany Bigsworth with her hand – literally – in Liberty’s knicker drawer at the end of the first year.

Liberty’s dad was fond of giving her large wads of cash with which to pay her school fees and keep herself in shoes and pizzas at the beginning of term and once she’d paid her visit to the bursar Liberty just used to stuff the rest of it at the back of her jumbled-up pants.

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