Taking Flight by Sheena Wilkinson

Author:Sheena Wilkinson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Little Island

Chapter 23

DECLAN

Mr Dermott sounds fed up already. He must have had a nice week without us lot. ‘Five minutes left. And remember to do the last question properly. At least fifty words.’

There’s a groan. A shuffling and scuffling of papers.

‘Sir, fifty different words?’

‘Sir, what about Cathal? He doesn’t know fifty words.’

‘He can’t count to fifty anyway!’

‘Sir, this is gay.’

‘Four minutes,’ says Mr Dermott. ‘Anyone who can’t manage to finish it now is very welcome to come back at breaktime.’

Louder sighing and groaning and ‘Sir, that’s not fair!’

I look again at the green form. No one said we’d have to do all this. What was the most valuable thing you learned on your work experience? Which of the following best describes the skills you have learned? Tick as many as apply. I sigh. It’s not that I can’t do it. But it spoils it to have to put it all into words and ticks.

In front of me Seaneen Brogan’s curly pony-tail bobs up and down as she covers her green form in her huge, loopy, girly writing.

‘OK, time up. Who’s coming back at break?’ Mr Dermott glances at the green forms as he does the rounds. ‘Natalie – well, maybe we’ll leave it.’ Natalie Doyle is five months pregnant so I suppose Dermott thinks her career is sorted for a while. Natalie smirks and clutches her schoolbag to her swollen middle. Dermott flicks through more forms. ‘Cathal Gurney – see you at break.’ Cathal sniffs. ‘And who’s this without a name? Declan Kelly?’ He sounds surprised.

‘Yes, sir.’

‘Right. Breaktime in here, then, lads. Off you go.’

Seaneen grabs my arm on the way out of the classroom. I wonder if it feels muscly after all that mucking out. ‘Well, how was it?’

I shrug. ‘OK.’

She glares at me. ‘Is that all you can say?’

‘What is there to say?’

Plenty, as far as Seaneen’s concerned. ‘And I just can’t wait to go to the tech and do childcare,’ she’s still jabbering when we get to Psycho’s classroom. ‘And Sandra – she’s the boss – said she was going to give me a dead good report.’

‘Miss Brogan, Mr Kelly, you are late.’ Psycho blocks the doorway, vicious as ever. She was grumpy about us going on work experience but she’s even grumpier to have us back.

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