The Cornish Village School – Breaking the Rules by Kitty Wilson

Author:Kitty Wilson [Wilson, Kitty]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781788631167
Publisher: Canelo Books
Published: 2018-05-11T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-One

It was a bleary-eyed Rosy who drove into school the next morning. She had spent very little of last night sleeping, although she could hear Angelina next door snoring so loudly the windows rattled. It hadn’t helped the confusion whirring around Rosy’s head. A mishmash of emotion that hours of analysis hadn’t helped clear.

She knew that she shouldn’t have kissed Matt. The Rule was simple enough – it stated that you didn’t involve yourself with anyone with ties to your life, ever. That way, when things went wrong they could be neatly erased from life, and social media, without major fallout. Without them entangling mutual friends or colleagues. Without them broadcasting to everyone who knew you what your flaws were, real or fabricated. Without them painting a picture of you so dark and unexpected that you lost all of your standing in the community, your job and your friends. She knew that most men weren’t delusional psychopaths that manipulated the world around them as if it were a personally designed board game. She also knew, through bitter experience, that it only took one.

However, when Rosy had been busy defining The Rule and then practising it over the course of her lifetime, she had applied it rigorously, as if all were black and white. As it should be. It was unfortunate that, up until now, Rosy had forgotten all about the existence of grey. As much as she may not think it should exist, as much as she may not want it to exist, yesterday grey had stood up and announced, no, shouted its presence. I am grey. I will not be ignored. Stand up and count me and all my shades of gorgeousness.

Grey said that it didn’t matter about what may seem sensible. Grey whispered that there was more to be thought about. That intuitively Rosy knew that walking away was not the sensible option, that she and Matt had a bond, a something unique to them that should be, had to be, explored. Grey reminded her that intuition was what had saved humanity time and time again. It was both part of evolution and existence. Grey had to be listened to. Not to do so, to only see black and white, was foolhardy.

Rosy would have liked to cosh grey over the head and bundle it into a sack with black and white and hurl all of them over a cliff, but instead she got up and went to work. And whilst she loved her job, and usually was happy entering her classroom in the morning, today – despite being exhausted and emotionally wrung out – the primary colours of Class One, the red, the yellow and the bright blue, had never been so welcoming. She might stay here forever.

Sitting at the playdough table fashioning hearts and relieved that for the past twenty whole minutes she hadn’t focused on her own, Rosy played alongside the children. ‘Played’ was a misnomer; she was of course being terribly professional, modelling behaviour as well as shapes, observing social skills and fine motor control.

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