Rachel Mason,divorced from Adam,for reasons she didn't want to explain,was now sitting in the staff room of Waterloo Road comprehensive school ,next to Tom Clarkson. Now seven years since she last left,only the select few knew about her being the ex-headmistress and even fewer knew her full story. She wanted to keep everything a secret and the staff who were members in this little circle could do nothing but agree.

"What do you think the new head teacher will be like?" Rachel asked Tom,taking a sip of her cooling coffee. "No clue. But I do think you should have gone for the position again,"he answered glancing towards his colleague as she quickly shook her head."No Tom. I couldn't handle the stress and pressure again. Anyway,I'm enjoying being back in the classroom. Although, I must say I'm not looking forward to teaching year eleven about the views of different religions on sex before marriage,or the fact we've got this bloody relationship talk Friday,"Rachel explained,making Tom chuckle slightly into his mug. "Yeah,thanks again for getting me roped into it!" He said sarcastically as Rachel giggled before replying,"you are Casanova himself Tom,of the staff room at least." Tom shook his head,rolling his eyes as he once again had heard him being referred to some person associated with love and affairs,"I think I'm going to talk about my relationship with Izzie." The conversation now taking a slightly more serious note,compared to a couple of minutes earlier,"aren't you going to do it?" He added at the end,to turn the conversation away from himself. "Nope,I'd be in tears by the end of it,if I had to,"she said sadly,"but I'm enjoying the fact that Steph and the new head teacher will have to explain one or two of their relationships."
"God I hope he or she is prepared,"Tom chuckled,placing his empty mug of coffee on the coffee table in front of him. "God help them is all I have to say," Rachel grinned as she took both of the mugs to be washed.

As Rachel placed the mugs in the dishwasher,which was facing away from the door, a man walked in and had started speaking,"hello everyone, I'm the new head teacher of Waterloo Road..." She knew that unmistakeable voice,which only belonged to one man only. Slowly she turned to face the source of the noise,her suspicions being confirmed before muttering out loud,"you've got to be f***ing kidding me?" As the mug in her hand,slowly eased it's way out of her grasp,shattering as it made contact with the wooden floor. Staff were confused as Steph,Matt,Tom and Grantly watched on sceptically. "How am I going to cope?" She thought to herself as tears welled in her eyes.

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