Chapter Nine

Chapter Nine

I woke up the next morning with a feeling of euphoria, I'm going back to school today.  I hurried through my breakfast and made for the door with my school bag slung across my shoulder.

"Gwen don't forget to take your doctors note" My dad said as I was about leaving.

My sudden disappearance from school needed an explanation and a doctors note is the best my dad could think of, Currently I'm just recovering from influenza so the note says. 

"Why do I need another doctors note dad? I mean you're a doctor".

"So it wouldn't be suspicious dear, you don't want your principal to start having doubts" He replied laughing.

He was right though, my principal wasn't going to accept a doctors note issued by my dad. I collected the doctors note from the counter, I ran into my mother into my mother who was just coming out of the kitchen.

"Sorry mom, I didn't see you there" I said apologetically.

"Oh it's nothing