Nathan: Branston High Series

It's Fri-yay! The water looks beautiful this early in the morning, with the sun shimmering across the waves and the wet pebbles sparkling along the shore. It makes it worth the early wake up to be able to be out here with no one else around.I close my eyes, breathing in the salty air and listening to the water lapping against the shore. Kim has plans to travel straight after high school and I've agreed to go with her, but in truth, there's nowhere else I'd rather be than right here."Hey Lea, you finally running off your Christmas flab?" The annoying voice infiltrates my tranquility and I feel my stress levels soar.With my eyes still closed, I breathe in and out deeply, clinging to the vain hope he'll just pass me by but the slap on my bum has me

My bedroom pulses with the music that's playing through the house, the steady thud, thud, thud of the beat causing ripples in my drink on the bedside table. Glancing at my clock on the wall, I estimate this continuing for at least another four or five hours.  Bang!  I jump as someone falls against my door, giggling drunkenly outside my room.  Idiots! I turn up the volume on my TV, the subtitles skittering across the bottom so I don't miss anything important due to the noise of the party. My parents are out with the neighbours again. Lucky bastards!  There's an

Some absolute moron slashed my tyres during the party so I have to ride into school with Kim and, even though I'm dreading actually getting to school after Olivia thought it would be funny to post that photo of Nathan and I and make out like something happened, being with Kim puts me in a surprisingly good mood. As much as I complain about having to be the extra responsible one now that she's off following her own path, seeing how happy she is makes it worth it and I'm starting to wish I was more like her. Spontaneous, carefree and full of the absolute joy of life. We pull up outside Liv's house and instead of honking or knocking on the door or even ringing to let her know we're outside, she drops the window, turns the volume up on the radio which is blaring Olivia by One Direction from her phone and sings along at the top of her voice, nudging me to get me t

Max asks my friends and I to help set up the party, so we drive over straight after school to join the small group helping to set up drinks areas, hiding valuables and breakables, moving furniture and building a bonfire in the garden, because apparently that's the new must thing for high school parties."Hey." He pulls us each into a big hug, leaving an arm around both Mille and me as he guides us into the kitchen. "So, this is the bar area, I need you two to make sure the cups and drinks are all spread out, that ok? Kev and Sam are bringing the crates in from the car.""Sure." He winks at us and then takes Italia and Corrine into the next room as we get to work."Would you judge me if I slept with him tonight?" Millie asks, grouping drinks by type on the counter. "Well, try anyway."

I wake up feeling like a zombie, my head aches, my stomach is threatening to revolt with every movement and my body feels like it belongs to someone else. I've got vague memories of the night before but it's so hazy I'm not sure what's real and what was a dream. "How're you feeling?" Kim puts a cup of tea on the table and although I know she didn't slam it down, the sound ricochets around my brain. "Like death." I croak. "What happened?" "Jake reckons you were spiked, Millie said you were fine before you left her and it was less than half an hour between that and Nathan finding you in Max's bed." "What? Max?" I try to sort through the memories in my head and a fuzzy one where Max and I are kissing in his room seems to hover at the forefront. "Oh god, I didn't, did I?