Chapter Two

"Cambry, hurry up," Tara whispers loudly as I get my shoes on. Currently, I am in my pajama shorts, a tank top, and my low-cut vans, let's not forget the robe, I don't want to freeze.

"Fine. Let's go," I whisper back as I put a pillow in place of me on my bed. (so if the mistress does her occasional random room checkup to make sure we're in them)

"After you," She whispers as she holds the door open for me.

"Thank you," I whisper as I make my way to 'our spot' with Tara following behind me.

"The turn is right here," Tara says, as soon as we get to the stairs, we see a flashlight moving around, meaning whoever is down there is making sure no girls are trying to sneak out.

"Sh," I put my finger up to my lips as I look at Tara. "We gotta go a different way," I whisper to her.

"I know a way, follow me," She says quietly.

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As soon as we got outside without anyone noticing, we made our way to 'our spot'.

"There you are," Maisley says as they're all in here smoking on a joint and getting high. What? Don't judge and always remember Good girls are bad girls that haven't been caught.

"We were actually starting to think you weren't coming," Gwen says while inhaling the joint.

"Hey, don't use it all," I whine as I sit down next to Jamika. "And btw, I would never miss a party, especially one with this," I tell her before I inhale on the joint. I hand the joint to Tara as soon as she reaches for it.

"What are you guys doing during the break," Brinn asks while taking the joint from Tara.

"I'm going home," Jamika says. "I'll be back, don't you worry," She says, looking around at our shocked faces.

"I don't have plans," Tara says while letting out a sigh.

"Neither do I," I say, feeling the weed hit me.

"What about your family?" Tara asks.

"As far as I'm concerned, they haven't made any plans of inviting me home, so-" I let my sentence linger as I take another blow at the joint.

"I'm going home," Gwen and Maisley say simultaneously.

"I love this place, it's so-" I pause and think. "Relaxing," I say as I fall into Tara's lap and start giggling.

"Honestly, same here," Gwen says while laying back on the pillow. Before you get confused, we're in a largish treehouse. It was weirdly furnished with a loveseat, two desk chairs, a desk, and, well, you guessed it, weed. We added some pillows and cleaned the place up before getting too comfortable.

Tara and I found it when I just got here and with my adventurous side, I felt the need to explore. And well, we discovered this treehouse. We decided to tell our closest friends about it a year later, and here we are.

"I wish we could stay here forever," Maisley says while sitting on the loveseat with Brinn.

"What time is it?" Brinn asks, looking for the watch we took from a teacher. We keep it in here instead of carrying it around with us because we need a time when we're here or else the Mistress will send out a search and rescue for missing students.

"It's almost midnight," Gwen says as she grabs the watch off of the desk and looks at it.

"Should we get going?" I ask. Right now, we're all stoned, but hopefully, it's not that noticeable.

"Yeah- put the joint out," Tara tells Jamika, who was the last person who touched the joint.

"Let's go," I say as I start getting out of the treehouse.

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"So, see you girls tomorrow," Brinn tells all of us as she and Jamika make their way towards their dorms.

"Yeah, see you later," I tell the girls as Tara and I make our way to our room.

"See ya," Gwen and Maisley say as they make it towards their room.

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As soon as Tara and I made it into our room, we practically crashed when we hit our beds after taking off our shoes.

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"Tara, wake up," I wake her up, trying to get my uniform on while trying not to fall.

"I'm up, what's up?" She asks while sitting up in her bed.

"The Mistress will be here in a few minutes," I tell her. She had slept through the alarm clock while I didn't.

"Shit," She said loudly as she quickly got out of bed and into her uniform. At night, a teacher or someone comes into our room to collect our uniforms to clean them.

"Ladies, are you up?" Mrs. Dormin knocks on the door before walking in. As she walked in, Tara and I were making our beds.

"Yes Mrs. Dormin," Tara says sweetly with a smile.

"That's great, breakfast will be served in the dining hall, go there now," She says while opening our door for us.

"Yes, Mrs. Dormin," We say while stepping out of our room.

"Can you believe that?" I ask, pointing to Tanya who was wearing jeans, a cute pink blouse, white heels, and her makeup was done to perfection as she spent over a couple of hours doing it.

"What the hell?" Tara asks, shocked.

"Tanya," I called her name, making her head snap in our direction as we were still in the hall. "Won't your mom get mad at you for wearing that?" I ask.

"Mom said we were leaving to go back to our house to visit our family for the break," She says, shrugging her shoulders and making her way towards the front of the school.

Before we walked into the dining hall, the Mistress called my name, causing me to stop.

"Go ahead," I tell Tara as I stop in front of the door and wait for the Mistress.

"Ok," Tara says while giving me a sympathetic smile.

"Yes?" I ask, confused as to why I'm still out here.

"Before I leave, I want to tell you your plans for the break," She says.

"Okay?" I ask, waiting.

"Your parents have decided to invite you back, they said you may bring one visitor, and they've already bought your first-class ticket. You'll be leaving in three days, so choose who you want to bring and get ready for a break," She says, smiling. I haven't seen her smile in forever.

"Wait," I stop her before she walks any further from me.

"Yes?" She asks.

"Who's going to be taking care of us and the school while you're gone?" I ask.

"The teachers aren't leaving and when they have a break, they are going to have replacements while they're gone," She says before walking out the door.

As I walk into the dining hall, Tara looks at my shocked reaction that's still on my face and looks at me confused. As I sit down, she immediately starts shooting questions at me.

"What happened? Are you okay? Did she hurt you? Will you tell me what is going on? Why do you have a shocked look on your face?" She asks in one breath.

"I'm fine. I'm just shocked, my parents want me to come home for break," I tell her.

"What the hell?" She asks, almost as shocked as I was, she was also angry and sad. "I don't want you to leave me," She whines with tears in her eyes.

"I was so shocked. Also, Mistress isn't going to be here, she's leaving for break," I tell our table. We all cheered.

"Please bring me with you," Tara cries as she shakes me.

"Okay," I say, watching as the teachers start handing out trays of food.

"Really?" She asks, shocked.

"Yeah, they got me an extra ticket for an extra person," I say, kind of nervous.

"Yay, I get to see Australia. I can't wait. Then I can hear your accent more, And-" I stop her by putting my hand over her mouth.

"Calm down," I tell her. "If you wanted to hear my accent you could have just asked me," I told her while removing my hand from her mouth.

"Sorry," She says. She wanted to hear my accent. She misses it and she's told me. I lost it for being here for so long- I mean, I didn't lose-lose it, I just got it covered by an English accent.

"Now that we all have our food-" Mr. Shayde starts his sentence. Mr. Shayde takes the mistress' place when she leaves. So as an original school would use, he's technically the vice principal. "Let's personally bless our own food," He says before sitting down at the faculty table. We all bow our heads and start blessing our food quietly.

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When we all finished eating, we made our way to our first classes.

"I can't believe this- I actually personally feel free, like I can breathe," Jamika says as she, Maisley, Tara, and I walk together down the hall.

"Because the Mistress and her little devil child are gone?" I ask. They nod. "Same," I say.

"See ya," Jamika and Maisley turn in a different way for their classes.

"So?" I ask, knowing she's still super excited about the whole visiting Australia thing.

"I really can't wait," She says as we walk into our class.

"I can tell," I laugh as we sit down in our spots, which are next to each other.

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After school, we were free to do whatever we could find. If the Mistress was here, we'd either go back to our rooms, or we'd have to go and watch the girl's soccer game that goes on after school. Yeah, they do soccer in our school, but I'm not involved.

"So, what should we do?" I ask everyone who's here with us: Jamika, Maisley, Brinn, Gwen, Tara, and me. So everyone who was smoking in the treehouse that night.

"I don't know. Should we go back to the treehouse?" Brinn asks.

"I think we should since we'll have to get ready to leave tomorrow. What time is our flight?" Tara asks me.

"Cambry," A teacher says, stopping me.

"Yes?" I ask, confused.

"I was told to give this to you," She says while handing me two plane tickets and two passports.

"Thanks," I say, giving her a sweet smile. As she scurried away, I stared down at the tickets in my hands. I haven't been to Tasmania since I was 12. I don't know if I'm ready to go back or not. The last time I was there, it wasn't the best as a troublemaker, but I also had a shy side. My parents weren't home a lot. Has that changed? Have they missed me? Have they even thought of me?

"Hey, you coming?" Tara asks while nudging my shoulder.

I look up at her and nod my head slightly. She drags me with her to 'Our place' the place I feel safe. The place I felt loved. The place I felt comfortable and at ease.