A Surprising Chalet School Girl
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#1: A Surprising Chalet School Girl Author: Michelle, Location: Near London PostPosted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 12:38 am

I hope this is okay for this forum. There are a couple of references that might be more St Hild's, but they're just passing references. I think it's a St Therese story, although it does have a St Clare's side to it... anyway, feel free to move if it's too St Hild's. It's set about 12 years ago, but I'm not sure how old various characters would be, so it's probably full of EBDisms



“But why?” said Dan.

Lisa sniffed and cuddled closer to him. “Because he’s my dad and that’s what he does.”

“But it’s stupid,” said Dan.

“You’re telling me,” said Lisa.

Dan’s voice was unsteady.“Is there no chance he’ll change his mind?”

“Why should he?” said Lisa. “He never changed his mind about anything before.”

“But Switzerland!” said Dan. “It’s on the other bl**** side of the world.”

Lisa almost smiled. Dan never had been any good at geography. But then she blinked back more tears as she realised it might as well have been on the other side of the universe.

“At least if they’d sent you somewhere in England,” said Dan, “or Scotland, or Wales, or maybe even Ireland, I could have come to see you.”

“You don’t have enough money,” said Lisa.

“I’d get a job, then,” said Dan.

Lisa srtoked his hair. “You’re only fourteen,” she reminded him gently.

“Well, I’d get an extra paper round, wouldn’t I?” said Dan. He sighed. “But Switzerland... At the... Shallow School?”

“The Chalet School,” said Lisa. “My mum went to there, and so did my auntie – my dad’s sister.”

Dan stared at her. “You never told me your mum lived in Switerland.”

“She didn’t,” said Lisa. “There used to be a branch in England.”

“Well, your mum didn’t get into university or nothing, did she?” said Dan. “So it can’t be a very good school. And your dad’s always going on about your grades...”

“Her grades were okay,” said Lisa. “She would have gone to the Sorbonne if she hadn’t married my dad.”

“The sore what? The sore bum?” Dan made a face. “Doesn’t sound so great to me.”

Lisa did smile then. “It’s a top university, Dan.”

“Well, it doesn’t sound like anywhere I’d want to go,” said Dan decisively. “So what are we going to do about this Switzerland rubbish, then?”

“I don’t think there’s anything we can do, really,” said Lisa. “Just – make the most of the time we’ve got.”

Dan thought about it. “Couldn’t you just not do any work and get expelled.”

“Then they’d probably send me to school in New Zealand,” said Lisa. She kissed him. “But you know I’d do it if I thought it would do any good.”

“I know you would,” said Dan. “But even if you could, well, you can’t mess up your chance to go to the Sore Bum just for me.”

“It is good for languages,” Lisa said unwillingly. “Well, my mum said they speak three languages a week. But I don’t care. I don’t want to talk any languages if I can’t talk them to you.”

“Well, how about I get a job in Switzerland?” said Dan. “Boys start work at fourteen in primitive countries. I’m sure I’ve read something about that.”

“Dan, I don’t think-“ Lisa broke off and looked at her watch. “I have to go soon. I have to try my new uniform on. It’s horrible. Really old-fashioned. And I’m not allowed to wear a bra until I’m sixteen. Can you imagine?”

“I’m imagining it right now,” said Dan. “Can I come and watch you try it on?”

“You know you can’t,” said Lisa. “And don’t say things like that. If my dad heard you, he’d never believe we weren’t having sex.”

“You’re dad’s mental,” said Dan. “We’re only fourteen. I’m sure it would be very nice and everything – well, kind of brilliant, actually, and I’d be lying if I said I’d never thought about it, and in some ways, it would be so completely worth the risk...”

Lisa wriggled away from him. “Dan! How can you think about that now?”

Dan came back down to earth again. “I wasn’t thinking about anything. It was just my hormones. Okay. Where were we?”

“Switzerland,” said Lisa. “Or rather, I will be.”

“Not if I can think of a plan,” said Dan. He hugged Lisa close. “Now, you’re supposed to be the brainy one of us two. You’re the one who’s in all the top sets. Hey. How about if I dress up as a teacher?”

“But your voice hasn’t broken yet,” Lisa reminded him. “You’d be better as a-“

“A what?” said Dan.



“Mary-Lou!”

“Christiane!”

“Wie geht’s?”

“Christiane!” scolded the girl called Mary-Lou. “It’s English day today – or have you forgotten?” Mary-Lou was very small with blonde hair and an appearance of delicacy, but she had clarion tones to wake the dead – or at least a sleep-walker.

“But Mary-Lou, it is not yet term,” said Christiane, nevertheless slipping into the desired language. “The rules have not yet started.”

“I know, but my aunt says it’s as well to get into the habit of using the rules right from the start,” Mary-Lou said severely. “Besides, you know you need all the practice you can get.

“Yes, that I know well,” Christiane sighed. She envied Mary-Lou’s easy fluency between the languages. Christiane was, or so it seemed to her, one of the few girls in the Chalet School whose mother hadn’t been a pupil there. But she was too excited about being back at school to be despondent for long. “So how, then, was your holiday?

“Mary-Lou!” A third girl joined them. “Guten Tag, Christiane. Have you reported to my mum yet?”

“Rebecca Richardson, you know you mustn’t call her that in term time,” said Mary-Lou.

“It’s not term time yet,” said Rebecca with a smile. She knew her Mary-Lou.

“I was thinking just that,” said Christiane, “but Mary-Lou, she say I must my English practise.”

Rebecca laughed. “Isn’t that just like our Mary-Lou?”

“I wonder whether there’ll be any new girls this term,” Mary-Lou said thoughtfully.

“But they take people not often during the Easter term,” said Christiane. “And we are nearly fifteen years. They take not many pupils of nearly fifteen.”

“But there are going to be some!” Rebecca was thrilled to know something before Mary-Lou. “Mum says there are going to be three new girls.”

Mary-Lou looked confused. “But Auntie Jo said nothing...”

Rebecca stopped smiling. “They haven’t told her yet. They don’t want to tell her until they’re sure she’s up to having parties. She’s not young you know, Mary-Lou.”

“But she’s Auntie Jo,” said Mary-Lou. “She is the Chalet School. I’m going to ask Auntie Len for permission to phone her as soon as we get to school.”

“She won’t let you,” said Rebecca. “And,” she added, not without a smile of satisfaction, “you’re not supposed to call her Auntie Len in term time.”

 

#2:  Author: Chelsea, Location: Your Imagination PostPosted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 4:53 am

Ohh...interesting. I'm trying to work out who everone is.

 

#3: Re: A Surprising Chalet School Girl Author: LizB, Location: Oxon, England PostPosted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 8:02 am

Michelle wrote:
At the... Shallow School?”


ROFL ROFL ROFL

Thanks, Michelle

 

#4:  Author: Vikki, Location: Sitting on an iceberg, freezing to death!!! PostPosted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 10:28 am

Lovely! Laughing
Thanks Michelle.
I'm assuming that Mary-Lou is Verity's daughter?

 

#5:  Author: aitchemelle, Location: West Sussex PostPosted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 11:23 am

Thank you Michelle!
Another one her pieceing (sp?) everyone together! Laughing

 

#6:  Author: Chair, Location: Rochester, Kent PostPosted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 11:31 am

Thanks, Michelle. This is really great to read. I am enjoying reading all about the characters already and I look forward to more.

 

#7:  Author: Alice, Location: London, England PostPosted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 11:59 am

Thanks Michelle. Looking forward to some more.

 

#8:  Author: Jennie, Location: Cambridgeshire PostPosted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 12:31 pm

Thanks, Michelle, this looks interesting.

I wonder just how much damage is done by the girls not being allowed to wear a bra until they're sixteen?

 

#9:  Author: Alex, Location: Cambs, UK PostPosted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 3:37 pm

I don't know about damage but it can't have been very comfortable!

My brother also calls it the Shallow School, so very amused by that comment from Dan.

Thanks, Michelle.

 

#10:  Author: Rosy, Location: Gloucestershire-London-Aberystwyth PostPosted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 9:49 pm

Oooh. This looks interesting. Look forward to some more!

 

#11:  Author: Joan the Dwarf, Location: Er, where am I? PostPosted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 11:21 pm

So...

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What *do* they wear?

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And is this Odette's child?

 

#12:  Author: francesn, Location: away with the faeries PostPosted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 12:18 pm

I'm trying to work out who everyone is!

Thanks Michelle, this certainly looks interesting.

 

#13:  Author: RroseSelavy, Location: Oxford, UK PostPosted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 1:17 pm

Jennie wrote:
I wonder just how much damage is done by the girls not being allowed to wear a bra until they're sixteen?


Games lessons without a bra - ouch! Or did things like Liberty bodices have, ahem, support?

This looks like being a fun drabble - looking forward to what happens next...

 

#14:  Author: Squirrel, Location: St-Andrews or Dunfermline PostPosted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 1:40 pm

Looking good Michelle, Interested to see how it's going to go.

 

#15:  Author: Le Petite Em, Location: Cheltenham PostPosted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 3:25 pm

This looks great Michelle, can't wait to see more!! Very Happy

 

#16:  Author: Chalet_school_lover, Location: Gloucester PostPosted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 7:10 pm

This is great! Laughing I can't stop giggling! Especially at the 'shallow school' comment! No bra until 16?! Shocked Thanks Michelle, I'm looking forward to more of this! Very Happy

 

#17:  Author: Jennie, Location: Cambridgeshire PostPosted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 7:29 pm

To answer Rroseselavy, no liberty bodices didn't give support. They were constrictive, and the most inaptly-named things anyone ever had the misfortune to wear. Once a child was fastened into one of those things, it was goodbye to free movement. Especially worn over a Chilprufe woolly vest with sleeves. A developing bust would have been squashed out of existence before it had a chance to grow.

 

#18:  Author: Mrs Redboots, Location: London, UK PostPosted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 6:55 pm

Great start - am already looking forward to more.... more..... more..... please!

 

#19:  Author: LL, Location: madpanicaaaarghmove, London PostPosted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 1:48 pm

oooh I love this Michelle! Very Happy

 

#20:  Author: Cazx, Location: Swansea/Bristol PostPosted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 7:03 pm

This is really amusing, please post more soon!

 

#21:  Author: JoS, Location: South Africa PostPosted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 10:05 pm

this looks like fun - more please...

 

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