The Education  Chapter One

Based very loosely around, more like inspired by, a German movie I saw recently. It’s a first chapter of several. School having started again i am uncertain as to how soon I can get the next chapter up. I said i wouldn’t post chapter one until I had at least three done, but I need to shut some wonderfully adamant fans up and remind them that I can in fact still write. Toodles, Nr

The heels clicked, the scent wafted and time stopped, as Bette Porter entered the doors to her gallery, located only a short drive from her WeHo residence. Immediately, James, her assistant, the most loyal of kinds, grabbed her slim Italian leather-bound briefcase and laptop, before handing the brunette her second coffee of the morning. It was a good day today. Coffee in hand, Bette made her way slowly to her office, glancing around the entrance and walls of her gallery, looking for both signs of last Friday’s show-opening and a failure to remove said show-opening’s debris. She was satisfied as she arrived at the door to her office.

Placing the coffee on the modern-style mahogany desk, she eased her back into the softly lined reclining chair. Her potential sponsors secured for another year, she was enjoying the freedom of calm that usually came at this time.

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Across town, a scruffy blonde, dressed in faded ripped jeans ran frantically around a large period house, turned modern day-care centre. Shrugging her infamously shabby and equally itchy cat-cardigan up on her shoulder, she prepared for her day. It was destined to be a long one. The thirty odd children she looked after and taught on a daily basis were to start arriving in the next half hour.

Alice, her wonderfully entertaining, but somewhat child-endangering co-worker was once again late, and Tina Kennard, was left to set up the morning table for the children on her own, preparing many a cup of steaming hot chocolate and bananas for the sure-to-be-hungry children. She did enjoy her work, but somehow Tina’s life had come to a strange decline in activity, love and excitement.

However soon enough that was all to change.

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