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deliberate move on Alex’s behalf. Alex knew that if Sarah went to school in Blackwater, she would have the same problems and the same unwanted attention she suffered. Alex understood at an early age that most of her friends were gained purely for whom she was and not her as a person, and always felt she missed out on real friendships over it. She had Sarah shipped off out of town deliberately to stimulate her personality if nothing else, in the hope she would turn out better than her; and in many ways, Alex thought she already was. She sighed as she fumbled around in her seat, tapping her pedals softly as her trainers squeaked and slipped from the custom metal.
    She watched inquisitively as the parents huddled outside in packs like wolves, gossiping like hens and discussing their partners; the people that lived next door and whatever nonsense that had touched their boring and mundane lives that day. Alex never even thought about the mother thing before Sarah, she wasn’t very maternal; but she managed to slip into the role and adapt very quickly.
    The reasons as to why she avoided being a mother stood before her in the street, the instant so-called bond and common ground that made strangers randomly talk to each other like they had been friends for years. As snobby as it was, Alex had no common ground with these gossips and strays, and she always kept them at arm’s length.
    She checked out the single dads as they stood in their own little crowd, rating them on her ridiculously high scale of zero to ten on just mere looks alone. Alex was pretty shallow when it came to men, promiscuous and often had a man on her face for recreational reasons, but that was as far as it went. She had a long string of failures just like any other girl, but it was made all the more pitiful after each and every one.
    One father in particular always had her eye, he was her typical type, tall; dark; handsome and older; but he always gave her a smile through the window and he constantly stood alone. He was standing there as he usually was, reading from the same book and hardly noticing the conversing world around him. Today, it would seem, his book had him completely enthralled and he hadn’t noticed her yet. Alex simply sat there staring at him, intensely and psychically sending him blasts of thoughts in the hope that he would look up; but he never did. She slumped back in her seat for a moment or two, looking for a way of grabbing his attention without looking too eager, aside from blatantly leaning out of her window and waving, she hadn’t a clue. Suddenly, she leant forward, pressing her horn and grabbed the attention of every person in the street with insane desperation, waving like a fool to a random woman as the vile pack of parents scowled back at her. The random woman waved back with uncertainty and Alex hid behind a false grin, sneakily turning to her man on the side of the road. As expected, the guy smiled and winked at her as her stomach instantly fell in nervousness, smiling back at him coyly and biting the side of her lip with satisfaction. Suddenly, there was a crack of thunder which instantly stole their moment, the man retreating away and finding shelter within the schools main building.
    Alex grumpily leant over the steering wheel and peered into the sky, the grey and meek clouds hovering like bad news. Suddenly, a few drops of rain hit her windscreen and she frowned scornfully as nature dealt her a piece of crap luck. She watched intensely as the darkness slowly dropped over the sky, like a fog of despair as more rain patted on her windscreen. Alex grumbled, slipping further into a weather triggered sulk as the Heavens slowly opened above, scowling as the wolves outside continued to natter.
    Suddenly, the school bell went off like a fire alarm and a hundred children spilled out into the yard, all cheering and playing without a care in the world. Alex merely watched as she did every day, the insane mothers chasing and shouting