Chapter 14: A Visit From the President

Carol burst into Katrina’s bedroom unable to contain herself.

“You’ve done it! You’ve done it!” she was shouting.

Katrina sat up in her bed and rubbed her eyes. What was this raving, lunatic of a girl shouting about.

“What have I done?” she mumbled quietly.

Carol shoved a piece of paper under Katrina’s nose.

“Read this” said Carol in a slightly less excited tone.

“You read it to me” said a naked but still sleepy Katrina Jones.

“It says here” carried on Carol, “that the Executive Council of BSC have reconsidered the Full Proposal as set forth by Katrina Jones, a student at BSC, and have decided to give the four proposals she set out official sanction for a trial period of six months. The proposals will be re-evaluated after that time.”

Katrina was suddenly wide awake.

“What!? When did this happen? And how come you know about it and not me?” asked Katrina.

Carol replied, “It is my job to email and/or post out all Executive Council Correspondence. I found this in the pile of stuff I was given. It shouldn’t have actually been there and I shouldn’t be showing you but I just couldn’t help myself. You’ve won, Katrina, You’ve won. Well for six months at least anyway.”

Before Katrina could really take all this in a shadow appeared in the entrance-way to her room. Katrina looked up and couldn’t believe what she was seeing. It was a nude Eleanor Grimes Ferguson in person and asking if she could come in. Katrina thought this could only mean bad news. She was probably here to personally boot her out of Blanke Schande College but she couldn’t have been more wrong.

Eleanor came in and placed her naked frame on a chair that sat in the corner.

“I am here for three reasons, Miss Jones” began Eleanor in her usual succinct fashion. “Firstly, I am here to congratulate you. Secondly, I am here to apologize to you. Thirdly I am here to explain things to you. I also take great pride in having a personal knowledge of all my students and I wanted to personally talk to you about all that has happened. Unfortunately my time schedule is so tight at present that this early hour is the only time I could see you before word spread of this latest Executive decision. However, I see clearly that someone else has already beaten me to you.”