All the students were going to be sent home for Christmas Eve. The bed-rooms, the corridors, the grounds... all the school was bubbling with enthusiasm. Not only for the break, but for the end of term party. The second form had formed a band for the Yule Ball, but before that, the third grade had prepared a pantomime. Parents and friends had been invited too. Rupert went for Lucy.
It was really late when the parents left and it took a while for the school to quieten down at last. Whispers and laughs coming from the shared bed-rooms. A door silently opened. Careful feet going downstairs. The back window of the kitchen never closed well. Rupert was waiting.
"I'll come back the day after tomorrow" Lucy said between kisses, "they give me a pass just for Christmas Day."
"I'll be with my parents."
"How long?"
"A week."
Rupert kissed her. A really good kiss.
"Then we need a lot of memories to keep going until we see each other again."
"We have all night, Rupert."
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