Miss Adams smiled at the pretty young girl.

"Corrina, what is your favourite color?"

"Aqua green"

"Hmmm", Miss Adams nodded, she seemed to be making notes in the margin next to Corrina's name, in a note book. Corrina, it seemed, had an entire page to herself.

"You get on well with your Mum and Dad? Daddy's girl or Mummy's girl?"

Corrina was baffled at first but then said "both".

"Good answer."

Corinna could not make out the words being written in the notebook, but if she could she would see Miss Adams had just written Mummy's Girl in the margin.

"Have you ever had any boyfriends?" Miss Adams asked this quite innocently. Corrina looked uncomfortable. She looked down shyly.

"Out with it, girl!" Miss Adams demanded, in a voice that was domineering and firm.

"No, ma'am."

"Really?" Miss Adams seemed surprised.

"None, ma'am."

"That's a shame. Pretty girl like you can have any boy she chooses." She ended that with a wry smile at the teenager.

Miss Adams then cleverly aleviated any suspicions Corrina might have about the line of questioning by asking her whether she enjoyed her original school.

"I liked it, I had some good friends there, Sarah, Stacey, and Kate. They were real cool and the place had a good atmosphere. I like this place too, though...it seems a really exciting school." Corrina grew in confidence as she reached the end of that particular sentence, and that led her to let her guard down. She did not see Miss Adams writing in her notebook:

No boyfriends but very close to girls

"Corrina, do you like our school uniform?" Miss Adams asked matter of factly.

Corrina was unsure what to say.

"Out with it!" Miss Adams again spoke in that dominating, powerful voice, to which Corrina immediately answered.

"I like it, ma'am. It is very smart and respectable." Corrina said, hoping she had said what Miss Adams wanted to hear. She wanted this interview to end, but Miss Adams seemed to be enjoying it.

"Smart, yes..." Miss Adams eyed Corrina up and down, her eyes scanning the girl's body. "...but I honestly don't think it is respectable, girl's uniforms are not meant to be "respectable", but you are probably too naive to understand that. But you fit it better than most girls, certainly better than the stick insects and fatties." Miss Adams laughed, and Corrina forced herself to smile and fake laugh with the teacher.

Miss Adams then suddenly looked straight into Corrina's eyes with a serious stare. She spoke again in that dominant tone...

"Are you a good girl?"

"Yes, ma'am."

"Good."

"Well, Corrina, you have made a positive impression on me, which I hope you will make every effort to sustain, because you do not want to be in my Naughty Book." Miss Adams pointed to an unassuming brown, leather covered book on her desk.

"Well, back to your desk, Corrina."
The teenager made her way back and sat down, Miss Adams smiled as she watched the cute little youngster sit down.

A lot of See Me's in your workbook, little Miss Gladstein the teacher muttered to herself.

Miss Adams begun the maths lesson...