By lunchtime I wasn't mad at Mandy anymore for making sure that I fell into Patrick's arms. Partly there were more pressing matters for me to focus on, but mainly she was still my ride home, and there was no way I was walking. As I have told my mother a hundred times before – being allergic to exercise was an actual medical condition!

My relatively good mood was also helped by the fact that my first day of school wasn't nearly as bad as what I thought it would have been. All in all it was very much the same as the previous year. Nothing much had changed apart...