Queen of the May Pt Four

By Jacquimac
Thanks To Stanman63 For Editing!!

Synopsis:After suffering from an accident, a young man learns that he has been voted to be the Queen of the May by his fellow students.

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Wednesday morning arrived and I woke up at 6:30A.M. to get ready for school. Today I was to join the gymslip brigade. Oh boy! I could hardly wait! Mum dressed me in my new school uniform, except for the cold round the legs, it was pretty comfortable.

After breakfast, Mum drove us to the school and I was quickly dragged away by a posse of the bigger girls into the warmth of the school. I was taken to the headmasters office where he welcomed me back. I was told I would be excused from Morning Assembly, just to go to my classroom. I was also reminded that I had to use the girls facilities.

I had been given a locker in the girls locker room where I could keep everything instead of my usual practice of carrying everything round all day. That made things a lot easier as crutches and a pile of books don`t mix very well. I finally got to the classroom just as assembly was starting and found an empty desk at the back of room. it would be about 20 minutes before everyone else arrived.

Eventually the rest of the class started to arrive and take their seats, Ms Platt came in shut the door and said hello to the class as she did every morning. As soon as she saw me sitting at the back, she had me move nearer the front on the girls side of room. The boy that sat at the desk in front of me grabbed my books and bag and moved it to an empty desk while I hobbled over.

Class then started with the calling of register, as it was the last week of term there wasn't a lot to do, all exams had been done the week before which I knew as they brought the exam papers to the hospital for me to complete.

When she got my name on the register she stopped a said I needed another name as Jack wasn't a girls name.

I protested, "I am not a girl!"

"For next for few months I was."

"Well, I don't have a girl's name," I huffed.

"Class, we need a girl's name for our new girl. Please help her to come up with one."

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Eventually the blackboard was full of names to pick from, it was decided that my first name was Jacqueline as that was similar to Jack which left a middle name so they started through the names crossing out ones that didn't get a big enough show of hands. I ended up as Jacqueline Marie McConnell instead of simply Jack McConnell. Of course the headmaster was informed and he announced over the school tannoy system so it wouldn't belong before it got around the village.

The weather service announced a snow storm over the next few hours, so the headmaster got us all into the Assembly Hall and told us that just in case it was a really bad storm, he was closing the school at lunch time until after Christmas and that parents were being notified so that those that required transport wouldn't be hanging around waiting.

Well, that certainly got a cheer form everyone, an extra week off school. After the announcement, I was taken by Ms Platt to the headmasters office where a meeting was being held with the Student Council. Oh good! I wanted to speak to that bunch.

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Before I could get a word in, Kathy the leader said "Before you start to say anything, I`ll tell you why you were picked for Queen of May: 1) Your the most popular kid in the village, 2) You help anyone that needs it when and if your able, 3) You were the only choice from all the kids, 4) Your size, build and looks scream girl, 5) We didn't want you to be left out of the festival and being Queen was the only thing that didn't require much physical effort, 6) We talked to your family, they agreed with everything, so you don`t have a choice."

I sat there like a fish out of water after hearing her.

She came over and put her arm around me and said, "Don`t worry, everyone will help and if anybody started teasing or anything, they would be taken care of."

After that, I saw I that didn't have a choice, so surrendered to the inevitable. So Jacqueline Marie McConnell was born.

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At lunch time, I waited until most of kids had left in case I got knocked down in the rush, then went with my brothers went looking for Mum's car. When we got home and had lunch, the board games came out that afternoon. Although there was the usual arguments, it was pretty quiet.

During the night, a lot of snow fell and the roads were blocked, it would take some time before the snowplows got round to clearing the villages. Dad and the boys went and joined the other men and boys to clear the footpaths, especially around the homes of elderly or disabled.

After I was dressed and had breakfast, Mum got out her knitting and sewing bags when a couple of the woman who lived nearby arrived with their knitting and sewing bags. After they had a cup of tea, they started to teach me to sew during the morning and knit in the afternoon, this went on for the rest of week.

By the weekend, the snowplows finally cleared the roads in and around the village so people could get out and about a bit more. I didn't get out much, but with the exercises I had to do, my legs were starting to get stronger. But I was kept busy helping with the housework. It had been decided that I would help mum with the housework as well knitting and sewing lessons

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End Of Part Four

To Be Continued In Part Five