The Importance of a Secret

When school resumes, every lesson starts with a lecture about how academically crucial this term is. The exams coming up are of critical significance for our final year and will determine what places we might be able to secure at university. I'm in Italy, but don't get very far. Everyone wants to talk about Glastonbury. Who's going? Who's got a tent? Which bands are playing? I lie back and stare up at the pale, cloudless sky and let them get on with it. They can jump ahead, but I'm quite happy losing myself in thoughts of last weekend. Nick is speculating about which girls from our year group might be going to the festival. A