Julie was perfect. She was smart, popular and pretty.

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        Julie was perfect.  She was smart, popular and pretty.  Her naturally blonde hair was professionally styled at least once a week and her size eight figure was always gloved in designer labels heard of only in magazines, brought for her on Daddy’s credit card.  She was involved within the school teams and clubs, including gymnastics and dance, as well as all of the social clubs and school politics.

        Jen was far from this.  She was what would be referred to as “bad”.  Her dyed black hair that was worn so that half of her face could not be seen and she always wore uniform black.  She was the kind of person that rarely made an appearance at school, let alone at anything extra curricular.  She spent her entire life drinking, smoking and getting “high”.

        Dom would have called himself one of the cool guys but everyone else would have called him a jock.  He was captain of the football team and head of his gang.  They were all members of the football team and spent their free time taunting or punching one another mindlessly.  When he was away from his gang, he spent his time acting too cool for anyone else.

        Brian was one of the cleaver ones.  He was a straight A student who enjoyed extra curricular activities like science and chess club.  The only thing that he was not good at was sport.  Whatever he tried, he looked gawky and awkward.  Everyone saw him as a “geek” or a “nerd” and I suppose the fact that he wore trousers that were slightly too short for him and glasses didn’t help.

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        These four people had nothing in common apart from the fact that they had to share a chalet on a skiing holiday organised by the school.  There had been a mix up with numbers meaning that none of them could share with their friends.  There was no television or radio and no one was to leave their chalet after eight in the evening unless there was an activity.

        After the first day of skiing, neither Julie, Dom nor Brian wanted to leave their friends.  Jen, who had no friends that had come on the holiday, was busy having ...

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