The Rich Orphan

Chapter 6

It was 10 o'clock and I was home. After five hours of traveling I arrived at Greenwood Cottage. However I still couldn't go in. I was waiting looking inside to my house through iron gates, I had the ancient key in my hand, but I couldn't move, my eyes just kept staring into the lonely house. This is ridiculous. I finally took a deep breath and slowly opened the old gates, I hadn't been here for years, nearly nine years. The iron used to always be polished, now they look brittle and unloved. Slowly I drove down the gravel drive, this wasn't my childhood home, it was my family's vacation home. We spent most of the few summers and winters here. It was a huge brick bungalow,  surrounded by ten acres of land with fields, myself, mother and sisters used to bring the horses down here and spent our time riding. See this is the thing, I had a family, my mother, my farther, two younger sisters and two older brothers. I started to feel my eyes fill with tears. "Not now, Eliza" I whispered, to myself. I used the old key to open the front door, the silence was eerie, I walked into the main room, and everything looked like it should have had a wooden kitchen, with a sturdy wooden table, there was then cosy leather sofas, with a huge fireplace. No TVs my parents had been very traditional with that. It ran my finger across the wooden worktop, it was covered in dust. I would have to clean the house. I walked into the hall, which was flooded with memories,  and my mothers faint perfume. I walked to the nearest door,  opened it, I smiled it was my youngest sister room, Georgina, her crib was still there, I carried on. I wanted to see every room I wanted to remember them. I went to the last room of the corridor, it was my Mum and Dad's room I held my hand on the door handle slowly I opened the door, I breathed in the floral smell of my mother's perfume. Walking towards, the bed I felt the cool cotton of the sheets, I didn't wan to sleep in my room, I undressed to tired to change into pajamas I just slept in my underwear knowing a new life laid ahead. 

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Noah's POV 

I was home and angrier than ever, the pack had returned home at midnight but I refused to stop looking, I only did when my Father ordered me home. I was angry and had nearly smashed my room to pieces. But the morning had come, but I refused to go to school. I stomped down the stairs and slumped onto the sofa, preparing myself for searching for Eliza. I was confident I was going to find her, I had gone to a cafe but then suddenly I lost  her scent completely, I had searched, the area to find her motorbike. Of course, she would switch vehicles when she could. I had gone into the cafe and the waitress had told me that a girl had come in offering her motorbike for a red one  outside, she had then walked outside with a boy, she thought they had swapped motorbikes. I had thanked her, angrily and left. How dare she go and talk to another man.  

After that I had spent all my time trying to find her only sleeping three hours a night. After a fortnight, my Father finally put his foot down, refusing to let me find her he sent me to school. The day I had returned I had been given stares, I probably looked terrible, I was in so much pain mentally from the loss of Eliza and physically from the loss of sleep. I was walking down the hallway towards my next class, Greg and Mark acting as my shield from other people. But I was interrupted by the shrill of Sophia. "Noah, Oh my God, where have you been." I was grabbed into a scratchy hug.  Greg and Mark started to pull Sophia off me they knew I would snap if I had to spend too time with her. And five seconds was too much. "Sophia, get off me. I'm fine." I hissed. Sophia did an automatic step back, she covered her shock quickly. "Ooh, I someone still a bit agressive." She whispered into my ear, snaking her arm round my neck.  "Leave me alone." I shouted. Pushing her back, luckily Mark was behind and catched her before she fell or she would have been knocked back to the side of the hall. She gasped. "This is not over, Noah, you will want me." She whispered, sauntering off.

"Noah, you idiot, Sophia, is now more angry, she'll turn you life into a living hell until she gets what she wants which is you." Mark grinned. "You don't think I know that." My thumb and index finger on the bridge of my nose. I stormed off, towards English. The day went slow and boring, everywhere I went everyone looked at me and was talking of me and Sophia. It made the day drag on longer, finally lunch came, I walked to the cafeteria to see Sophia with all my friends. What was she playing at? I stormed over to the table. But I stopped I wasn't in the mood to fight and create more problems, and drama instead I went and sat on one of the smaller tables. Mark and Greg came and sat with me. Gabby, started to move, but I warned her and she sat down reluctantly. I heard Greg sigh, of course he was upset he wasn't able to sit with his mate. "You can go and sit with her if you want" I mumbled "No don't worry, she'll be fine without me, she has Sophia." Greg joked. I just scoffed. I looked around at the tables, this was the first time I truly did and now I see what Eliza sees, we are the jocks and idiots and we live in our own little bubble, whilst we watch Sophia bully everyone. I glanced at Eliza's table, feeling deflated that she wasn't there, however where she usually sat was her friend, that girl Lydia. Lydia. Of course how could I have been so stupid, she would have said something to her. "I've- I've got to go" I muttered. Walking towards Lydia. She was absorbed in a book, that I had to cough for her to notice me. "Oh god." She whispered. "Look, Lydia, you know I'm looking for Eliza."