I live in England and my dad lives in New York. It was decided. I was going to get on a plane, find my dad and bring him back to England so that he can live here with us. "What you thinking Emily dear?" Mum was asking me. "Nothing." I lied. I obviously couldn't tell her because if I did she would stop me right there. She waited so many years in the hope that one day he would come back for us. But he hasn't and she pulled all this back and is trying to be a very supportive mum for me. "I was just daydreaming." Another lie I told. "Exactly when are we leaving?" I wanted to know. "In a weeks time." Mum told me. "Perfect." I said excitingly. In a weeks time when we are going to leave that is when I'll go to New York. "What" Mum said curiously. "Nothing, I said nothing." I said and rushed back upstairs to my bedroom where I started my homework...
4 Days Till Escape
I woke up and turned my head to look at the time. It was 7:10. I also noticed my homework which was completed. "I better get dressed quickly." I said hurrying. I got out of the bath and put my clothes on. Then I came downstairs to eat breakfast. Mum was making bread and frying bacon. "Here you go sweetie." Mum said kindly as she handed me a bacon sandwich on a plate. "Thanks Mum" I replied back. She had forgotten about yesterday completely. I didn't remind her anything because she might become suspicious. I shoved the rest of the sandwich in my mouth and got up from the table. "Bye mum I'm going school." I told her.. "Bye Emily." Mum said....
I had double English first. "Did you do the homework?" Mr Harely asked me with a smile on his face. "Yes here you go." I said giving my homework in. "Very good." He said taking a quick look at my answers. "Thanks." I said. In lesson we were moving on to poetry. We had to write our own poem and use poetic devices. The lesson went by in no time. It was break and I went to my usual place the canteen where I met my friends. "Hi." Annaliese said. "Hey." Chelsea said. "Hi. Guys I have something to tell you." I began slowly. "What it it?" Chelsea said worryingly. "Tell us." Annaliese went on. "Well you know my mums job includesme moving well-" I was soon cut off. "Don't tell me your moving school." Annaliese said angrily. Chelsea was backing her up. "You can't." Chelsea said sadly. "I'm moving next week." I informed them. "But I still can't believe this." They told me. "Well it's true." I said unhappily. "But I'm still here." I said reassuringly. "Yeah and your going in one week not now." Annaliese said calmly.
We walked off linking each others arms. Me in the middle. "It's so cold." Chelsea said shivering. "I think it's going to snow soon that's why." Annaliese said. She always had a reason for why things were happening. That's what I loved about her. "Tell me about it. On the first day of term when I woke up the sky was grey and boring." I said.
20 Minutes Later
I now had RE with Miss Patterson. She was quite old to be a teacher and this was one of the reasons why people made fun of her. I never did. It was mainly the boys in my year who did. We were learning about Christianity. I myself was Christian so I didn't really have a problem answering questions. Since break i've been thinking about my plan to escape from the airport. How was I going to get money to pay for my trip. How would I escape from my mum without her noticing. These were the questions I was thinking about.
2 Hours Later
School finished ages ago. As soon as I walked in the door I said "Hi mum." and rushed upstairs. I quickly had a shower, did my hair then went back downstairs. "Honey where are you going?" Mum asked. "Out." I told her. She didn't ask more then that so I made my move. "Bye." I said. I was trying to think of a way to get money..... THINK! I have an idea. But it's really crazy. I saw some shops ahead of me. Ok I know stealing is bad but it's the only option I have right now. All I have to do is go to the till and grab some money. Come on I can do it! I walked up to the till. People in the line were looking at me weirdly. I carried on anyway. I reached to the till. "Move aside." I told the nice man at the till. Strangely he followed my order. I opened the till and started to grab the money. The man grabbed my hand to stop me from taking all the money. Now he knew what my intentions were. I pushed him to the side. I grabbed as many notes as I could, stuffed the money in my pockets and ran over the till. He got up. "Stop right there." He said. "Thief! I'm calling police." He shouted at me. Then he began chasing me. So I started running even faster. I was away from him but I could still see him. He was calling the police. I ran straight all the way home. When I reached I was completely out of breath.
I opened the door and hurried inside. "Emily are you alright?" Mum asked me worried. "Yeah I'm ok."I said. "DInners ready want to eat?" Mum asked me. "Sure." I said. I didn't really talk much to my mum. I ate my food and went upstairs saying I had homework that needed to be done. But really I had no homework. I went on the computer to search a map of New York. Before my dad left my house he told me where he would be staying if ever we came to New York. I still remember his exact words. "If your ever in New York look me up kiddo." He said to me. The place where he's staying is Brooklyn. Oh my god. I just remembered that I still have money in my pockets. Where shall I put this? It needs to be somewhere mum won't look. She can't find this at all. Where is a good hiding place? These thoughts rung through my mind. Where would I put it? THINK! I got up from my chair and went over to my cupboard where it was filled with clothes. I opened the second drawer, picked up my neatly folded t-shirt and jeans and stashed the money at the bottom. Then I put the clothes back on top of it to cover the money up. There. That should be a suitable place to keep it. Hopefully mum won't ever look there otherwise i'm screwed. I went back to the computer. I searched for bus routes in New York. I already knew the road and door number. The only hard bit was how was I going to get there.
3 Days Till Escape
I was so happy that I had one week to move. But now the days were moving faster then I had thought. It was lunch time at school here. I needed to tell my friends about my escape. "Um guys I have to tell you something." I began. "Well you know i'm moving yeah?" I said. "Yeah carry on." They said wanting to know. "And you know I told you about my dad in New York well when me and my mum are in the airport i'm gonna sneak on to a plane to go to New York." I finished. "Ok but why?" They said strangely. "Because I want my dad back. I want to be a normal family again. And since my dad's gone my mum isn't really happy anymore." I explained. "Well we're just glad that you trusted us so much to tell us this." Annaliese said. Chelsea agreed.
