Rain was lashing down, drumming againts the windows, time just ticking away in the early hours of the morning as a young teenage girl lay in her bed dreading the return to school after summer break, a new school, teacher and class, it could only end badly, it always did. Unique lay in her bed staring at the ceilings patterns as it starts to move and twist, almost like it was alive, forming familiar shapes of creepy black insects crawling over each other with their hundreds of legs and spikes across their backs, as Uni stares at the ceiling more intensely she can almost see them begin to bite and stab each other in frustration, slowly making their way down the walls over flowing into the rest of the room, almost like a portal from another world, Uni shakes the image from her mind and hides beneath her quilt telling herself its in her head, but this was not the first time she had experienced this strange daydream. Uni tightly shuts her eyes in hope to get a few hours sleep, but after what only seams like minutes she hears her mothers voice screaming out from the hallway, "Unique come quickly, my waters have broke! Go wake your nan" Uni rushes out of bed to see her mother In the hallway clutching her very large stomach, legs straggled apart, breathing deeply and holding on to her night bag so tight her knuckles had turned white. Her step dad was putting on a top the wrong way and fumbling for his car keys. "Nan, Nan wake up mums gone into labour!" Explained Uni as she bursts into her Nan's room "Can we go too? I dont want to stay here". As she heard her mothers screams coming from downstairs. "Unique you can't go its three In the morning and you have first day of school in a few hours, we will stay here and you can meet your new lil sister tomorrow" calmly explained Nan "Ring us straight away with any news" she shouted to Uni's mum as she got into the car. Uni and her Nan return inside and Uni climbs back into her now cold bed, to try once again to get some sleep but seams though all this excitement is making it impossible, eventually she drifts of to sleep with only a few hours before the morning call.
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"Unique its time to get up for school, ill give you a lift in if you get up now" Came Nan's voice from the hallway, "buttt Naaaannnn im tired, I didn't get much sleep" Grumbled Uni as she pulled her fluffy blanket over her head, "neither did I but I've still got to get up and so do you, now get up!" Shouted Nan as she entered the room, Uni tightly clung to her quilt as she felt her Nan try to pull it away "Come on Unique the quicker you get to school the quicker you can go meet your new lil sister" softly explained Nan in a hope this would motivate Uni into getting up, which of course it did, "Fine, ill get up" Mumbled Uni as she dragged herself out of bed she thought to herself this is going to be a long first day, looking across to the little purple sofa she see's her new uniform laid out, all nicely folded and ironed, along side it is brown hair dye waiting to be used on Uni hair as she did every three months, a strange promise she keeps with her Nan, which she's yet to discover the reason to this madness. After a hour of getting ready and a 10 minute drive, Unique was finally arriving for her first day of year 9, she was starting to feel the butterflys fluttering inside her stomach, as she walked closer towards the school with its tall modern buildings and large open fields, theres a paddock in the distance with horses grazing on the the green grass, a swimming pool in the gym connecting to the school, everything looks so plesent and peaceful, Uni starts to feel relaxed only to turn the corner to meet a familiar face of her previouse school Bully Hayley Lockhart and all her friends standing in the archway to the school, Uni goes to turn away when Hayley grabs her hair, "Where you going smackhead?!" Snarly says Hayley, her gang laughing along, "Look at you with your pale skin and bags under your eyes, I wouldnt be surprised if your a slag too". As she turns Unique around and pushes her to the ground and starts kicking her, "Leave me alone" cried out Uni "Ive done nothing to you, im not a smackhead" Hayley continues to kick Unique and her friends begin to join in, laughing and calling out names, "Please leave me alone, stop kicking me! Stop f**king kicking me!" Uni began getting angry, she clenched her fists tightly in frustration, and could feel her blood starting to boil, as she was about to pick herself up and try defend herself, her hair started to glow and it was getting brighter, Hayley and her friends started to back away in shock and asstonishment, at that moment Diesal, Unique's boyfriend, and his mate Morgan come round the corner they see Uni laying on the floor surrounded by her bullies. "Hayley leave her alone" he shouts as he runs to Uni's aid her hair returns to normal, picking her up onto her feet, Hayley and her friends cpstarting wispering between them about Uni's hair, Diesal and Morgan lead Uni of towards the girls toilets, so she can clean herself up, "thank you, Diesal" weakly wispered Uni as she entered the bathroom. Looking into the mirror Uni stared into her reflection, disgusted by what she could see, the shallow eyes, the pale skin, "no wonder people called me a smackhead I do look that way" she though to herself "im disgusting, I dont even see what Diesal sees in me?" She begins to wipe away the dirt and tear stains under her eyes, fixes her hair and regains her composure before facing the rest of the school day, only ten minutes in and already a bad start.
