Arctic Monkeys?

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I finally land at Heathrow and get a taxi to my family house. I wasn't really looking forward to this I know somehow my Dad will find something to argue about me. I pay the taxi driver and get my luggage out of the car. I look up to my old house, the one that I grew up in, the house that I used to play dolls in and the house that I got kicked out of.
I walk up to the white door ringing the bell, someone unlock it. I look up to see my cousin, Lucy. She hugs me so tight since I haven't seen her since I was around 14-15 years old.
"I've missed you so much" she says still clinging onto me.
"I've missed you to" I say taking my hands off her. She takes my bags and puts them just in the hallway. I look around to see all the family pictures gone just pictures of Mum and Dad. I go into the living room to see my Auntie and my Dad.
"Oh Blake it's so good to see you" my auntie runs up to me and hugs me so tight.
"It's good to see you to" we break the hug as I look over to my father.
"How have you been dad" I ask him taking a seat next to my auntie.
"Well my wife just died so no" he murmurs taking a sip of his beer.
"Good"I say to myself maybe a bit to loud. I see his face turn to me giving me a dirty look. I roll my eyes and grab my phone out of my pocket. I look on Instagram to find people added me, I add them back finding out it's Alex and Matt. "What are you doing for a living" I hear my dad ask. I shove my phone back into my pocket.
"I model for people" I say looking directly straight at him.
"I wanted you to be a lawyer"
"Well you weren't there half of the time so how was I supposed to know" I snapped back getting up from the settee. I walk into the kitchen getting myself a glass of water. I look over to see Lucy doing something "whatcha doing" I ask her taking a seat at the dining table next to her.
"Revision for an exam it'll see if I'm good enough to take it as a GCSE" she says still writing stuff down the the piece of paper.
"What's the subjects"  I ask her.
"Fashion and Design, art and design and technology"she says putting her pen down looking at me.
"I heated the mild arguing in the room just then what happened" I look up to her after fiddling with my fingers.
"Nothing much just me and dad just saying stuff" I take a sip of my water "I'm going to the shop you want anything" i get up and put the glass down into the empty sink bowl.
"Nah I'm okay" I put my coat on and start to make my way down the street. It's like old times going out with friends, stealing from the shop, then going down the park with bottles of cider or vodka.
I enter the shop walking up to the counter. "Blake Reeds?" The man behind the counter says.
"Harry Hughes" he nods getting up from his seat. "I thought you were going to Oxford".
"That didn't happened I failed my a levels so what do you want" I look behind him seeing the different types of cigarettes. "Surprise me" I say pointing towards the cabinet behind him.
"Sure" he grabs a random one and places it on the counter "£7 pounds please".
"£7 bloody pounds it use to be £4" He laughs reacting to my respond.
"Well it's 2011 what did you expect" I put the money on the counter and grab the packet.

I walk out of the corner shop, I take on out of the packet and light it. I look around to see everything is the same, all the houses are the same a it's giving me deja vu. I take a long drag walk up to my house, I sit on the bricked wall outside of the house.
"We are leaving in 30 minutes you might want to get changed" I hear a voice behind me, I look behind me to see Lucy in a straight black dress. "You look nice" I say to her taking the last drag of my cigarette, I squish it on the floor and throw it on the street.
"Thanks I'm going to get into the car" she gives me a small smile and makes her way to the car. I get inside, I go upstairs into my old room where my suitcases are. I get my black dress on and slip it on. I take my hair out of my messy bun and leave it wavy, I apply a small amount of makeup not to much.
"Blake hurry up will yer" I hear my dad shout from downstairs. I go downstairs to see my dad in a suit and my auntie in a nice black dress.
"Pull that dress down you look like a slut" he says grabbing the keys off the counter.
"Don't tell me what to do" I walk out of the house.
"Don't walk away from me" he shouts back at me walking out of the house.
"What like you did" I slam the door behind me, to find Lucy in the back next to me, with headphones in. She takes one out and passes it to me.
"Who are theses" I ask her listening to the music.
"Arctic Monkeys there from Sheffield" she says. I swear I heard that name before.

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