A New Start.

Chapter.3 Harri's POV parts 1 & 2

Chapter.3 Harri's POV part 1

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"It's Harri. Aiden please answer the phone, I really need to talk to you... i i'm sorry." Wiping a tear as the call ended.

"Harriet! Hurry up and get in." I could hear my uncle calling me from the car, he sounded annoyed but i wasn't going out like this.

 I pulled my skirt up higher and unbuttoned my shirt a little more, i knew it would drive Michael insane but that was the plan. I know i shouldn't do this to him, not after everything he's done for me but it's the only little bit of fun i get now; watching him get mad.

"I'm  sorry but i'm going to be late in tonight as there's a lot of paper work that needs doing and there's someone i need to go and see. Will you be alright on your own?" He added, surely he knows this just means party right? 

On top of being home late he's giving me money ha ha nice one. I'm dreading going today i haven't been to school in just over a year and now i'm being expected to just start it all over again as if everything that's happened is normal? It's getting harder and harder to breathe the closer we get, the car feels like it's all caving in on me, i just need to get out.

"What the hell are you doing!" I can here Michael shouting after me, he sounded worried though it's more likely because he thought he was going to crash.

"I just need some air. I'll see you inside, bye." I say quickly closing the door to avoid anything else he may have to say.

As i walked through the front doors of the school i could see little groups of students everywhere, the popular ones, the nerdy ones and all the other types. I couldn't help but question what it would be like to be one of them just for a little while anyway. I attempted to make my way towards the office but ended up going in the complete opposite direction so i had to ask some guy for the direction of it, he seemed alright but like he was else where when i asked him. He told me his name was Jack McAllister, he's attractive i guess if that sort of school boy look's your thing. 

When i finally found the office i was told that i couldn't just be given my timetable because Michael, or Mr Byrne as i have to call him while i'm here, had to go over some things with me. It felt like i was in there for like forever, i heard the door open thinking it was Mr Byrne i turned much to mine and i think Sonya's surprise it was a stern looking woman followed by who i guess are her children, two lads and a girl. 

God i hoped they hadn't seen me looking, i wasn't in the mood for an awkward conversation trying to explain myself. I could see them out the corner of my eye, i guessed one of the sons and the girl where around the same age as me about 17 or 18 and the younger son was a bit younger. Their mam was giving them a talk about how they had to keep their heads down and stay out of trouble, ha ha didn't that found familiar. 

"Sorry are you studying us for an exam or you just dazzled." The woman snapped at a extremely startled Sonya, i did feel for her though because even i jumped at the comment. 

Luckily right at that moment Michael Byrne walked in asking, who turned out to be Mrs Barry, to come into his office leaving Sonya and myself alone once again. There's something about that family that just stays with you, i can't tell if it's a good thing or a bad thing, all i know is that there's something in intriguing about them. 

Harri's POV part 2.

Putting me in the P.R.U what a joke! Let me guess were going to have some strict no nonsense teacher who doesn't know how to have a laugh and everyone in there are going to be the kids no one wants to teach for one reason or another. A new start he said, what a load of crap that was, i'm getting punished before they've even given me a change to screw up! I'm not the only one joining the P.R.U today though the two Barry boys are to, i sit with them as well as another student right within the teachers view great one ay. Michael has something against the Barry's but i don't know what or why, they seem alright to me but i guess i don't really know them? Though it sounds stupid i find there's an odd sense of comfort in hearing a familiar accent ha ha. 

Okay well it turns out there's actually two Barry sisters and then the one brother! The youngest Kacey Barry, she's a girl i feel so stupid thinking she was a boy know i look at her i can see that she's obviously not  boy. There was an argument between this girl and the brother, Barry Barry. It all started over his name which i do admit is slightly amusing, but anyway it ended up being over the fact she called Kacey a boy, just glad it wasn't me to say something. Turns out the girl's name is Rhiannon, the girl sitting with her Scout and the other boy sitting with Barry, Kacey and myself is Phoenix. 

"Harriet Knight yeah? Didn't your boyfriend murder your dad after your mum overdosed or something?" It was Rhiannon that shouted it, the second Boston was out the room. 

I couldn't believe what i was hearing, she knew! What could i say to that, i had thousands of things going through my head but words failed me nothing would come out i felt so stupid. I started breathing really fast and it felt like i was going to cry. I mean i'm not afraid to be center of attention far from it, but knowing that now the whole of the P.R.U and most likely a lot of people in the school knew about my history it frightened.

"So what if he did, what's it to you chubbster?" Barry had replied for me, i was so shocked when i heard him. 

I still couldn't look to face the room i was too much in a panic for that, but i could feel Barry's stare on me. It sound stupid but it calmed me, i don't know why but it did. But i wasn't planning on making any eye contact with him so i started pulling at my bracelets to try and ignore him. Rhiannon didn't give up that easily and even mentioned life back in Liverpool, she didn't know the whole story luckily, though but by that point i'd enough for her.

"My family's none of your business you stupid bitch!" I didn't mean to sound as harsh as i did, but who does she think she is.

Barry stepped in again and she dropped it. But now i can't stop thinking about him, i mean why did he bother standing in for me. There are so many questions i wanted to ask him, but i just couldn't find the words to ask them.