On my own-lewis Hamilton

Chapter 5

"Em wake up" I hear half awake trying to go back to sleep it's to early. For a whole 6 weeks I haven't had to get up I definitely wasn't used to this.
"Just 5 more minutes" I yawn
"No get up now we need to leave soon and get ready"

I slowly open my eyes and look at my phone as I look at the time. 7:03 ugh it's too early for this.
I finally get out of bed and put on my uniform. It's black with a bit of red on the jumper and the blazer with a black skirt and white shirt luckily girls don't have to wear a tie because I have no idea how to do that. I look at my skirt it's so long just past my knee. I decide to roll it up a little bit so he doesn't notice so it's about mid thigh. I brushed my hair just leaving it down and headed downstairs to the kitchen.

"I hate it" I announce as I stamp into the kitchen looking at my uniform.
MyDad turns and looks at me "you look fine the uniforms not as bad as some other schools"
"I guess but I would haven't to wear one if I was homeschooled" I sigh
"Yeah well that's not happening you need to go to school"

I just ignore what he says and look in the  cupboard and pull out the coco pops and poured them into a bowl.
"Hurry up and eat them we've got to go in 15 minutes"
I look at the time and it's only 7:55
"Why so early" I moan
"Your school starts at 8:30 and it's a 15 minute drive."
Why does it start so early like in primary my school didn't start till least 9:15
I quickly finish my breakfast and went to brush my teeth.
I grabbed my bag and put my shoes on ready to go. I see my dad walk towards the front door
"You ready?" He asks
"Yep"
"Wait can I just get a quick picture please"
"Fine" I say trying not to laugh. he's honestly just like any other mum or dad when it comes to there kids going back to school

I finally get to the car and we start going. I feel the nerves again I managed to distract myself all weekend and now they are back again.
"You alright?"
I nod in response filled in my own thoughts.
"You will be fine trust me you will make loads of friends" he says supportingly
I know I'm not totally on my own as there's a few from my primary going but none of my close friends.
He parks on the side of the road near the entrance of the school.
"Bye love you" I say as I get out the door
"Love you bye" I hear as I slam the door shut

I walk along the path and see all the other new year 7s walking towards the entrance. Luckily today's just year 7 so I have time to get used to it.
I walk in as I see the sign 'Evergreen secondary school"
I walk in as I see a member of staff telling us to go the sports hall. I walk in and there's already some people there. They tell us to take a seat because they were going to do an assembly. I sit next to this girl she looks nice so hopefully I can make at least one friend.
"Hi I'm Isla" she says smiling at me.
"Emma" I say smiling at her. She seems nice and she's really pretty as well with long brunette hair and tanned skin.
The assembly started and I just zoned out the entire time it was so boring they were just talking about expectations from us and how amazing it is that we've joined the school or something like that.
"Right we told you your forms before you join so if you would like to line up with your form teachers" I hear Mr Jenkins say the head teacher.

I'm in miss jones' form I remember from my dad telling me last week.
"What form are you in" I ask Isla hoping there would be someone I'm at least familiar with.
"Miss jones I think"
"Same wanna go together?" I ask trying to not let me excitement show
"Sure"
I don't know why I just feel like we are going to be really good friends.
We walk over to the line and I see her walking over to us.
"And who are you to lovelies?" She asks nicely while smiling at us
"Isla Harlow"  I see her looking at her list of students. She nods as she sees her name then looks at me.
"Emma Hamilton" I say hoping that no one notices my surname I mean a lot of people have this surname so it should be ok.
I will tell people eventually but not now since I don't want people using me because of my name.
She nods again as she sees my name on the list.

The morning went pretty quick as we spent it getting used to the school and getting to know everyone. I mean the schools pretty big and our year has about 200 people in.

It was lunch and we decided to sit outside and eat . Me and Isla get along really well it's made my anxiety a lot better since I'm friends with at least 1 person.
We get our lunches out as we sit on a bench. I look at my lunch and it's so boring. My dad packed me a cheese sandwich , strawberries,
Vegetables and a tiny chocolate. Why is it so healthy.
"Ugh I hate my dad he packs the worst stuff" I say looking at my lunch
"Here you can have a bit of mine" Isla says while giggling
"Thanks" I smile. I still ate some of my lunch but just not the vegetables I hate a chocolate bar Isla had instead.
"We get our timetables after lunch hopefully we are in the same classes"
"Hopefully I know we will make other friends to but at least at the start we will have each other" Isla says

We heard the bell as we headed back to form. We got handed out our timetables. Me and Isla sat next to each other so we looked at each others.
"Look we have have everything together but maths DT and history" she points out to me
"That's good" I say positively
"Lessons start tomorrow so hopefully it will be ok" 
I nod in response
The rest of the afternoon went quick as we heard the bell go.
We walked out of school together as Isla saw her mum in her car. We said our goodbyes as I carried on walking to the next road where my dad parked.

I opened the car door and sat in the car as my dad already started to drive off.
"How was your day"
"It was good actually" I say smiling at myself
We finally got back home and I chucked my bag down as soon as I get through the door.
"Can you not just dump your bag there and actually put it away" he says sighing as I also chucked my shoes on the floor
"Fine" I say putting my bag and shoes away and quickly go upstairs to get out of my school uniform as soon as possible
I lay on bed as I look on socials. I get to instagram and find that my dad posted the photo he took of me from earlier. With a caption saying

' first day of secondary school, can't believe you've grown up this fast.'

It could have been worse but still I don't want anyone at school seeing that picture of me.
I walk down to the kitchen and sit on the kitchen island and eat dinner. My dad's a really boring cook he gave me pasta again. It's like one of the only things he can cook along with chicken and rice.
He grabs my bag and takes my lunch box out.
"Why haven't you eaten half your lunch" he say angry
"Because I don't like it it's just vegetables"
"You need to eat Emma plus it's also healthy"
"Well then pack me something I actually like then plus I ate some of Isla's food she gave me a chocolate bar"  I say annoyed while finishing my dinner
"Well you shouldn't just be eating chocolate it's bad for you."
"Whatever" I say still annoyed
"Anyway who is Isla?"
"My friend" I say bluntly
"Told you, you would be alright" he says while cleaning the kitchen up
"Whatever"
"Less of the attitude" he says while pointing his finger at me.
I just walk off as he says that I don't even care at this point he's always saying I've got a bad attitude which is not true.
"Stop ignoring and just listen to me"
"I'm not ignoring you!" I raise my voice annoyed
"Don't raise your voice at me Emma-grace"
I just feel anger boiling as I just walk off to my room. I hated it when he used my middle name as well. I didn't even do anything he should pack me better food then I would eat it. 

"Emma get ready for bed" I hear him shout from his room
I decide to just get ready as I didn't want to get into trouble and I already angered him today.
I walk into his room and see clothes and suitcases everywhere and notice him packing.
"Where you going?" I asked confused "I thought the next race wasn't for a week"
"The team want me to go 4 days early to do events there  I'm leaving on Friday so I'm not going for 3 day"
I nod "how long will you be gone for?"
"4 weeks there's 3 races in a row I can try and come back for a day but unfortunately you can't come because of school"
I feel my eyes fill up of tears I try to hide it as I don't want him to worry. I always hated going back to school because it meant I couldn't go to races.
"Hey come here" he says softly
I hug him as I notice I was already crying with tears streaming uncontrollably down my face.
"Sorry I'm being pathetic" I say as I let go of his hug
"No you're not em.. i know you find it hard and I do as well I miss you so much when you can't come"
I nod as I wipe my tears away.