Under The Stars

Chapter 4

"No, daddy! Please, please don't leave!" The 4 year old Andy screamed. She was trying to catch the car, the car with the man inside that we really love. The car is going further away, away from home where our heart is.

"Andy, let him go." Mom said, softly, caressing her. I was in the stairs, crying, feeling like my heart has been shattered into a million pieces.  There's tons of questions running inside my head. Why did he leave? Does he love us? Would he come back? How could he do this? Will I still have a father? Lots of questions that cannot be answered.

My mom looks so vulnerable, so sad. I hate it when I see mummy cry. Her eyes are filled with tears and I hate it. I looked at my little sister. Her cheeks are puffed and her eyes are blood red. I couldn't stand looking at my mother and sister like this. 'Look what you've done, dad!' I said through my head.

I ran in my room and looked at my table filled with pictures with me and my father. I looked at it, failing not to cry. I feel like I'm drowning with my own tears.

"Why?" I whispered. Then, I glared at the pictures and threw it across the room."Why?!!" I screamed, tears running down my cheeks. I couldn't take it anymore. Why does everyone important to me leaves me? My father did just like what he did, left us. Now I'm waiting for my mother to do it too. Would she leave us? I hope not.

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Cough. Cough. Cough. "Ms. Collins?" Someone said, clearly annoyed. The person shook my shoulder, trying to wake me up.

I groaned. l looked up and was greeted with an angry face. Woah! Okay then..... "Umm.. What?" I asked Mr. Henderson, the History teacher, annoyed that he woke me up, well I'm kinda glad, the dream, well flashback, was killing me inside. And you can't blame me, history is really boring, in my opinion. Most of all when Mr. Henderson is the one who's teaching it. So I just slept.

"What? You asked? You are sleeping in my class, Ms. Collins." He stated the obvious.

"No, shit sherlock." He was shocked at my respond. I knew what he was going to yell at me.. In 3... 2.. 1.

"Detention!!" Yep.. There it goes.. I'm not really surprise.. I mean, I get detention thrice a week. I just shrugged and put my head against the table and closed my eyes. People just laughed at how I don't care and Mr. Henderson's reaction when he saw me trying to sleep again. You thing detentions can stop me? Psh..

The bell rang. And Mr. Henderson called for me. Ugh.. What now? I came to him and said nothing.

"Ms. Collins, I am really disappointed at your behavior today, well um, and yesterday and day before yesterday and last week an-" he saw the look at my face and stopped. He cleared his throat and said, "Okay, I'm going to get to the point. You're marks are getting lower and lower. You wouldn't want to disappoint your mom now, would you?" I rolled my eyes at the mention of my mom. I couldn't care less of what she thinks. She's way too busy with her models anyways. Models that she treated as her daughters. I frowned.

"And since I know you don't care or anything, I decided to give you a tutor. What happened to the smart Brooklyn all the teachers used to love?" Say what now?! A fucking tutor? Heck, no! And the smart girl is gone. G. O. N. E

"Sir, I apologize, but I would not accept that offer." I replied.

"I'm sorry, Ms. Collins, but this is the principle's decision. He says that whoever has a low mark on anything, need a tutorial. He wouldn't accept his students in this school to fail, most of all when you are becoming a senior next year. Brooklyn, you're almost graduating. Take this seriously. Think about your future. Think about yo-" I interrupted him by slamming my hands againts his table. He flinched a little bit.

"I get it. Fine. Tell me when the tutorial starts. Now, I need to leave or else I'm going to be late in my next class and I'm not in the mood for another teacher complaining and lecturing me." With that, I left that stupid class and went to the next class.

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"A what?!" Brianna and Elliot laughed. "A tutor? Oh my god, I feel like I need to pee from laughter." I'm happy that their happy and laughing, but this is the situation when you cannot laugh at me. I glared at them.

"What are you guys laughing about?" Jack sat down next to Brianna. Noah sat on the other side of Brianna. Bad choice, bruh.

"B-Brooklyn *chuckles* Is *chuckles* Having *another chuckle* A tutor. *Bursted out laughing*" Elliot couldn't stop laughing.

"I thought you were smart." Noah mutters. Brianna looked at him, Noah looked at her. Brianna glared at him and said, "She is smart, Nerd boy." And looked back at Jack and smiled. Noah frowned.

"Wow. That is sure something to laugh about." Jack agreed and laughed.

Noah stayed quiet the whole time.

Elliot wrapped his arms around me and Jack noticed. "You guys are a really cute couple." He said.

Elliot and I blushed. "Yeah." He said and kissed my cheeks. I giggled and accidentally looked at Noah. He was frowning at his lasagne. Grumpy much?

"How about you, Noah? When are you getting your girlfriend. Surely you have a crush. I might even help you." Jack told Noah. Noah looked at Jack's date. He cleared his throat and opened his mouth, but he was interrupted.

The bell rang.

Noah sighed in relief and stood up and said, "Brooklyn, I need to talk to you." Um okay?

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