Holiday for a lifetime

Alone

Next morning I wake up to mum gently shaking my shoulder" your bag and trunk are packed and your uniform is hanging in the bathroom". " thanks mum" she hands me my crutches I make my way to the bathroom, I have a shower and put on my uniform, and apply my makeup when I'm finished I go downstairs to find the smell of bacon, eggs and pancakes. We have a conversation over breakfast about holiday plans and mum handed me a snack pack for the drive. All too soon I'm saying goodbye to my parents and Carlisles soon driving me to my stupid fate St. Edwards.

The drive was longer then it usually is it was as though the further we drove the more I was leaving behind. We passed blue seas, big shops and take away places until we arrived at St. Edwards at the top of the mountain away from anywhere with reception. I hated this place but it's even worse now died ever since Helen died here I vowed to find her killer whether it ended in my death or not. I opened the door to find the school grounds empty everyone must be in there classes, Carlisle grabbed my bags and we walked up to the school, I soon found myself standing outside the doors to St. Edwards, Carlisle moved forward to open the door. As I entered the hallways were empty halfway hopping on my crutches down an empty corridor I spotted Ms Wallace, one of my favourite teachers walking into an empty classroom, I called her name and she popped her head out " Chloe" " Ms Wallace you don't know how happy, I am to see you" soon I was following Ms Wallace to my new dormitory when we got there I, discovered there were ten other girls all staring at me soon Ms Wallace introduced me " Chloe this is, Chelsea, Paige, Isabella, Ciara, Uma, Kasey , Sarah, Briar, Zoe and Zoe" "hi" I found my bed made by Carlisle and my trunk and bags at the end of my bed. The whole time I was unpacking I felt eyes piercing into the back of my head but every time I looked they started talking, I was happy when the bell for lunch finally went I grabbed my bag and hat and nearly fell over trying to get out, The girl named Paige came to help me and picked up my crutches for me, I thanked her and went to sit alone in the great hall at one of the small circle tables. Halfway through lunch break, I went to my new common room Kendall once again everyone stared at my leg; I soon decided to leave and went to read in the corner of the library. Soon the bell for the end of lunch went and I went to Ms. Davies office to get my schedule and my books for my subjects. Flashbacks started as I hopped down the corridors to my dormitory why'll I was in Miss Davies office she told me my classes didn't start until period 4 I spent the time before that, underneath a tree reading harry potter and the half-blood prince my favourite book, soon it was afternoon tea and I found myself lining up outside the classroom for maths with Mr. Antenolli , when I entered the classroom I found myself sitting alone at Helens funeral "Chloe, Chloe are you even listening" " sorry, old memory" " see me after class, miss night" ok so I've never been top of the class, but being called out is weird even for me. After class I waited back" are you ok Chloe, you seem distracted" " I don't know, that old memory was at Helens funeral and not so old after all" " oh well I think Helen would like it if you focused more in class then, in your own pit of despair can you try" "ok". I walk out of the room and find my feet taking me in the direction of the dark forest, I'm soon standing in front of the tree that I found Helen at the memory starts playing again I'm back at the place where I found her, my head starts to spin My crutches can't hold me I hear a loud crack and look down the leg that I thought would never heal and found it even more broken.

I let out a scream soon Mr Antenolli and Mr Brown were carrying me out of the forest, they called the ambulance and it all went blank from then on. I'm soon awoken to find a moon boot, a second pair of crutches and a wheelchair I'm told that the wheelchair will be best until my leg is strong enough to support me on crutches. I let a tear shed I decided to go down for dinner as my mum had always told me to make the best of a bad situation, the teachers said I didn't have to go to classes for the next week so they sent me my work to my iPad instead, for the next few days I had my head buried in books in the library corner studying for, maths, science, geography, dance and home economics. For each of my subjects I had to work to work out the definition of the golden ratio and examples of it for maths, I had to read whether household basics were soluble for science, I had to write a thousand word essay on how urbanisation effected London altogether for geography, I had to create a choreograph for our school musical, for dance, and for home economics I had to create a unique logo design to embroide on a homemade bag.

After each day I found myself heading straight for bed, I set an alarm for 5:30 each morning to get an early breakfast before the morning rush, on the third day of my new routine I saw two girls going for a morning jog, you see the bad thing about being on crutches is you can't run you can barely walk, as I watched these two girls I felt an urge of jealousy rev up in me, why couldn't they feel just a tinge of sorrow towards me I'm the one on crutches.

Soon girls and teachers started filing into the great hall, my queue to go soon I was over at the door and Ms. Gill stopped me form leaving" follow me Chloe" irritated that she had stopped me from my getaway, I followed reluctantly, and soon found myself standing outside the door to her office "come on in" I went in and closed the door behind me. "Miss I'm sorry for what" "you didn't do anything so, on Friday you returned we were all very happy, but knew something was wrong" "how" I got that one out at least. "Simple you kept muttering in your sleep, the forest contains all the secrets one of the girl's reported it so we decided to keep an eye on you and that's how we knew where to find you" " what, I don't understand" "sorry Chloe I didn't hear you" " I asked if I could go study" " oh, of course and Chloe" "Yeah" " I'm always here if you need to talk to me about her" I walked out my heart racing, as I thought about what had just happened. I went to bed for the rest of the day and refused to get up until dinner, I woke up an hour before dinner and got ready, I took my bag with me as I intended to catch up on study after dinner, Soon I left dinner and walked to the library I sat up till midnight thinking about everything that happened especially all the people who were hurt because of me. At 12:30 I headed up to bed the click- clack of my crutches just another reminder of where id hurt someone, as soon as my head hit the pillow on my dorm bed I fell into a restless sleep.

The next morning I woke up and found the dormitory empty I Looked at my phone and realised it was 10:30 I only had an hour before my doctor's appointment (to see how my leg was going) , soon I found myself with half my closet on the floor in a mad rush to find my moon boot and a suitable outfit . I settled with my white fluffy beanie, faux fur vest, glittery jeans and a plain white shirt with ug boots. Soon I was hopping down the corridors to meet Carlisle.

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