Forever In My Heart

Forever In My Heart - Prologue

Prologue

"Mummy I don't want to go to school!" I cried, "Everyone will hate me because I'm new!"

My Mum sighed as she was fed up; I've been like this ever since I woke up this morning. I didn't want to go to school, it's the first day after the summer holidays and my mum and I just moved here a month ago. I miss our old home, I miss my daddy and I miss my friends! I wish mummy and daddy didn't fall out of love because if they didn't me and mummy wouldn't of have to move to England when daddy is still in America.

We moved to England because here's where mummy's mummy and daddy live so we moved nearer to them. I've seen them quite a few times now that we moved here, I never knew them before.

It’s scary living here, everything is different. The other eight year olds that live in my street are very different from my friends in America, there all wear pretty little dresses and have their hair tide in plaits.

Apparently we moved to a nice area where everyone is rich and posh. Mummy and I only are living here because Grandma and Grandad helped buy this house. I do like it but it is too big... my bedroom feels completely different and I haven't been sleeping that well in it because of that reason.

"Come on hunny it will be fine, you'll make lots of friends I promise!" Mummy said whilst slightly pushing me in the direction of the door. I did feel a bit bad for mummy as she was trying her hardest and she had to go to her new job today as well. I looked into mummy's eyes and saw that she was begging me, the last time she acted like this was when I refused to leave America and even then she had to bribe me with white chocolate.

"Please baby, for me... I'll give you two milky way’s." I stared at her for a few moments before I gave in. Mummy smiled when I did, I smiled with her and walked to the car holding mummy's hand.

Mummy used to be a model before she had me so she was very pretty, she had soft blonde hair that she lets me brush and chocolate brown eyes. She is slim and tall which is why I'm quite tall for my age and has the most contagious smile ever! I love my mummy and when I'm older I hope to look like her. Unfortunately I can't be exactly like her because instead of brown eyes like mummy, I have green eyes. Daddy said I was special because of it. I'm a blonde haired, green eyed eight year old girl who now lives in a place she doesn't want to be... isn’t that rubbish!

"Bye bye baby. Have a good day, I love you!" My mummy said while hugging me outside my classroom.

"I love you too." I said and made my way into my new classroom. School is different in England. At the moment I'm in junior school and I'm in year 5 which would be grade 4 in America, also at junior school we are in the same class for every subject with the same teacher and same students... that means if I don't have any friends I have to wait another two years until that changes. Living in England is going to be very different!

"Hello class I'm Miss Bunkle and I'm going to be your year 5 teacher. Now most of you know me and everyone here but there is a new girl... Erin Tyler?" Miss Bunkle’s eyes searched the room for me, when she saw me she smiled, "Ah there you are, would you come up here and tell everyone about yourself." I really didn't want to but I nodded anyway and made my way up to the front of the class, my legs shaking as I walked.

"Hi," I whispered.

"Speak louder m'lovely."

"Hi," I said a bit louder, I could already hear some girls snickering to themselves, "My name is Erin Tyler and I moved here from America with my mummy." Everyone burst out laughing once I said mummy... doesn’t anybody say that here anymore? I stood at the front not knowing what else to do, everyone was laughing at me and I defiantly didn’t want to tell them anything more about me. I looked from face to face at everyone who was laughing at me, I felt my head feel heavy and I started to get dizzy. The next thing I know was I heard pitched screams and everything went black.

When I woke up I saw I was in my bedroom on my bed. I stared confusedly at the ceiling... why was I in bed, last thing I remembered I was at that horrible school and everyone was laughing at me, how did I get home?

"Oh baby your awake!" I jumped, not realising I had company, "Baby it's alright, it's just mummy. I was so worried when I got a phone call from your school telling me that you fainted in class, why did you faint hunny?"

I turned my head away from mumm-... mum so she couldn't see the embarrassed look on my face. I did tell her though but I just mumbled it instead, "I was asked to go to the front of the class and say stuff about myself. I did but I said mummy so people started to laugh at me..." I said quietly, not trusting my voice as I knew I was about to burst into tear any second now.

I felt the bed go down and I was cuddled by my mum. She turned me round so I faced her and so I could also cry into her.

Today was horrible but I can tell tomorrow is going to be even worse!

The day started exactly the same as yesterday, I literally begged my mum not to go to school. I even got down on my hands and knees and begged on the floor... unfortunately it didn't work as I'm just entering my classroom.

I barely slept last night as I was so scared of what people will do and say to me. When I walked in everyone looked at me, I could tell they were secretly laughing at me when I sat down at a seat at the back. All I want is this day to hurry up and finish!

Miss Bunkle came in five minutes after me and when she saw me she smiled sadly at me. She started the first lesson with a register and then read out some announcements.

Halfway through reading them the door opened and a blonde haired boy entered. Miss Bunkle told him to take a seat and carried on with the announcements. The blonde haired boy looked around the room looking for a seat before coming to sit next to me. I stared confusedly at him... why was he sitting next to me? He smiled at me which made me shyly smile back. He started to write on a piece of paper as Miss was still talking, when he finished writing he pushed the piece of paper to me.

It read: Hi I'm Callum, what's your name?

I stared at him, didn't he know from yesterday? I soon found out that he wasn't here yesterday as Miss Bunkle said the welcome back introduction like she did yesterday. This meant he didn't know what happened yet and that filled me with hope... maybe I can have at least one friend.

I wrote my name on the piece of paper and past it back to him.

He read it and turned to me, "Hi Erin," He laughed nervously. "Do you want to be my best friend?"