There Is No Place Like Home

Chapter 1- New Guy

My parents owned a very successful importing and exporting business, franchised all around the world. They always went on "business trips"

yeah right!

They where never around when I needed them or on important days like my birthday. I particularly remember my ninth birthday when the promised they where going to come, after a lot of calling and begging. They never came for that birthday or any other birthday in fact.

Now I'm disgrace to the family.

I have just woken up in the park behind some trees, where I thought it might be more safe from those crazy psychos that walk around in the night. I could not go to sleep because there was some drunk homeless man moaning about his life most of the night. Now I have a headache. Great!

I got up from a pile of leaves and my blanket which I guess is my bed. I dusted some dirt off my old clothes wanting to look a bit more presentable. Who am I kidding, I didn't care about how I looked! It's not like I'm trying to impress anyone.

I picked up my rucksack and took out clean some clothes with a toothbrush. Every week I would go to a nice lady that I met in a bakery. She would allow me in her house to use her bathroom. She would also give me some food and some money or even wash my clothes. The thing was that her children did not approve of me, especially Lucas. He was the schools quarterback and typical hottie. Any girl would fall under his spell for his good looks. Many girls don't notice his rotting interior. They only noticed after he has dumped them.

He has always tormented me when I became homeless. He was the one that told the whole school my secret, making me look like The worst person to have lived. I can't believe I trusted him. I was given pitiful stares by a couple, but the majority were stares of disgust.

After I hid my rucksack in the bushes and got my school bag, I made my way to school. Unfortunately, Lucas and his new bimbo of the week just drove past a huge puddle creating a wave of rain water to soak my clean clothes.

" Go die bitch!" the bimbo shouted out of the window, not helping with my anger I had towards them.

Their laughs echoed down the road as I continued my journey, with cold clothes and squishy shoes.

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When I reach school I make my way to the toilets, trying not to get pushed by anyone. My clothes were drenched so I tried my best to dry them using the hand dryer. I hear someone enter the toilets and immediately become stiff. It was Brittany the bimbo. I'll call her that, it suits her.

"Oh. It's Hailey the homeless girl" So that's why they call me in school. All these years I though it was "Hailey the hooker"

I keep quiet because I now I will say something I regret.

"I don't get why you still come to school, it's probably because you want attention."

her high heels clicked towards as she stood intimidatingly tall in front of me.

"Why don't you just kill yourself since nobody cares about you. Not even your parents"

That made my breath hitch and my eyes water, but I hurried out of the toilet before she saw that I was weak. Before she said something else. Something about my brother.

I rushed my way to my first class when I heard the bell ring. We had English, my favourite class. Miss Edwards was the funniest teacher and she was one of the teachers that took notice of me. I would sometimes spend my lunch times with her or in the library.

I sat at the back of the classroom, my usual seat, still ignoring the stares that I am getting from weird people. The class was slowly filling up and then the notorious Lucas makes his way into the class. I could literally feel all the girls swoon and stare at him like a piece of meat laying amongst starved lions. I just look down and flick through my book as if nothing happened.

"Alright class, today we have a new student that moved all the way from Italy. His name is Giovanni, please make him welcome."

I was still looking down at my book when I heard sighing from many girls in the room. I guess they found some new meat. I start scribbling down whatever the teacher was writing on the board, not giving the fresh meat a glance.

As I'm writing, I feel eyes scrutinising my every move. Is there something on my face? I look up and I notice that fresh meat was sitting next to me, instead of all the other people he could have sat next to. Fantastic.

I try to ignore him but he keeps breathing down my neck. Talk about being creepy.

"What?!" I whisper, annoyed by his presence.

"What crawled up your ass and died" he whispered in a deep and yummy Italian accent. Whoa, what are you saying?!

"Just leave me alone" I say, really trying to listen to the important notes.

"I just wanna be friends, you know how hard it is to make friends on the first day"

"Why me? I know many other girls in this class would wanna be you friend" Maybe even more.

"As soon as I saw you I noticed your not like those other bimbos. you're...different." he looks at me after his mini speech. He calls them bimbos too.

I try ignoring him and I hear the teacher tells the class an important announcement. "There will a project for the next 3 weeks were you will be in partners. I would like you all to perform a scene from a famous English book we have studied in the past. You will be graded accordingly. I have assigned your partners so don't think of switching and no one can work alone for this one..."

I knew she meant that to me. I always work alone so I don't drag any attention to myself. Hopefully I get to work with Luna, she was one of a couple of people that weren't like the others.

As she was calling out the names, I listened out for my name.

"... Brittany Harries and Giovanni Roberto are performing the first proposal of Mr Darcy in Pride and Prejudice . . . Hailey Winters and Lucas Falls will be performing the love confession scene in Much Ado About Nothing. "

I think my heart just stopped beating.

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Authors note:

So I finally uploaded after a long time. First impression on Giovanni?

I probably won't be upload in quite awhile so...yeah. I'm just gonna be busy for a bit, sorry. The more votes I get its more likely I'm gonna update.

The holidays are going too fast and I haven't done anything. I blame the Internet. Maybe some procrastination was involved.

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