Always Out of Reach

My Life

It wasn't always bad. I used to be the "normal" one in my group of friends. The one who's parents were still together, the one who'd lived in the same house his entire life, the one who's biggest worry was what they were having for tea that night.
Then that all changed....

10 am, 17th November 2012.
I sat in the living room, anxiously waiting for whatever my mum was about to tell us. My older sister, Nicole, was to the left of me, my younger brother, Jet, to the right. Non of us were prepared for what was coming. My dad was nowhere to be seen.

"It's very important in a marriage that you are happy around each other...." Alarms bells start going off inside my head. I barely hear what she's saying. A few minutes later I hear a sentence, a sentence that changes my life forever.
"So....We've decided to live in separate houses."

Suddenly I feel like I'm not in that room, like I didn't just hear those words and this is all a dream. But, when by sister storms to her room and Jet bursts into tears, I know this is real. After 10 years of living in, what seemed to be the closest thing to a perfect home, my family had finally broken. My parents were getting divorced.

25th February, 2012.
Connor hadn't spoken all day. It was weird strange. Normally he'd be chatting away, telling me the things I didn't necessarily care about, but loved to hear.
After 3 hrs of small talk and him saying about 3 sentences, I gave up.

"What's wrong?" I demand to know.

"Well....Ummm......my step dad got a job.....and, well, I'm moving to Northwich." He looked down, afraid of my reaction.
I felt like my heart was going to break.  Connor was my only friend, and now he was moving away.

And that brings us to now. Me. Having no close friends. Having a terrible relationship with my dad. Worrying about Jet constantly. Arguing with Nicole all the time.

I used to be the normal one. Now I'm broken and sad. Now i have no one to turn to and no one to tell me that everything's going to be ok.

Authors note:
Ok so I have no idea where this is going or if it's going to work but....let me know what you think. also I don't know when the next chapter will be up.

Thanks for reading
Erin xx