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Prologue

I am slowly awoken with a blaring sound coming from the left of my bed. I look to the side and discover the sound coming from my phone sitting on the bedside table pushed up against my bed. It's really light in my room for some reason. I look past my side table and see that my curtains are still open from yesterday and the window is still open too. "huh? that's odd I never leave the window open. not ever." I think in my head as I sit up and look at the boxes still cluttering my room. I still don't want to unpack even after being here for 3 months."The alarm is still going off " mother decides to point out to me as she passes my open door with a basket full of washing. I slowly and being very groggy turn to my side and turn it off. "Yea I could hear that," I snark back to her, under my breath as I glare. she seems to be oblivious to this, however. She seems to enjoy being a grouch even after we moved to be 'happier' as she put it. 

I pull back the covers of my bed and shuffled my legs from being behind me facing the wall to being over the edge of the bed as I sit up on the edge of the bed. I look down at the cute pink shorts and singlet with stains on them from tripping and spilling my tea on myself last night. " man I need to stop being a slop and go wash them"  I think as I walk over to my small chest of draws and start to rummage around in them to draw for some clean underwear and a clean bra to put on. I stop as I clipped up my bra and looked in the full-length mirror. I was quite tall for a girl my age, with broad shoulders and thin hips my body looked very disproportioned. As well as not having the traits of a 'pretty' girl I've always been the friend and never the date sadly. 

Putting that all aside I picked up my 'new' school uniform off of the ground and proceeded to wear the most god-awful, uncomfortable and hideous looking uniform I'd ever had in my life. I mean the colors weren't too bad, being a greenish - blue and grey but the design of having a blouse, tie, skirt, stockings and black shoes that had to be polished was a nightmare.

I did a final check of my school bag and my gym bag making sure I had my ID as well as my wallet and other items that I may need or want during the day. "hurry up or your walking!" mother shouts out from the main downstairs hallway.  I rushed down the stairs with my bags nearly tripping over the last step and ran out the front door grabbing a water bottle and a chocolate bar from the basket near the door. 

" Oh look you finally got down the stairs. get in the car" My mother says as we both get into the car. I don't respond because I don't wish to have a fight this morning. I wish it was so different. I hate how my mother has become so cold and callous towards me. I mean I just don't get it but I never say anything about it . 

 I'm thinking of dropping out of school this year. I saved enough money during the holidays to go into a course that's full time so then I can become qualified quicker and I can then leave home quicker. so in reality, I'm actually not going to school today. So I'm going to be 'wagging' just so then I can sign myself up for the course but my mother doesn't need to know what I'm doing exactly. Mother brings me back to reality by shoving my shoulder. I get out of the car and silently walk away not saying goodbye. she drove away as quickly as she dropped me off not wanting to stick around.

 I slink around into a back alley and quick strip off the ugly uniform and change into a nice, blue, frilly t-shirt and a pair of black jeans all the while feeling like someone is watching me. I put the uniform in my bag and walking quickly to the community college to sign up for hopefully what will be my first step into my future.