Bonfire Heart

Chapter One

Picture above: Scarlett (Perries best friend). Played by Emily Crosby- her Insta is: @em_croz

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"I can't believe your leaving!" She said. Tears trickling down her tanned face.

"Me neither!" I stated.

Scarlett and I have been best friends since we were 4 years old. I moved here when my mum and dad divorced back in 2003. We had to move out of our old house because my dad bought us out, which meant not only a new house for me but a new school too. I remember being petrified on my first day there but I quickly settled in as I got my head down in colouring books and a box full of Barbie dolls. I was never the loudest person in the room unlike Scarlett who was forever on full blast, but she got me through my first few weeks of Primary school as she was kind of the teachers pet because she'd attended Nursery school there. We'd get given all the extra treats that were left over at the end of the day as we waited for our mums to pick us up from school. We had really bonded as little girls do and as our mums became good friends we began to become inseparable. Our friendship never seemed to fade as the years went by. We'd grown up together.

Tears fell onto her lips as she quickly brushed them away. No matter how hard she tried to hold them back they just kept pouring out, more and more sobbing emerged from her eyes as I gave her our final hug.

"We'll still see each other at school you daft thing!" I spoke up once there was an eventual pause in her cries.

"Y-Yeah. I-I know but but it won't be the same!" She gently stated, in between sobs.

"Why?" I asked.

"B-Because I won't j-just be able to walk round anymore. And we can't walk home together anymore. And we can't just-" I paused her mid-way as more tears began to appear in her eyes, ready to leak down her cheeks.

"You know you can ALWAYS come and visit. And it's only one bus journey away! It's really not that far!" I told her. But she still burst into tears.

I just hugged her tight. It felt like the only thing that would stop her crying right now. It worked luckily, that was until I heard my mum call

"Perrie I've loaded everything into the van. We're leaving in 2 minutes!"

"Ok mum" I shouted back.

Scarlett then yet again burst into another bunch of tears. I swiftly had to try and calm her down quickly as I was leaving soon and I didn't want my last few minutes with her to be sad. That's not the way to start a happy new beginning.

"P-Promise you won't forget about me?!" She asked, whilst trying to calm down.

"I promise!" I spoke sternly. I saw a huge sense of relief wash over her as I spoke those two words.

The engine of the van roared into gear as my mum shut the front door to our old house. Scarlett squeezed me so tight I thought I wouldn't live to see the new house. I hugged her back once I regained my breath again.

"Sorry" she said. "I'm going to miss you so much!!"

"Me too!!" I said.

And with that I hoped into the 2nd passenger seat of the removal van and we drove off. Leaving all the old memories behind and ready to start a fresh again. I waved at Scarlett as we swiftly turned the corner of our street. I saw her wave back, holding back her tears. Her mum came and wrapped her arm around her and they both waved to me and my mum in the van till our old house was no longer in sight. Our new start begins now.