Bonfire Heart

Chapter Two

Hiiii guyss. Here is chapter two!! Hope you like it!!!

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It took all of 30 minutes to arrive at the new house. I told Scarlett it wasn't that far. As we were approaching our new home my stomach was doing somersaults and my toes were tingling. I've never been so excited to start a fresh chapter in my life before. I had waited for this moment since we left the village when I was three.

When I was three my mum and dad divorced. We lived at the top of the village, right at the top of the hill. My old nursery was facing it and the house we had homed was huge. I loved it. Getting up everyday to go and walk down to the local shops with my mum and dad. Hand in hand. But it soon all came to an end when the divorce came through. I was devastated. I remember being with my mum in the house and asking her what was happening. Strange people were viewing my house and going into my room with their children and I couldn't get my head around it. Eventually my dad bought my mum out and we had to move away. Unfortunately for us that meant that I couldn't attend my nursery anymore and I had to move to a completely new school. The village we left behind was money's ville and we had absolutely no chance of moving back there anytime soon, until now.

The housing was nearing closer and closer to me and I couldn't contain my excitement anymore. To be honest it was a dump at the moment. There was scaffolding everywhere and the windows had been smashed through. The roof was half slatted half not and the door was all chipped where the paint had decayed over time. We got the house pretty cheap, no wonder. That's why my mum bought it. It was right near where we used to live just a little down to the road. It was a dead ended street, not very long, that turned off a posh road on the way down to the village. We'd bought the house right at the end, and lucky for us that meant fields upon fields upon fields at the back. But it's going to be a long time before I'll be out on them. For now I needed to concentrate on helping my mum completely demolish this wrecked architecture and start new. Make it our own. Put our own stamp on it.

"Perrie?..Perrie?.. Hello?" My mother clapped her hands in front of my face. I must have been in such a daydream that I had forgotten how close we was.

I gave her a huge smile and watched as hers settled in too.

"We're here.." She said, grinning at me.

I watched in ore as I stepped out of the removal van and headed towards the piece of wood we call a door. For the first time in forever I felt like I belonged somewhere. I felt like I was where I should be. I felt at home.

"Perrie please help the removal men carry things out of the van. Your stuff at least!" My mum said, a little angered by my nature of me not helping.

I walked up to the van that I had been previously travelling in and grabbed the first thing I could see. I didn't want my mother to shout at me and get more cross than she already was, so I just grabbed the first thing that came into my line of vision. I was shocked at how heavy it was as I attempted to carry it into the new house. As I was doing so, quite well actually if I must say so, one of the removal men approached me and took it right out of my hands.

"That's a little heavy for you darling don't you think?" He chuckled. I read his name badge, which was placed on his plain, grey uniform. Sean. I looked up at him and frowned. I was about to say how well I was actually doing and how he didn't need to take it off me but instead I decided to go with the option that would get me in least trouble. So I just nodded and gave a small smile.

I walked back to the van and grabbed something of mine. Knowing I would be alright carrying it this time. I took ahold of a box marked 'Perrie's pictures'. I knew what was in the box. Endless photos of me and Scarlett, messing around in my old shopping centre and days out we had had. I began to miss her. Even though she was only half an hour away, I couldn't just walk round to hers anymore if I needed cheering up.

I looked back in the van, with the box of mine still placed in my hands, and only then I realised how much stuff we had brought with us from the old house. As I began to walk up my new driveway it dawned on me that this was going to be a long day.