The unexpected ending

Chapter one : my new beginning

I got woken up by a fright. I had fallen off my bed again, it was getting to small for me but I didn't want to tell mum. Money in our house is a bit tight at the moment. When dad walked out on us when I was 7, we lost all our money. I never saw him again, since then at 8pm I stared out my window and hope that he would return. But he never did. I gave up after a while I got annoyed that he would do that. Leave me and my mum at such an unexpected time. Maybe he never loved me and that's why he had to leave. I shake that thought out of my head as I always hated to think what actually happened to him. I walk into the kitchen to find mum asleep and the table. I decided not to wake her because I knew she wasent getting much sleep lately. I continue to walk, as I reach the bench I find my lunchbox already packed with a note stuck to it.

Have a great day at school sweetie, I will see you after school to take you to your netball game. I will meet you out the front, I love you. Love mum.

I smile at the note and shove it in my pocket. I poor my cereal into a bowl and add milk and a little sugar, but not to much, mum always said to much sugar is bad for you. I grab a spoon and start pileing it into my mouth, being careful of mum, asleep. My eyes notice something strange the clock it said 8:15am. I check my phone at once again it repeated the same time. It was then when I realised, I was going to be late for school! I quickly grab my lunchbox and threw it into my school bag. I race out the door and run to the bus stop.

The bus wasn't there yet, thank god. About 2 minutes later the bus arrived and I hoped on. There was already teenagers on the bus, they look like they were in the same year as me, year eight. I head up to the back as I saw that I knew some of them. After about 30 minutes on the bus I finally arrived at school. I waved when I saw my friends waiting for my at the bus bay, they did this everyday. But I realise that someone new was with them, someone I thought I had never seen before. When I walked off the bus all my friends ran up to me, the girl stayed where she was. She looked like she didn't know where she was, that she had never been in a public school before. As my friends hugged me I notice the girl staring at me. She looked like she was jealous or something, the death stare I got was just hurtful. My friends uncling. I ask the person closest to me something that I was bugging me a lot.

"Hey Bethany, who is that girl that was with you when I pulled up?"

"Oh that's Hope, she is new. Ms Armond asked me to show her around the school today."

"Oh ok, what's her last name?" I asked feeling,like I knew the name from somewhere.

"Um I'm pretty sure it's Edith, why do you know her?"

I freeze, I now realised why she gave me that death stare. Hope Edith was my preschool friend. But something went wrong, I don't remember what actually happen as it was like 10 years ago. Why was she here though. I went to preschool in Australia, but moved when when mum couldn't keep paying the rent. I wanted to know really bad why she hated me. What did I ever do to her?

The day went really fast and before I knew it, it was over. I met mum out the front of school like she asked me to in the note she left me. Once again I saw Hope at the locker bay, she was looking lost and I thought I would be nice to her and ask her If she wanted help with something.

"Hey Hope, you look confused do you need any help?"

She looks at me and realises who I am, she turns around leaving her back at me and ignored me. I was surprised but thought she obviously doesn't want my help. I get in the car and give mum a kiss. She asks me about my day and I say the same thing as what I say everyday, Boring!

"Actually mum something different happened today..."

"Oh what happened?"

"Do you remember when we lived in Australia, well my preschool friend Hope Edith is in my class now, she came today..."

"Oh that's wonderful darling, it's like a preschool reunion."

"Actually mum she hates me..."

"What! That doesn't sound like you and Hope, you guys where such good friends in preschool. You too were such cuties playing together in our old backyard."

After about 10 minutes of talking with mum, we arrived at my netball practise. I see all my friends were gathered together around someone. I hop out of the car saying goodbye to mum and yell out to everyone, I was the best player on the team, everyone loved me. But that's when my biggest nightmare happened, I see Hope Edith in the middle of the court. I ask what she is doing her and everybody says that she is newest on our team. She walks over to me.

"Hey Amanda," she says rolling her eyes, "did you hear the good news, I'm on your team now. I'm the newest goal shooter."

Goal shooter! That was my position on the court. I run over to my coach to ask what's going on.

"Daisy, why has Hope got my position on the court?"

"It's only for practise Amanda." My coach said as she walked off.

At the end of practise my coach gathered us all up in a circle to talk about the changes to the team. I was expecting Daisy to give my position, goal shooter, to Hope by something strange happened.

"Listen up girls, there has been some changes to the team. As you all know Hope is new on our team and she needs a new position, so that mean I'm going to have to substitute a couple of you guys on and off. I think that the position that Hope should play is wing attack."

Wow I thought she was going to be the new goal shooter.

"Um," Hope pushes through all of my friends, so rudely, "Daisy I only play goal shooter."

"Well Amanda plays goal shooter so you can't have that position it's as simple as that."

"Arrgh" Hope says storming off.

I was almost sure that Hope was going to get my position. Hmm life is getting better already.

"Oi Amanda, you better give me you your netball position you twat!" Hope yells.

"What happens if I don't" I yell back.

"I will tell everyone what you did 10 years ago!"

She hops into a car and I watch it drive off.

A couple of days past and I'm still trying to figure out what I did to her. What could I have possible done for her to hate me this much? Then it finally hits me. How could I be so stupid. How could I possibly forget one of the most tragic things that ever happened to me! How could I ever do that to her...

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-emmawallis5 x