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Sophie POV:
I stared at my mum in disbelief. ‘what?’ I asked her.
‘we’re moving to England! Isn’t it great?’ she beamed at me.
‘are you messing with me? If you are this isn’t funny!’ I felt tears form in my eyes.
My mum’s face fell, ‘why aren’t you happy about this? It’s a new start, a whole new life for us!’
The first tear made its way down my cheek, ‘I don’t want another life.’ That was it. The tears continued in a heavy stream as I started shaking and sobbing. ‘how long do I have?’ I looked at my mum, she obviously didn’t expect this reaction.
‘oh come on sophie, don’t make this hard.’ I just kept looking at her, she sighed. ‘we leave in 2 weeks.’
I looked down at the ground and walked past my mum on the way to my room. She tried to hug me but I brushed her off and hurried past. I got to my room and shut the door. I leaned against it and slid to the floor holding my head in my hands. ‘two weeks. That’s 14 days.’ Only 14 days left with all my friends and then I would be whisked off to the other side of the world. I spent the rest of the night writing. I wrote to god, I wrote to the prime minister, I wrote to my relatives, I wrote to anyone I could think of that could stop this from happening. When I finished I climbed onto my bed and hugged my pillow while I cried myself to sleep.
*a week later*
I still hadn’t told my friends that I was leaving, I didn’t know how to. If I couldn’t accept that I was moving, how would they? Telling them would just make the nightmare become reality. It was easier to pretend it wasn’t going to happen. The morning after mum told me the bad news, I started my game of pretending. I acted like nothing happened and nothing was bothering me and if mum tried to talk to me about it I would change the subject or quickly find a reason to leave the room. I ignored the pile of boxes she left in my room for me to put everything in. but the reality was that I had 7 days left with my friends and there was nothing I could do to stop it.
I made up my mind to tell everyone. I would do it today. I got out of bed and got ready for school. I grabbed a banana and sat down at the table to eat it. Mum walked into the kitchen, ‘morning sweetie, have you packed-‘
I cut her off, ‘morning mum, can I have some friends over tonight?’ I smiled at her.
‘yeah, I guess so, but sooner or later you will have to accept tha-‘
‘THANKS MUM! BYE!’ I cut her off again and ran out of the house, grabbing my school bag on the way. I started walking to the corner to meet Lauren. We always walk to school together. I sat down on the ground to wait for her. I wasn’t waiting too long, lauren came up behind me and hugged me.
‘hey!’ she half yelled. I laughed at her, she was always so happy and excited.
‘hi lauren! Do you wanna come over tonight?’ I yelled back to her. we started walking together, talking about the weekend.
‘YES!’ she said straight away, ‘ill come home with you tonight!’ lauren didn’t need to bring any stuff, she was over so often that most of her clothes were already at my house. She had her own draw in my room for all her stuff and she even had her own toothbrush. It was going to be hard to say goodbye. We walked into the school gates and headed to our lockers. we put our bags away and searched for the rest of our group. We found them at one of the tables. ‘hey girls!’ I yelled to them, while waving. They all waved back to me. There was Matilda, Jess, Amy and Kelsey. Lauren and I walked over. ‘do you guys wanna come over tonight?’ I asked them.
