It had been two weeks since my dad had died, I didn't want anyone else to know not even the school, I was still going there to get an education and I was trying my best to act like everything was fine because all I could think about was one slip up and I would end up in the care system and I might not even live in Ackley anymore and as I know that being here has given me so much grief and trouble I just don't think I would ever want to leave it. I have all my friends here to look after me, I haven't even asked for their help yet because they think that I have been coping well on my own and in a sense I actually have. Although I have told them that I am living with my aunt from my mum's side of the family they believe me when I say that but actually that's not the case at all- far from it actually, I've still been living at home on my own without anybody to look after me because I didn't need looking after I can look after myself it's not that hard so whenever Missy or Nas ask me about staying with my aunt is going I always have to put on a big fake smile and say that everything is fine when in reality I'm the loneliest person to ever exist. When I'm at school I just end up going straight to the student lounge and I sit by myself to get work done and pay bills for the house just so it looks like my dad is still there, I see Cory about school and I sometimes see him with Florence but I don't know if they're actually together or not, when they're together she's always laughing with him and I think I got the wrong idea about her she seems happy with him and quite surprisingly he seems happy with her but whenever he tries to talk to me I have the immense feeling flush over my body and take over like I have to tell him everything because that is what I'm used to doing but not anymore. I avoid him as much as possible I don't surround myself with him anymore it's like the few months that I have been at this school revolved around him and in my mind I'm trying to act like that never happened but yet I still can't get him off my mind.
Tuesday morning and it was two weeks until the performance, I was stressed and things were only getting so much worse for me with all the bills and school work and then there's the play, having to direct people on what to say and what to do. But it was my only means of escape, being there for six hours plus another one for preparations of the play; being at the school let me be a normal kid again just for a few hours at least. I walked to school on my own and when I eventually got to school I saw Florence walking across the court yard, I flipped my head around briefly and saw her walking over to Cory who was sitting on the top of the bench, I needed to walk over to them because Riz was over there and I needed to give him his script since he had lost his original copy, I took a deep breath and made my way over to the small group of people.
"Oh hey Lee." Nav smiled over at me so I smiled back at him and I noticed Cory look up from his lap, his eyes caught mine and I smiled at him a little bit before turning back to face Riz and Nav,
"Hiya, Riz I have your copy of the script." I tell him as I get it out of my bag and hand it to him
"Ah great!" He smiled at me as he took the copy from my hands,
"I'll see you in English?" I looked over at Cory and I think it shocked him a little bit that I was talking to him.
"U-um y-yeah I'll see you later L." He said to me and I smiled back at him before walking inside the school and heading straight for the student lounge where I saw Nas and Missy sitting on the sofas waiting for me.
"Hey Lee." Missy said as I sat down next to her and she hugged me with a smile
"You alright?" Nas asked me curiously,
"I'm fine just a little stressed that's all, because I have school work to do and then the exams and then I have the play to organise." I told them both and they nodded their heads at me
"You'll be fine you always are and you always do well with dealing with pressure and stress." Nas said to me and I nodded my head at her before the bell went for the start of our first class of the day, I walked with Nas down the corridor and as we were walking past the lockers we past Mrs Bell who stopped when she saw me,
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