Diary of a Teen

Diary of a NEW Teen -20th August

Kamimura Mizuki– Diary of a New Teen 

Friday August 20th – 8.45pm

Dear Diary,

Hello.

Well, this is kind of awkward, isn’t it? Yeah… I’ve never had a diary before so this feels just a bit weird. Mum and Dad paired up and got me this notebook making me to promise to write in it often. Apparently, Mrs. Lewycka, my psychologist in Oxford, had told me that if I wasn’t going to get a new psychologist here I should have someone I could talk to everything about. Clearly my parents weren’t ready to offer their time, so a diary would have to do.

They were probably also getting incredibly annoyed with me constantly complaining about the move and thought a diary would keep my mouth shut, well, I’m planning on making more of a fuss about it. They have to learn that I’m their daughter; they can’t keep throwing me away hoping I’ll get off from under their feet. When I was younger they constantly hired child minders to take me to and from school, to make breakfast, lunch and dinner… My parents, in all honesty, were, oh sorry, are, no closer to me than my psychologist was.   

Anyway, I’ve wasted enough paper on them… I’m kind of half glad they got me this diary anyway, who knows how long it’ll be till I get a friend around here? I need something to keep my sanity.

One problem with moving is losing friends upon friends upon friends and having to make more. Oh, and the unpacking.

Oh, and not being able to guarantee what horrible thing could happen when you walk through the school gates for the first time, like maybe my skirt tucked into my pants for example which would ruin a person.

It could happen.

And I’ve been thinking too, as I was walking Lily (my beautiful German Shepherd) down the beach, people are watching me, you know? It was quite late when I was walking her, and I saw a group of teens sitting in an odd-shaped circle on the sand, chatting and stuff, leaving me with a pang of depression deep in my heart, and just at that moment, Lily decided to start barking and running around my legs like mad, causing me to trip over her lead and all of those teens including others walking past stared and laughed.

Who knew which of them were students in my class? My school? Had I already doomed myself to be labelled a loser? The girl with the mad dog?

I actually felt physically sick and wanted to end my life, no joke, but I untangled myself from Lily as quickly as I could and headed back home, cutting her walk short. Hey, she shouldn’t have embarrassed me like that!

Seriously.

Anyways, I’m tired now; too tired to go jogging tonight. I guess I’ll start tomorrow. I’m thinking I should jog early in the mornings this year, because last year I would jog late at night but sometimes I was just too exhausted. But then I’d have to wake up extra early for school… Huh. Things to think about…

Yeah, so, bye diary, until next time…

Mizuki x

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Mizuki shut her pink diary and sighed heavily. She looked around her room. Done. Almost looked like her room back home. In Oxford anyway. She’d moved a lot in the last fourteen and a half years of her life, but she’d been promised by her parents that she would stay in the same place for the next two; her education depended on it. She wasn’t happy though. She didn’t want her parents to stop moving her around because of her education, she wanted them to stop simply because it affected her. She wanted them to care about her, not the stupid grades she got. Tears threatened to spill from her eyes but she wiped them away before they had a chance to fall.

That was why she loved running. She could clear her head. Forget about her parents and just enjoy the environment around her. Running with the wind flying around her in all directions was the best, feeling her blood pumping through her veins…

Mizuki stood up abruptly and hurried to her wardrobe. Forget exhaustion; she needed to run. To escape the way she knew how.

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Note:

I know this is a short first chapter, but the next couple are much longer.

Next entry: Aiden Finch.