When I got home I checked around downstairs for dad, he wasn’t there. I went upstairs and looked through all the rooms, empty. He was gone- wasn’t he? No goodbye or anything, he just left me here, no baby sitter or friends. No parents, no life. No nothing.

I went into my bedroom, turned on my laptop and kicked off my muddy black ankle boots. I needed to get out of here now, before mom came back and right after dad left. I opened my bookmarked pages and found a school that looked like it would accept anyone; Shefton Camp School. I tried the name out few times, letting my tongue flick- I’d need to get used to it.

It was my new life.

I padded over to my walk in wardrobe and grabbed a duffel bag and started throwing in clothes, shoes and make up. I’d have to buy food later.

I snapped my laptop shut and threw it on top of the clothes then zipped up, this was it. I was really doing this- leaving Michael, Elliot and Summer. Leaving mom and dad. I stopped frantically looking for things to add to my bag and looked over to the picture of the three of us on my desk. I couldn’t stop complete contact with them- they were my mom and dad. The reason I’d been brought into this world. And the reason my life had been completely ruined. But...