Forgotten Girl by Naomi Jacobs

Author:Naomi Jacobs [Jacobs, Naomi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pan Books

The voice grew quiet, the image disappeared. I stood in the darkness, in the silence, and then I remembered. It all came flooding back and I remembered what happened next. The image appeared again on the other side of me and I saw it all.

I was lying on my bed writing and then I heard the front door close and I knew it was my mum. I went downstairs to say hello but changed my mind because her face was like thunder. She didn’t notice me at first until I asked her about money and whether I could go out. This seemed to cause some offence because she freaked out and I just, like, froze on the spot and watched her face change and twist into a tormented anger.

She started to shout at me that she had had enough of my questions, had enough of me.

I exploded. ‘What?’ I shouted back at her. ‘Like, me being here is causing you some form of spaz attack?’

‘You have to go,’ she shouted and waved her arms at me.

I wanted to storm off upstairs like I normally do but I couldn’t move; my legs were stuck and I just stood there and watched her carefully. I was kinda not breathing, hoping she would get lost in her rage and start talking to herself like she sometimes does. Then suddenly something snapped inside me.

‘NO! I’ve had enough of you and I’m sick of hearing about my laziness and bad attitude. I’m frickin’ revising for my GCSEs and if you don’t like it, well then, that’s your problem, ’cause I HAVE TO DO MY EXAMS!!!’

‘And then what?’ she shouted back.

‘What d’ya mean, then what?’ I screamed at her.

‘What the frig are you going to do after your exams, ’cause you’re not staying here anymore?’

Are you kidding me? ‘What do you mean? I’ve got school and my—’

‘School’s finished! You’re not going back to school,’ she said.

‘But I’m gonna stay on or go to college with my friends.’

‘Oh no.’ My mum then walked off into the kitchen but I stayed in the living room, totally stunned from what she had just said.

‘You’re not staying here, fuck that!’ she screamed from the kitchen. ‘You’re not going to college here. You’ve left school, there’s nothing for you here.’ She came back to the door, wagging her finger at me.

I sat down on the sofa in shock. I mean, what the smeg? I couldn’t stay?

‘And what friends? You’ve got no friends! Where are they? Simone’s the one with friends, you haven’t friggin’ got any!’ she shouted.

That was it. I stood up ready for a fight but she bounced through the door back into the kitchen, where she angrily informed the pots and pans that I was a lazy bastard, I had no friends and no life and I wasn’t staying in her house any longer.

I was speechless. I mean, totally in shock. I mean, all’s I wanted was some pocket money and it ended with the reality that as soon

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