Meadowbank: A dark fantasy thriller (The Shael Chronicles Book 2) by Jonathan Kent

Author:Jonathan Kent [Kent, Jonathan]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2017-04-25T04:00:00+00:00

Part 3

Elida

1

By her own admission, Elida Johnson was not a nice person. Despite - or maybe because of - her soft, middle class, suburban upbringing, she hit the self destruct button at an early age. She grew bored of school very quickly and in her early teenage years, spent more time skipping class than actually attending. Her increasingly frustrated parents were at a loss, receiving letters home on a weekly basis.

None of the normal parental tactics worked and in the last three years of her school life, she was moved six times. During this time, she had been arrested on numerous occasions and, had stumbled home way past her curfew, drunk, and out of her face, on too many times to mention. Her exasperated mother had tried confrontation and even intervention, but on each occasion had been met with torrents of abuse and absolutely zero change in behavior. Coming from a reasonably well to do portion of South East England, having a 'wild child' tag to one of your siblings was a horrendous embarrassment.

At a loss as to what to do, the subject of 'kicking her out' or as her father put it, 'letting her find her own way' had started to raise its ugly head and then Elida surprised them all by smashing her GCSE's with six grade A's and six A*'s. For a child that hardly attended school this was nothing short of a miracle. Her parents then labelled her a 'misunderstood genius' and following her one known interest (graphic horror movies) enrolled her in a media studies course at the local college.

The greater freedom the college timetable allowed caused an even further downturn in her behavior, resulting in even more letters home and threats to kick her off the courses she was enrolled in. But, two years later and with her parents at a wit's end, she pulled her second rabbit out of the hat and aced the three A-Level exams she sat. Her grades were that good she had the choice of any university and plumped for a continuation of her cinematic interests and enrolled in a Media Studies degree at the University of Brighton.

This was where the wheels really came off.

Her parents set her up in the best student accommodation their money could buy; a shared apartment block situated partway between the city centre and the campus. Being in such close vicinity to all a modern university could provide and a cultural hub of a city, was all Elida needed to completely go to town.

At the age of nineteen with a potential bright future stretched out before her, she hit rock bottom.

It was drugs of course. It's always drugs. She had crashed out on alcohol from early on and the university parties only fueled this. But after every binge (some lasting weeks as opposed to weekends) she’d managed to bounce back to a kind of normality; at least a normality that prepared her for the next binge. At college she had also dabbled in the softer drugs, with many a day lost in a weed smoke daze.

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