Chapter
1-Something weird Is going on
Hope Smithleton,
a ten year old girl, was considered different from everyone else. She was
always described as slow minded by everyone who knew her, including most of her
school teachers; of course they did not say to her face. She was always in the
lower class at school, no matter how hard she tried; she just could not
understand the work like the other pupils could. This led to Hope feeling
depressed and feeling self-conscience, as she just wanted to make her parents
proud of her, and to find an ambition.
Her
parents, called Freya and Jack Smithleton, made her go to Kingsthorne Primary
School. It was just a normal typical school, with light blue gates that you had
to go through and out every day to get into the school, and most likely at
these gates you would see parents having a chat, or children kicking and
screaming to get home. In the school playground there was loads of equipment,
such as a big train, which had loads of games to keep the children entertained,
but what the children loved most of all was the big red horn on the train. When
the children could see a teacher was busy they would keep pressing the horn, which once resulted in
the teacher getting a shock of her life and she toppled backwards revealing her
underwear, she quit her job straight after; while commenting on how
uncontrollable the children were.
The inside of the school was very colourful and all the walls had pieces of work that all the previous and current students had done, of course none of Hopes work was found anywhere, as her work ‘was not good enough; the walls were known as the walls of fame.
The inside of the school was very colourful and all the walls had pieces of work that all the previous and current students had done, of course none of Hopes work was found anywhere, as her work ‘was not good enough; the walls were known as the walls of fame.
The
headmistress of Kingsthorne was Mrs Ager. She had curly ginger hair, and she
was always smiling, and had a good taste in clothing. Mrs Ager understood Hope
more than the other teachers did, she believed that every person has potential
in life, some just take longer than others to find what that is. In fact if it
was not for Mrs Ager, Hope would have probably been kicked out the school ages
ago. She admired her head teacher for giving her chance after chance. Hope
always got sent to the headmistress’s room, if not twice a day, then at least
every day by her teachers, for not paying attention, or having an argument with
another pupil, because she used to always defend herself, no matter how hard it
was for her.
She
always dreaded the end of the year when her parents got her school year report;
it always said something like:
Dear
Mr and Mrs Smithleton,
I
would very much appreciate it if you could come to the school on Wednesday 11th
July, at 4:00 so we can discuss your daughter’s progress, as there seems to be some
concern, if you can’t make this meeting, please ring up the school with the
number printed at the bottom of this letter.
Kind regards Head Teacher Mrs A. Ager.”
Kind regards Head Teacher Mrs A. Ager.”
When
Hopes parents came back from all the meetings, they were usually stressed and
angry, and they took their anger out on Hope. “How come you can’t be like your
sister, why can’t you just work harder, instead of starting arguments with
other pupils,” Shouted Hopes Mother after coming back from yet another meeting.
“They are thinking of expelling you, the amount of times you have been sent to
the headmistress’s office, I have lost count” commented Hopes Mother.
Hope
definitely did not act like her fifteen year old sister Nicole, and she
certainly looked nothing like her. Her sister had brown, thin, mid length hair
and brown eyes, and was very tall for her age, and she had very good hearing,
perhaps the reason for this is because Nicole was always on the phone. Nicole
looked a lot like their dad, Hope always heard people saying this to her when
they went to visit a family member or to visit some friends. Hope on the other
hand looked more like their mother, with long silvery thick hair and bright big
sky blue eyes, and fair clear perfect skin, and was always being criticized
about something; such as ‘You need to gain more weight’ or ‘you look ill.’
However
what made Hope different from everyone else was not her looks, or the way she
acted, it was because she had something called turner syndrome, which made Hope
smaller than most people. Hope did not like being small, but people always told
her “Having turner syndrome does not make you much different from everyone else,
it makes you special, only 1 in 2,000 people have this, you don’t want to be
tall do you, at least when you are a bit older you can
wear high heels and not look silly.”
Despite being called slow minded and being sent to the teachers office every day, Hope enjoyed spending time with the friends she had at school, and most importantly she loved the adventures her and her friends pretended to have at break time.
Hopes favourite adventure was pirates, where her and her friends pretended to be pirates and find the lost treasure, which involved them using conkers that fell onto the ground from the conker tree on the way to the swimming baths for lessons every Monday, and using the train with the big red horn as their ship. They had different adventures every day until the bell went for the end of lunch. Little did Hope know that all this was about to change, this is where the story truly begins.
One
day Hope was waiting in reception for her mother to pick her up, she was half
an hour late, and she had never been late to pick her up before, unless you
count the time when she had to go to the doctors and her father was at work,
but at least then she warned her about it first. She waited an hour till her mother finally
picked her up, and she looked like she had been crying, “what’s wrong mother?”
Hope asked, knowing that something was wrong. Freya looked at her daughter, and
replied “Me and your father will tell you when we get home” Hope knew that it
was not good news, most news her mother and father had was not good news, so she
picked up her bag and walked home with her mother slowly, wondering what the
news could be.
When Hope and her mother walked in the room, she saw Nicole and Her father Jack arguing, “Is someone going to tell me what is going on?” Hope asked anxiously. “I would sit down if I was you dear” Said Jack softly, so Hope sat down. Her father had never called her dear before, this was definitely something serious.
“Well,
you see I have got a new job” explained Jack; “Congratulations dad, but what’s
the bad news?” replied Hope.
“The thing is, the new job is not around here, it’s by your auntie Anne’s” explained Jack “We are going to try and sell this house, and go live with your auntie for a while, at least until we can afford to get our own house over there.” "but she lives in the middle of nowhere, that means I will be leaving school, leaving my friends, what about going to the hospital every 6 months for a check up on my turner syndrome” cried Hope. “Darling, we spoke to her, and she is going to try and get you into your cousin Sarah’s school, it’s a boarding school called Maryvale Primary, it’s not far from where she lives, it is hidden, and not many people know about it, I am sure you will make new friends” Explained Hopes mother.
Hope and Sarah never had gotten on; whenever they met they always used to argue about something; once Sarah stole Nicole’s make-up which she got for Christmas and blamed it on Hope. Sarah was small for her age also, and she had light blonde hair which she always used to have in a bun, and she had brown narrow eyes. Hopes auntie Anne used to always stick up for her daughter, even if she was in the wrong, she would make some sort of excuse.
“The thing is, the new job is not around here, it’s by your auntie Anne’s” explained Jack “We are going to try and sell this house, and go live with your auntie for a while, at least until we can afford to get our own house over there.” "but she lives in the middle of nowhere, that means I will be leaving school, leaving my friends, what about going to the hospital every 6 months for a check up on my turner syndrome” cried Hope. “Darling, we spoke to her, and she is going to try and get you into your cousin Sarah’s school, it’s a boarding school called Maryvale Primary, it’s not far from where she lives, it is hidden, and not many people know about it, I am sure you will make new friends” Explained Hopes mother.
Hope and Sarah never had gotten on; whenever they met they always used to argue about something; once Sarah stole Nicole’s make-up which she got for Christmas and blamed it on Hope. Sarah was small for her age also, and she had light blonde hair which she always used to have in a bun, and she had brown narrow eyes. Hopes auntie Anne used to always stick up for her daughter, even if she was in the wrong, she would make some sort of excuse.
Anne had dark blonde hair and hazel eyes, and she always looked very stern and always used to give Hope the eye whenever she and Sarah had an argument. “And your sister will be going to the secondary school at Maryvale, so you won’t be far from each other, and there is a special nurse in the school itself, so you will be going there from now on for check-ups”.
“And you want
to leave as well do you Nicole?” Hope asked her sister in a stern voice. “Of course I don’t but I haven’t really got a
say in the matter, and neither have you, so that’s the end of it, if I was you
I would go and start packing as we are leaving in three days, I will come and
help you in a minute” said Nicole.
Hope ran into her room in a temper, and started crying, she did not want to leave her friends, however she could not help thinking having a new start might perhaps be a good thing.
Hope ran into her room in a temper, and started crying, she did not want to leave her friends, however she could not help thinking having a new start might perhaps be a good thing.
