Accidentally on purpose
Chapter 1 - a new beginning
I took a quick look in the huge mirror in the hall way to check my long curly red hair was perfect and my skin was still looking nice I nodded and walked to the door "bye!" I shouted hoping Erin would hear me.
"Bye Alice" I heard Erin shout back "see you later"
It was the day before we were starting the new boarding and I was going to boots to get some stuff we'd forgotten about. I was walking up and down the aisles checking for the stuff we needed when I spotted the makeup, I suddenly stopped and panicked MAKE UP I thought, we'd forgotten make up! Remembering that I didn't have enough to last a whole month, I picked up my favourites and got Erin's too. Of course I knew exactly what to get as we had been living together since well what felt like together a long with a load of other children at the dumping ground but now that we were older we had applied of scholarships at a boarding school in London and been accepted. Once I'd finished the shopping I went and payed with all the pocket money I had left since I'd spent a lot of it on clothes and uniform for the new school.
Once I was home I went up to our room and saw Erin sitting n the bed her shoulder length brown her was sitting on her shoulder and her beautiful green eyes were looking wide awake. I emptied the contense of the bag onto the bed to show Erin she also agreed that she needed more makeup and payed me for her half. I then looked at my bed and realised she'd finished my packing.
"Thanks Erin!" I said hugging her
"No worries I had time and you'd gone into town to get some stuff for me so I thought it was only fair" She replied with a huge grin on her face
"Nock nock nock" said mike, our care worker, from the door way holding a tray with two plates of vegetarian spaghetti bolognaise.
"Come in" me and Erin replied in unison smiling.
"I thought I'd do you an early tea so you can get to bed early since you have an early start tomorrow" Mike said grinning
"Thanks" me and Erin replied together again
"No problem, just leave the plates outside your door and I'll get them later"
"Bye" me and Erin said after each other and then started eating.
"I'm finished so I'm going to go have a shower,, be back in a bit" I explained to Erin.
"Ok, I'll have one after you then" Erin agreed.
I'd had my shower and I was packing my shampoo, conditioner and shower gel into one bag, then my other toiletries into another then i did the same for Erin's.
"I'm going to kill you" Erin said from the door in a jokey voice.
"What?" I asked
"You used up all the hot water" Erin complained
"SORRY!" I told her apologetically "anyway I did your toiletries and shampoo etc so where do you want them?"
"Just in my night bag in top of my stuff please" she asked
"ok" I replied stuffing her stuff into her night bag, for the boarding school we had three separate bags, one for all out main clothes and uniform that would be sent to a special room when we got there for forbidden items, a smaller one that was called our 'over night' case that contained our toiletries, pyjamas and a uniform (for the next day) and finally our travel bag that contained anything we wanted it to. The forbidden items were: alcohol, drugs and sharp objects. We were aloud our phones as long as we weren't on them in lessons which made a change since in our last school we weren't aloud them at all.
"What do you think it's gonna be like? Sharing a room with three other girls" I asked Erin climbing into bed.
"Different" Erin answered "but fun" she reassured me with a smile.
"Night" I said into the darkness
"Night" Erin replied "I'll wake you up at 4 to leave at 5.30
"Ok" I answered.
Erin P.O.V
"Night" Alice shouted over to me
"Night" I replied "I'll wake you up at 4 to leave at 5.30"
"Ok" she answered
I lay there in bed thinking of what the new school would be like. I was scared, of course, anyone starting a new school would be, but I couldn't let her know. She was nervous enough. I looked over at her bed to see her tossing and turning, but before I knew it I was dosing off to sleep so I shut my eyes and drifted off to a dreamy land.
"BLEEP BLEEP BLEEP" I heard my alarm bleeping down my ear.
"Alice" I shouted "Alice" I screamed "wake up its 4 am"
"Urgh" Alice groaned pulling herself from her bed "I'm going to get a shower to wake up then, that ok?" she questioned me
"Yeah that's fine, I'll start taking our stuff down stairs and make some breakfast you all packed?" I asked
Alice P.O.V
"Urgh" I groaned pulling trying to get out of bed "I'm going to get a shower to wake up then, that ok?" I asked Erin
"Yeah that's fine, I'll start taking our stuff down stairs and make some breakfast you all packed?" Erin asked.
Once I was out of the shower I quickly got dressed and went down stairs for breakfast.
"Thanks" I said to Erin, realising shed made fruit and waffles, my faviroute.
"Nice to see you two up bright eyed and bushy tailed" Mike said walking towards us "I came down to see you off"
"Thanks" we both smiled tucking into our waffles.
"Ding dong" we heard the door bell go.
"I'll go" Mike told us "you two go and quickly say bye to the others, there in your room, and I'll put your bags in the taxi"
"Ok thanks" I and Erin said together
Once we'd said our goodbyes we were in the taxi waving to what had been our home for the last 12 years "bye" we shouted out the window tears coming to my eyes.
"Don't cry" Erin told me "this is a new beginning no one has to know where we came from or that we're not really related, do you remember our story?"
"yes of course I do: we're Alice and Erin and were from a place just outside of Chester, we're sister's but our mum and dad have passed away so our uncle Mike looks after us and a whole bunch of other kids in a big house" I said grinning
"I'm proud of you!" Erin said as I lay my head on her shoulder
"You too!" I agreed falling asleep
"Alice, Wake up" Erin said shaking me "we're nearly at the train station so get your stuff together"
"Ok" I said rubbing my eyes.
"Here we go" said the taxi driver "I'll help you get your bags out"
"Thanks" Erin replied, turning to me she said "you go register us and I'll get our bags"
"Ok" I said, ready for a new start.
"Alice Shanahan and Erin Lowe" I told the woman who I assumed was a teacher from our new school.
"Please leave your suitcases in that pile" she told us pointing over to a pile of big suitcases "then you're in carriage 17, rows 6 and 7, seats E and F" she instructed us handing us out tickets. We placed our bags on the pile and made our way to our seats, realising we were in the first class carriage I grinned, our seats looked so posh they were like sofas but one each and they face each other with a massive table in between us. I lay down and grinned at Erin.
"A new start" I told her as they started bringing fancy food to us and laying it on our table