Chapter 6: Friends and Paths

Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.- Proverbs 3: 5-6

I thought I was going to hate my school, it just seemed so gloomy and dark, the teachers were strict and professional looking, but they were nice. Caring, understanding. Plenty of the staff had graduated here, their own parents not wanting them so they had been dumped at the school.

It had four floors, the first was where all the classes were held, the basement the kitchen, the second was the dorms, and the last floor was storage. It was large and fit about one hundred girls, we had seven classes per day, about twenty or 10 for each class, no class was bigger than 25. The schedule wnet something like this.

Day 1:

Math

Science

Cooking

lunch/break- 1 hour 30 minutes

Cooking

Physical Activity

English

History

Day 2

Etiquette

Social studies

Martial Arts

Lunch/break - 1 hour and 40 minutes

Martial Arts

Language

Art
Free block

We had ten minutes between each block and Cissy and I had many classes together, we were the best of friends and would work on many projects together. I had also joined the girls Volleyball team, swimming and choir.

Cissy joined the maths club, etoquite club and the choir and musical instruments. Cissy and I were friends and i was glad, she helped me with many things that I didn't understand, she had laughed when I asked her how she knew them. "I have two older sisters that went here." she had said.

Another part of our group was a girl from the Americas named Kelly Londerstrong, Narcissa had raised an eyebrow and had nodded to the girl who had smiled. They talked and became friends. Later on into the year, I had made another friend named Christy Saunders with a happy cheery attitude.

We were inseparable, best of friends, learning and having fun together. But it all went downhill from their.

It was a saturday, and all my friends and I were reading, when Madam Missy waslked down, her face was sad, mom stood behind her slightly, but I would seee something was wrong. It was in the air and mom was crying... she never cries.

"Petunia... Your father has passed away." she sobbed out. "You are coming home for the funeral, Pack a light bag." She says and dabs a tissue to her eyes.

My father died. Mom and Lily had come to collect me for the funeral, I loved my dad, but he and mom were quite cruel to me at times, and that was what got on my nerves! So I didn't cry with my current company, I just sat straight faced and nodded to the many people I didn't know.

It all changed, mom didn't have enough money to continue at my school, because father was paying for it, so I was tutored by adults in all subjects.

Lily fought with me, and all I ever wanted was my family accept me, even just because I couldn't do the weird thing Lily could.