The sun is also a star:
Chapter 4:
Pub owner's son: The night's events hang over me, as my eyes grow heavy and my dad comes out of sleep, shouting at me once again. He says I am useless, that the pub is a state. I can barely focus on him, as sleep clings on to me beckoning me to give into it. I daze of into half-sleep as I think over the events last night again and as I think, I can hear plates being smashed in the background.
My hands become numb as I clean the tables and un-box food. The pub is unknown so it is difficult to earn enough money to keep us in business and to pay the bills. I say we, as in my lousy dad and I. My dad is behind the counter of the drinks bar, his arms and head sprawled across the table. His hangover is wearing over as he sleeps, leaving me to run the pub. The night is trudging on, as I am taken by surprise when a group of people stroll in laughing. The group are ecstatic and their noise causes my dad to be shook out of sleep. My dad mumbles a few curses, before grumbling out to the group: "You have to buy something to stay otherwise get the hell out of here." The girl with an afro dyed pink at the tips, looks up at the menu written in chalk before ordering chunky chips. Even after my dad's rude introduction, they still stay laughing and talking as they sit themselves at the table in the corner. For a moment, I hate the group, even though they are customers, for waking my dad up as I prepare the chunky chips. However, when I come out from the kitchen my dad is nowhere to be seen and the TV is unusually loud. The news lady talks about a girl who took her life, I have a desire to turn it off but instead I walk over to the group, hot chunky chips steaming my hand off. I – quickly and quietly- slip the chips onto the cracked table before collecting the money from the girl with the afro. A sob comes out, and I look up to see the girl with light hair howling with tears. The girl looks dreadful, as she chokes on her tears: her light brown hair is stuck to her face, from her tears in loose strands; her eyes are pacing around as she mumbles whispers under her breath; she is shaking with sorrow and the girl with the afro is soothing her sobs. I leave after glancing at her, as I note to self, that I stood for a long time at the table and I curse at myself for being so rude. I am meant to invite to people to this small pub that is nearly broke, I'm not meant to scare them away.
The night drags on and my head is banging from exhaustion, I turned the TV off long ago but my ears are still ringing even though no noise fills the pub but sad small sobs from across the room. For a moment, I linger around the kitchen tidying up counters that aren't even dirty that is when I have enough courage to peel the floorboard near the bin up. I gasp a sigh of relive to know my sketchbook is safe and sound. Reaching out for the sketchbook, my head shoots pain through my body, I turned around to see my dad about to kick me again. His hungover was nearly over, but he just increased it for tomorrow morning, my dad holds a beer in his hand laughing at my misery. His white vest top is soaked through with alcohol stains as he grands my sketchbook, I cling onto it until I am floating mid-air. He shakes the sketchbook and I hear my back cracking before I stumble away holding my head. That is when I start hearing plates being smashed, I run into the main section hoping the group are still there. However, they are not and I sprint to the end of the room where they were at. I slide into the booth they were sat at and find a note under the uneaten stone-cold chips. My head is banging with pain, as a smile covers my face as I read the note over again before tucking the tip they left in my pocket. The pain surges through me as I hide lying in the booth, my eyelids become heavy as I hear the smashing of plates as I doze off….
A/N: I am very sorry for the short paragraph, I lost the chapter and accidently posted a scrap one that is the reason it was so small. I haven't had time to write the length of the chapter I lost and want to keep up with my uploading days. I am sorry and will try my best to get you a long chapter alongside a new story xxx