Deadly Secrets

Chapter One

I plodded along the road, scuffing my brand new school shoes on the hard asphalt. There was an uninteresting daisy growing by the side of the pavement. It was exactly the distraction I had  been looking for to halt me in my tracks. Every day for the past two weeks there had been one excuse after another for me being late home after school.  It's not that I felt there was anything wrong at home, it's just that every time I came home, my mother started going on about the new house and, quite frankly, I didn't want to move at all. I didn't want to move to Battersea. I didn't want to go to Battersea Comprehensive. I wanted to stay at home.  Nobody understood those simple words. Every time I said them, I'd just get the reply, "Well, that's a sweet thing to say dear, but, really, you'll be happy in Battersea." Honestly! I would never be happy there because it's near the water. I absolutely despise water.

Ruth, Year Six