Year 11, the year I sat my GCSE's. The year everyone looks forward to. The year you get to leave high school. The year everyone thinks will be amazing, enjoyable and unforgettable. The year that tore me apart.
My year was meant to be fantastic in the place I grew up, the place I knew, the place I called home, Newcastle. I planned on becoming a more organized and focused version of myself. I would have made time to spend with family and friends where I would make amazing memories I wouldn’t forget, the kind you tell your grandchildren about in the future. I should be able to reminisce about my memories I've made with my family and friends before we all went our separate ways and still be able to smile about them. This is how I wished my year went but that …show more content…
You'd always see me with one headphone in singing out loud. I'd be laughing with my group of best friends probably about something stupid, something I wouldn't even remember now. But what changed? What made me into the girl I am now? There were seven of us. Seven best friends. Don’t get me wrong I had other really close friends too but they are the ones you would see me with the most. They were the seven people I could call family. Arguments began to arise and again out of nowhere I was stuck in the middle of something I didn’t want to be part of but I had no control. It was like someone had a remote to my life, they controlled what went on around me like it was on a never ending loop of disappointment and frustration. Three of my best friends went to war with each other, two v one. It chocked me up, feeling forced into picking a side. It was like I had a rope around my neck and they were the ones pulling either side. Cutting off my oxygen supply until I gave in and chose. But there was no options they were my best friends, the girls I called
My year was meant to be fantastic in the place I grew up, the place I knew, the place I called home, Newcastle. I planned on becoming a more organized and focused version of myself. I would have made time to spend with family and friends where I would make amazing memories I wouldn’t forget, the kind you tell your grandchildren about in the future. I should be able to reminisce about my memories I've made with my family and friends before we all went our separate ways and still be able to smile about them. This is how I wished my year went but that …show more content…
You'd always see me with one headphone in singing out loud. I'd be laughing with my group of best friends probably about something stupid, something I wouldn't even remember now. But what changed? What made me into the girl I am now? There were seven of us. Seven best friends. Don’t get me wrong I had other really close friends too but they are the ones you would see me with the most. They were the seven people I could call family. Arguments began to arise and again out of nowhere I was stuck in the middle of something I didn’t want to be part of but I had no control. It was like someone had a remote to my life, they controlled what went on around me like it was on a never ending loop of disappointment and frustration. Three of my best friends went to war with each other, two v one. It chocked me up, feeling forced into picking a side. It was like I had a rope around my neck and they were the ones pulling either side. Cutting off my oxygen supply until I gave in and chose. But there was no options they were my best friends, the girls I called