Playlist for a Broken Heart
“New nightmare. April the eighth. It was a day I’d been dreading ever since I’d heard that I’d be changing schools, though part of me had blocked it out as far as I could because I knew it wasn’t going to be easy.
Tasmin and I got up the next morning, had breakfast, then got a lift with Uncle Mike who teaches music at the same school. Tasmin was in the black-and-white uniform of the school with her skirt hoiked short as usual. I’d been told I was OK to wear my own clothes until I got the uni...form but I’d dressed in a pair of black trousers and white shirt so that I didn’t stand out as the newbie too much.
I felt removed from what was going on like it was happening to someone else and any moment I’d snap out of the numb state of mind I was in, wake up and things would be back to normal. The last few weeks would all have been a bad dream. As I sat in the back of the car and looked out of the window at the cars and buses filled with pupils heading for the same school, I felt my stomach churn with anxiety.MoreLess
Tasmin and I got up the next morning, had breakfast, then got a lift with Uncle Mike who teaches music at the same school. Tasmin was in the black-and-white uniform of the school with her skirt hoiked short as usual. I’d been told I was OK to wear my own clothes until I got the uni...form but I’d dressed in a pair of black trousers and white shirt so that I didn’t stand out as the newbie too much.
I felt removed from what was going on like it was happening to someone else and any moment I’d snap out of the numb state of mind I was in, wake up and things would be back to normal. The last few weeks would all have been a bad dream. As I sat in the back of the car and looked out of the window at the cars and buses filled with pupils heading for the same school, I felt my stomach churn with anxiety.MoreLess
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