Welcome to Greenbrook Academy

Part 1- Benjamin

Three days late. Why shouldn't that surprise me? I mean I spend nearly all my time waiting for him. He told me "new school, new start"  but he's not even here to say goodbye. 

"Your father will be here Benjamin. He's going to come" Charley said from the front door. Charley is my dads girlfriend. That never has stopped me hating her though. In my opinion she is only with my father because he has a large insurance plan. She takes his bank card every Saturday and she goes shopping she doesn't return till late with bags and bags of clothes. My father cant see that she's just a gold digger no matter how many times I try and warn him. "I doubt that he'll come". He just disappears for days on end then he comes back and he's got presents and says well be good for another month. "He will come Benjamin" she said again though this time i couldn't tell whether she was trying to convince me or herself. 

I can remember on my fifth birthday. I had a whole birthday planned, well my mother did. about half way through the party my father left to go upstairs. I waited downstairs whist my mother went to check on him. A whole hour had passed everyone had gone my party was over when he finally came downstairs with his leather bag and just looked at me then he left. Just like that he completely forgot about my birthday. He actually did this on several occasions, these included my seventh, tenth and fourteenth birthdays and the day my mother left me alone with him.

My father... he's well he's not here. He and my mum got a divorce and I didn't even get told till I was 10. They got the fucking divorce when I was 6. I lived with my mom till she got remarried, then that dick said it was either him or me. My mother just looked up at me through her red eyes (red because her new boyfriend got her addicted to heroin). I mean you would have thought sending her own son halfway across the country would at least make her cry. Nope she just sat there with a needle in her arm.

Looking out of living room window I saw a green minibus pull up. I guess that's my ticket out of this mess. away from Charley, away from him. My father whom I hate so much, he has never once helped or even had a proper conversation with me. its almost like he cant stand the sight of me.  Which is probably true. I mean I look like my mother, my mother who left him for leaving us alone for weeks at a time. So I'm stuck in Texas with Charley most nights. Charley who really doesn't like me, I mean I'm sure as soon as my dad learns to tell her no shell move on to someone who has more money. I mean my dad tells me he's happy but surely if he was hell stay home more. Right now he's meant to be in Japan signing a new business deal. he didn't really need to go he has people for that. I mean that's one of the perks of being the owner of the whole company. Right?  

"Come on Benjamin. Time for you to go" Charley shouted me from the open front door, bringing me out of my hatred. Her voice is so annoying, its really high pitched. I honestly don't know what my dad sees in her. Her eyes are so squinty all the time and she always seems to have a resting bitch face. I'm not even kidding when i say her nose is like Pinocchio's, I mean it literally gets bigger every time she lies. Which let me tell you is a lot.

She looked me up and down in disgust, she smirked to herself and grabbed a jacket and her keys "Hurry up you fucker I have a date". Wait a date with who, was it with that guy at the party? The guy she was flirting with. She seems to flirt with a lot of people my dad never seems to notice, its like he doesn't care. Was it just me or did she not move her mouth when she said that? No that's impossible right? I mean its not like I can read minds or anything. Is it?