Life According To Amber Lynn Haner

*Amber's POV*

Im being sent back to school today, but it hasn't really bothered me all that much. I haven't really had much to do for two weeks, and it started to take a toll on me. The only thing that's actually going to bother me is the people that I go to school with. Apart from Danny, Kirsty (the girl from my volleyball team) is the only other person I'd be friendly with. I can't stand the rest of them.

Things were going great until break. My English teacher (I'm in the lowest-level of English because I have mild dyslexia) was delighted to see me back, and the same with my math teacher. But Amelia, not so much. Ever since I started here, she's had it in for me. I don't know why, but she's never liked me, even though I've done nothing to her. It just pisses me off, yknow?!

"You'd better watch where you're going, Amber." She spat, as she knocked into me and caused me to drop some of my books.

"Uh, CLEARLY to anybody with eyes and a brain, you walked smack into ME, not the other way around." I spat back, picking my books up off of the floor.

"Yeah? At least I don't slit my wrists! What would your emo dad and his emo friends say about that? Huh?" I rolled my sleeves back down, after realising I'd probably shoved them up accidentally during chemistry.

"Hey, pick on me all you want, but bring my dad and my uncles into it and I'll literally punch you in the throat."

"What about your dead mom? What would she say about all of this?" Now she'd crossed the line.

"Listen to me, you shut your motormouth before I beat your ass. I took jujitsu for ten years, and kick-boxing for six. I'm not afraid to hit you." I spoke lowly, and she backed off slightly.

"This isn't over, Haner."

"Wouldn't dream of it, Del Gado." She then sashayed off, while I went into my next class. She pissed me off so much I literally wanted to snap her neck, or stab her fifty fucking times.

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After the bell rang, I headed straight outside to where Dad was meant to be picking me up. I have my last three classes everyday in Learning Support, as everybody else is doing their extra languages (for example, Danny has a double French lesson, followed by a Spanish class). As I have dyslexia, I don't have to do any other language, and instead I get help with math or whatever, so 99% of the time I get most of my homework done.

I stood outside the school gates, fiddling with my earphones and not minding anything else, when Val drove up beside me, and told me to hop into the passenger seat.

"Where's my dad?" I asked, confused as to why he wasn't picking me up. He always picks me up, so it was weird that he didn't today.

"He and the guys are working on stuff back at your house, so I said I'd pick you up for him. So anyways, did you have a good day at school?" She replied, before driving off towards my place.

"It was alright, I guess. I got all of my homework done in Learning Support, so my evening is free." I decided not to mention the stuff about Amelia, as if I tell Val, she'll get worried and tell Dad, and then he'll be up at school and the principal will blow a gasket. He doesn't like me very much.

"Thats good. Do you like doing the learning support? Your dad was saying you've really come on in your other subjects because of it, so he's happy about that."

"Yeah, I think it's great. The teacher's my English teacher, and she's lovely, so it's twice as good."

"Sorry to cut things short, but is it alright if I drop you off here? I've to pick the kids up from Michelle's, and I'm a teeny bit late! I'm so sorry Amber, I'll make it up to you, I promise."

"Don't worry, Val, it's fine. It'll take me all of three minutes to walk home, so it's all good. Tell the kids and Michelle I said hi, would ya?"

"Sure thing, I'll see you later." I waved goodbye and she drove off, leaving me to make my way home.

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I made it home and put my keys in the door, before I was literally slapped in the face with a smell of some sort of meat. As I'm a polovegetarian, the smell of meat itself, except for chicken, will literally make me sick to my stomach.

"Im home!" I called, flinging my backpack on the stairs and throwing my keys on the table in the hall.

"In the kitchen!" Johnny yelled back, and I made my way to the kitchen, only to be greeted by more of that meat-smell, and five men in hoodie tops, sweatpants and Nikes.

"Christ, what's that smell?!" I was gagging at this point, because it was literally that bad.

"We got barbecue-flavoured kebabs earlier, but we forgot about them and they went cold. We're heating them back up in the oven." Zacky stated, like it was the most obvious thing in the world.

"That smells literally disgusting, how do you guys stomach it?"

"We're men, we can stomach it." Matt said, and I frown and pouted slightly. He was being so sarcastic to me and I'm only home.

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Ten minutes later, we were sat around the kitchen table, they all ate their barbecue-flavoured kebabs while Dad made me mac n cheese, as I flat-out refused to eat any of that kebab meat, even though Arin offered me some on numerous occasions.

That was was followed by a few hours of playing GTA5. It was a little warm, so I had to roll my sleeves up. They all saw my scars. I even noticed Zacky wince a few times at the sight of them.

Dad sent me up to bed at half eight, as I had to shower and everything. After giving all of the guys a hug goodnight, I ran upstairs for my shower, and was in bed by a quarter past nine.

Dad and I have our little thing where he always tucks me into bed and says goodnight, because he knows I like it a lot. As usual, he came up and gave me my hug and a kiss on my forehead, before tucking me in.

"Night Monkey, I love you lots." Dad gave me another hug before getting up to head back downstairs.

"Night Dad, I love you lots too." I half-smiled, before he left. I then slowly but surely fell asleep, wondering what Amelia was going to say to me tomorrow.

Notes

Ooh, a decent sub-plot is finally happening XD

Am I the only one who thinks that Knives And Pens by Black Veil Brides sounds a lot like Unholy Confessions by A7X? (Lol I posted this on my IG earlier for those of you that may follow me (I'm @ptvtara))

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