ENGLISH COURSEWORK - (Creative writing) The Unlucky One

Authors Avatar

Yasin Hassan

The Unlucky One.

It’s a dark and gloomy winter’s day in the south of Wales. Katie Brown wakes up to the sound of her mother saying, “Wake up, it’s time for school.” Katie was a very beautiful girl, yet she was so self-effacing and calm. She was doing exceedingly well in school with her education, and her mum considered her to be the “golden child.” Katie, unlike many of her female friends, desired to contribute more effectively to humanity, rather than what was considered a women’s job.  Katie always looked up to her father as doctor who contributed immensely to society. She too wanted to become one of the first women to break the barriers of the male dominated world. She lived with her two younger brothers who were twins and her older sister along with her mother who was unfortunately divorced. Her sister was always the mutinous and rebellious one that always did something wrong and was shouted at. She found her brothers bothersome yet she loved them with all her heart. Katie had to live a dual life almost as she was mainly the cleaner of the house as her mother needed help with housework and she also had to go to school.

One day Katie was making her way to school. She was in year 11 and was facing the many stresses of passing her exams which would shape her life. On this meticulous day Katie was running late and she left the house in a very bad state. She arrived late to school. Mr Syed, the math’s teacher asked her, “where is your homework” in a very angry manner and she replied by saying, “I forgot to do it sir, I didn’t have time. I had to help out my mother.” The math’s teacher upon hearing these excuses became red with anger and said, “NO excuses young lady.” Not knowing that Mr Syed only cared about her passing her exam, she replied by saying, “leave me alone, I can’t do it anymore, I HATE my life.” Mr Syed became speechless as he was not use to this character of Katie. He always knew her as a well mannered girl so he knew that something must be wrong in the family. He replied in a shocked manner, “go to the head teacher’s office.”

Upon reaching the head teacher’s office her heart started to beat ten times faster as she started to think about her perfect record which she kept ever since she was in year 7. However that was the least of her worries as when she reached for the door handle on the head teacher’s office her hand started to quiver with fear as all the memories of her mother saying, “Your sister has hurt me and this family, do not become like her for you are the one who keeps this family together.” She worried about what her mother would say and how the disappointment would show on her face.

Join now!

Being so young and naïve, Katie became perplexed and thought of what she should do. She asked herself whether she should just face the penalty or if she should run away. Katie decided to run away and not face the head teacher and her mother. But she was not to know that this decision was going to change her life.

She rushed to the door and was greeted by the history teacher Mr Warnock and he said, “where you off to then Katie. Don’t you have a lesson?” Katie quickly thought of a lie and said, “yes ...

This is a preview of the whole essay