"I'm home! I brought pizza!"
The sound of mum's voice echoing down the hall caught my attention. I eagerly made my way to the kitchen counter, where two boxes of pizza, a loaf of garlic bread, and a bottle of coke were lying. I grinned as I threw open one of the lids to the pizza boxes, revealing BBQ chicken, one of my favourites, and the other was the classic Hawaiian pizza - which isn't even Hawaiian. I pulled out a seat for myself and slid one over to mum, I watched as she sat down while fiddling with the ail foil that covered the garlic bread.
"Thank you..." I said as I dug into the pizza.
"Wow their bud! Get some napkins will ya? I'll grab us some glasses for the coke." Letting out a quick sigh, I got up and trudged over to the pantry, grabbing the spare tissue box we had as our designated 'napkin' box and placed a handful on the counter top. Putting the box back on its shelf, I resumed to my seat and continued to chow down on my pizza. While I took an end piece off of the garlic bread to get to the middle bit, mum had already poured two glasses of coke and set down one for each of us. I gave her another thanks and chewed down on the bread.
"So how was your day at the arcade?" Mum had begun phase 1 of dinner conversations, the obvious 'how was your day' approach. I just wanted to eat my pizza in peace, but alas, I nodded my head as I finished my mouth-full.
"Really fun actually! AJ and I played all the games there and tied in every single one of them. Then we found there was go-karts round the back so we did that and she won by a millisecond." I rambled, reliving the excitement of today momentarily. I must of had a dorky grin on my face because when I looked over at mum she had that annoying look on her face, you know, the on where they think you have a crush on the person and when you think about them you're all lovesick? I scoffed and rolled my eyes at my mothers behaviour.
"No mum. I don't like her, I met her yesterday and we are just friends." And this is exactly why I hate you sometimes.
"Oh c'mon! Today was totally a date." Mum started phase 2; teasing, which is the absolute worse. Teasing you about something that isn't even real is so stupid, like I'm seventeen not twelve no need to push thoughts into my head and words in my mouth, lay off. But of course, being the child in the situation I couldn't actually say that to her- not to her face at least.
"Mum stop." My hands were wrapped into tight fists, my nails digging into my palms to stop me from going out of control. My hands were placed either side of the pizza box, thumbs facing the ceiling, annoyance was clearly all over my face and yet she insisted on AJ and I being a couple and no needing to hide it. I could feel the anger start to rise and with the constant pushing, it bubbled over.
"WE ARE NOT DATING!" I slammed my fists on the counter and stood up abruptly. I looked at my mum with furrowed brows, she had jumped in surprise and then her face contorted into an offended scowl.
"How DARE you! Go to your room!" Mum had copied my actions of standing, but instead of her fist slammed on the bench, she was pointing in the direction of my room with one arm. Without another word I picked up my pizza box and snatched up the rest of the garlic bread and walked towards my room. I didn't need to look back to know mum was probably upset, I just felt like I should be able to tell her some cool news about a girl without her pressuring me about dating. I placed the box down on my desk and turned to close my door.
I groaned, throwing my head back to look at the ceiling as I put my hands rested behind my head. I ended up sitting at my desk and opening up my laptop, pulling up youtube and watching some random gaming channels. I snacked on the rest of the pizza and garlic bread as I continued watching the videos of some cool Irish idiot scream for 20 minutes straight. I'm pretty sure I became his giggly bitch by the end of watching his videos until I had no more pizza left.
'...LIKE A BOSS-'
I cut off the video and moved myself to my bed after shutting my laptop. I could feel that my battery had run out; my eyes felt heavy, my body limp, and my mind had zoned out about 4 times in the last fives minutes. I shuffled around on my mattress until I felt comfortable in my six pillows and massive duna. I gave a huff as I closed my eyes, feeling the stress and tension release from myself.
I don't know how long it had been, but I could feel myself tossing and turning around in my sleep. Having enough of myself, I groggily opened my eyes, squinting into the darkness that covered my room. I grabbed my phone from off the desk, triggering it to blind me.
"Ugh-" I squint harder, looking at the screen as my finger lazily dances over the surface turning the brightness down. I sighed as I looked at the time, too early to deal with any bullshit. I groaned, sitting up on the bed and walking down to the kitchen to get a glass of water. Honestly, why am I existing at two in the fucking morning on a Sunday?
Half asleep, I snatched up a clean glass and filled it with cold water. I turned around, now leaning on the bench and slowly sipping at the drink in hand. I nearly dropped the glass when I heard a car zoom pass, you know those idiots who tinker with the engines to make it ten times louder than it needs to be and go speeding down suburb streets at an ungodly time in the morning. Yeah, their the worst.
I skulled the rest of the water in the glass, and placed it on the sink so slowly in order to not wake up a grizzly bear - AKA mom. I shuffled back down to my room and shut the door slower than slow to avoid the stupidly noisy creaks. Once I was back to base safe and sound, I flopped back onto my bed and instantly got a notification on my phone. I glared at the now brightened screen, wishing it would die in an endless pit in the depths of hell where no one would be able to hear it ping nor have any signal to receive any notifications whatsoever.
Deciding to ignore it, I rolled over to my other side and drifted back to sleep.
