Upon The Full Moon

Chapter II

After a week of me settling in, unpacking, getting used to life here, college finally comes around. My first day of sixth form college is tomorrow - as I'm going to a specific sixth form college here - and I still haven't prepared or got all of the stuff for it, or any of it ready yet. Hence my reasoning for heading out into town now. The boys are at school, Leanne works from home and Dad is at work. I won't be gone for that long either. I should be back before the boys are. If not I'll pick them up for Leanne and save her a job.

I finish pulling on and doing up my skinny, black, ripped jeans. My favourite pair of jeans. I then slip on my black Converses and glance at myself in the full-length mirror. I look fine. Or, rather, as fine as I'll ever look. My black hair straight and volumised at the top. My blue-grey eyes heavily made up with thick black eyeliner and mascara and my lips coated with clear lip-balm. I have my fossil tooth necklace around my neck, my thirty-one bracelets up my arms. Then I'm wearing my Pierce The Veil t-shirt with a red and black flannel shirt over the top with its sleeves rolled up to reach my elbows. Then I have my jeans and Converses.

I nod at my appearance, I look as good as I'm ever going to look. I reach over and grab my phone and wallet off my desk and head out of my room. I close the door behind me, before I head off in the direction of Leanne's study. I knock once before entering to see her working at her computer on the desk by the window. "Leanne, I'm heading out to get all my things ready for college tomorrow. I don't know when I'll be back, but I've got my phone in case you need to get into contact with me and if I'm still out by the time the boys' school finishes I'll pick them up and walk them home for you," I tell her. She turns around to face me with a smile on her face.

"Are you sure? Did you want me to come with you?" She asks. I shake my head.

"I'll be OK, don't worry. You need to work," I say. Leanne nods and smiles.

"I'll see you later then. Call me if you need me," She says, turning back to her computer.

"See you later," I say before leaving the room and closing the door behind me again. I then skip down the stairs, grab the spare keys from the side - as I haven't had my own set of keys cut yet, although I can do that today - and head out of the house.

Now. Here's a question. Do I remember which way it is to get to town? I look to my left and my right, down the road to see if I can recognise anything that I would associate with going to town as a kid. I see nothing let alone recognise anything. I sigh at myself and then take a chance and turn right. Walking aimlessly down the road and down several other roads. Completely and utterly lost. What the hell was I thinking? Here's a good idea: let's head out to a place I havent been for years and get completely lost. I should have taken Leanne up on her offer and let her come with me. She probably wanted to get out of the house and stop working for a bit. Or not. She likes her work and she looked busy. I sigh, and fish my phone out of my pockets. I then find my map app and find where I am and where I need to be.

Smiling at my own clever thinking, I then follow the map on my phone to the centre of town to find all the shops and stuff. When I'm there I put my phone away so I don't look like a complete tourist and start walking around. For sixth form I need; new black jeans, as all my other ones are ripped and are unsuitable and unappropriate, new black shoes, new black jacket, new school bag and some new clothes just in general. Specifically t-shirts. I sigh. This is going to be a long day. I hate shopping.

I walk into the first shoe shop I see and browse lazily for about ten to fiteen minutes before I find what I'm looking for. Black Vans. I pick them out in my size, try them on, wait in the queue and then buy them at the till all in five minutes. And then mentally tick shoes off the shopping list in my head. Congratulating myself at how quickly I managed to do that all. Maybe this won't take as long as I thought it might.