I wake up and go to have a shower, I don't wash my hair since I washed it yesterday. I brush my teeth and dry myself off. I put on a black vest saying normal is boring in white with square holes in the back. I pull on some white shorts that have a cute fold at the bottom. I go downstairs and see my Mum already up and chatting to someone on the phone. From what I've heard it sounds like its the school me and Alex are going to. We are going to be in 9th grade, I think its called, so year 10 and our first freshman year.
I make myself a bowl of cereal and sit down. "Okay, thankyou, goodbye. Good morning Evie" my Mum says
"Morning" I reply
"I spoke to the school to check if everything is still okay"
"Is it?"
"Yep. Can you go and wake up Alex please, he needs to get up if he wants anything to take to school next week"
"Sure, it will be my pleasure"
She chuckles and goes to make him some breakfast. I go upstairs and knock on his door, nothing, typical, he's still asleep. I open the door and draw his blinds, then I jump on top of him and start to pull his cheeks.
"Geroff me..." He mumbles
"Ha, not a chance" I laugh.
He opens his eys slowly and whines "Evie, get off me"
"Make me" I say stubbornly. I have learnt by experience that you need to make sure Alex actually goes into the bathroom or he will just go back to sleep. He grunts and rolls off the bed, taking me with him. I laugh and get off him.
"Thankyou" He says
"Welcome" I say chirpily. I see him walk into the bathroom and I go back downstairs. I grab an apple and go upstairs. I do some drawing and finish my apple as Alex walks in.
"Hey, Mum said that we should get ready to go now"
"K thanks"
"What are we gonna buy again?" He asks, and I laugh
"Forgotten already?"
"Yes" He mumbles and I laugh
"Stuff for school, like bags, stationery and notebooks."
"Ooh right, I knew that"
"Sure" I say whilst grabbing some money. We head downstairs and I put on some dark grey toms. We get in the car and drive to the shopping centre.
We get back around 2:15, we had lunch at the shopping centre in the cheese cake factory. I go upstairs and unpack my things. I bought a black and white mickey mouse rucksack, a pencil case with lots of cartoon zombie pandas on, a pack of 12 coloured pens, a pack of 5 highlighters, some pencils, some biros, some rubbers, some A4 notebooks for school and a geometry set.
Alex walks in and sits on my bed,
"Hey" I say
"Hi" He replies
"You alright?"
"I'm bored..." He whines
"Aww, your just like a little kid" I say and mess up his hair
"No I'm not!" He pouts
"Debatable, but anyway if your bored then why don't you read or something?"
"Because I have an awesome idea!!" He says excitedly
"Oh yeah?"
"How about, we go down to the beach and play volleyball, they have some courts?"
"Yeah, that sounds fun!"
"We can go down on our skatboards"
"Okay let me just get ready"
"Yeah, me too" Alex walked out and back into his room to get ready.
I grabbed my new rucksack and filled it with 2 bottles of water, my phone, my keys and some money. I go downstairs and I see Alex sitting in the living room waiting.
"Ready to go?" I ask
"Almost, can I put some stuff in your bag?"
"Sure" I turn around and he puts a few things in.
"Now we just need a volleyball" He says
"I think there is one in the cupboard under the stairs" I say
We open it and sure enough there is, in fact there is a lot of sports equipment, thats good, since me and Alex love to play sports. Alex grabs it and we both get our skateboards, I quickly adjust my ponytail and put on my toms, Alex puts on his maroon vans and we head out the door saying goodbye to Mum. I close the door and we both put our boards down and skate onto the road.
I follow Alex since I don't know the way to the beach, we speed along but we are safe, if we get to a crossroads we slow down and make sure we won't crash into any cars. I feel my hair flowing out behind me as we skate. Alex flips his skateboard up and seeing him stop, I flick mine up and catch it.
He heads out to one of the courts and I follow him, he puts his board down and takes his shoes and socks off, as do I. I quickly pick up the volleyball and he says "Who said you're starting?"
"Me, clearly" I say with what I hope is a final tone
"Um, let me think, how about? No!" Well it was clearly not final at all
"It's mine pretty boy" We are both very stubborn, this will take a while...
"Give it" He says smirking evilly
"No!" I say
"Um, yes!"
"Look, this is going to last forever how about we play rock, paper, scissors to decide" I suggest
"Ok"
I choose paper and he chooses scissors, he gets the volleyball. I groan and hand it over, he smirks and I glare.
"Hey, it was your idea" He points out
"Just shut up and start"
After about and hour of playing I am in the lead by a long way, we decided to do first to 20, I am at 19 and he is at 12, I jump up and bat the ball straight down, he dives but misses, I won!
"Yes!" I shout
He grumbles and says "C'mon we should go now"
"Awwww, is Alex sulking cos he didn't win volleyball?" I tease
"Yes, now let me be a teenager!" He says
I laugh and put my shoes back on, we skate back and head into the house. I smell pizza and groan, I must be the only one on the entire face of the earth that doesn't like pizza. I head into the kitchen dining room and see my Mum opening up the oven to home-made pizzas.
"What would you like for dinner Evie?" My Mum asks
"Oh, don't worry I'll cook for myself, I don't want to be difficult" I say quietly, embarrassed
"Believe me, you already are" Alex pipes in
"Shut up Al" I mutter
Mum laughs and Alex gives me a teasing smirk. I make myself some pasta and eat it after they are done, then I go to bed ready for a new day.
YOU ARE READING
England to America
Teen FictionEvie has been whisked away to America, leaving her old tragic life behind. And who does she meet? A boy. A boy who is willing to help her overcome her past and love her unconditionally. But is one of the bumps in the road too big? Does she go spiral...
