They're Driving Me Crazy!

We're Gonna Be Late

"Madison get your butt in gear! We're gonna be late!" Coby yelled up the stairs at me.

"No, YOU'RE gonna be late! I don't have to be at the school until seven freaking thirty!" I yell back at him. I hate having to wake up at four thirty or five every morning just so my brother can get to the school and get things ready. I'm pretty sure no one would complain if I made Coby late and he couldn't get anything printed out for us to work on.

I heard footsteps coming up the stairs and I knew I was in some deep shit. He opened my door and crossed his arms when he looked at me. "I don't know who you think you're yelling at but I know good and well it ain't me. Now either you can hurry up and get to school early like usual or we're both late and you have a sore butt the whole day." He said.

It was kind of hard not to laugh at him because I was his height if not taller. He was 23 and about 5'6", there weren't many tall people in our family except my second and third oldest brothers. Our dad was kind of tall too but that was about it. I crossed my arms as well when I looked at him. "I thought you said whoopings were out dated."

"Not for you. I'm tempted to do anything to get you to behave at this point. Now hurry up. It's Wednesday, you should be happy about that  since it's the last day of school before fall break." Coby said as he walked back downstairs.

I sighed as I grabbed my backpack and instrument and took them downstairs to put by the door. I went to the kitchen and sat at the table to eat breakfast with Coby. When it was time to go Coby and I walked out the door and he did his normal check list of things before we left. "Do you have your instrument?"

"Yes."

"Football equipment?"

"It's in the locker room."

"Backpack?"

"In the backseat."

"And I'll buy something for us for lunch." Coby said as we pulled out of the driveway and drove to the school. I had my wallet with me so if he actually let me drive after practice I wouldn't get in trouble with the deputy or sheriff.

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When we got to the school I walked in with Coby and sat behind his desk with him. It didn't take us long to get there since we lived a block away. I was charging my phone since it hadn't charged much last night and I was playing a game on it while Coby worked on some stuff for his classes to work on. I was in his accelerated class so he was harder on me if I didn't do good on a test or something.

"Can you read over this for me?" Coby asked. I was basically his proof reader since my grade in English was higher than me. (Not as in I'm high as in height. He'd killed me if I smoked.)

I read over it and changed some stuff where I saw it needed to be fixed and he read over it again once I fixed it. He nodded and then pushed the print button. He walked down to the teacher's lounge and waited for the papers to all be printed. While he was gone I decided to change the background on the smart tv. I uploaded a drawing I did that was kind of science related and put it as the background.

Once I was done being a menace to my brother I decided to lean back and close my eyes. I just wanted to relax before I had to practice for my entire break. I had band practice in the afternoon tomorrow, then football practice on Friday before the game and then I'd have to play in the game and at half time, I had a band competition on Saturday. Sunday would be my only day off until Monday when I'd have to go to football practice again.

Coby came back into the room a few minutes later and saw me with my eyes closed. He thought it would be the perfect time to sneak up on me. He tried to stay quiet as he could and got closer to me before I could do anything. He was sadly mistaken though. I opened my eyes and smirked as I pounced on him and almost knocked him over. "How did you know I was there? I thought you were asleep!"