Cottage in the silverwoods

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Amber is awoken the next morning by the blaring loudness of her alarm, it was time to wake up and get ready for another repetitive mundane day. Class starts in forty minutes, she quickly gets ready, and realizes she has to leave right now or she'll be late, she runs into the kitchen and grabs some coffee in her favorite purple thermos, picks up her backpack and runs out the door forgetting to eat breakfast. Its the same walk to school, today its lightly sprinkling as she runs to make it to school on time.

As she enters the school she realizes that she was 10 minutes late, she runs into science class and Mr.Davis stops in the middle of the lecture to address her. " Miss King, you're late" "i know, i'm sorry" "that's your second strike" " i know" "anyways, you missed us picking partners for this unit, so i'm putting you with the only student left without a partner: Rose Johnson." Mr.Davis gestures for her to sit at one of the back tables with Rose sitting there sketching something in her notebook. Amber quietly sits down next to her. "Alright class, I'll give you a few minutes to get to know your partner. The two sit in silence for a minute, finally Amber pushes past her anxiety and starts a conversation.
" Hi, how are you?"
"I could be better, I am at school."
"yeah" Amber pulls out her book and places it on the desk.
Rose looks over "you read the mystic creek series too"
"Yeah, it's my favorite escape from reality."
"same"
The teacher then calls attention to the class and starts a lecture on chemistry, his voice, extremely monotone Amber struggles to pay attention, and falls back into the hopes and dreams of running away and escaping it all.
As the class is about to end the teacher tells everyone
"communicate with each other so you can work on your presentations."
The two quickly exchange numbers and part ways as the bell rings.
The morning goes on for what seems like forever and finally it's time for lunch, she waits in the line for a long time, and finally gets her tacos. She walks through the cafeteria and notices Rose sitting alone, she decides to walk over and sit at the table. After some mild conversation they talk about their favorite parts about mystic creek, they marvel over the storyline and art. Amber tries to push back her feelings, but they keep coming through.
"Do you ever wish you could just leave, like run into the woods and never have to come back" Rose says
"Yes actually, this life is getting so draining"
"it would be so nice to leave it all"
"Yeah"
and with that the bell rings and they head to their classes for the rest of the day, Amber sits in her next class wishing she could talk to rose again, to add something exciting to this boredom filled day.
The classes keep going, so repetitive, so long and finally the day ends and Rose and Amber meet outside to discuss when they should get together to work on their science project.

"So, can you come over today to start the science project" amber asks"
"Sure"
As they walk to amber's house, they talk about their days
"Ugh the math test today was so hard" amber says
"I know right"
The two get to the house walking up the path to the front door
Amber unlocks the door and enters, putting her backpack on the floor next to the table. They work for about an hour and rose suggests "maybe we should take a break"
"Yeah, I'll grab some chips"
"Sounds good"
"Maybe we can eat by the forest, there's a tree I like to sit under"
"Yeah"
They walk outside to the edge of the forest and sit under the same large oak tree Amber found herself under the day before.
"I've always loved the forest"rose says
"Same, it's just so peaceful"
"Yeah"
As the two finished their chips, the sun began to set.
"We should probably head back inside, and start the project." Rose says.
"Yeah it's getting dark"
The two pick up their things and walk back through the cold grass to get to the house, not looking back on the woods.

They both sit at the table opening their well used science textbooks.
Amber breaks the silence by saying
" So we have to make a DNA model, diagram, and a written description of DNA and what it does."
"Wow thats a lot"
"Yeah, maybe we should start tomorrow, we can stop at the craft store after school to get materials for the model."
"Yeah, It's a little too late to start."
They again sit in silence yet again, it's not necessarily awkward, however they both feel nervous.
"Have you finished the new crystal creek book yet?" rose suddenly says
"Of course, We've been waiting 3 years for it"
"We were waiting for way too long."
"For a little bit there I thought it wouldn't be released until we graduated high school."
"Yeah"
They continue talking as time moves around them, almost as if they're in a bubble unaware of time passing at all, suddenly Rose looks at the clock.
"It's six already, I have to head home." rose says sadly
"Oh yeah it is."
Rose collects her things and says
"I'll see you tomorrow."
" Yeah, we have a lot of work to do."
"Bye"
"Bye"
As Rose walks out the door she turns back to look at Amber for just a second, both girls are smiling and blushing slightly. Amber watches out the window as Rose walks down the street.
Amber walks into the kitchen and starts to make spaghetti, about thirty minute later she made herself a plate of spaghetti placing the rest in a container in the fridge. She walks with the plate and takes it straight into her room, she opens her laptop and starts on some of the rest of her homework. Once she finished, she put on her playlist and just laid in bed thinking about the day she just had. She heard her mom come home, as usual she didn't care enough to check on her only daughter. She turns up the music slightly and starts to fall asleep.