Then Came You

Chapter 2

I woke up to the sound of my maddening alarm clock I set before I went to sleep. I had a horrible night's rest. My body kept waking up, and it felt as if the whole night I was awake.

Forcing myself out of bed, I winced as the soles of my feet hit the cold hardwood floor, sending chills throughout my body, making me take in a sharp breath. I stared at myself across the room where my vanity mirror stood, as my eyes pierced through my soul. I really should've slept earlier.

Dragging myself out of my room, I walked down the hallway sniffing the air around me that smelled of waffles, automatically knowing that it was my dad cooking. He offered to take the morning off of his first shift to take me to school, although I told him that he didn't need to and I would figure out how to get there myself, but of course, he still insisted.

Opening the bathroom door and closing it behind me. I started my longending morning routine, wanting to look my best for the first day of school.
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Grabbing my bookbag I carefully stepped down each step of the stairs making sure to not slip with the white knee high socks that I was expected to wear for school. I was in my uniform, had my hair fluffed out from the night before, but made sure to bring a hair tie since wearing thick curly hair out in the Texas weather was asking for a death wish.

Entering the kitchen, my dad had his back to me cooking up whatever it was he was making. While Aiden sat at the kitchen table playing games on dad's phone like the addicted fanatic he was.

"Good morning" I said to them both, grabbing a waffle off the plate that had several of them stacked.

"There's my girl. Good morning, how'd you sleep?" He responded, taking a swift turn to face me.

"Eggs?" He asked before I could even respond. I nodded, my mouth full.

"I slept okay, woke up here and there." I replied after taking a bite and swallowing the stale waffle my dad cooked. God that tasted horrible. I made sure to wipe off any expressions off my face that would make it seem like I didn't like the food. The last thing I wanted to do was make him feel bad after he took the day off of work to help me feel settled about school as going with someone would obviously be better than going alone on your first day.

I didn't realize how scared I was until now. I haven't even seen the school yet in person. Of course I did a whole bunch of research about the school and took a virtual tour online, but it had just hit me that I would have to figure out most things on my own in a brand new school where I knew absolutely nobody. I wouldn't be as scared if the campus wasn't so god damn huge.

I pushed all of the thoughts to the back of my head and saw a glimpse of the time on my phone. It read 7:23 and school started at 8:30.

"Dad, we need to go, like now." I sternly warned him. I could not afford to be late on my first day, especially when I was on a scholarship.

I finished my breakfast, yelled at Aiden to stop playing games and to hurry it up. Since we still had to drop him off at school. Eventually we were all finished and left the house, and sped off in the car as soon as we all hopped in.

We were across town and it was 8:18. Looking out the window to the right of me, we passed several huge houses with beautiful exterior and structure. They were all types of colors, mainly white, with pretty grasslands everywhere. Everything was super neat and super rich. How do people afford living like this?