"Time to wake up." Mom yelled into my bedroom. Out of all days to yell its time to wake up, my mom chooses today. The reason why today is the worse day to be woken up is because I haven't gotten any sleep. "Janna, where is your unform." Mom shouted. "I put them in the drier." I sat back on the bed and waited for my mom to tell me when the drier went off. As I began to drift back to sleep, I heard my phone ring. Its my best friend Mimi. I pick up the phone expecting hear her crying about her boyfriends really bad headaches. Instead, shes calling because shes worryed about me. "Hey Janna how are you girl!" Mimi shouted over the phone. "I'm fine." I said thinking if Mimi's okay. "I'm calling to see if your feeling well because you have been acting strange lately" Mimi said in a less exciting voice. "I am fine. I am just tired that's all. These headaches that I have been having is very annoying." "Oh well I was just making sure. Well bye!" Before I could even reply Mimi had already hung up.
I ran down stairs to the drier, put my cloths on and I was ready for school. Once I arrived at school, Mimi, her boyfriend Shane and my other three besties: Kara, Lara, Jayson were sitting around on there phones talking about who's phone was the coolest. "Dude your phone really sucks!" Jayson complained. "Hey Janna." Mimi and Shane said. "Why are we like the only ones up here." I asked. "Well its simple. We all walked up here and we finished our breakfast." Jayson said. I shook my head and sat in the staircase with them. "Wassup Shane." I said. There was no response. He just sat there holding his head as if is neck wasn't supporting it. "Aye. Are you all right." Kara asked. Shane shook his head and went down stairs while Mimi chased after him. "What's his deal?" Jayson asked. "He's been acting like this all week. And you have been acting strange to Janna." I have not been acting strange. Its called having headaches." Before anyone could say anything. Mimi came back up the stairs in horror. I ran to her side wondering whats going through her mind. "Somethings really wrong. When I caught up to Shane I heard a door shut and I smelled something burning. I decided to go have a look. I ran down stairs and I indeed smelt something burning. I followed to smell and I soon arrived at the boys bath room. I thought about going back upstairs and decided to go inside the bathroom.
When I entered the bathroom I saw Shane silently panicking. "What the hell is going on!" I screamed. I walked towards him and looked at his hands and saw these strange yet fancy marks. "Janna. Help me use your powers or something!" Shane shouted. " I don't." Before I couldn't even finish that sentence, I saw the same strange markings that were on Shanes arms and hands appear on mine. Panicked, I ran to the sink and ran some water. When the water touched my hand it began to float. I backed up with my hand still facing the water. When the water hit the ground, the smoke the fire and everything disappeared. "Shane what's happening!" I asked. "Don't tell Mimi." Shane said with enormity in his voice. Without waiting for a response, he went up the stairs. I hurried out of the men's restroom and checked my watch. Now I am 15 minutes late for 1st period.
As the day progressed, my headaches got more intense. Before all of these headaches, my life was pretty easy. I went to sleepovers and parties and did everything a teenager is supposed to do. Now my life is completely falling apart. I have powers and extremely bad headaches. As I left my 6th period class I saw Mimi crying in the staircase. "What's wrong." I asked. She looked at me with depressed eyes. "I broke up with Shane today. He's been acting different and this has been going on for almost a month and now, its worse than its ever been." Mimi cried. I huged and reasurred her that everyting was going to okay.
A couple days after that werid day at school, I went home and decided to figure out what was wrong with me. I mean this is completely out of control. For the past 5 days, I have been having to take a bag of Advil just to get through my day. I decided to look on the internet to understand things about mythology. I am so glad that my mom is working late tonight because if anything bad happens surely my powers will kick in. As I began reading about Mermaids and this weird thing called a Ciprest, I heard a knock on my door. When I arrived at the door I was shooked to see Shane. "Ummm hi." I said in a confused voice.
Without responding, Shane came in a sat on the couch. "Aren't you going to tell me why you are here?" I asked. He stood up and faced me. "I am here to talk about what happened in the restroom last Tuesday." Shane whispered. "Fine." I said. "This doesn't make much since one minute your quiet and now you are coming to my house to talk about what happened that day and." I was intupted by huge headache. "What! Not again!" I looked at my arms and hands and saw the strange markings that I saw that day in the bathroom. I ran over to the mirror and saw that my eyes turned into a glorious blue color. Out of all days for this to happen, it happens today. I walked over to my computer and looked at the information that it said about Ciprest. "You need to get away from the computer!" Shane shouted. "Why?" I asked while scrolling through the information. "You might catch it on fire!" I didn't believe him so I continued to search for answers until I smelled something burning. I screamed and started to back away. Shane ran to the falcit and the water began to float as he guided it towards my computer.
Once the fire was finnaly put out I heard a knock on my door. When I opened it was Mimi. "What is going on! Why is Shane here." She yelled. I looked at Shane like he was gonna supply me with an answer. "Uhh. I had an emergency?" I said. She look at me with tears already forming in her eyes. "I came here I uhh wasn't invited." Shane said. "What's going on with you two. First you come guys come to school looking like you have been working all hours of the night, and Shane you didn't talk to me for a couple days when we were still together. And now the. Two of you are getting together behind my back!" She was crying now. I couldn't tell her that have powers and that my eyes change different colors. Who on earth would believe that? "And now Lara is acting crazy." I just looked at Mimi and thought about how bad she must feel. Her ex boyfriend and her best friend is acting like psychopaths and now, Shanes twin sister Lara, is acting strange to. "Look we are sorry." I said. I tried to give her a hug but, she pushed me away. "Don't talk to me you little....princess!" As she left, I couldn't help but cry. Everything she said was awful. "I wish everything could go away." I shouted. "At least she called you a princess." Shane said as he gently toughed my shoulder. "I am not a princess. I am a imperfect princess."
YOU ARE READING
The Imperfect Princess
Teen FictionFor a girl named Janna, her life is the definition of imperfect. With her best friend hating her grades gradually dropping, something unexpected happens to Janna that changes her life forever.