JORDAN

*CHAPTER ONE*

"Jordan!"
"Jordan!!" Shouted Mrs Patrick Jordana's mom.

"Yes, yes I'm up!" Jordana says as she lazily rubs her semi closed eyes

"Get your lazy ass down now!.Come and help me take out the trash. All you do is sleep" said Mrs Patrick

"Mom for once can't I just be woken up by my alarm"

"Better don't make me repeat myself" mom threatened

It's Saturday
As usual , it's clean up day. Jordan's siblings, Joseph and Nessa are already up and doing their normal chores.
"I hate Saturday mornings 😒" she says as she lazily walks all the way to the backyard to take out the trash.
On throwing the Gabbage she see Paschal her best friend also throwing out his own trash.

"Hey Paschal what's up!"
She yelled and waves at Paschal to come a little closer since she knew her mom would be pissed if she just left her chores half way

"Hey Jordy, what's good. I see youre doing chores again" he say mockingly

"Haha funny at least I'm not the one who spends his Saturdays trying to get into all the neighborhood girls pants"

"Hey, technically not all. I haven't gotten in yours yet" he says with a wink

Paschal has been my best friend since I was 6. We didn't get along at first considering our mom's were like besties,they tried everything to make us like eachother which worked but not in the way they planned. It was all planned out in their heads that we would get married but you and I know I won't be getting married to this freak.

"Don't even start, you weirdo"
Paschal laughs
"you know I'm just kidding right. You are like a baby sister " he says patting me head while I scoff

Remembering we were moving to another neighborhood...." Hey I was going to tell you something" I say sadly

"What's that"

" My mom said we'll be moving out by the day before tomorrow . That's also why the Gabbage is so big today we are clearing out and packing up.

"What!, When?. How am I just hearing this now ?"

"Well I didn't see you yesterday and the day before your mom said you went to your aunt's place to help her with babysitting your cousin's while she's away"

"You could have at least texted" he says sadly

" Sorry, i forgot about that . Hey! cheerup . It's not like I won't come visiting every weekend but the sad part is the neighborhood is far from here and I might be switching schools"

"Yh...wait what!. Ana this is a lot. I'm going to miss not seeing you everyday..... to tease you of course. But what about your bullying situation. You get bullied literally everyday at our school and at least I always got your back here ...but in this new place who's going to protect you"

"Hey! I'm not a baby. I'm pretty sure I can take care of myself. It's something im already used to"

" Yh yh, I don't care. If you get into too much trouble tell me . I'll always have your back " he says while dragging me into a side hug and ruffling my hair

"Hey ! Stop that!"

"Ok but I'm being serious. You promise to tell me?,cross your heart and hope to die" he said
"You know I don't swear paschal, but yh sure...I promise"

"Okay then see ya"
I went back in to see mom waiting for me at the door

"What?"

She smirked and said " I see you guys are getting closer than ever " she said with a wink

" Ewww ...no!.. mom . He's no different than Joseph. He's like my brother for Christ sake!"

" Yh I think how this one ends. Anyway you are doing the laundry today"

" Why?! . I thought it was Joseph's turn "

"Your brother is sick remember" she said while folding her arms and giving me a look

" I know his faking it tho "

" He has a fever ,how can he fake a high temperature"

"You baby him too much. He's practically 14"
" Doesn't matter. You are doing it for me not him"

I looked at her with a frown and walked away " fine!"

********************** Next day ***********************
"Hey Joseph!. it's time to go you lazy ass!!, Get your ass up now!!!" I yelled

"That's not how you talk to your older brother Ana" mom said

" Maybe if he actually acted like one I'd treat him with more respect" I said

" You are just a grumpy cat. Why are you always mean"

" I'm not ... yet" I said with a smirk
She looks at me and shakes her head in disappointment

"What?..life sucks . Nice people only suffer. I'd rather be neam , you know.. like a 50-50 kinda thing" I said with a chuckle

"Oh god . How did you get so weird?" Mom said

"Weird is cool" I said with a quick peck on her cheek before she tried to hit me for it

My mom isn't the touchy kind. She doesn't like being hugged, kissed, or anything physical ...well except dad but yh he's way up there . But deep down I know she loves my hugs and kisses. I do it from time to time to remind her that we see her efforts and appreciate it. It's not easy being a single mom, really.