Heathen Series - Changed

Chapter 1

2017/01/10

Stephanie Pov...

"Mommy... where's my school shoes! I can't find them, and I don't want to get a detention on the first day of being a senior!
That's just going to be embarrassing."

"Look under your bed, in that jungle you call a room!"

"Oh. Never mind, I found them, and I prefer to think of it more of a more free-flowing living experience!...
Now I just need to figure out where to get all my school info from, and then everything will sort itself out... I hope."

"Steph!"

"Yeah, Mah!"

"Don't forget to pack your suitcase properly. I'm not dropping anything off for you if you forget it here!"

"Yes, mom! I got it!"

I rolled my big brown eyes and looked around - making sure I didn't leave anything behind. I'd miss my room, all of me packed into one space just left behind every year waiting for my return. I realize now that I was in the year where I got to share a room at school - not just me anymore. Now I was more anxious and I painfully hope - pray - that it would be my friends and not any of the OTHER people in my grade. Oh God now I am really nervous! A chill ran over my skin at the thought of it. The thought of sharing a room with the barbies or jocks or worse... THEM.

'Great...'

I daydream a bit of my friends and that made me very excited to see them, it also helped in calming me down a bit. I wonder what they have been up to this past holiday; no doubt had some interesting stories to tell me.

I hadn't been able to keep in contact with them as much as I wanted to. I had, unfortunately, accidentally broken my phone while taking an amazing swim in an amazingly deep pool. I loved swimming, one of the few things I loved doing every day!
My mom had refused to buy me a new one because of 'my negligence', so I had to suffer in silence and send emails, videocall or send messages via my laptop when I had enough money to buy myself data - which was almost never.

I didn't live a rich life, nor could I get a job because I didn't have the necessary transport to get to the places and I wasn't allowed to use the taxis in my area. Not safe my mom had said, but even so, we managed to get by on our own without help.

Rain. Thunder. Lightning.

"FINALLY!"

I loved listening to the rain as it pounded new dents into the already dented roof of a car that was always parked outside our small apartment. We hadn't had the opportunity to go out as much as we wanted to because of stressed finances, which always made me wonder about how it affected my studies. My mom always found a way to reassure me, which helped me focus on other things. Still, I wish she would let me help a bit more, take some of the burdens off of her. 

I adore my mother because even when we didn't have much, my mother always did her best for me. I don't know what I would do without my mother - she helped me reach for the sky while my mind and heart anchored me to the floor. We were always very close and had the best relationship a mother and daughter could have. There isn't anything I wouldn't do for my mother. And at school, I had my friends...

Despite my financial status, my heart swelled with happiness as I finally got to see all my friends again - they accepted me as I was and never threw my finances in my face as an insult. Infact, they adored my mother more than I did if that was possible.
I was even excited to see the other students. Even the irritating guys that enjoyed prancing around the school like the jocks they were - proud and arrogant. Even the Barbies that thought they were the best of the best when it came to... looks. They all provided humour and entertainment one way or the other.
I can't believe I just thought that...