Still We Rise

7: Meet The Boys

Song: IDK You Yet- Alexander 23
I may not remember you today or tomorrow, but I promise I want to remember you. I want to remember it all.
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Kenzie's POV:

    I stir out of my sleep when I feel someone kicking my bed. I let my eyes focus on the bright room, and look at my mom. "It is Saturday. And you are waking me up because?" I ask her, and she smiles. 

      "Well it's time for you to get up. It's eleven, and if you want your hair dry by the time you leave, then I suggest you get up." She tells me, and I look at her confused because I know for a fact that I don't have plans today. "You are meeting Miles, Dravon, and Elijah at the diner at two." She tells me, and I shake my head no.

      "We never made plans to meet anywhere, and if we did how would you know?" I ask her, and she gives me a cheeky grin. 

      "About that…” She trails off, and I wave a hand for her to spit it out. “I wanted to make sure you did text them, so I got onto your phone. When I unlocked it, there was a message from the group chat, and one of the boys suggested that you meet at the diner to work a little bit. I knew you would say no, so I said yes for you." She tells me proudly, and I groan. "Up you get. You have a big day!" She tells me excitedly, and I roll my eyes. When she sees that I am making no move to get up, she grabs my wrists, and pulls me off of my bed. 

      "Was that necessary?" I ask while still laying on the floor, and she nods. I roll my eyes again, get off the ground, and grumpily grab my duffel bag. I dig through it looking for a decent outfit, and I finally decide on a NF shirt, and a pair of black jeans. When I have what I want to wear for the day, I head into the bathroom, and take a shower. 

      Taking my time in the shower, I can't help but think about what my mom said last night. I want to eventually ask Miles about the necklace, and show him the pictures; but I don't feel comfortable doing that when I don't even remember who he is. He probably doesn't even remember or have the necklace, so why even bring it up. Right? Right. 

After my shower, I wipe the fog off of the mirror, and examine my body. Something I do after every shower. I look at it until I hate my body because in some fucked up way, it makes me feel better about myself. Like always, when I can't stand to look at it anymore, I turn away, and get dressed. Once I am dressed, I put my hair up in the towel, brush my teeth, put on a few layers of mascara, and deodorant. 

When I am finished in the bathroom, I walk out, and throw myself on my bed again. Not caring if the towel comes off. "Don't you dare go back to sleep Kenzie Marie." My mom tells me, and I give her a thumbs up. I'm not going back to sleep, but I definitely don't wanna go to the diner. 

      After thinking more about the diner, I sit up, grab my laptop, and open a few tabs and notes pages so I can write a little bit of information about the disorder down. For now I am just going to write what I know. I rack my brain getting the information, and all I can come up with is it is a mental disorder that people don't take seriously because they think that it is the same as substance usage, and that it affects a person's brain and behavior. Jotting down that information, I go to one of the tabs, and do a little research. 

      After about an hour, I have a page and a half of information that I think is useful. I'll share it with the guys, and if they don't agree with something I jotted down I'll just find something better. 

      Since my hair has been up in the towel for an hour, I take it out, and decide to let it air dry until I have to go. While I wait for time to pass, I put my laptop on the charger along with my phone since I forgot to charge them last night, and put on my high top classic Vans.