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Freshman Year Here I Come!!!

Today is the first day of my freshman year of high school. I wake at up 5:30a.m. to my very loud alarm blaring right in my ears. Damn it, I must have fallen asleep with my phone on my pillow. I sit up groggily and grab blindly in the dark for my phone. I press the on button on the side of my phone and I am blinded by how bright the screen is. While squinting my eyes I swipe the screen up and turn my brightness all the way down. I slowly type in my password and open Snapchat. The first thing I do is call my best friend of six years Gabriela Frazier. We always get ready for the first day of school on facetime and we both prefer Snapchat over the actual Facetime app.

I sit there at the edge of my bed, letting the phone ring and she doesn't pick up the first time. "UGH," I sigh. She must not be awake yet. I call Gabby's phone again, sometimes when I call her a couple of times it wakes her up and yesterday she did tell me to make sure to wake her up when I get up. "Come on, come on. Pick up!" I mutter as my phone continues to ring. Finally the ringing stops and somebody on the other end of the phone begins to speak. 

"What the hell do you want Gwen, I was trying to sleep. I was having the best dream before you had to ruin it." Gabby barks at me but it's in a hushed tone as to not wake up everybody in her house. That's Gabby for you, I love her but she can be a bit harsh which scares a lot of people away so it's only really been the two of us an our friend Kim Jones. We don't really see her all that much but we still talk. We've been in many different friend groups over the years of us being friends but nobody else has stuck. It's not just Gabby though, I'm the same way. That's why we fit so well together.

"Bitch, it's the first  day of school and yesterday you told me to get you up when I got up. Also remember our tradition?" I hiss back, it may seem kind of harsh but it's just how we talk. We love each other, in a friend way obviously. I really don't think that we would work well any other way. We get things about each other that not even our own parents do.

 I stand up lethargically and walk over to my closet that I stupidly left open last night. I have an outfit I picked out the night before hanging up so I can grab it easily. It is a revealing, tight, green shirt that ties in the front and light, ripped, short jean shorts. Our school doesn't have a dress code unlike the middle school which was very strict and everyone hated it. My outfit isn't too revealing to the point where you can see anything, but it's more or less just tight and kind of dressy.

"I'm sorry Gwen, I forgot it was the first day of school. I don't want to go. How are you and Denis?" Oh, Denis Stanton. I hate Denis Stanton. At the end of 8th grade this girl I used to be friends with Anastasia Hurst told everybody in our grade that I was going to ask out Denis Stanton and everyone including him has been making fun of me ever since. I get DMs on Instagram and Twitter making fun of me and it makes me want to rip all of my eyelashes out. I just want to scream like a toddler and run to my mom to make it better. But I can't and I just have to pretend that everything is fine even when it isn't.

"Shit. It's not good, the DM's are getting worse. Everything Anastasia said wasn't even true." At this point I'm trying not to cry as I'm walking to the bathroom which is right across from my bedroom. I walk in and close and lock the door. My younger sister, Stacy Buck, is still sleeping soundly in her bed. That bitch still has 3 weeks left of summer break. The high school goes back to school 3 week earlier than everyone else because we have a 3 week break staring the 3rd week of September and ending in October. It's so that the high schoolers can work on farms and help with the harvesting of crops which is why it is called harvest break. I worked at a farm over the summer so I automatically have to work there over harvest.

"I'm sure everything will be fine in a couple days. Also just to lighten things up a little bit, Carmen misses you. You have to come over and see her, she will not stop talking about you. She keeps saying, 'Where's Gwen, where's Gwen. Why hasn't Gwen been around here lately?' and quite frankly it's annoying." Carmen Frazier is Gabby's 9 year old sister. She is probably one of my favorite people, I love Carmen. She is so funny and she's cute in a little kid way, she also doesn't take shit from anyone. I miss her too. She looks exactly like Gabby and if it wasn't for their 5 year age difference people would mistake them as twins.

"Yeah I know, I miss her too. We should walk home today after school, we could stop at your house and then we could go get some food after." I suggest to Gabby. It would make Carmen very happy and it would make me happy too. I slip off my big T-shirt and replace it with the green top. I also replace my blue cloth shorts with the light jean shorts. I'm practically falling asleep while standing up. Shit, I need caffeine. I'm glad I made coffee last night and I don't have to make it this morning. I take my hair out of my light, messy side braid and brush through it. I have wavy hair and I know I should take care of it but I don't know how. Brushing it makes it frizzy but I don't know how to make that stop so I just suck it up and deal with frizzy brushed out curls.

"Oh, yeah. That sounds great. Meet me in the lower gym after band and we can leave that way to go to my house." Gabby agrees. I leap up onto the bathroom sink and put my face really close to the mirror. I grab my mascara tube and very carefully put up to my eyelashes. My hands are shaking as I put it on. I take a highlighter pallet from off of the counter and put some in the corner of my eyes which makes them shimmer and brings out the blue in them. Jumping off the counter I feel the impact in the bottoms of my feet. I pick up my toothbrush and put a big glob of toothpaste onto it then run it under water. "Gwen. GWEN. GWENDOLYN!!" Gabby is now screaming my name.

"Dude shut the fuck up and calm down Gabriela. I'm brushing my teeth." I argue but it comes out muffled because of the toothpaste and toothbrush that is currently in my mouth. It feels tingly on my tongue in a sort of uncomfortable way so I spit it out and rinse out my mouth with water. "Shit, I should have eaten before I brushed my teeth. Now it's going to taste disgusting." I grab my phone from off the counter where it was resting and leave the bathroom, shutting the door behind me. 

"Damn, sorry Gwendolyn. No need to bring out my full name." Gabby apologizes. I walk back into my room to grab my AirPods, backpack, and my sneakers and bring everything out into the living room. I slip on my shoes tying them up tight and go into the kitchen to get my lunch ready. "Are you still coming over to walk together?" 

"Ok, first of all you used my full name first and yes I am. I'll tell my mom to drop me off when she brings me." I walk over to the freezer and grab the ice, an icepack, and a homemade breakfast sandwich that I made the night before and froze so I could have one this morning. I turn the oven on to preheat and grab my lunch out of the fridge. I put it in my cute lunchbox with frogs on it and add the icepack on top. The oven preheats and I set the frozen food into it. 

"Ok, sounds good to me Gwen." I fill my new blue water bottle with ice and fill it with the coffee I made the night before and put some creamer into it as well. The oven goes off and I take my food out. I wrap it in a paper towel and walk into my parents room.  it is already 7:45 and we have to leave in like 5 minutes. I wake my mom up and walk back out.

"Ok, I'm gonna go but I'll see you in like ten or so minutes." I hang up the  phone and out comes my mom. Her hair is a mess but she's up.

"Are you ready to go hunny?" She asks sweetly but tiredly. 

"Yeah, I guess I am." I grab my backpack and put it on my back and then I grab my lunch box, water bottle, and food and leave the kitchen. My mom puts her shoes on and we are out the door. I climb into the passengers seat and we are off to school. 

A/N: This is so long and I redid it because the first one I posted was shitty. This is still shitty but like less I guess. I hope it will get better when I get to the part that I really want to.