MOON

Chapter 2: New Season Year. New Life. New school.

First day of school, I get up early in the morning. I'm in my 10th grade era, and I vow I will never be late ever again. I'm already up when my alarm rings. My mother knocks on the door. "Lee! You better get up otherwise you'll be late, remember it's your first day of school and don't show off arriving as late as ever. Remember, early bird catches the worm and..." Blah, blah, blah. Mom's more of an alarm than the alarm itself. I don't want to hear my mom nagging anymore, so I get up on the bed. Ugh, I really hate bathing early, I hate feeling the cold water rushing through my body, I hate the wind's cold approach. But, I force myself to bathe anyway.

After bathing, I put on my clothes. I wore a sweater with a stripe of black and white and a blurry white star drawn on the chest part, black jeans to fit my outfit, and a pair of black boots to look better. I comb my black hair and I leave it hung loose. And now, I look exactly like a pop star on tv shows, at least that's what I thought. You see, I don't casually wear uniforms especially on first day of school, I just don't feel like wearing it.

I then eat my meal, which is my favorite. Ham, fried eggs, and hotdogs on a sunny morning. Ahh, makes my day special. I devoured every single bits of my food. And after that, I stood up, picked my bag, and kiss my mother and father goodbye.

"Don't forget your lunch bags, kids" mother protest to me, Karen and Vinz.

"Good luck on your new journey! Remember, this is the beginning of the end." Father says with a straight face.

Karen rolls her eyes. "Father, stop saying nonsense" she says.

"I don't quite understand what you're talking about, father" Vinz added.

I turned to both of them. "Let's just say he's fond of using paradox sentences to make us overthink too much." I say.

Father ALWAYS tells us complicated phrases that doesn't even make sense, or maybe it does make sense, and I just don't really dig in to their meanings.

We walked our way to the school. It's not far away from our house so I guess I can do it. Then here we are, standing in front of the huge dark blue gate.

Karen poke us both. "Bye then" and we waved goodbye to her.

She's now in college anyway, and she goes in a different school.

There's a small bar door on the right side of the gate and obviously that's where we'll enter. We crossed on a huge field and entered the main door of the school building. We stood on the huge hallway in front of a water fountain.

I looked at Vinz. "I guess this is where we part ways. The way to your room is on the right and mine is on the left. " Vinz glance a nervous look at me. "Yep, you know I feel nervous when I get lost, and if I do. You know it's always your fault." He said.

I shrug. "Well, you won't grow up if you won't walk by yourself."

"What's that supposed to mean? I'm only 14, and I'm just a kid" he said with an irritated look.

"That's an advice from the best girl in the world" I smirk. And turned around the other way. I heard him murmur something about me being a jerk and I giggle.

I pace to the empty hallway. I wonder why there's no students or teachers around. The hall is a deafening silence. Then I glanced on my clock. That's when I finally realized that I'm late! It's past 7 A.M., and I'm pretty sure students follows the "arrive before 7 A.M. rule" here. And I guess I'm the only person who violated it.

I pace faster. I look through every classroom doors and read every single section names and scrolled to the student lists to see if my name was written. I found out every section's name are named after different kinds of gemstone specifications. Cool, or rather, fancy. Every single classrooms are sealed shut and they have sliding windows. Describes how a private school is. I turned towards many corridors and finally reached the last classroom, near the bathroom. I look at the student list, I scrolled so desperately and...found my name written in last. Ashley Jane Paulino.
Finally! I found my room.