Beyond the Lesson (TXS)

Unlikely Introduction

Monday

Splash! I cough as I get the feeling of drowning until I hear the laugh of my annoying ass brother. "I am going to kill you!" I yell wiping the ice cold water off my face.

He continues to laugh. "Well I've been calling you to wake up for the past 30 minutes. You know I can't be late so unless you want to walk to school hurry up and get dressed." He says and leaves my room. Asshole. I take my sheets off my bed before it sinks too far into my bed. I go downstairs and put them in dryer and sigh. I hate school genuinely. It's so damn pointless at this point. I'm not going to go to college and don't plan on getting a job that requires me to even have a high school diploma. Nope I'm going to be a photographer and my own boss at that.

I go back upstairs and get in the shower to wake up more after being practically drowned by own brother. Tyson is my older brother and he "takes care of me" since our parents are dead. Please don't be sad, they were drug addicts and literally od'd while Tyson and I were in the same room. They were terrible parents and yet somehow did one good thing right. They left the house to Tyson and I before they died. They were both lawyers so they were never home anyway but they made money. So thanks mom and dad for the trauma and nepotism. "Hurry up!"

I groan getting out the shower and finding clothes to wear. I put on my grey sweatshirt, denim wide legged pants, and retro blue air Jordan ones. I put on my silver cross chain and rings. I look in the mirror to put my brown dread locs in a pony tail with one hanging out to my face. I moisturize my mocha skin with white patches on my right temple, my left cheek and my chin. I found out I had vitiligo my junior year. It just started showing up. I'm not dying but it doesn't stop people from asking, weirdly enough. I grab my book bag and head downstairs right when Tyson is grabbing his car keys. "Made it." I say breathless and he rolls his brown eyes at me as he's in his brown plaid suit.

"You are really annoying."

I smirk as we leave the house and to his car. "And yet you still love me so I think you're enjoying it." I say and he scoffs. We get in the car and he drives me to school.

"You got practice today right?" I nod. "Cool I'll be there to bring you home but then I'll have to head back out to do a late lecture." He says and I nod again. Tyson is a psychology professor at the university. I wouldn't call him the smartest person in the world but you kinda have to be to teach about the literal briain and how it works.

"Yeah I got you." He gives me a bored look as we reach the school. I look at him as his circle framed glasses sit on his face, and his short high top with curls frame his fat head. I roll my eyes. "I won't be late." He nods and I get out the car.

I put my bag on both shoulders and put my heads in my pockets as I walk into the school. My school is like any other one you can think of. Loud ass kids way too hype for it to be 8 in the morning, the quiet kids getting pushed around by the loud kids, the popular kids aka the assholes fondling each other down like it's a shitty reality tv show and then the kids like me. The ones who are literally just here just so they don't get arrested for not showing up. "Talia!" I see my two best friends waving me over by my locker.

"What's up guys?" I say as I put my stuff in my locker and gathering the stuff I need first class, math. I look at Lucas my boy bestfriend, a tall 6'2 skinny guy with basic white boy blonde shaggy hair and blue eyes. He's wearing the school tracksuit for track telling me they have a meet today.

"We were wondering if you were going to the party this Friday after the game?" He asks and I sigh shaking my head.

"You guys know I literally hate those things. They always get shut down by cops or someone snitches to their parents when they're no longer having fun." I say and I hear my girl bestfriend Maira, groan. She's a short dark skin girl with a dark brown bob with a blonde streak in it at her bang. She has a feline like eyeshape with light hazel eyes to fill them that have a double sided eyebrow piercing and a diamond septum piercing. She has on a black cropped tshirt and black highwaisted skinny jeans.