Love Eases Pain (Completed)

Chapter One

Janellys' POV

The alarm buzzes at 6:00 a.m. I hit the snooze button and fall right back to sleep. The alarm rings again ten minutes later. I hit the snooze again. I get up and turn off the alarm clock then go to the bathroom. I get in the shower then start getting ready for school.

  As soon as I'm finish I go out to the living room. Where I find my brother knocked out on the couch. There's a huge mess in the kitchen. "Always making a mess, always. Then don't clean it up." I start putting all the dishes in the sink and try to clean up some. Sometimes I feel like just leaving this mess here and making them have no choice but to clean it. By the time I leave the house its 7:20, and I'm late for school. Again! I take 3 buses to school. When I get there they tell me I have another detention. I can't deal! I've been late to school already 16 times in the last 3 months. It's not getting no better.

Later that day in my history class, my teacher assigns every one a project. She's also about to assign partners. "For this project, every one will at least need one partner. I don't care if you don't want that partner you will get over it," She said with the biggest attitude ever. "Ashely with Micheal, Thomas with Derek , Yennifer with Luis,..." She kept naming names. I just sat waiting for her to put me with somebody. Waiting for her to put me with Angelo. As soon as she called my name I wasn't wrong. She put me with him. I started smiling inside, I tried not to make it obvious.

  Angelo came up to me and handed me the paper for the project "here's your paper," I grabbed the paper. "Thanks" I said without looking up at him. "So you wanna come to my house or do you want me to go to yours to work on this?" He said straight forward. "Um yours is fine," I began to think about if we were to go to my house my brothers would probably start talking crap. I don't need no problems. Especially with them, not today. "So can I get your number so that I can give you the address?" "Yeah that's fine, uh it's 872-606-7508." "Alright, I got it." "Okay." "Talk to you later then."

When I get home there's even more of a mess than what I left here. The cleanest part of this house is probably only my room and the bathroom. I'm tired of cleaning all of their messes.

My oldest brother Thomas comes home. As soon as he goes to the kitchen. He starts complaining. "JANELLYS!" He yells. I come out my room and go out to the kitchen. "Yes?" "What is all this mess man?" "I'm not cleaning that, everyday I clean up after all of you. It's not fair that you all think it's okay to make a mess and I have to clean it. I go to school everyday and I have to come home to clean, I don't think so." "All I ask for is for you to clean, your the only female here. You should be able to clean and not complain."

  "No Thomas, no. I should be able to complain because of you make a mess I don't want to be the one to clean it. At the end of the day your grown, all of you are grown. You can pick up a mop or broom, a sponge or rag and clean something, because I'm tired of cleaning up after grown men that act like boys that can't clean nothing. You forget your suppose to be taking care of me, not me taking care of you." I yelled at him in frustration and anger. I was beyond mad. I couldn't take it any longer.

Later that night Angelo texts me. I began talking to him. We talked for hours.

::Messages::
Angelo: So why don't you talk to nobody in school?
Janellys: I'm to myself. I don't really like to talk to that many people. It causes problems.
Angelo: not much of a people's person huh?
Janellys: yeah, I could care less about having friends to be honest.
Angelo: then what do you do on your time alone?
Janellys: stay home, clean up after my brothers and watch tv.
Angelo: that's lame ahaha sorry for saying that but it's true.
Janellys: yea I know sadly. But I don't mind.
Angelo: your a home body.
Janellys: if that's what you call it.
Angelo: so if you don't mind me asking. When was the last time you had a boyfriend, because you really don't talk to no one.
Janellys: I've never had a boyfriend.
Angelo: no way, you got to be lying
Janellys: nope, all jokes aside. I don't have time for one. No one likes me anyways.
Angelo: you'll make time one day. He'll come to you.
Janellys: I guess.
Angelo: if it makes you feel any better we can talk about something else.
Janellys: it's fine
Angelo: so how many siblings do you have?
Janellys: I have 5 older brothers, you?
Angelo: I have a younger brother and sister.
Janellys: I wish I had sisters.
Angelo: I feel you, keep everything mutual. Well um you can come over tomorrow if you want just let me know.
Janellys: that's fine.
Angelo: I'm going to go to sleep so I'll just hit you up tomorrow.
Janellys: that's fine. Bye.
Angelo: good night beautiful.