'Time to get up, Alix!' Came a voice from down the hallway.
'Please just five more minutes, mum.' Replied a very tired girl, just woken from her dream.
'No. This is your first day back at school; you can't be late.'
Alix South wad a young girl of 14 years. She was an ordinary student at 'Mr. Lee's Academy' in a small town known as Rothville. She got average grades in most of her classes, except for science. Science was the only subject she could grasp. She got A*s in all of her exams for it. She really wanted to be a biology teacher or to work in partnership with other scientists to find new discoveries about the human race and liked this option better. But she had years of schooling and study ahead of her before she could do this.
She sat up in her bed and slipped on her bunny slippers her mother had got her for Christmas last year. Tripping over her clothes and her own feet, she walked over to her window and flung open the blinds, obscuring her eye sight for a few moments with the bright light outside, to a disappointing view of rain pouring down the pane of glass before her. She wrapped a warm dressing gown around her cold body and Alix stumbled down stairs.
Yawning, she pulled out a stool at the breakfast bar and sat down. Sat there in front of her was two slices of toast with butter and jam spread across them.
'Morning dad' Alix said to the breakfast.
'Morning and good bye. I'm off to work.' Chuckled her father who made the breakfast.
Before even finishing the toast Alix's mother bugged her to go and get dressed. Alix dragged herself back up the stairs and got ready for school.
Realising the time, she ran down stairs before she was going to miss the bus. Her mum handed her her bag. It was a normal school bag but it had a pattern like the Milky Way galaxy on it.
She got to school and sat down, ready for her 'six hours of hell' as her classmates called school.
The school was fairly small with about 400 students in total. Because of this there was only two or three form groups per year. Which was an advantage as you knew most people in your year. And if they weren't in your form group they were in your other classes. This made the school a tight knit community.
Most of the day was uneventful. There was some fun at lunch in Biology Catch-up. The idea of the group was to take higher achievers and underachievers and to get them to work together. It was fun because most of her friends went and she enjoyed being around them.
Wandering home, she grew tired. She went into the corner shop and bought some crisps to eat on the way home. When she got there she ran upstairs, into her room and collapsed in exhaustion on her bed.
