One Step Closer

Chapter 9 - Aggressive much?

"Let it all go Oo Oo
Got you stuck on ma body
on ma body
Like a tattoo Oo"
I sing along to the crazy song practically jumping around in my room and into my bathroom. Once in my bathroom, I shift to another song.

"Yeah frozen and can't breathe
Something's gotta give now
Cause I'm dying just to make you see
That I need you here with me now
Cause yoooou've got that oooone thinnnnng
So get out get....ouuuuuuchhhh!!"
One second I'm swaying to the imaginary beat in my head and then the next I end up landing on my butt on the bathroom floor.

One . freaking . Day , Diana! One freaking day you couldn't stay right and not get your ass into trouble.

Mumbling profanities in God knows what language, I get up slowly, rub my butt and make my way to the shower. As alive as a Zombie now, I turn the shower on and quickly get over with it. Exiting the closet, drying my hair with a soft towel, I come back into my room to discover my Mom sitting at the edge of my bed, with a worried, yet somehow angry expression on her face.

"Hey Mom. What's up?" I ask her as I head to the dressing table. What was wrong with her, first thing in the morning?

"You, Diana Caroline Hart, are the most clumsy person I've ever seen in my life! One day, Ana, one day! You just couldn't let it happen without hurting yourself could you?!" she bellows with dissappointment.

"Mom, I'm sorry, I was just..never mind. I know I'm clumsy but it's not fair that I get scolded for that." I whine. "I don't do that intentionally."

She sighs and closes her eyes, pinching the bridge of her nose and says, "Just try and be careful Ana, I'm already worrying about you since you already... " she takes a deep breath and opens her eyes, looking at me directly in the eyes, " I don't want you to go through pain again."

Shit. Not that topic again.

Shaken by the intensity of her worries, I reply meekly, " Sorry Mom, I'll take better care of myself from now on."

She simply nods and gives me one last long look and leaves my room. I turn around, use my Chapstick and don't even bother looking at myself in the mirror. Taking my bag, I go downstairs to the kitchen.

I open the cupboard and stare at the two boxes in front of me. Fruit loops or Corn flakes? Fruit loops or Corn flakes? Definitely consoling myself with Fruit loops today!!

I take them with a bowl of milk and sit at the dining table. Eating them like today is the last day of my life, I faintly pay attention to my surroundings as I hear a whisper of a sound, something like the doorbell.

Blaa! Who cares?! I got my most cherished duds right here in front of me...*sighs with content* ... well in my mouth too actually.

Suddenly I'm being dragged far away from my little heaven. Nooooo!!!!! What the hell??!

The bowl of little fantasies is now flying in the air and into some dark wormhole of doom. And I can do nothing to reach it!! Then I suddenly come out of the blur vision around my bowl and notice one freaking annoying thing.

No one touches my Fruit loops! Not today unless they wanna die! That little!!!!

"You dumb shit! Gimme my bowl back!! Don't you dare take another crumb of my cereal. James!!! I'll freaking kill you!!!" I charge at him like a crazed bull from hell. We fall onto the floor right after he places the bowl back on the table.

"Oh My God!!! It was just one spoon of it! Are you fucking insane?! It's just Fruit-fucking-Loops for crying out loud! Aaaaahh!!! Jaaaaaneeee!" he cries like a stupid child.

"That should teach you not to grab my stuff Dandelion!!! Die die dieee!" I hit him on his chest with my fists and pull his hair, just when my Mom runs into the kitchen, and stares at me as if I had told her I was the younger her from her past.

"Jane!!! Grab her before she makes me bald! What the fuck is it with those fruit loops anyway?!" he shouts just as I was about to bang his head to the floor.

"Diana stop it right now!!! What the hell is wrong with you?! He didn't know about your stupid love for your damn cereal! Let him go." my Mom's order brings me out of my Angry-Bird-Mode.

I breathe heavily and stare at him for a while and go back to eating my yummies calmly. Ha! That should teach him not to mess with my food! I know....I reacted wayyy toooo much, but the expression on his face was worth all the crazy looks I got from the both!

Well what can I say? I behave the rest of the day just like my day starts. I involuntarily smirk.

"Wow. I sure didn't think I'd face something like that, when I woke up today. Is she always like that? 'cause I thought I fell for the perfect, smart, thoughtful little Diana all these days!" James exclaims to my Mom, as if I was no where in the hearing range to their conversation.

"Well, depends on how her day starts. But why am I telling this to you, as if you wouldn't know?" my Mom snorts.

What? What's that supposed to mean?

James immediately replies, "Oh I know that perfectly well alright! It's just that, she catches me offgaurd whenever she goes bonkers out of the blue."

Yeah right! As if you've known me all my life! My Mom herself, doesn't see it coming where I'm concerned.

"Hmm...takes a crazy person to understand a crazy person." she says. "Well what's the matter anyways? You seem to have drove to the wrong place young man."

James chuckles, and replies, "No Jane, I'm here to pick little 'Diana-saurous' here and take her to school with me. Well that was my reason for coming here anyways, other than what seems like almost making myself turn bald."

Hah! Bald James! Or rather, 'James Bald 007'. Hahahha! What a great image to laugh at.

"Oh you would do that? Thank you so much, dear! I had to leave early to take care of some things at work but couldn't. Now I can go and complete it early." my Mom says happily.

Wait. He is going to give me a ride to school?! That means alone time with James for a whole of 1 hr!!

Oh God, how I wish right now, I knew how to pull off a stunt like jumping out of a running car!