Barely Breathing

chapter 20

STILL REECE’S POV 

I woke up the next morning to my mother banging on my door. I moaned and rolled over facing the wall and put the pillow over my ear. She kept on banging, wow she must really want me up.

“Reece! Are you awake? REECEEEEEE!” she yelled.

“Ugh WHAT!?” I yelled through the door. I heard the door open but I hadn’t moved so I didn’t know whether I was in trouble for something or not yet. Knowing my luck I probably was, but oh well.

“Reece, it’s 10:30 sweetie, you need to get up and eat then get ready. We are due for your instore by quarter to 12 so that you are actually there on time for once” she scolded. It wasn’t my fault I’ve been late before! I couldn’t help that there was traffic. I didn’t move and suddenly the pillow was yanked from my head.

“Reece, I am being serious, wake up” she said. I sat up and rubbed my eyes. I looked at her as if to say ‘can you leave me alone now please?’ but no mum stayed until I physically pushed back the covers and got up. I was standing in front of her and then she nodded, smiled and pulled me to the kitchen. I was sitting there and then I heard my sisters coming into the room from outside.

“Hey Reece!” they all said to me.

“Yaha” I replied still half asleep. Dad walked in and patted my back.

“Looking forward to the instore?” he asked.

“Um, yea I guess?”

“Don’t seem so enthused Reece” he said.

“Sorry, mum just assaulted me to make me get out of bed.” Mum looked at me and rolled her eyes. Mum put a big plate of bacon and eggs infront of me.

“Eat” she commanded. She frightened me a lot for such a little woman, so I did as I was told. I didn’t realize how hungry I was and I scoffed the whole thing down within a matter of minutes. By the time the family bantering and my eating was over it was already quarter past 11. Shit! It took 10 minutes to drive there and I only had like 20 minutes to get dressed and do my hair! FUCK ME! I sprung up and ran into my room. I got changed into the clothes that Taylor had left here for me last night so that I would look ‘hot for all my twelvie fans’ as she so kindly put my lil rockers, I gave her her famous daggers for that one. I looked at the time and realized I had about just over 10 minutes. I ran into the bathroom and started messing with my hair. I did what I normally did to it and was happy with it even though mum woke me up with so little time to fix my terrible bedhead, nice one woman! I brushed my teeth and did a final check. I was happy with my hair and happy with Taylor’s outfit she picked outhttp://www.polyvore.com/reece_instore/set?id=54840756  so I walked out of the bathroom and grabbed my phone and wallet. I went into the lounge room where everyone was waiting for me. This was the first time I noticed they were all ready already, wow I really must have been asleep if I didn’t notice that, whoops.

“Ready to go?” dad asked.

“Yup. Marcus, Dave and Taylor are meeting us around the back of the parking lot I think” I said.

“Yes they are you moron, don’t you listen? I swear I told you like 10 times Reece” Liv chastised me. I glared at her and started walking to the car. I would have loved to have told her where to shove it but I would have gotten into a lot of trouble if I did that, so I bit my tongue. ‘Too bad its not Taylor biting my tongue’ I thought. Oh fuck I am so whipped it is not even funny. We got into the car and drove off to the instore. We parked around the back and saw Marcus and Dave unloaded their shit from their taxi. Where is Taylor? I looked around and couldn’t see her anywhere…this I did not like at all. We parked and got out of the car and headed towards the boys. We did the ‘man shake’ as Taylor called it and I asked them where she was.