You Found Me

Chapter 1

CHAPTER 1

"Alexis Cooper! Hurry up, you're gonna be late! Your brother's waiting for you!" Mom had quite a temper this morning. This was the third time she shouted at me today. She did not always call me by my whole name, unless she's really pissed off, or moody.

"Alexis! What's taking you so long?!" I heard a loud knock from my bedroom door.

"I'm coming, mom!" I replied to her. I went to open the door and ready to leave, but she was blocking the door way, "What is up with you today? You seem a little--" She cut me off and she was staring at me blankly.

"Now, you don't want to be late on your first day," She said calm and sweet now, just like what mothers always do.

"Uhh...I'd better go," I said awkwardly because I was feeling weird. My mom was never like this. You know the sudden change of mood. I hugged her before I went downstairs to grab something in the kitchen and went straight to the garage. "Have fun!" I heard her yell from upstairs.

"Hey!" I greeted Anthony, my brother. He's a year older than me. But he failed when he was in 5th grade. So we were classmates, or batch-mates, which was quite awkward.

"Just get in!" Anthony whined, annoyed.

"Jeez, what's up with you people?" I got in the car and stared at him. But he glared at me. His eyes were dark, and scary. And not to mention, his hair was so messy, just like he got out of bed. I mean, why couldn't he fix himself just a little bit? He was wearing his the-so-called favorite black t-shirt that if you put a stain on it, he would do what he wanted with you, and that was a bad thing or even worse. But overall, and to be honest, Anthony's good-looking. I preferred that term instead of using the word 'hot'. I think it's gross to call your own brother that. But a lot of girls in school were drooling over him, based on my best friend, Megan. Sometimes, I think Megan had a thing for him. The way she looked at him, talked to him. You know the usual. My instincts were telling me that there was something.

"What took you so long?" Anthony asked, a little bit irritated. We were always fighting by the way. We argued but we cared for each other. Just like how brothers and sisters are. We were just not that showy of our feelings.

He started the engine and we drove off to school.

"Sorry, I was looking for my planner." I was looking for my planner just to found out it was at the bottom of my bag. Planner was the first thing I need when going to school. I wanted everything to be organized.

"You could find it later, you know. We're almost late." Still, sounded irritated.

"I know I know. But you know I can't leave for school without it." I whined. And I looked outside the window as we passed Amanda Gibson's house. She was the most popular girl in our school. She was a true bitch. And I tell you, you don't wanna mess with her. She had records of her catfights. And there were plenty. She did not get expelled because her father donated massive amount of money to our school every year. And guess what? Anthony had a crush on her, even though she was a selfish attention seeker bitch.

"Ma-" I cut him off just as he started to talk.

"What happened to mom?" I asked, still looking out the window. "She seemed a little moody today." I fixed my things as he parked the car.

"I don't know, she's like that when I went for breakfast." He shrugged and turned off the engine.

I shrugged, too. "K. Hope she'll be well." I opened the car door and looked at him. "Megan will give me a ride later. No need to wait for me." I informed him. I got out of the car.

"Yeah, sure" he removes his seatbelt and got out too. Then we went our separate ways. We were in the same year, but we had our different group of friends. Well, he had a group of friends while I only had one true friend.