Just Another Cliché

Chapter 3

My Dad once said, "You'll be happy when you stop reacting and start controlling your emotions." However this isn't helping me 'control my emotions' because at the moment I can tear someone's head off, I'm mad. That's actually an understatement because I'm livid.

The cause of my fury is the idiot who's loving his new job because now I have no choice but to be with him. It's as if he is looking forward to torment and irritate me. I might be overreacting but I'm sceptical of everything in life so it doesn't really matter. Coming back to the topic at hand, Alec Wright is currently trying his level best to piss me off and is succeeding with flying colours. Ever since Alec has stepped into Bookworm Inc. nothing, I repeat nothing is going as planned.

I was planning on sorting the new releases section while listening to my music and just relaxing. As you can see that nothing went as planned. I ended up teaching Alec how to manage the cash register, how to deal with customers and how to arrange the books. It would have been a lot easier and effective if Alec payed attention. I swear he has the attention span of a fly. If he wasn't bothering me, he would be hopping around the bookstore making books fall while running, dare you catch him working. Some help he is. I inwardly rolled my eyes at that.

After an exhausting day in school and dealing with an even more exhausting Alec at work I reached home. On my way home I was excited because my brother, Jayden, was coming home from college. He had a week off so he decided that coming home would be a better idea than staying cooped up in his dorm room

I find Jayden standing in the kitchen, looking for something to eat that requires no cooking. I enter to see my brother eating cereal at 7 in the evening.

I have two brothers - Jason is the oldest at 24 and Jayden is 21 being the pampered middle child and I'm the youngest at 17 like I mentioned earlier I'm Daddy's little girl. The three of us were extremely close until my sophomore year. That was the year everything changed, my relationship with Jason, my friendships and most importantly that year, I changed.

But enough about the past. I sneak up behind Jayden and jump up on his back trying to tackle him to the ground. He leaves his cereal and then starts spinning with me on his back. Even though I'm really tired seeing my brother gives me enough energy to mess with him. We both start laughing and he puts me on the ground and gives me a hug.

"I've missed you Bri." He chuckles.

"I missed you too Jay-Jay." I specifically gave him this nickname when he was 13 because it annoyed the life out of him.

After chatting with him for some time I excused myself to my room. I was very tired after the weirdest first day of my senior year, I could imagine and desperately needed some me time. I literally did it all, I quarreled with our star quarterback, got hit on the head, made Scott Richards my friend and then went to work where I met my new coworker who turned out to be the same guy I fought with earlier in the morning. I finally come home to meet my brother after four months! Surely if the entire year went by like this I'll be dead by the end of it!

I change into my pajamas head down for dinner. Dinner was short much to my happiness. The entire family was there for a change and Jayden was the topic of conversation and he loved every minute of the attention. After dinner I crawled up the stairs like a zombie and go to sleep. For the first time I fell asleep the moment my face hit the pillow. Maybe this year won't be so bad after all.

The next morning I wake up frustrated and cranky. Even though I fell asleep instantly I slept late at around 11:30. I need minimum 8 hours of sleep otherwise I'm frightening in all ways possible. I head down to go make some coffee which is needed to survive school when I have low sleep.

I come down and try making coffee on my mom's high-tech coffee machine, fail miserably and end up making watery cold black coffee. I turn to find any human being who can make me drinkable coffee and turn around to see my brother coming down the stairs with a sachet of InstaCoffee which he probably uses at college.

He looks at me and says "I'll get another one for myself. I have around 10." I think he saw my face and realised how badly I needed the coffee.

He knows how I get if I don't get enough sleep so being my loving brother he hands over the sachet. I beam at him and get up to give him a hug. I gulp down the coffee like it was the last drop of water on earth. I go up have the coldest shower I've had all week to wake me up and not look like I just woke up from my coffin. I grab a bagel for breakfast and head out to my car. I use my prehistoric Toyota Camry to drive everyone to school since I do it every Tuesday. Well not everyone, Jane had volleyball practice for the big game against Mountain Ridge High. She's the team captain.

I was halfway to Chloe's when my car decided that it didn't want to move. It just broke down in the middle of the road. Let me mention that I'm not a rough driver but this was Jayden's car when he was a senior so this car has had its good old years and I don't want to pester Mom and Dad for a new one. I think about calling Chloe but then I remember that she doesn't have her car today. Calling Jane would be useless because she's already in school. I suddenly remember one person who I could call. I'm not sure if it's alright to call someone you just met yesterday and barely know but desperate times call for desperate measures. I take out my phone and dial his number. After two rings he picks up.

"Hi I know it's really late and you might already be in school but my car broke down and I need to pick up Chloe. I need help, can you come?" I said.

"You called me in time. I was just leaving for school. Tell me where you're at and I'll pick you up." He replies.

I was relieved that after I asked him he was already on his way. I messaged Chloe so that when we pick her up she wouldn't kill me for being late. If this just the start of the day, I wonder how the rest of the day would progress. That thought worries me.

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A/N : Hi everyone, Happy New Year!! Hope you all have a great year ahead. Thank you for reading my story even with the really slow updates. Hopefully this year I'll  update faster.