Life As We Know It

In the beginning

Authors note: the brown haired girl is Thea and the blonde is Cassie.
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Today was the first day of high school. Oh how I was dreading it. I don't like people my age at all, they're so dumb and stupid. Girls who obsess over guys and guys who obsess over girls. Kill. Me. Now.
I live in the beautiful state of California, where everyone is trying to be better than everyone else. I live in San Diego, which is beautiful, but super hot if you don't live by the beach, and we don't. People can be so fake here, hard to tell whose genuine and who isn't. Surprisingly I do have one person I like here and it's my best friend and next door neighbor Cassie. We are very similar in many ways, honestly the only reason we even became friends was cause her dad was dating my mom, ew. They aren't together anymore though. We didn't even like each other at first, but we had to grow on each other.
Her brother though, gross. He is this city's biggest player, well seems that way to me at least. He's an 18 year old surfer jock. Girls basically swarm him, sometimes older women too. Creepy. He has blonde wavy hair and baby blue eyes, and of course the perfect color of tan skin. If I didn't know him and how self centered he was I'd probably would've thought he was hot too. Most men in this city just disgust me though.
I thankfully don't have any annoying, gross siblings. My mom though...trying to be a model and at her age seems redundant. So basically she's never home, always trying to find her next job. Even though I'm old enough to stay home by myself, Cassie's family always make me come over to their place until my mom comes back. Sometimes she's gone for days, longest was 2 weeks. All I know is when she comes home better to not talk to her, she's usually pissed off. Most likely didn't get the gig even though she screwed somebody, not trying to be disrespectful. I love her and all but she doesn't have respect for herself. Probably why she gets used by all her "boyfriends" and always has something to complain about. Mr. Jackson was the only guy that treated her right, Cassie's dad by the way. They never really told us why they broke it off, I'm guessing she slept with someone. I still see how he looks at her with longing though, he's too nice for her, too normal, too stable.
So what did I do the last day of summer break? Laid in bed watching horror movies and eating junk food with Cassie. I believe it was a good way to end it seeing as I'll have to actually move and do stuff while in school. I'm a very lazy person, I don't need much nor need to do much. I know that's sad but its not like I have a car or money to go and do anything anyway.
"Thea!!"
I feel like someone's calling my name.
"THEA!!!"
Damn, its getting louder. Bang Bang Bang.
"Thea you better be up and dressed missy." "Go away devil, you can't have my soul" I said putting the covers back over my head. Cassie opens the door, "you little butt, how can you still be in bed! We start our high school life today." "You can start it today, I'll start tomorrow" I remarked. She threw the covers off of me and jumped on top of me, started to tickle me. "Ah!!! Stop! You know I don't like that" I laughed and then started tickling her as well.
About 10 minutes later we were done and I was dressed. "Ok you are not wearing that on your first day are you?" Cassie asked. I looked at myself in the mirror, what's wrong with a black v-neck, and black skinny jeans? "It's just the first day, no ones gonna look at me anyway" I rolled my eyes at her. She opened her mouth as to say something but then hesitated. She's known me for years and once my mind is set no one is gonna change it. I threw my hair up in a messy ponytail, added some mascara and a necklace, and then we left.
Thankfully we don't live far from school, like 5 blocks and today wasn't too bad outside, like mid 60s. " I hate walking, I can't wait to get a job" Cassie huffed. "It's not that bad, I'm surprised your dad would let you get a job anyway" I replied to her complaint. "Me too! Probably because he wants me to start paying for my own stuff" she laughed. I laughed in agreement with her.
Once we got to school, we went to the assembly hall and listened to the boring speech by the boring, old, bald principal. Practically fell asleep until Cassie nudged me. Somehow luck would have us actually being in 3 of the same classes this year, so I guess it's not all bad.
First period math, of course something I hate, thankfully I have Cassie, but she's really studious though. So while the teacher explained what we'll be learning this year, I just started doodling on my notebook.
Fourth period, halfway through the day now, social studies. Which is a little more interesting cause I like history. But again it's the first day, so I'm not really paying attention. Thankfully in all my classes so far I've got to sit in the back row. No ones even noticed me yet. Black clothes are basically like camouflage.
Schools over, walking back with Cassie now. She's telling me all about her day and how she meet some new interesting people and the new boy she's going to fawn over this year. Every year she always picks one boy to basically fall in love with, hoping he might notice her. I think it's pointless to fall in love in high school, you'll probably end up breaking up before its over or when you go to different colleges.
Plus I like my alone time, I don't need anyone but Cassie. She's basically my sister. I'd be happy if everything just stayed how it is, nothing changes.