Unconditional Love

Chapter 1- Secrets

"Kayla, wake up now or I'll come up and poor extremely cold water on your FACE!"

That's how my day began. My mom is always yelling at me but what can I do, that's how she is.Usually my dad is in his room reading/researching a newspaper article. Guess he's not doing that today, he's probably the one whispering to my mom downstairs. I clean my face and brush my teeth so I can go eat breakfast. I have to be quick so I won't be tardy for school again. 3 tardy day slits and you get a 2 week detention. If I'm late today, it would be my second slit. That's when I heard my mom yell.

"You think she's ready? How can you say that?"

"Honey, you have to trust her. Just give her one chance," my dad spoke softly(he does that when he doesn't want to create problems).

"Fine, but if ANYTHING happens, it's your problem. Okay?"

"Fine, I guess I'll tell her."

I really wanted to go downstairs. I'm that curious person that will do anything to get answers, and I mean ANYTHING! I rush downstairs and wait for a few minutes, thinking they would tell what they were talking about. Nothing. Could they have been talking about someone else? But, I'm the only child, they can't be talking about someone else. That's another stupid rule here in Torganmore. You can't talk about anyone other than your family and who you're talking to. I can't tell my parents about my BF or I'll get terminated. No one even knows what that word means, but whoever gets terminated is never seen again.

"Kaykay," my dad speaks sweetly. "I want you to wait at the school parent pick-up area. Go there as soon as the bell rings. I'm taking you somewhere."

"Dad, can you tell me where we're going? You know I can't take suspense," I ask politely.

As usual, my very dad doesn't answer me. He's always saying that I need to control my curiosity but I seriously don't know why. I ignore his ignorance and finish my breakfast quickly. Getting ready for school is harder than you think. You need to SIGN IN TO YOUR CLOSET! How crazy is that? Your clothes get scanned to make sure you're not wearing anything inappropriate for your age. So I went by the rules and got my clothes, the only one in my closet. My technological closet gives me the proper clothes, hairbrush and shoes depending on what I should be getting ready for at the time.

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I'm downstairs, waiting for my friend, Hoola, to pick me up. She's usually late and that's the reason I got my first tardy slit. I hate her for that but riding a scooter isn't easy for her. Talk about a stupid excuse.☺ This time, she's actually on time! I get on the back of the scooter and almost fall off. Manual 21st century scooters are so small. I told Hoolah to get a larger, electric scooter, but her mom isn't going to get one for her until she mastered the manual scooter. Life sucks sometimes. Hoo, aka Hoola, was blabbering on about how she didn't want to be late again, but I wasn't listening. Instead, I was thinking about where Dad was going to take me this afternoon. Dad barely keeps secrets between Mom and him away from me. He usually tells me what they were talking about. If he's not telling me now, there must be something important, but what's so special? By the time we got to school, everyone was already beginning to enter the school. I check my watch and its only 7:55. First period doesn't begin until 8:15. Why is everyone entering so early? Better ask someone.

"Hey," I scream. "Why are we entering so early?"

The boy next to me is the only one who bothers to answer. "Miss Cobblesworth says there going to a VERY SPECIAL announcement before class begins."

"But announcements are never told before class."

"I guess today's announcement must be really important."

What is with all the secrets today? I squish in with the croud and enter the hallways that lead us to the gym. All the chairs are layed out and everyone is trying to find a seat near or beside their friends. I find a seat in the second row corner. Hoo went and sat with the popular kids so I was alone for this. Miss Cobblesworth, our principal, came up with a mic and began to speak.

"Hello pupils. Welcome back for another day of mathematics, science, geography and abdominal physics. This is not just education, children, it is your life. Learn well," Miss Cobblesworth began(like everytime). "I have called you here today to tell you about an important event happening this afternoon for 4th, 5th and 6th period. We will be having a class talent show. Each class will practice anything for the first 3 periods. You can do plays or dances or even a class song. Everyone will present this afternoon," and Miss cobblesworth was done. We had to enter the rusty doors of this rotten school because our self-obsessed principal has to speak 10 sentences?

Classes continued normally. Well, almost normal day. My teacher, Mr Gorgon, wanted the class to do a musical. Are you kidding me? A MUSICAL? Of course, our class reeked. By the last 3 periods, our class was a total mess. We were the 1st calss to present. WHYY????? It surprised me how much effort the class put in to the final presentation. By the time all the classes were done, it turned 3:00pm. I could just make it to the parking lot. I got there and there was my dad.