Shattered

The First Step

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Waking up to another hangover, i got up to my feet and stumble towards the door with my vision still blurry, one step into the bathroom and the feeling of discomfort hits my stomach like a truck. Immediately, i drag myself towards the toilet bowl and hover my face over it, letting everything flood out of my mouth.

There goes the remains of yesterday's dinner.

With the world around me still spinning around, carefully i walk to my bedroom. I'm surprised that my imaginary "Fall O' Meter" count is still at zero, considering the headache being this bad,worse than last night. What did i expect, i've been drinking continously for weeks now.

Slowly positioning myself on the bed, relaxing the muscles in my body as i no longer have to focus on walking carefully.

I look at my clock, it's 4:30a.m.

Well i'll just lay here and hopefully fall asleep, which i did for about another 5 hours and 40 minutes. This time when i wake up, it's 10:10a.m.

Trying hard to not think about the weekend just constantly being sessions of "Beat Joshua!".

Ashley's text instantly pops up in my mind... she probably forgot that it was the start of the weekend when she sent me that text... soooooo should i send her a message right now asking her about it or should i just wait until tomorrow, since it's Monday again tomorrow and i'll see Ashley at school...

I gently place my mobile phone on the table and walk towards the bathroom to actually start off my day.

I'll just ask her tomorrow.

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RINGGG RINGGG RINGGG

The alarm goes off and my hand immediately presses the button by itself due to the fact that this has been a daily routine since i started studying in this school which was about a month ago.

But for some reason today, it's not like the usual everyday stuff, i feel extra tired today...

Well i guess 5 more minutes wouldn't get me late for the bus... right?

I was wrong...

My eyes slowly open, what time is it? Ohh i'm 15 minutes late for the bus.

15 MINUTES LATE FOR THE BUS?!?

I jumped out of my bed, quickly put on a fresh pair of clothes, brush my teeth as fast as The Flash could run, then stuff a few pieces of bread into my mouth and run outside, i missed the bus.

It's fine... i can still make it to the next stop point before the bus reaches it, there's a shortcut that can't be used by vehicles which will take me there in about 5 minutes... 3, if i run as fast as i could... well, no time to waste.

I start running like my life depended on it and when i finally reach the bus stop, my bus was right about to leave. Quickly, i hop on and look for a place to sit.

I was lucky to not have slept longer than i did, i could've been killed by Miss June. Trust me, you do not want to make her mad... she becomes really scary when she's angry.

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Today's checklist

History Assessment (done)

Geography Assessment (done)

Maths Assessment (done)

English Assessment (next)

It's lunch break right now and English is right after this, i guess this would be counted as one of the worst days since we have 4 assessments today, one after the other.

Well, since it's lunch time right now, students would usually be eating but i don't feel like eating... again, i guess i'll just walk around like what i always do.

Up a step and then another step, till we reach the top, students always said that just coming to school everyday makes u lose a couple of kilograms thanks to all the exercise we get from climbing up the stairs.

Down the hallway, a figure sits alone, outside a classroom, probably skipping lunch like me... wait why do i feel like i know that person... wait i do know her.

It's Ashley...

But something's different... ohhh wait, it's just a new hairstyle.

Soooooooo i guess i'll go and talk to her, since she's alone and all... yeah sounds good.

"Hey Ash!" I say while still walking towards her.

No respond.

"Morning Ash!" I say, realizing that i said "Morning" when it's 1:03pm, Hopefully she didn't hear that.

"It's 1:03pm already, Josh." Ashley giggles while taking off her earphones.

That explains why she didn't hear me the first time.

"Yeah... i realized."

"Soooooo, about the thing you wanted to tell me that day."

Ashley's smile immediately goes away, replaced by this worried look on her face.

"Yeah, i don't think i can say this but i guess this note will do." She says before passing a small folded piece of paper to me.

Ashley then starts walking away.

Curious of what it says, i open up the note and read the words carefully, one by one.

I think i'm falling for you

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Author's note

Basically all i have to say this time is that i'm really really really sorry for how long it took for me to update this part, i've been pretty busy these few weeks but not like it really matters since i don't think anyone really cares about this story but yeah... sorry for those who do care.

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