Lost Connection

Chapter 2

I yawn and shut my alarm clock off. It reads 5:02. I grunt and start getting ready for special weaponry. According to me schedule, real education is only for 3 hours and the rest is army crap. I put on the black sweatpants and white t-shirt the meeting last night assigned me. I put that on and throw my old Nikes on, I walk into the bathroom to brush my hair and teeth and wash my face. When I finally come into reality, I hear this painful moaning noise. I walk across the hall and go into Amber's bathroom. I find her bent over with her hair in a bun trying to throw up. "Oh my god Amber!!" And she looks up and goes back to choking her self. "Amber knock it off you'll make yourself pass out, what's wrong?" I say frantically. "Last...nights...dinner.." She spits out and collapses on the floor and finally throws up. "Oh, did I make the Lasagna to overcooked??" I spat. "No..." She trails off and puts her minds elsewhere. I suspect this is one of the reason to her being here. "Amber why are you here." I say and she rejects my question until I say it again and this time more firm. It takes her a minute before answering,"my mother got diagnosed with cancer and she died, then my father died of grief, my brother was at college and I would've had a older sister if she didn't die at birth. I moved to California with my aunt and went anorexic. My brother dropped out of Harvard to take me in, we got an apartment and when he couldn't take me anymore, he sent me here...5 years ago, I haven't seen him since." And I patted her on the back "why didn't you say so, I wouldn't have made you eat it?" I say and I help her up and clean her up and strip her of her pajamas, revealing her easy to see ribs, she wears a bra to bed so I put her clothes in the laundry and give her a blanket after letting her change into a night gown, I won't let her go to school because she seems extremely warm, being my first day, I have to go. I get one of the nurses from the hospital to come care for her and I finish getting ready after cleaning the vomit. When I go to get in my truck it's poring, I think we won't have class until the speakers blare "WE ARE STILL HAVING SPECIAL WEAPONRY, MARTIAL ARTS, SPECIAL DEFENSE, AND CPR ETC CLASSES DUE TO NO LIGHTING OR THUNDER." And it shuts off, I groan and stomp my foot into the mud causing me to slip and fall in a big patch of mud, I get more furious but just hop into the truck and drive around until I find the class.

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I get done with CPR class and go to finally change my clothes to get some real education. The day has been trudging by, and the only thing I can think about is how I will have to do this for the next 8 years. I walk into a big brick building holding a fair amount of 150 kids. I sit down in my navy blue knee-high skirt and white collar t-shirt uniform and wait for the teacher to come in. I see Alex come in with my two bags and I sigh at relief. He's also holding his strangely heavy book bag. I go to help him and I hear a guy with shaggy brown hair in the way back whistle at my movement. I turn around to block him and Alex yells "Shut up you creep pervert!" And by Alex's voice he lowers in his seat. I take my bags and gesture for Alex to sit next to me. Then in comes the teacher, it's 7:06 when he starts with math. The hour goes by slowly, I'm very good at math, getting straight As' on my report card, so me and this girl named Cindy knew most of the answers to lettering 3x division, ex: a75(d)324=. We trudged on to science and got assigned partners for melting metal into a drinkable sustainable fluid. Just my luck, I get partnered with the shaggy haired boy, supposedly name Xavier. He walks up to me as I gather my books and notes to get it over with. "Wow, babe, listen, I got Mathew Swartz doing our project. So why don't we make our own project?" I slap him in the face and ask who Mathew Swartz is. He acts injured and points to a tall boy with black hair and glasses on sitting in the back. I walk over and sit down next to him, he almost chokes when I smile. "I'm Logan, and the d**** over there is my partner, and you don't have to do the project, I will I guess." He smiles awkwardly and says,"I'm Mathew and thank you, my partner is Cindy so she's good to work with, but if your doing it alone let me help you, we can meet at the library?" "That would be awesome, say tomorrow at 4:00?" "Wonderful." And the conversation ends and I walk off, when I walk past Xavier I step on his shoe which causes him to trip. I smirk and thank The Lord of days that tomorrow is Saturday. And then Social Studies passes by quickly, we're learning about the history of the camp. It's 10:00 when I get home and I pages over books of homework to do. Math homework passes by within 30 mins, I tend to Amber, who's got the flu, and get back to reading a chapter for social studies at 11:12, I fill out what I would think my best special weaponry item would be, I chose daggers. I yawn as I shut my book and go to bed, after checking on Amber.