Learning to Love [Niam]

Chapter 1

Today was a particularly bad day for me. It’s just like; I woke up in a really bad mood.

My alarm didn’t go off, so, my mum came up stairs to wake me up. The thing is she shook me awake. NO ONE is allowed to touch me. I knew it was accident and I knew she forgot for a second, but I still had to go into a panic attack.

I was too embarrassed to face my mum after that; so, I just decided to go into school, late. That’s where my bad luck continued. I was 20 minutes late to my first period. My teacher just glared at me and asked me why I was late. I can’t talk to anyone, outside of my three friends and my brother and my coach, even then I don’t say much. So, of course the teacher gets mad at me because I couldn’t freaking answer the question. She gave me a detention.

I could do nothing but mope the rest the day. I mean I hate detention, it also means that I will be showing up an hour late to cross country, which my coach was surely going to kill me. Running is the only thing that keeps me sane and keeps me from doing something stupid.

And I was right. The coach was pissed that I was late for practice, why wouldn’t he be, I am his number one runner. He didn’t get as mad as I thought he would though. He seemed pretty excited actually and that relieved me a bit, until I found out the reason he was so happy. A new guy just moved into town and he’s joining the team, Liam I think his name is. The coach thinks he’s got a lot of potential. Usually this wouldn’t bother me, because I bet the guy’s good, but I doubt he can beat me.

Coach decided he was going to race me and him in a two mile. I wasn’t worried; I knew I could beat this lad, no problem. The thing is though; he beat me… by 5 freaking seconds. He then decided to come up to me and congratulated me. I just glared at him and walked away. I know it might seem kind of rude, but I was just done.

So, yeah, today just sucked.