"Oh for gods sake why" I mumbled as my alarm went off. Being 18 and living alone is one of the rarer things in life, I know. But it was something that I really enjoyed.
It was Wednesday and god, Wednesdays are always a little bit harder than other days. I had to be at work at eight o'clock and with my apartment being almost an hour away from work, I swear it's a struggle. The alarm was still ringing and I tried my best shutting it out by taking a pillow and holding it around my head so that it was covering my ears. "Why would anyone ever want to do this to meee, whyyyy" I cried out as I took all of my will power to get that damn alarm stop ringing.
I sat up and questioned my existence for a while, also wondering if it was worth it calling in sick today. "Dammit, stop it you, who do you even think that you are?" I said to myself. Getting out of the bed was hard. God it was hard but it was something I had to do unfortunately.
And once again my phone started ringing, although this time it was not the alarm but my wonderful friend Olivia. I picked up the phone and pressed the green button. "Yes what do you want" by now I'm guessing that you've figured that I'm not really a morning person.
Olivia laughed on the other end of the phone "wow Effie, grumpy today my friend? Anyway I'm picking you up in about an hour so get ready and eat that breakfast of yours. You're getting a ride to work today be happy" Olivia was one of those friends who always was in a happy mood, the only time I've ever seen her mad or angry about anything was that one time when I lost her Shrek movie, and boy was she mad at me for that.
"Mhm okay thank you see you bye" I answered groggily, still not being fully awake from that wonderful sleep of mine. Olivia ended the phone call and I threw myself back onto the bed. "Why would I ever want to leave you my beloved belonging, I love you" I cried out and hugged my bed, only to realize that it would now be even harder to get out of bed once again.
I felt something rough licking my right foot. "Bob is that you?" I asked out into the thin air, looking back to see my cat Bob. She tilted her head and looked at me with the most puppy-eyed look I've ever seen on any animal ever before. And yes my cat is named Bob and she's a girl, okay I've always wanted a cat named Bob and when I found her I guess she was condemned to be named Bob. And by the way Bob is like totally a androgynous name so it doesn't even really matter. Guessing she's hungry I crawl out of bead and put my hair up in a bun, going out to the kitchen and taking out some cat food from the pantry. Bob – being the hungry cat she is – could hardly stay down on the floor. She climbed onto the cabinets and made her way up onto the counter top.
"No Bob get down, you know that you're not allowed to be up here!" I said to her as I tried to push her away from the bowl filled with cat food. Bob gave me another of those puppy-eyed looks and let out a small little mewing as she licked her mouth.
"Bob" I said. "You know what effect that has on me so stop" If there were anything in this world that I couldn't resist it was Bob. She was the thing in my life that I loved the most and when she did that, I really couldn't be mad at her. "Okay as you want you can eat at the counter top, I mean I for sure will so why shouldn't you" I said as I petted her head. I made myself a bowl filled with cereal and fresh berries. If there were one thing I enjoyed much it was my breakfast. I've always been taught that it's important to start off your day with a good breakfast so that you have something to run your engine with for the rest of the day.
After me and Bob had our breakfast I went back to my bedroom. My apartment was pretty small and contained a small kitchen, a toilet and then my bedroom that was a bit bigger so that I could fit a TV and a sofa in it as well. I wasn't the best at decorating but I tried my best to divide the bedroom into two separate rooms so that I could have a small room where I slept and a small living room. And I personally think that I conquered it pretty damn good.
I took out a pair of black jeans, a gray hoodie and a black bomber jacket pairing the outfit with a pair of Adidas superstar shoes. I took my hair down from the bun and started coming it but to only realize that my hair today was a lost cause so I put it up in a high and neat ponytail instead. I checked my phone to see that I only had about twenty minutes left until Olivia came and picked me up which was enough time for me to do my makeup and pack the rest of my stuff. I got my makeup bag, being the pro that I am on makeup – notice the sarcasm – I just put on some concealer to hide the bags under my eyes, filled in my brows and put on a simple black liner among with some mascara. I also slapped on some light contouring and loads and loads of highlighter. My motto being that you can never get enough highlighter, if you looked close enough you could probably see your reflection in my highlighter. After I was done with my makeup I went to the restroom and brushed my teeth, avoiding hitting my smiley piercing I got done a few weeks ago since it was still healing.
"Okay Effie, makeup – done, hair – done, clothes – on, backpack – wait where is my backpack" as I were checking that everything was done I realized that I hadn't seen my bag since yesterday. I took my phone and stuffed it in my back pocket as I stumbled around my apartment in a wild hunt after my backpack.
"Bob?? have you seen my backpack??" I yelled as my cat came running towards the end of my bed looking at me with a questioning look. "Okay dummy I'm going to take that as a no". Where the heck was that bag when I needed it the most. I felt something vibrating on my bum and even though I just stuffed down my phone in my back pocket I couldn't even understand what it was. I reached for the back pocket and understood that it was my phone, I started giggling as I answered the phone.
"Heyyy Effie I'm like three minutes away so I'm almost outside your apartment, could you be nice enough to go down to the parking lot now please?" it was Olivia on the other end of the phone, always wanting to have everything under control I guess that's how Olivia should be described.
"Ehm okay Olivia I just have a small little problem okay I kind-of-can't-find-my-bag" I rambled out as fast as I could, being a bit afraid of her reaction.
"No it's okay Effie take your time, but as I said I'll be outside in three minutes, two minutes by now. See you soon!!" I was startled. Was that really Olivia? Usually she would've been devastated over the fact that I wasn't on time.
Shaking that thought out of my head I continued looking for my bag only to find it on the toilet seat. "Okay now that makes no absolute sense" I told myself whilst picking up the bag and heading towards the door. Almost forgetting saying goodbye to Bob – which I didn't so it's okay everyone – I ran to my bedroom and found Bob almost asleep on the bead.
"Goodbye my little munchkin I love, love, love youuu. Have a nice day and I'll see you soon, mommy loves you. And don't do anything dumb whilst I'm gone okay?" I raised a finger towards the cat and gave her a stern look that soon developed into a big smile. God I'm such a sucker for cats, no wonder my friends always told med that I would end up being a crazy cat lady. I kissed Bob one more time before I headed towards the door and later on out in the apartment staircase. I made sure that the door was locked and went down the stairs and out to the parking lot. I immediately saw Olivia's white Jeep and went towards it.
"Hey I'm so sorry I'm a bit late, now can you please hurry so that I'm not late for work?" I pleaded Olivia. She had a grin on her face that made me a bit worried, she turned around and faced me.
"Okay Effie don't be mad at me". Holy shit what has she done. "I might have called your job and said that you are sick today" I cannot believe this, my mouth hanged open, me trying to figure out something to say back. "But there's something positive in all this I promise Effie!! I have a surprise for you, so just lean back and I'll take you on a ride that you'll never forget." She blinked towards me and started the car and drove off. What the heck is going on.
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Fanfiction"And for the record, no I do not know who you are, and you're not making me wanting to know it either." "But babe, everyone wants to know who I am" And then she left, without me knowing her name.
