She's Not Afraid/ Carl Gallagher

The First Day

  I wake up in his arms. I smile to myself. I grab my phone and check the time.
6:20 a.m.
Shit were gonna be late for the first day of school!
"Carl, wake up were gonna be late!",I say while shaking him awake.

"No lets just skip, schools a waste of my fucking time.", he tells me.

"It's the first day!!", I say while hopping off the bed.

"Exactly." He says sitting up, "plenty of other days of torture we can go to."

"Well I'm going!", I yell to him as I walk to the bathroom.

"Well I guess if your going then I'll go... But I won't enjoy it... I already did this shit last year!" He says annoyed while walking into the bathroom .

"If you would've got better grades then you wouldn't have to redo seventh grade!" I tell him off.

" Well I'm so sorry I'm not Miss fucking perfect!", he tells me.

"I'm not perfect!" I fight back while plugging in my straightening iron.

"Last time I checked you were.", he says after spitting his toothpaste out.

I roll my eyes at him and start straightening my hair. Debbie walks in looking annoyed.

"Will you guys shut up, Franny's still sleeping and your gonna wake her up!", she says as she grabs her toothbrush.

"Well maybe if you wouldn't of got knocked up then you wouldn't of had this problem.", Carl tells her off.

"I got pregnant on purpose!" She argues back.

"Yay because your a physo!" He yells.

I bite my tongue and try not to laugh because I knew that hurt Debbie but Carl is so funny.

"Am not!", she starts to scream.

"Hey what the hells going on here?!", Fiona comes in yelling.

"Carl called me a physco because I wanted Franny!" She says almost in tears.

"Hey apologize, Carl!", Fiona demands.

"I'm not apologizing for staying the truth." He says.

I was done straitening my hair so I decide to excuse myself and go get dressed and put on some makeup. I start to put on the outfit I'd pre picked; a tribal teal top, a navy skater skirt, with a brown belt, denim jacket, my black converse high tops, and my white leather backpack. I put on concealer, powder, a light eyeshadow look, mascara, bronzer, and a light pink lipstick. I look in the mirror and say

"Damn you look good, Laci!"

"Yay you do." Debbie says

"Oh shit you scared me." I remark  "your gonna be late." I say looking to see it's 6:52 a.m.

"I have free first period." She says

"Oh, well I better go.", I say.

"Have fun!" She yells as I walk away.

I walk down stairs realizing I'll only be able to grab something quick for breakfast. I walk over to the cupboard and grab a granola bar.

"Damn, you look really hot!", Carl remarks.

" Keep it in your pants Gallagher!" I tease him.

"Well maybe if you would keep it in your shirt." He says while glancing down at my chest.

I slap him on the arm.

"Let's go were gonna be late. " I say annoyed.

"Alright." He says.

God he's so hot. No no no I think. Gotta get over him. He doesn't like me no matter what Debbie says. We're just best friends.

"Bye have a great day!!" Fiona says coming and hugging us both.

"Thanks you too!" I shout while walking out the door.  Once we get on the bus Carl and I compare schedules. We realize we only have art and lunch together.

"This is bullshit." Carl says. "Why do you have to be in smart people classes?" He asks me.

"I'm not I say." Looking down not happy at the words that appear on my schedule
PRE-ALGEBRA
it reads.
"Fucking Mr. Young didn't think I could take Algebra 1 this year!" I say really pissed off.

" At least your not in Pre-Math 7."  he says looking at his paper pissed.

We sit in silence until we get to school. One good thing is our lookers are really close by. My first class is Enriched English. It's boring as shit. Just all that welcome to eighth grade bs. Next was Pre- Algebra. It was pretty interesting. I sat next to this hot kid named Logan. I was surprised he started talking to me first. I was hesitant because my thing for Carl but I knew I needed to get over him and this was the perfect way!

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Hey guys! Well actually only one person has read this so far but I'm hoping for more. I worked really hard on this chapter so please give me some feedback good or bad. This is my first book by the way. I know it's not perfect and not very good but I hope it will get there. There is grammar mistakes I know. I will go back and fix them tomorrow when I'm not so tired. I just wanted to get this up tonight. I will be posting a chapter regarding Laci's past because I know I only touched on it briefly. I think I will also start doing Carl's p.o.v. as well. Anyway thanks so much for reading this!!! I will keep trying to post one chapter per day.  If no one reads it though then I'll just stop.
Thanks,
C