Star Pupil

Chapter ten

Good golly almighty, that was one hell of a good night's sleep! I gave out a big yawn while I stretch my whole body out. Soon as I got up, I went over to my school uniform bits...not before I stood on something that feels a bit rubbery...Oh, OK, better dispose of it then! I picked it up, slipped it back in its open wrapper and chucked it in my wee bin.

The thought of picking something gross up off my floor makes me wanna scrub my hands. Feel bit bursting as well. Still in my boxer shorts, I walked into the loo, took a quick pee, scrubbed my hands out with hot soapy water and went back into my room to get dressed.

What's the time, I asked myself. Picking up my phone...HOLY SHIT!! Its frickin 9:25AM! Must have slept in! Speaking of which, where's Zara? She isn't in bed still. Think she might have left the house by now. "Zara? Zara, you awake?" I called out.

I heard nothing for a few moments until my new girlfriend from downstairs responded to me. "Yeah, I'm awake! You awake?" she asked me. "Yeah, we've slept in!" I said, getting my shirt buttons on.

"Don't worry, I told Mr. Gallagher that we're having a doctor's appointment and unable to make it until after breaktime." Said Zara, wait? "Doctor's appointment"? Where did she get that idea from? And did she actually rang school herself? Does she have an IQ of 180 or something?

"Uh...OK, that's cool. I'll be down in a sec." I called down, as I slipped my tie and jumper on, before getting my shoes on. These shoes – the ones that I bought outta TKMaxx – they are so easy to slip on and off my feet, hence they don't have laces on but still!

As I started to walk down the stairs with my schoolbag and bottle of water that I took out of the fridge, I went inside the kitchen to find my new girl making breakfast?! What is this, I asked myself?

"Good morning, honey boy. I've made you some breakfast here!" said Zara, flirtingly. Yep, she's definitely a flirt alright, not that I'm making fun of her. Good thing, I'm not the only person in my school uniform. Looked at my plate...Is that some chicken sausage with eggs and beans?

These pancakes look funny. No, wait! They're the Asher's Pancakes with cooked bacon and maple syrup mixed into it! I've bought them out of the Worsley supermarket last week, but haven't bothered trying them.

"Wow, didn't know you can cook!" I said, with a smile on my face while I get knives and forks out for us both. "Yeah, I've been doing it since I was 12. Would you like some coffee?" said Zara, pouring out hot water from the kettle and into our mugs of instant coffee.

"Yeah, sure! I'll get the almond milk out." I said, taking the chocolate almond milk out of the fridge. "Do you want some of this?" Zara, who has yet to try dark cacao almond milk, accepted a splash of it in a glass she took out of the glass/mug cupboard.

While she takes a sip of it, I poured some of my cacao almond milk into my coffee. "Jake, this is nice! This is nicer than chocolate milk!" she exclaimed. "Do you want some in your coffee?" I asked her. "Oh, yes please!" she replied, as we switched places so that she could bring our breakfasts in the dining room while I bring the coffees in, not before I poured out some of the almond milk into Zara's coffee.

By the time we got our butts down on our chairs near the dining room table, we started to enjoy our first ever morning sipping on hot coffee chocolate while eating our Ulster fries (NOT French fries ok?). Not to mention we had spent a lovely moment last night!

We took our very own first bites of the Ulster fry and...can say that it gave us the ultimate satisfactory from one bite?! "This is like the best breakfast I've ever had in a long while, Jake." Said Zara, while chewing on her first breakfast bite.

"So, how are you into all of this "healthy eating" shit?" she then asked me. After I sipped on my coffee, I said to her "When I was a kid, my mum introduced me to, you know, the foods that are convenient, cheap and tasty. Like these for instance. What I didn't realize is that they were actually healthy versions of the real thing. They still had that great taste but...you know."