The Girl With Two Minds

Chapter 1

"Kiara isn't your extra 5 minutes of sleep taking longer than expected?" I hear my mom yelling from the kitchen. Still in bed I struggle to open my eyes and I drag myself to the washroom "I'm up Ma, already freshened up" as I grab my toothbrush.

I comb my hair as I brace myself for another long and boring day of school. Our extremely loud Math professor Mrs Hannigan was one of the biggest reasons I never wanted to go to school, with her specs balancing on the tip of her nose and her expertise in completely boring the class to death, she was going to give us marks on our behavior and it was pretty clear that I wasn't getting more than a 3 out of 10

As soon as I reach school I walk up to my best friends, Klara, Lissa and Sarah and share my dreadful thoughts of getting horrible marks for my 'not so acceptable behaviour' when Klara cuts me "Dude who cares about marks given by Hanningap?" That was the student lingo for Mrs Hannigan. "Jake asked me out yesterday!!!" exclaimed Sarah. Lissa and I immediately exchanged looks of disgust about this news. Jake was great at sports and had a boyish charm which made him pretty likable for girly girls like Lissa

"Are you gonna say yes?" Klara asked with excitement with a pinch of jealously which she often called 'curiosity'. Indeed it was a big question, was Sarah actually going to say yes to the guy who has a pink coloured pen, Lissa and I were kind of against the idea of our best friend dating Jake. My thoughts were clashed by school bell indicating that our first period was starting. I rush to my class.

I sat down next to my partner Johnathan, he was cute and we pretty much shared the same opinion about things. "Morning, ready for Hanningap to kick our ass?" I smirked and replied "Why do they even have to grade us on our behavior?! Its treating teenagers as if they're in kindergarten" he nods in full agreement as Mrs Hannigan walks in the class.

"As you all are aware I'm going to be grading each one of you on your behavior in school this year" she said. The entire class was drop dead silent, I could hear the sound Mrs Hannigan's pen scratching against the white sheet even though I was seated on the last bench

"I will now read the marks out loud to the class" said Mrs Hannigan with grin. Terror spread through my body, what if I actually get a 3, what will I tell mom when she asks me for an explanation for it? Will my mom take away my phone or will she ground me for a week? While all these thoughts were racing inside of me, I hear my name "Kiara, you got 8". A feeling of relief rushes down my body so I turn to Jonathan ask him how much he got "I got a 7.5... Weren't you listening?" "No I'm sorry, I was in my own world of upcoming disasters but dude that's not bad". I hear the bell ring again but this time I was happy about it

I caught up with my friends again in the cafeteria during lunch " guys I got a 8!!" I said full of excitement but no one was really interested in my marks. "Sarah has made her decision" I sat down to hear what she had thought of while I grabbed my lunchbox from my bag. "I'm going to say yes only if he decides to give up his silly pick colour pen habits" Klara seemed to be excited about this news and so was Lissa but I was wondering of something else. Would this be the new hot topic of discussion of our group? Will we be the girls who are all about boys? Was this going right? I had a weird feeling about this all