Where all secrets have an End: Hush

Keep Quiet

            "Hello? Is anyone home?" I hear a window shut close up stairs as i throw my bad on the floor and reach for a weapon, "mom?". No response, I can feel my heart beating in my chest. The floors creek as I walk up the steps, so much for keeping quiet. My heart races as I open the door slowly to my room, I reach to open my closet door slowly. Nothing, nobody was here, or at least anymore. What is wrong with me am I just paranoid? No I heard something I know for sure my window shut closed and it doesn't usually do that by itself. My floors were creaking upstairs I heard them. I just need to calm down.
            I'll just carry on with the usual daily schedule, straighten my long brown hair, take off my makeup, and hop in the shower. Showers can be the worst when I'm home alone, like seriously what if someone broke in while i was showering. Am I supposed the fight the robber naked? It's funny my whole dream in life is the become an FBI agent. I want to work in the behavioral analysis unit, you know catching psychopaths and stuff? Not many people know that about me. My name is Salem, my dad is middle eastern and my mom white. I live with my mom and my dad left me when i was two years old. I'm usually a jokester to my friends so often times they don't take me very serious, little do they know it's all an act. I'm a lot smarter then people think I am, I just don't show it. Sure I don't get the best grades but that's not the type of smart I mean. I'm good with figuring people out and investigating things. True I'm only 16 and what could I know, but I know a lot more than people think. I like to be in control of things and know what's going on, I hate being out of the loop. I guess that's just me not much more I can say.

             "Bad to the bone, Bad to the bone, Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba bad, BAD TO THE BONE" , my phone alarm goes off and immediately I turn it off and go back to sleep.

             "Salem are you awake" my mom asks through the door,
            "Yes mom I'm getting readyy......" My eyelids drift off.

            My eyelids slowly peel open as I reach for my phone. Gosh my phones blurry, wait. IM SUPPOSED TO BE READY IN FIVE MINUTES. Where's my uniform, I have to look through my very big pile of clothes.  Yes okay now just have to brush my teeth and go. I have no clue why but this routine seems to never end. What I'm a junior now and I've been doing this since, let me think, KINDERGARTEN! I don't get it, it's just one of the mysteries in life that will never be solved.

            "Salem! Did you do the English homework?" My good friend Jada asked,
            "What homework?" Oh know I did it again.
            "Ha of course, that girl never does her homework" someone budded in. I guess she was not wrong though. I have so much trouble doing homework and it's not that I don't try, I just can't remember ever. And yeah I try to keep up with a planner but doesn't work for me.

          "Salem we need to talk about you know who later." Gabby, my best friend said. The fact is I do know who, well at least partially. My heart raced just thinking about him, I wish people like him didn't exist. But this would be a pretty boring story without him wouldn't it?