Now Or Never

Murphy's Law

Chapter One [Edited] :

A scream pierced my peaceful slumber and unfortunately jolted me awake. My head jerked up, and I looked around in a slight panic. 

There was a girl from my class - Jamie, I think - screaming her head off and gesturing wildly at the ground. Other students around her quickly followed pursuit and soon enough my ear drums were bleeding. Even the teacher was standing on a table, which was honestly pathetic. You're supposed to protect us from danger, not run away cowardly? How am I supposed to respect you after this?

I jumped up, expecting a serial killer wearing a hockey mask but was instead greeted with the sight of*gasp* a rat. An ugly, fat rat with yellow ass teeth - but still just a rat. To save my ears from further torture, I reached into my bag and pulled out my trusty handmade slingshot. 

I speedily fitted it with a marble I stole from the Boardgames Club, and carefully aimed. It hit my target with a satisfying splat. Everyone either jumped away, screamed, or did both, clearly grossed out by the gore. I let a smile grace my face as I looked down, before turning around to face my teacher. Boy, was I going to get a lecture about violence or what?!

However, when I did look up, I was faced by classmates, who were silently staring at me with stunned, freaked out, and disgusted expressions. My smile fell right off my face and my triumph disappeared instantly.

I sat back down in my seat, pretending not to notice how this my lab partner flinched when our eyes met. SIghing, I shoved all my shit in my bag, carefully stashing the slingshot in a secret pocket and  shrugged at my teacher. Murphy's Law, muddafukkas.

I dramatically stood up and walked out of the classroom, slamming the door behind me. I was disappointed the teacher didn't try and stop me, make sure I was fine or something.  I should've known everybody would react like that. I mean, what did I expect, praise and applause? 

But I couldn't help but feel like if someone "cool" and "popular" had reacted like that instead of me, they'd be legends.

I walked into my dorm room, throwing my bag on my bed. My roommate is still in class, so that's good.

Getting a drink of water, I plugged my phone into the speakers and chose a random Spotify playlist. Stay The Night by Zedd came on. I should've been absorbing some good vibes, but I simply couldn't get everyone's fugly, scared faces out of my mind. For some reason, the reactions of those idiots had hurt my feelings.

I lay down on my bed, stretching my hand under my bed to grab a baggie and some other essential tools that would let me roll a kickass joint. And before you start judging, and thinking that I'm some lowlife pothead, I'm really not. I just like weed, okay? Doesn't mean I smoke it every day. And anyways, it has some great medicinal properties.

I nervously lit up a roll, hands shaking while I took a few pretty big hits. I relaxed instantly. Who cares what those bastards think, anyway? Mindless, evil, butt-munching Barbies that are freakishly good looking. 

When my joint was done, I tucked away all my carefully tended products in my safe spot. 

I sprayed some air freshener to get rid of the grassy smell and opened up my window, staring outside at the empty courtyard blankly. Booooring. 

Since everything was so unexciting and dead, I allowed myself a nap. I had nothing better to do, and God knows I could use the beauty sleep. 

Right before I drifted off to dreamland, I felt a single tear run down my right cheek. I knew that lone ranger would be nothing but a vague sense of remembrance when I woke up, but I couldn't help but give myself one second of relief before falling asleep with a blissed out and delirious smile on my face.

And that, my friends, is just another day in my pathetic excuse of an existence. You still with me, honey?

A/N: HELLO! I know this chapter is short, and really crappy, but I promise it will get better! I'm just really sucky at the introduction. Vote and comment, and gimme some feedback people! Love you... Hope you enjoyed the chapter, because I did my best!  :)

- Mia