The lost lovers

Where it all began

Marina's POV*
I woke up to a crash, it was seven in the morning. I looked at my dresser and my 8 year old sister had just knocked over my makeup box, there was crap all over the floor, and my before white carpet was now a tan mess from my foundation bottle. "AJ! How many times do I have to tell you not to use my stuff! And get out of my room!" She's so damn annoying.

I have 1 hour to get ready and I can't move I feel like I'm dead...uuuuuggghhh. I threw myself out of bed and almost hit my head on the baseboard of my bed. I walked up to my mirror and I almost cried, I look like crap. My hair is everywhere, I still have black under my eyes from my makeup of the day before, and I looked like I had just survived a zombie apocalypse.

I went to my drawers and grabbed my dark ripped jeans and threw on a black t-shirt that had a pink kiss on the front. I went to the bathroom and brushed my teeth and my hair. I washed my face and put on a bit of mascara. I grabbed my bag from my room and went downstairs. My mom was making breakfast and my sister was watching tv in the living room.

"Good morning Marina." "Hey mom" "how was your night?" She asked. "It was good" I had to lie, I couldn't tell her about my dreams, she would get too concerned and I don't want her on my back all the time. "Why are you in such a rush Marina? It's only 8 o'clock you still have 15 minutes until the bus comes" she said. "Oh, today I'm walking to school with Artemis, sorry I should have told you sooner." "That's okay honey, have fun and be safe." She said "I will, bye AJ." "Bye Mar" that's her nickname for me, it's the only thing she could think of that could shorten Marina.

I started walking, I put in my headphones and started listening to twenty one pilots. I met Artemis at the corner of my street and her's. Me and Artie had been best friends since eighth grade. I was sitting in class and the teacher kept rambling on about something stupid, Artie just came up to my desk and said. "Hey, I can tell this teacher is pissing you off too, let's ditch." At the time I was a goody two shoes and I still had labels on all my pencils, but there was something about Artie's drive and her rebelliousness that made me like her. "Okay, sure let's ditch." And we walked straight out of the classroom. I didn't look back once.

" hey stranger" she said. "Hey, what's up?" I asked. "Eh besides the fact that I stayed up all night doing the homework for math and getting yelled at by my sister for playing the music too loudly pretty good. How about you?" "Nothing really, studied for a French Quiz and drew a bit." That was mainly true, I didn't tell her the part about the nightmare but she didn't need to know that anyways. Then she asked me about Shane.

" so how are you and Shane doing, isn't tomorrow like your 8 month anniversary or something?" "Yah it is he said he was going to take me somewhere I'm so excited."

Me and my boyfriend Shane had met during the summer of the tenth grade. I was at the soccer field behind my house practicing my corner kicks while Shane was on the other side of the field sitting by a tree listening to music and doing homework. As I was about to take a kick three grade 12 guys showed up at the field and they wouldn't stop looking at me. I was about to take a shot when one of them came up from behind me and started to watch me really closely. Shane saw this and got really freaked out so he walked over to me and said "Hey babe, why don't you let me take a few shots?" I looked at him like "who the hell are you and since when are you my babe?" But then he gave me this look with his eyes saying " I'm helping you here" soon enough those grade 12's had left without looking back. "Hey, um, thanks for that, my names Marina by the way." "Nice to meet you Marina, I'm Shane, from what I get these guys are always walking around here trying to pick up chicks, and you seem like a nice girl who doesn't want that. Here's my number incase they show up again." And just like that he gave me his number and I gave him mine.

From that day on we started talking every single day and by October 17th he had asked me to be his girlfriend, and I said yes. 8 months later we're still together which is pretty amazing considering he's my first boyfriend. " you guys are pretty cute, I hate my ex boyfriend he turned out to be a bitch." That was Artie, she had recently got out of a relationship with her ex boyfriend Axel, from what I heard he wanted to take her out more often and show her off a lot and she didn't want that so she called it quits. I felt bad for her because she's my best friend. "It's okay Artie your too good for him anyways." "Yeah your probably right"

Soon enough we had reached school which meant we would only see each other at lunch because we had no classes together. "Alright I gotta get to math class or Mrs.H is gonna beat my ass for being late. Later Marina" "See ya at lunch Artie" and with that we went on our ways.