Smarter, Better, Faster, Stronger

Chapter 1: Clementine

Clementine woke up and walked down stairs. It was 4 in the morning, as usual, and the smell of the coffee machine brewing and the little sounds of it bubbling made her morning. She sighed and rubbed her eyes as she looked through the cupboards for a coffee cup. She found her favorite cup shaped as a cat and poured some nice hot coffee with a lot of sugar and a lot of creamer. Clementine liked her coffee nice and sweet never bitter and bland.

She ran back upstairs and tied up short brown hair with a little blue hair tie. She got on her running clothes and her baby blue Revolution Nike's. She walked down the stairs and out the front door.

As always it was still dark but cool, an environment, Clementine thought, was perfect for running. She ran two laps around the coldesac and then jogged back to the house. Clementine looked up at the two big doors of their mansion. She speculated on whether they really needed to live in a mansion with 6 bedrooms and 6 and a half bathrooms. There was only 5 of them after all. Clementine had her mother Elanor, her dad Levi, her brother Adam, and her sister Liza. Clementine was the oldest of these 3 then came Adam, and then Liza.

As she walked into the house she looked around, in front of her stood a wide corridor which to the right had the staircase and to the left an entrance door (except there was no door rather it was an entry point) to the dinning room. Next to that door was an aperture to the kitchen, and at the end of the corridor was a little wooden door to the maintenance closet.

Clementine walked up the stairs every thing looked the same except that there was 3 doors on each end of the hall and a long wooden table with rounded edges and a nice little flower pot with a pink petunia placed carefully inside. She walked into her room (2nd door on the left), and flipped on the light. She looked around at the walls decorated in a half grey and half royal blue wallpaper. Her bed was in the middle of the room, it was a canopy bed bound in a nice royal blue sheet set and pillows with cats on them. hanging for the top of the canopy was a banner with a blue and gray background and little running shoes glued onto them. There were posters on the wall of her favorite bands, people running, and of course cats. The the right of the room was wardrobe full of her clothes and shoes and suitcases and underwear and bathing suits.

To the left of the room was a door that led to the bathroom with a nice claw foot bath and a shower. Clementine stepped in and took a nice hot shower. As she felt the pitter patter of the water slam against her face she thought to herself, when I die I want to come back as a dairy cow or maybe a cat.

She pulled the shower handles and looked in the mirror. It was all fogged up because of the shower, but Clementine swiftly wiped it all away like a bad memory. In the mirror, all she saw was some wanna bee runner who cannot even show her true self at school. She rubbed her eyes and then dried her hair. She decided like everyday, to make a braid crown and then but her long chestnut hair into a ponytail. The she took it all down, she was lying to herself. Everyday Clementine wore her short chestnut hair down, she had emo style bangs (well at least that is what everybody said). The part about her running earlier is true though, every morning she got up and ran.

She walked over to her closet and picked out an outfit. It was spring, and the school had a "you can were anything but spaghetti straps and short shorts" policy. She grabbed a dark blue dress with a flower print and her favorite jean jacket. Clementine paired this with her favorite pair of red flats, and a little red buret. She grabbed blue leather satchel and threw it over her shoulder.

As she walked down stairs she saw everyone in the dinning room. Clementine's mom yelled "And there is my other daughter! You ready?"

"Yeah, whatever"

They all piled into the car except Clementine's dad who would take his own car. Clementine looked out the window. She saw the same thing everyday for the past year when they moved here. She had mapped out everything even at what time traffic started. Her mom dropped them off at an all grades school, meaning High school, middle, and elementary were combined. Clementine headed for the high school section, and Levi and Liza headed for middle school.

Clementine unlocked her locker, grabbed her books, locked her locker, and walked inside her homeroom. It has a hectic place with a lot of talking a no order. As usual she sat in the second desk on the third row, and right in front of Clementine sat Rose. Rose was good company, but sadly you couldn't trust her with anything. Clementine was warned of this but others had to learn the hard way, it was very embarrassing. Next to Clementine sat Alfonso and on the other side was Jack. These two were also good company but extremely annoying.

Clementine was a girl who always kept to herself. She grabbed a book she was currently reading called "NYPD RED 4" (yes that is a real book and it was amazing, by James Paterson). Jack always started with a "Hey what are you reading", Alfonso followed with "Yeah what is it about". Clementine had gotten really good at ignoring them and just pressing the book closer of to her face.

Let's skip to a little later shall we. Lunch Time.