Reality

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My alarm went off at 6:30 that morning, it was the first day of junior year. I woke up not wanting to get out of bed let alone go to school after the long summer break. I wasn't ready for school to start again. I got up out of bed and slowly walked to the bathroom. I rubbed my eyes and looked in the mirror.
"What the hell?" I moved my face closer to the mirror. My eyes had become the brightest green. At first I was confused but I just brushed it off and kept preparing for school. After I finished in the bathroom I went back to my room to put on makeup and my outfit. I started with foundation, smearing it all over my face.
"What is going on?" I stopped blending in the makeup and looked in the mirror. My foundation didn't match my face at all. It was shades too dark. My face had become pale and my eyes had become bright green. What the hell is going on? I ignored the change of my skin color again and thought that maybe I had bought the wrong foundation on accident. I got my outfit out of the closet put it on and headed downstairs.
"Cassie your lunch is in the fridge, I'm going to work I won't be home until late, can you pick your brother up from school please?"
"Yeah mom thanks" I replied grabbing my lunch from the fridge and my keys off the counter and headed out the door. I get in my car, turn it on and immediately blare the radio, taking the longest way to school.
I arrived at school, walked to my class and sat down waiting for the teacher to start our lesson. As I'm doing my work I start to hear these voices, which I thought I was just imagining. The voices continued to whisper in the back of my mind as I tried to ignore them, I lifted my head and saw the teacher talking to a student across the room. I watched her lips and listened to the whispers in the back of my mind realizing these weren't voices I was imagining, these were the voices of the people talking across the room. But, how could I even hear them ? Things were weird from the moment I got out of bed this morning, but why?
I went on throughout the day In school until 12 o clock when I finished all of my classes. I left school and headed home. On the drive home I left the radio off and tried to see what I could hear. As I'm driving down the road I hear a baby crying and a mother trying to console the baby. I looked to both sides of my car and didn't see the baby and her mother for another two blocks. I started wondering why I could hear all these things so far away from me when I could barley even hear my mom call my name from downstairs yesterday morning. I was still completely confused about my hearing when I had gotten home.
I went to my room and laid down thinking that if I took a nap the weird things would stop happening. When I woke up I could hear the flipping of pages in a book coming from downstairs. The weird things didn't stop happening. I walked downstairs to see my brother doing his homework at the table.
"How did you get home?" I questioned my brother.
"Mrs. Michelle gave me a ride home because you never showed up." He replied with a sad tone behind his voice. "What time is it?" I picked my phone up from off of the counter. My phone read 5 o'clock.
I had been sleeping for such a long time i had forgotten to pick up my brother from school. I walked all the way down stairs and got stuff out of the fridge to make dinner for me and my brother since mom wouldn't be home until late. I turn the stove on and cook everything. I handed a plate to my brother and went upstairs and sat down on my bed staring in the mirror.
"Why are all these weird things happening today? I got enough sleep I know that's not the problem." I stared in the mirror just wondering all the possibilities until I fell asleep.