Change

Chapter 1

"Kelsey it's 9 in the morning, you should be getting up and getting ready." I am woken up from my slumber by my mother. "We have to go get your stuff moved into your dorm, so get up." My mother said walking out of the room. I nearly forgot that today was the day. My stomach turned into knots and I felt on the verge of possibly throwing up. I'm moving into college. Nate walks into my room all cheerful. Way too cheerful for me right now. "Hey sleepy head, come on you heard the woman. Get up." So I roll over and pull my covers over my head and use my hand to shoo him away. I should have expected this to happen. Nate starts shaking the bed and I finally rise up. "Ok ok, I'm up. Happy?" Of course he is. "Uh duh now go take a shower you nasty. I think I smelled your grubbiness when I walked into the room." He said, even though I literally took a shower last night.

Nate is my bestfriend and has been since early childhood. He's also gay. Very gay, and I love it. From the moment in 2nd grade when I fell off the rock climbing wall during recess and he helped me up and told me his name and he said that he fell off too once and instantly he pulled me towards the swing set and we started swinging and talking. I guess since that day we were inseparable bestfriends.

I stand up and walk to the mirror and take in my appearance. I barley slept at all explaining the bags that are very noticeable under my eyes and my hair looks a mess, but that's nothing really new. I have brown wavy hair and alothough if I take a brush to it, it will look just fine. It will look presentable and healthy. I do need to take another shower though. So I walk over to my dresser and since I packed most of my clothes into boxes already I went ahead and picked out my outfit before putting the rest in boxes so I would have clothes to wear today.

I walk past Nate whom is sitting on my bed looking on his phone most likely looking through twitter. He's addicted to it and I hardly check mine. I trudge down my hall and smile at my mother Because she is walking out of her room to go down stairs and then I look forward continuing to feel a bit sick. Hopefully this shower will help. Once I reach the bathroom Katie is in the bathroom brushing her teeth and she gives me a small smile.

Katie is my little sister who is 2 years younger than me and we are pretty close. She's definitely more out there than me. She loves to wear makeup and dress up to look absolutely perfect but kinda more out there. Our mother is a perfectionist and Katie likes to test the limits sometimes by attempting to be sassy but it doesn't get far. Our mother is very head strong and will shut down any thing that is not up to her level of perfection. "Are you excited, I can't wait till I go to college." Katie says in a excited tone after spitting into the sink to wash her mouth out. "I don't know, it's exciting because I won't have to be here 24/7 but it's still a little weird." I exclaim, "I'm going to take a shower now before Nate gets on to me and mom comes up stairs to see if I'm ready yet." And she quietly leaves the room with a little skip into her room right next to the bathroom.

I turn the shower on to hot hoping it will help with this knot in my stomach, and step in. As I wash my hair I'm thinking about my roommate and how she's going to be like. I picture someone sweet and who is neat. That's what I'm hoping for. I get the cleanliness from my mom and our "perfect" home. I like to keep everything in place and all my clothes folded neatly. I wash my body and rinse off everything, then step out of the shower. I grab the towel and dry off my body and then wrap it around my hair to help my hair dry. I step into my clothes and start Wiping the mirror free of fog. I look better, less tired. I start to wash my face and then dry it off. Then I unravel my hair and throw the towel in the hamper and start walking towards my room.

"It's about time you were in there forever." Nate said even though I was really only in there for like 10 minutes. He likes to over exaggerate. "You need to brush your hair it looks like a rats nest." Pushy. I roll my eyes at him and I walk back over to my dresser and grab my brush and throw it at him, not too hard but it just hit his leg Bc he started to block his face. Hahaha. I went over and grabbed it and started brushing through the tangles of my hair. "WHEN I FIRST SAW YOU FROM ACROSS THE ROOM I COULD TELL THAT YOU WERE CURIOUS (ohhh yeahhh)." Nate decides to scream out lyrics from a song of my favorite band. I start laughing and he does a little dance on my bed. "Your dumb" I say and start laughing again. When I'm done brushing my hair I throw my brush at him again.

He walks out of my room saying he was going down stairs to eat whatever my mother cooked for the morning and I step into the view of the mirror. I chose to wear a white V-neck and a black cardigan and some very comfortable blue skinny jeans with some black flats. I usually leave my hair natural and sometimes curl it or straighten it but since I took a shower a little late today I decide to leave it natural. It has a wave to it and I pin my bangs up to the side. I still have small bags under my eyes so I decide to just put some moisturizer on my face and a little bit of mascara on my lashes. I'm not crazy about makeup but I like to put some on every now and then. After I look over myself a couple times making sure there is nothing my mother could possibly critique me on I walk down stairs and sit at the island and mom already has a plate set out for me.

Nate reaches over and takes a piece of bacon off my plate and my mother put 3 more pieces on his plate. Nate eats all the time but so do I. My Mom also loves Nate. She thinks he's a sweetheart even though he parties like every weekend he is probably the only teenager that parties she likes. She even one time told me to go with him once but not to drink. Which is weird for her. I didn't ever think my mom would tell me to go to a party. It wasn't bad but the party wasn't fun to me. I felt a little awkward. I mean I've been to parties before with Nate and I have fun with him but that's not particularly my scene.

We continue to eat and my mothers boyfriend and Katie and Nate start upstairs to grab the rest of my boxes and load them in my Mother and I's cars. Nate already has all his boxes in my car since we are both moving into the same building just different floors. I'm happy we are going to the same college so that I am not going in alone.

After all that we head to the car and get in. We have a 2 hour drive to my University and I blast the radio the whole way hoping I won't worry the whole way, but I do. There's the sick feeling again. On the verge of possibly throwing up.

Hey guys, this is my first chapter in Change and I'm pretty new to writing but I've always wanted to do it. I am going to try and update as much as I possibly can. Feel free to share this to your friends and help me get views and I hope you guys continue reading!

-Cheyanne:)