Friends With Benefits

Chapter 1

Hailey’s POV

I woke up to my alarm clock ringing and droplets of water hitting my forehead. I had to go to my new school. I used to go to another school, but I wanted to make a new start.

I groaned as I reached for my nightstand to try to find the snooze button to sleep again, but realized the alarm clock wasn’t there.

I sat up on my bed and realized it was ringing somewhere in the mountain of clothes on my carpeted bedroom floor.

I dug in my clothes like a dog, throwing handful of clothes behind my back, and finally found my alarm clock and hit the snooze button.

I realized I wasn’t sleepy anymore because of spending my time searching for my alarm clock instead of sleeping. I should really clean my room.

I looked at the mirror and groaned. My light brown hair was a mess, there were bags under my blue eyes, and my tan skin had marks of the bed mattress.

For a 10th grade 16-year old girl, I didn’t really care about my look. My pajamas were really big and it made me look fat, but I guess I have a fair body.  

I slept late last night because I had to finish a hard math homework which was due the next day.

I sighed and got up from bed and walked to the bathroom to shower for school, slowly sliding my feet against my smooth bedroom floor while closing my eyes.

Instead of going through the door to the bathroom, I hit my head against the wall beside the door and fell down, my bum in a bucket of rain water.

It was raining and the roof was leaking so we put buckets under the crevices of the roof to prevent puddles in the house floor.   I opened my eyes and held my head.

“Well that hurt”, I said to myself as I struggled to get up, but fell back down because of the bucket properly stuck to my bum.

Suddenly, I heard howls of laughter behind me. I quickly looked back and saw my 17-year old older brother, Matthew. He is still in my old school.

“Y-You you fell, and-“, and he cut himself off laughing again.

“Hey! Snap out of it, you twat!” I groaned. He suddenly stopped laughing and looked at me with a puppy dog face.

“You called me a mean word!” he said with a baby voice. I rolled my eyes, chuckling at his ridiculous accent.

“Awww…is my wittle bwother sad because I called him a twat?”

He wiped away a fake tear, “Mhm.”  I laughed again. Matt and I are really close and we usually tease each other a bit.

“Now, help me out of this damn bucket!” He laughed and nodded. He took me by my hands and lifted me from the bucket.

My pajama pants were wet and it looked like I peed myself. He laughed again and I just laughed with him. When we calmed down, I shooed him away from my room.

I sighed and looked at my alarm clock which was back on my night stand. My eyes widened. It was 7:50! I was late! First period starts at 8:00!

I quickly put on a white sleeveless shirt that says “Hipsta please” and some short ripped jeans. I quickly wrapped my hair into a messy bun, grabbed my school bag and went downstairs.

I grabbed an apple and went to my door with Harry following. Before we left, we yelled, “Bye, mom! Bye, dad!” and went out the door.

We quickly ran to the bus stop and Matt went inside his school bus and I went inside mine.