Audry Blue is just trying to get through high school alive and breathing armed with her books and lots of coffee in hand. Her older sister Cameron doesn't understand Audry and her fictional worlds, insisting that a social life is everything. As if h...
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Thursday finally rolls around and it has been an insanely long week. Cameron and her friends have gone into overdrive with prom now being only a few days away with details still needing to be sorted out and perfected. Cameron also dragged me to the mall with her to help her pick out new shoes and earrings to match her dress, her forcing me to try on at least five dresses that I hated and we left, both frustrated at each other and very hungry and tired. With all the talk of prom and school and the stress of studying for the big test in a few days, I feel like I'll go mad at any minute now and end up losing my mind. Not only do I have my own studying to do but the tutoring and even helping Cameron out with her own studies is putting me into hyperdrive and I can't seem to get enough coffee into my system in order to keep myself awake for most of the day. I try not to freak out about all the hectic activities going on but Cameron isn't helping out with that one bit. Especially when she keeps dragging me along to do things that I really don't have time for but I give in anyway. Mom says I have to be a good sister but I question that.
I was busy with homework, preparing for finals and everything seemed to move so slowly yet so fast at school. Classes felt longer and lunch felt shorter. Some days went by so fast that you barely had time to blink and others just dragged on and on and seemed like they were never going to end. It was a weird place to be in but hopefully, that would all end by the time summer break started and I could relax. Our finals test was on the same day of summer break and I use it lightly when I say I was completely freaked out about taking the test. The last thing I wanted was to fail and go to summer school. I might not have much of a social life but I still didn't want to go to school during the summer. That would just totally ruin my plans to read every book I own twice not to mention a lot of other books I wanted to finally read and just relax, maybe start a blog. And I was not about to let school get in the way of that. Not that I've ever failed a test before in my life but there's always a chance that something could happen. It's a strange world after all.
So, on Thursday at noon, here I was rushing through the halls, trying to elbow my way through the sea of students to lunch since I only had about half an hour to eat until my next class started. I had gotten caught up in a conversation with Mr. Buckley and I completely lost track of time and realized that I might go hungry if I didn't get a move on it for lunch. I thought about just skipping it to get in some extra studying but with my stomach growling as loud as it was I knew that there was no way I was going hungry.
I got pushed and shoved by other students, all of them in chaos. With finals being so soon, everyone was getting in last-minute study time, going to the library and studying through lunch and P.E as well as in study hall of course, and rushing back and forth between classes. At least the ones who cared about passing did. I knew for certain that I'd be lucky if I made it to the cafeteria, let alone actually eat. My stomach was growling like crazy and I couldn't function when I was starving. I needed food in me and gosh darn it, I was going to get it.
I was just about to round the corner to the cafeteria when I run straight into Cameron who looked like she was about to blow up.
