Easy J ™

Chapter one

"Jasmine Maria-!" i groan not listening to the rest and rolling out of bed...literally my bed wasn't close to the floor either but it's a bunk bed that i fit barely but i'm like 5'5 the average height for my age thank. you wait sorry as you can hear from my mom i'm Jasmine, Jasmine Maria Lloyd but everybody calls me Jas which i think is cliché but i can't stop what people call me you know. today is any other day a day of school and working at my local cafe which wasn't really that bad of a day. I finally get off the floor and go to take a shower because i forgot too last night. Once i finish i continue my normal routine nothing special. brushinyg teeth, putting in contacts,washing face blah blah blah. oh and i don't do makeup it's not that i don't like it it's fun to do it's just expensive and clogs your pores and i'm trying to get my face back to clear as day. i walk back to my room that was connected to my bathroom thank god for my people skills. i put a t-shirt of my hair instead of a towel and start getting dressed. i was feeling very vintage this week so i put on some mom jeans a feminist AF shirt on some boots and a old timer jacket. i look in the mirror and stand back at my outfit. "i should go to the thrift store soon i need more jackets like these" i say posing in the mirror smiling contently and grabbing my phone and bookbag i head downstairs and shake head once i get the the very bottom
"t-shirt?" I heard my brother say. I narrowed my eyes then head back up the stairs
"how did i forget to do my hair" I said walking back into the bathroom and putting down my bag before removing the shirt and looking at my curly hair. i grabbed a blow dryer put it on the low setting while i'm doing that i check my phone to see what time is was "7:45" i let out a sigh i have forty five minutes to get there. i got time, maybe ten/fifteen minutes go by and my hair was dry and fluffy. i didn't like using heat but it wasn't exactly warm outside because the weather here is bipolar and i'm not trying to get sick. i run my hands through my hair and put away all the stuff i used and close my bathroom door grabbing my book bag and heading back downstairs putting my phone into my back pocket and smile at my brother
"vintage? love it" He says chuckling slightly eating his breakfast
"right? i'm feeling 80's with a slight fluff" Says shaking head and hair is moving slightly. I go to the toaster and grab two pieces of bread and put them into the toaster and wait "hey will you drive me to school?" I look over at him slightly then back at the toaster as the bread pops out and i go to the fridge and get my avocado spread and put it on my toast before eating it
"yeah i'm about to brush my teeth then we can leave ok?" He says putting his dish in the sink and walking towards the stairs. I nod slightly eating my toast. After i finished eating and he came back downstairs with a different shirt on we leave. The entire ride to school was filled with music and my on my phone texting Josh about the science project that we both haven't started on and it's due in two days but we were gonna just team up and do it together to not you know fail. Once we got to school i remember i forgot to take my medicine today. I could tell i forgot to do something but i didn't remember until my reminder went off and my hands were really shaky but whatever i'll be fine.
"Bye bri"I say getting out of the car and walk to the front. we're in two different grades and have two different friend groups the only reason we would talk at school is because we're related and he's asking if i need a ride. I got to the front and started walking to my locker because i was just going to wait for Josh there because he said he was gonna be running late. Once i got to my locker i put my bookbag in my locker and thinks about what to bring to biology. "binder orrrrr book?"
"Binder duh" I hear a voice and i turn around rolling eyes
"joshua" I say looking up at my bestfriend then going back to my locker as he leans on the locker beside me.
"Jassy"He chuckles "Also you really do need your binder Mr.Patrick said we were taking notes and not reading today" I nod "oh yeahhhhh, thanks" I say grabbing my binder and pen for that class then a notebook for Math "We're just doing notes today seems like it" I say trying to remember what my classes said about notes and stuff
"calculus she said notes then for theater remember we're just going over the play then for english she said to bring the book" Josh was basically my entire schedule and agenda in one because i'm really bad at remembering somethings so he helps and i appreciate him for that "ahhhh you're the best" He smiles cockily
"oh i know" He crosses his arms accomplished. I roll my eyes and look at my locker one last time before closing it and locking the locker. He starts walking away and i follow next to him.
"okay so about this project for biology"I say groaning
"When are you free again? because i have to work today and tomorrow but i can come by after" I think slightly
"Yeah i have to work today but i get off at eight? nine depends on the day. And yeah you can come by after because you get off at eight right?" I say as we stop at his locker and he starts opening it grabbing what he needs and putting his bookbag away
"uh-yeah yeah i do."
"So you come by the cafe after work because it's on your way home then pick me up we go to my house and start on a project"
"okay that sounds good but what is the project"
"heyyyyyy i haven't thought that farrrrr" i say chuckling slightly pretending to pout.
"Okay it's biology it can't be that hard we're both passing and pay attention and we have exactly "pretend to look at time as the bell rings and we start walking to class well homeroom our school is weird we have twenty minutes before class then six minutes to get to hometown which is only seven minutes then we have first period weird i know. "fifty-three point six hours"I start laughing "point six? ahhh we've been hanging out to much"
"Yes point six don't laugh i have plan"
"okay we have this fifty-three POINT six hours until the project is due explain your 'plan'" i say putting air quotes around plan.
"don't mock me" he says smiling "any way that means we have. total of two biology classes to go over notes and learn more things" i nod as we get to class and sit down in our sits our homeroom teacher was somebody we didn't even have as a teacher which i thought was funny "helloooooo" i feel somebody snapping fingers in my face and i realized i was thinking and not paying attention "oh hm? sorry continue" i say blinking slightly and turning to him and going to pay attention "Ah back to what i was saying. you know Mr.Patrick loves a kiss up so if we do a project on something old he's gonna lose it you know. he's going to be like Holy moly my kids actually listen to me as we're gonna get a better grade" My eyes widen excitedly "yes. so we reread out binders from the beginning of the year and do our project on sexual reproduction or something" Josh puts his finger on his nose and goes "ding ding dingggggg"
"Well now we have our project idea kind of not really but we'll figure it out tonight all i know is today is going to be boring" I say groaning because we were doing anything important.
"Facts sister" He says going to high five me. there was nothing going on in the news and no kind of charity events happening so my life was boring right now. There's no point in borin you about the details of my day so school went find nothing happened except i feel like my hand is about to fall off because i literally just wrote notes all day now i'm walking to my locker and put my stuff into my locker and put my biology book and binder in my book bag and when i go to turn around to walk to josh's locker i feel somebody lean on the locker next to me and close my locker to reveal nothing but josh "ready?" I smile and nod as we walk out the school together and start walking to the cafe i was on my phone at lunch because Josh had to do some wrestling thing because they were getting their hoodies soon
"I have so much tea that's not even my tea to spill but i'm going to spill it" I say talking with my hands because there was so much news that i missed when i was reading last night
"yes girl what?" He says clapping his hands together
"So i was reading at lunch and turns out people are actually trying to make abortion illegal ILLEGAL do you know how down right stupid that is?" He was semi confused and furred eyebrows together and looks down at me slightly i knew that means i need to elaborate what i mean "you know what an abortion is right?" He nods slightly "Okay well you can't just take that right from somebody you know? it's like wrong women have to right to do whatever they want with their body and it shouldn't be a problem that they would want a abortion. i don't think people have the right to take that away you feel me" I say looking at a confused josh and i chuckle
"yeah makes sense it's a women's decision what she does"
"But i'm also kinda against abortion especially if it's somebody who was just having sex and is like oh wow look i'm pregnant abortion time. because like so many people can't have kids and it's just selfish to kill a helpless child when you could give it to somebody but if you were raped or abused or something like that and want to get rid of the baby that makes perfect sense because that's hard and you'll always see that baby as the rapist you know? abortions are just such a controversy so i just feel you cant make them illegal until you go through or know the exact reason that person is having an abortion because there's so many ways to stay safe and not get pregnant when having sex" i was semi ranting about how i feel because tumblr wasn't working for me and Josh was right there and i was just happy he liked to listen to stuff like this but sometimes i feel like i annoy him until he says stuff like
"wow you're really smart. that's- my brain just exploded" He says widening his eyes slightly then shaking his head. "how did you get all that from abortion is trying to become illegal"
"ahhh because as a female ahem a female of color my rights are already lessened and i haven't done anything wrong in my life so the thought of another right being taken away from me and all my fellow women it angers me" He smiles
"preach. ahhhh we love a strong independent black women" He says jokingly but i knew it meant it and i don't k know why but it made me feel better stronger i don't know how to describe the feeling but it made me happy
"thanks josh-"we got to the cafe and i looks at the door.
"i'll see you tonight yeah?" I nod before waving bye and walking into the café that i was going to be spending the next four-five hours at. since i was still a teenager i was able to work certain times and i could only work after school because of "child labor laws"
"Hey Jas ahh i'm so happy you're here early i have to leave to pick of Jackson from daycare he got sick and i think i'm going to have to take him to the doctor and-"One of the lady's i worked with 'Aliyah' she was around twenty-four single with a three year old son. I was inspired by her as a female as well i tried to help her she was young had a kid and worked she was always going to college to get a better education she had it all so when she needed to leave early i didn't mind covering her shift and then clocking her out. the work still gets done and she gets her money everything's good.
"Aliyah it's okay. i'll cover the shift" I say cutting her off because jackson means a lot to her and i could tell she was worried she was talking about him a lot about how she thought he was getting sick. She smiles at me and puts her apron up "okay thanks Jas i per you one" She says grabbing her purse and keys.
"no it's fine i don't mind- just make sure jackson is okay" She nods and rushes out the door getting into her car and driving off. I sigh at the smell of the store as i take off my jacket put it in the back room and grab my apron that has three name tags two have my nickname on it and the other had my real name. It probably wasn't going to be busy till fourish. So i decided to start cooking some more cookies since they didn't believe in vegan options when i would go shopping i'd try and get everything that's organic because if not vegan then make it organic you feel me. When i was putting the cookies i heard the door open and turn around
"welcome to- ohhhhh hi" I say smiling dorkily at the old lady who walk in
"Jasmine baby"Ahh this is Mrs.Wiltson she's the sixty three year old who opened up this very shop ten/twelve years ago because this isn't the only shop with this name but her and her sisters didn't know how to see who got the shop so she just opened this she's retired and old what else will she do with her time.
"afternoon Mrs.Wilton" I say turning on a timer for the cookies.
"Did you hear that they finally sold that dump across from us" She said laughing and going behind the counter and grabbing a cupcake before eating it.
"Really? people actually wanted that place?" The place next door was a crappy store it was lowkey beat down and gross looking. It's whatever what ever is going to be next door has no concern of mine. "Well maybe it'll be a market because i'm tired of having to walk like eight billion miles to get stuff"
"Mm hopefully or one of those weird hip top shops" She says "Tell me when Vanessa gets me here i'm going upstairs" i bet you're like 'upstairs?' yes it's one of those shops downstairs apartment upstairs which she was going home. fun you know
"Okay I will byeeeeee" I say as she walked up the stairs and went upstairs and left me alone in the shop again. I started grabbing the cookies out the over and putting them on a cooling rack and went back to the register and see somebody walk in-

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I've never been good at ending chapters in my life so i got a new account and oof here is the first chapter of an OC book and i really need a cover kms