it's complicated- lrh

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     I wake up to the sound of my alarm, Fairly Local by Twenty One Pilots. I'm such a heavy sleeper that Michael once broke a set of plates down stairs in our living room trying to put them away and I barely flinched; that's why I set that as an alarm because the song and Tyler Joseph himself are loud so it's a perfect mixture. I go to shut it off and stretch my arms out and let out a huge yawn that escaped from my lips. I have about an hour to get ready for the day so I skip the shower and use dry shampoo as a backup for my hair today. I put no heat to it and I wear it half up half down. For the outfit I keep it a little classy today if you will. I throw on a navy blue NASA tee, a pair of ripped black jeans, and some white converse. I felt too idle to do my makeup so I keep it all natural today.

     I walk down my flight of stairs and an aroma of smoke goes into my nose and I follow the smell. I head into the kitchen and see my brother trying to attempt to make I guess breakfast for the two of us, and sent the smoke alarm off. I'm not that surprised. "I tried to make pancakes... And that shit happened." Michael says as he puts his two fingers between the corner of his eyes. "Yeah I kind of expected that. Just stick with cereal next time mike." I laugh as I go to put his burnt pancakes in the trash. "Oh I forgot to ask. Luke called me up a few minutes to go to say that he actually found a ride today so do you mind dropping me off?" Fuck. I didn't think Luke would cancel on my brother because of yesterday and avoid him. I just hope he doesn't bring anything else up on the way to school. "Oh okay yeah I dont mind let's go." I say as we grab our book bags at the same time and head out the door.

     On the drive to school, I'm glad my words didn't bite me in the ass because that's what usually happens to me when I hope something doesn't happen and it just turns into the exact opposite. "Have you figured out your costume yet? Me and Luke were going as Mario and Luigi. I don't even know how we came to that idea it just popped up." Michael said as I gulped lightly. "Uh me and Ashely were going to go as a Angel and a demon. I think you can figure out who's which." I say as I start to pull up in the school parking lot. "Damn that's a hard one 'car I have to really think about that one." My brother says sarcastically as we both get out of my car, shut the car doors behind us and we start walking.

     As I start to head to first period someone sneaks up behind me and I expect it to be a tall, dirty blonde hair boy who is finally ready to explain himself to me but who I anticipated  for was the wrong person. "What's up Clifford!" My best friend Ashley says wrapping both of her arms around my neck with no explanation which made jump and scream a little. "Fuck Ashley you gotta stop doing that and lay off the caffeine while you're at it." She always finds her way to scare me out of plain sight and she almost succeeds at every effort she makes.  "Honestly I think you'd need it too because of today. You look like you stayed up all night and binged watch romance movies and it just hit you now." "Wow thanks for the compliment fucker. And what do you mean I would need the caffeine today?" I say since I have no idea what ash is babbling on about. "Seriously? Did you forget that there's a unit test in Mr. Santiago's class that he's been talking about for a week now?" Now it hits me. My mind has been else wear for the past week and I didn't even stop to think about a test that I need to pass I didn't even study for once at all. "For Christ's sake! What time do we have him?" As I turn on my phone to check the time. "Uh like now?" Ashley says. I let out a huge groan and I start dragging Ashley with me and start heading to the classroom I'm scared to enter.
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(P.o.v change)   -Luke-

     I'm so so so so pissed at myself for lashing out on Caroline for the way I did Monday. Some of the things I said I meant. In my perspective, she can be high maintenance and I can tell she let's peoples words get to her head. But for me to bring up her dead dad and her mom was a dick move on my part. Yes, I am indeed aware I can be an asshole when I need and want to be, but I'm surprised I took that argument a step further than I anticipated to. I so wanted to apologize to her today but I couldn't. My thoughts were lashing out at me and I would most likely fuck up again. I just needed some time to think and then I can tell Caroline at the right time and place so it all works out. That's why I had to cancel on Mike today. Hell knows what I could've done.