Love at first bite

Chapter 5

The alarm goes off and quickly pick it up and throw it across the room against the wall, hoping that my mom didn’t hear it.

She always comes up to my room to wake me up right after the alarm goes off.

She knows that I always hit the snooze button in order for not to hear it, but my mom is always a step ahead of us all-Nicole, Nicholas and my dad included.

“Get up Angel, time to go to school!” my mom shouts all the way from her bedroom, which is just across from mine.

My plan didn’t work, my mom heard the alarm before it even got to the wall.

“Mom, I’m not feeling too well.” I say to her and right after I pull the covers over my head, my door bursts open with my mom standing by the door.

She takes out the first aid kit from my bathroom and takes out a thermometer and sticks it into my mouth then she leaves the room.

What most of us teenagers would do to not go to school, is put the thermometer under the table lamp and wait for it to get hot, and that’s exactly what I did, only this time it doesn’t work.

My mom rushes into my room with a glass of water in her hand and she stops when she sees the thermometer in my hand under the table lamp.

‘Shit.’

I curse under my breath at my failure, earning a huge grin from my mother.

“I knew you weren’t sick. Now get up and don’t make me come back in here.”

And with that, she leaves and orders me to get ready for school, otherwise I won’t like the outcome of her coming back into my room.

How the hell did she know? That’s just how mothers are, they don’t need to know for sure what’s going on, but they will find out on their own and they will do so faster than the blink of an eye.

I get out of bed and make my way to my bathroom, annoyed by the fact that I don’t have a choice but to go to school today.

Taking a quick shower, I dry my body and hair, and apply the necessary stuff to my body and hair, and get dressed.

I finish just in time for breakfast today and my mom and dad are looking at me like a walking zombie.

I guess they are just surprised that I made it in time for breakfast- for the first time ever.

“Morning.” I greet my parents and siblings, earning a huge grin from my dad. “Morning, my Angel.”

He says and gives me a kiss on my forehead, to which I return with a smile.

I decide to have cereal today, since I’m not really in the mood for anything big, like toast and eggs and bacon, etc.

I finish my cereal quick enough to catch a ride with Jonah, our best friend. Jonah, Jane and I have practically been friends ever since we were born, so we're really close. The drive to school is as short as the time it took me to get drunk on my birthday, which is less than five minutes.

Surprisingly, the school yard is quite empty today, or is it because it’s my first time being early- that might be the reason why it surprises me to see the school yard so empty.

I spot Jane and Rose’ in front of the main entrance of the school. I see someone else standing with them, and I think it’s Chris, but I think I’m imagining it, so I decide to go see for myself.

As I get closer, ‘it really is him! Oh my word, it’s Chris. Shit!’ I say to myself, but realise a bit too late that I the whole school heard me.