The Spectacular Now (Fanfic)

Chapter 1: Aimee

Sutter Keely sat at his desk staring at the question on his first college application about the biggest hardship he has faced in his life. He chuckled at the question he simply wrote a few sentences on how him and his girlfriend broke up a day ago. How they were the perfect couple and she broke up with him for no reason, even though she did have more than one reason but he will never admit that. The last sentence he wrote about how he won't let that hardship get in the way of him living his moment in the now, he will continue to have fun and do whatever the day will bring. He looked over at his phone and saw a text from his best friend telling him about a party, he shut his computer satisfied and replied by telling his friend to pick him up in 5 minutes. 

"Life is going good," Sutter smiled carelessly.

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"Aimee stop stressing about it!" Krystal shouted at her through their video call.

"But it's such a huge test! I need to pass it." She said determinedly.

"My goodness, and I'm over here barely passing Geometry. You get 99 % on every single test! On every subject!"

"Exactly! I can't break that streak now," She laughed as she got a 100 % on a practice test.

"Aimee, just please go to bed. It will be fine, we can study more Monday. Just please go to bed!"

"Alright, fine I will." She closed her textbook, "Night Krystal, love you."

"Goodnight Amiee, love you too," She waved her hand at her webcam. She clicked off and Amiee opened up her textbook again and attempted to study more. She looked over at her phone to see a text from Krystal telling her to go to bed again. She chuckled at her friend knowing her so well and closed her textbook finally. She replied with a sarcastic response and finally climbed into bed to sleep. She sighed stressed just thinking of all of the test coming up and graduation coming closer. 

"Life is quite stressful," She groaned into her pillow.

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Aimee Finicky walked down the stairs in her house, her mother was gone. She sighed and popped a blueberry bagel into the toaster. Aimee turned on the small television in the kitchen on while starting to clean up the mess her mother made last night. She ate her blueberry bagel quietly while checking her phone for notifications, none. Shocker. Krystal probably was still asleep from a long night from studying for the Calculus test coming up. She looked up at the time, 5:43, she would be delivering papers later than usual but her mother needs the extra money for bills. Aimee grabbed the keys to the house and the huge bundle of newspapers in the garage. 

She headed out the front door, locked it behind her and turned around to see a passed out man on her lawn. She stared at him for a bit while not moving, unsure of what to do. She quickly put the large bag of newspapers on the back of her light blue truck and looked inside to make sure her other bag was in the front seat still. She hugged her yellow cardigan to her body more and slipped her keys in her back pocket. She walked up to the man slowly, his hair was quite tossed and he had eyes were puffy, he either was hungover or cried. Possibly both. 

"Hey?" She said quickly, not knowing how to wake the man up. She kneeled down beside him, he seemed to be breathing fine which is good. "Hello?" She put her hand on his chest gently to try and wake him up. She looked at him more closely, oh its Sutter Keely from her school. Why is he here in her yard wasted?

"Hey, hello?" She shook him harder and he groaned, starting to open his eyes. He put his hand up to try and block out the bright sun. "Thank goodness, I started to think that you were dead."