Breaking The Rules

Part 1

I will worship this list for this entire year. No more distractions, no more parties, no more boys. This list will keep me challenged and focused. This year will be the best year yet, my grades will soar and my parents will be over the moon. After last year, I think they would be happy with anything I do well this year. No more mistakes repeated from last year, I've learnt from my mistakes and they will never happen again.

I woke up with the sun shining through the curtains, reflecting across my wooden floor. The birds were chirping outside my window and I could hear the faint waves crashing against the rocks from the beach just across the road. I couldn't ask for a better place to live. I love spending Summer at the beach with my family. Everything was gorgeous and the people here are lovely, well most of them. I stop daydreaming about the beach as soon as I realised there was something licking my hand.
"Morning Sammy, wanna go for jog?" My dog ran around my room while his tail was flying everywhere.

A Sunday morning jog is the perfect way to spend the day before school. It always seems to wake me up by the fresh ocean breeze brushing against my face. The breeze running through mine and Sammy's hair as we were jogging along the shore. I thought about the coming school year and what my teachers and friends might think about my new attitude. I mean, I was totally different last year. I never did my homework and spent most of my time running after boys like a dog. At the beginning of the year, teachers hated me because they thought I would act like my brother. I guess the thought of being known and hated by most teachers appealed to me, so that's what I did. I started to act like my brother until I realised it was affecting things at home. My parents started to ignore me and pretend they didn't even know who I was because I was acting like a different person. I promised them on New Years Eve that things would change, I'm not the type of person to break a promise. So here I am, writing a whole list so there will be no more mistakes.

I thought about this until I reached the front door. I unlocked the door with a simple click of the key and felt a cool breeze wash over me. I let Sammy off his lead and watched him run to his water bowl. While Sammy was taking gulp after gulp, I hang up his lead next to his bed. It was a new year of school starting tomorrow, and I didn't think I was ready. Seeing everyone after the six weeks of holidays. Everyone seems to change so much, they always look so much older. And there's me, standing next to everyone looking like a twig. But who knows, everyone might look at me differently anyway.