New Us

        Dragonfly

                        A humongous sigh left my lips as I heaved the last box onto the couch, little particles of dust floating up gently from it. I pushed back a strand of black hair from my face, looking around the living room to see how much work needed to be done. Good thing we got an apartment. Fewer things to unpack.

“Was that the last of them?” I asked my twin who just finished stepping onto the last step of the stairs. But she didn’t hear a word I said, for music was blasting in her ears. I suppressed a sigh and walked over to her. She set down the take out we ordered on the kitchen table without looking at me and with a quick yank on the chord; I pulled out one of her ear buds.

“The hell? I was listening to that”,she exclaimed, an annoyed expression etched on her face. Her smoky gray eyes skewered me, daring me to say something. Which I was.

“You’re going to go deaf before you’re even thirty”, before she could say anything else I went on, “I asked if there were any other boxes in the car. “

Snow simply shrugged and walked off towards one of the rooms, taking her share of the food along with her. I wanted to choke her sometimes for how annoying she could be. At least, I had control over my emotions. She was just a raging snowstorm waiting to happen.

I shook my head, heading down the stairs from our apartment to the car, double checking if there were any last boxes. There was none so I locked it up, making sure the doors didn’t open and went back up the stairs.

Once inside, I closed the door and shuffled to the nearest seat which was a beanbag chair. Boy, I was tired. It seemed like it was just yesterday we started moving in. Oh wait. It was.

Tomorrow was Monday. Monday means school and school means people. I did not want to meet new people at a new school so early. Normally, I’m a nice person. Really, I am but having had to take care of paperwork for myself and my sister was a terrible bore. Along with finding the new apartment we’re in now. New school, new people, new apartment….new life. At least my aunt had helped me with this, unlike a certain silver headed girl I know. I reminded myself to make a mental note to give Snow a piece of my mind tomorrow.

We had all the furniture moved in the day before but it was scattered in places we didn’t quite like so tomorrow, moving things around was another to-do on the list. Then there was cleaning the place up a little and unpacking at least half these boxes.

Gosh, my mind refused to shut up and stop the hamster wheel. I needed to relax before the big day. I sighed and grabbed my bowl of Chinese food from panda express, sitting back down on the chair.

Scooping up chow mien into my mouth, I searched for the control of the TV and decided to watch reruns of Once Upon a Time.   

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I woke up to the soft glow of the TV, a groan at my lips as I tried to move my neck but it was sore stiff. I realized I fell asleep on the beanbag in a curled up position. Ugh. I blinked once, twice to get rid of the blurriness you receive after a nap searching for the time. I found my phone and switched it on reading the time that flashed up.

4:00am

Mmm….a little too early for school. But I couldn’t go back to sleep like this. Not when I was all sore and stiff. I stood up, heading for my room to grab clothes for the day and take a shower. I walked blindly to the bathroom after I got my set of clothes, arms extended to find a light switch somewhere on the wall and finally a bulb blinked to life.

I shut the door behind me slowly, careful NOT to wake my sister up. No one wanted to face her grumpy ass.  I set down my things on the bathroom counter and walked the few steps to the shower, turned on the water and stripped my yucky clothes off while it heated.