Blame Me

Chapter 3

        Chapter 3

        Elise

　　I woke up to the muffled sound of someone yelling my name. I groggily opened my eyes, only to have the light coming through my window blind me. 

　　Suddenly the door to my small bedroom shot open to reveal an annoyed looking Dani.

　　“Elise! Your school starts in twenty minutes!” she yelled at me. 

　　It took me a few minutes to comprehend what she was saying, but once I did I shot straight out of bed. I began thrashing against the swarm of sheets that I was wrapped in trying to get out of bed as fast as I could but only managed in falling off of the bed and onto the cold hardwood floor. 

　　“You have ten minutes! I’m going to be in the car,” she left with an exasperated look on her face. 

　　I groaned and quickly untangled myself from the white cloth that was imprisoning me and ran around my room trying to get all of the pieces to my uniform onto my body. After I had managed to have a clean mouth and face I ran into the living room to get my school bag but I couldn’t find it anywhere. 

　　My Grandpa was sitting on the attached balcony with a cup of coffee and a newspaper. He looked up from his newspaper when he saw me flying through the room.

　　“Good morning,” he said with a smile. 

　　I smiled brightly back at him, “Good morning, Grandpa!” 

　　He chuckled at my enthusiasm, “Danielle took your bag already, you should hurry along now, she has a meeting today,”

　　Oh, that was why Dani was in a rush this morning. Most of the time she would let me sleep and then tell me that I was late for school just to annoy me. 

　　I kissed my Grandpa’s cheek before sprinting down the hallway of our floor and then dashing down the three floors of our apartment. The weird thing about our apartment was that the stairs were put in differently so you had to go through each floor to reach the ground level. And to add to the weirdness, there were no elevators either. Which would be fine if you wanted a work out but not if you were in a hurry and you lived on the top floor. 

　　“Hello Elise!” Mrs. Brown beamed at me as I was passing by her apartment door. 

　　“Hello Mrs. Brown!” I replied whizzing by her, not stopping to chit chat. 

　　“Wait Elise I have your tea!” She called behind me. 

　　Now, I usually wouldn’t have stopped, considering Dani and I were both in a rush, but Mrs. Brown knew my weakness. Tea, well that and food. 

　　Once I had a scalding cup of tea in a travel mug in my hand and a promise to visit Mrs. Brown after school, I jogged the rest of the way to the car that Dani was waiting in.

　　“Took you long enough,” she said, “What took you so long anywa-” she started to ask but once she saw the mug in my hand she looked at me with a “Really? Are you serious?” look. 

　　“What? Mrs. Brown had some ready for me, I couldn’t just say no,” I told her, trying to defend myself. I look a the clock on the dashboard, there was only five minutes until I had to be in school. 

　　“Yeah, you could have just said no, it’s not that hard, it’s one syllable and two letters,” Dani joked as she sped down the city streets. 

　　I rolled my eyes at her before grabbing the makeup bag in the car and started to apply the makeup that God knew that I needed to not look like a zombie. Though, that being said I didn’t put on too much, only some foundation, mascara, eyeliner and lip balm.