sHE'S brOKen

Cylyss Kong

"Seth, you little rat! Get out of the bathroom, you're using up all the hot water!" I say pounding on the door. He continues to sing in the shower ignoring me. I then drag myself to the kitchen looking for my mom. "Ma, Seth won't get out of the bathroom, I'm gonna be late, I haven't talked to Ace for the past few weeks, I'm worried about my AP classes and I don't know what to do." I put my head down on the counter.

I feel her hands run through my curly hair and she says, "Breathe, focus on one problem at a time. What do you want to talk about first?" I look down at my nails, "Ace." "Alright, what about him?". I tell her everything. I've been lying to him about my phone being cut off. I needed some time for myself. I love him and everything but I just feel like sometimes I'm not here for him like he's here for me. He doesn't deserve me, he deserves better.

"Honey," my mom says, as she place the leftovers in the fridge. "You know that I hate it when you talk down on yourself, you are an amazing girl. Any guy would be lucky to have you and any girl would be lucky to have him. You're meant for each other at this point." I look up at her, "you're only saying this because your my mom." She then smiles at me, "Sure but then again mother knows best."

"BaBa!" my brother screamed "can you not drop me off so close to the school. We don't have the latest model and I'm trying to make friends this year." "Ok Seth" my dad said. "Any demands from you too Cy?" He says looking at me with a weak smile. He was up last night working late at his shop. He owns an Asian antique store, I work there part time. When his parents came to America, they opened the shop to get started. It was passed down to him after. It used to be very popular but now he barely gets customers. "No dad, I'm fine, I love your car." I kiss him on the cheek, hug my mom goodbye and get in the car.

As I walk into the office to get my schedule I look at my classes. I have Gym first period, Chemistry second, and APLang third. I then felt a strong pair of arms wrap around me, "Hey baby." I hear that voice I've been aching to hear for weeks. I turn and hug Ace. "Okay, someone's happy to see me. What're your classes?" I told him and found out that we have Chemistry together. "Good," he says kissing my cheek. "More time to spend with my baby girl," wrapping his arm around me, walking me to gym.

"During lunch today the team and I are going out to eat, you wanna come?" As we stop at my locker. "Not really," I state shyly looking away, I was hoping that we were able to spend some quality time together. I then see a group of girls walking towards us. The little Regina George of the group says,"Hey Ace. How was your summer babe? Hope you were practicing, I can't be cheering for a lazy but cute quarterback" I look at the girl staring at Ace with a fake smile batting her eyelashes. She had on black stilettos, high waisted jeans, and a red cropped sweater. Looking down at my sweats and sneakers, guess you could say I didn't get the memo. "Did you steal that from a homeless man or was this from your local Salvation Army bin? I didn't know they were still giving out clothes to the people barely getting by." She smirks. "Angelina, that's uncalled for." Ace says pulling me closer to him. "It's just a joke Ace. I love Nike, my sister owns half the company." As she starts to walk a away, she whispers in my ear, "BTW hon, those curls are so last season". 

As Ace starts to help me put my locker together, I look at him blankly and say, "Why were you entertaining that buffoon?" He had a confused look on his face then answered, "What do you mean?" he looks back at me with those big, brown eyes. "Whatever," I say grabbing my bag, "I have to get to class." I didn't give him the chance to make excuses and stormed off to gym.

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