Choosing You

Chapter 1

You know that moment right before you wake up where you are bordering on being awake and asleep? That is my favorite time of every day. I am addicted to it. Everything is okay, the things that you want to not deal with do not matter. The world is fuzzy and okay. I love it because the moment that I open my eyes I have to deal with the mess that is my life. Speaking of, the world is encroaching on my peaceful haze with my alarm clock blaring radio on my desk. Why did I put it all the way across the room? Oh yeah so I am not late again to school.

I finally get up after cursing myself out for trying to responsible. Coffee. I need Coffee. Before going in search of my sustenance, I get dressed in my usual jeans and t-shirt while throwing my long, dark brown hair into a bun. I have super thick, slightly curly hair and am always too tired to style it so most days it ends up in a bun. I sling my backpack over my shoulder and head downstairs. On my way, I knock on my brother's door yelling, "Josh, are you up? We need to leave in 10." Hearing some grunts and him shuffling across his room confirms that he is up and I continue on my way downstairs.

My brother Josh and I live by ourselves because both our parents died a couple years ago. We lived with our grandparents at first, but once we got over the initial waves of grief and Josh and I turned 18 we moved out. Don't get me wrong, we have fantastic grandparents, but they are getting older and so it was just easier on them to move out. And everyone in our hometown knew us as the Peterson siblings whose parents died. Everyone would always stare and pity us and so we just wanted to start fresh.

Our parents had a cabin in the woods located in Washington that we used to go when we were younger and we decided to move into officially. Staying in our old house that we lived in with our parents was just too hard so we decided to just stay in the cabin permanently. The only bad thing about our move is that we are starting at a new school. We moved here at the beginning of summer and so we had time to move everything and settle in before school started. Which it starts today. Josh and I are twins and so we are both starting our senior year.

While sitting down drinking my coffee, trying to memorize my new schedule I hear Josh come barreling down the stairs. He immediately comes into the kitchen, "Ready to go little sis?" he asks while stealing my coffee. "First Josh you are 2 minutes older so stop calling me that and second I was waiting on you" I snap at him. Obviously the coffee has not kicked in.

We start heading out to the garage and Josh says "No need to be crabby, little sis and I'll drive." My only reply is my eye roll and I hop into his Jeep and pray he doesn't hit anyone on our way to school.