The One

Chapter 17

Thursday

I wake up to my mother's phone ringing next door. I stand straight in my bed, I grab my phone and check the time 5:45 am. I hear my mom's voice as she talks on the phone. I wipe off my sleepy eyes and stand from my bed. I walk over to the door, and open it. As I am stepping out I bump into my mom who is also coming out of her room.

"Ariana, what are you doing awake at this time?" she asks me.

"Your phone woke me up," I say.

"Go back to sleep, you can still get one more hour of sleep."

"I can't sleep now, who was that on the phone?" I ask her.

"Um .. my co-worker, she needs me over at the hospital so I have to leave right now."

"When will they leave you alone?"

"This job is tough honey," my mother says as she soothes my arm.

I look down to my feet and walk back to my room. My mom gathers her uniform and gets ready, I later hear the door shut, and her car turn on.

6:10 am

"I can't go back to sleep. I'll go down stairs and watch some TV."

I walk down to the kitchen and grab myself some Frosted Flakes, and jump on the couch. I turn the TV and watch some Good Morning America.

I then pour another round of cereal and keep watching TV. I then hear a door click open up stairs. The bathroom door clicks shut.

I check the time 7:00 am. I turn the TV off and head to get ready for school. I take a shower and dress up. Today I don't feel like dressing that fancy, so I go with some jeans, a long baggy black shirt and my white vans. I put my hair up in a pony tail, and I add some mascara and eyeliner.

I get ready in 15 minutes so I still have about 45 minutes, so I go back to watch some TV.

At 8:00 am I drive to Starbucks to grab a coffee and then head to school. Hope today goes better than these couple of days.

I arrive to school and head to my locker. Harry is there blocking my locker. I pretend I don't see him and walk to the cafeteria, he follows me. As I enter the cafeteria I see Zayn.

"Zayn!" I yell running down to hug him.

"Hey you," he says.

"Where were you?" I ask him.

"Just had to do some business," he replies.

I hit his arm. "You've missed like 2 months!" I say.

"I know."

"I missed my art buddy."

"I missed you too."

I turn to see if Harry is still behind me, but he is gone. I turn my attention back to Zayn, and we start to talk about this project Mrs.Brown gave us.

The bell rings and I walk to first period with Zayn. We take our seats and take out our journals. I wait for Harry to come in late, but after the late bell rings there is no sign of him.

I turn my attention back to Mr.Harrington. "Ok, Entry Task is up on the board, someone read it to the class. Kendall, read it for us," Mr. Harrington says.

Kendall clears her throat and reads the Entry Task. "Honors English Period 1: In your journal you will be writing a paragraph about all the things that you can think of that have helped you throughout these past 3 years in High School."

"Thank you Miss. Jenner, now everyone has heard the Entry Task so get going on it," Mr.Harrington says to the class.

I take out my pen and start to write down what has helped me get to where I am now. I bite my pen as I think, its a habit, I am used to bitting pens. Hope i'm not the only one that does this.