Our Hidden World

Chapter 9

Side- Devil May Cry by The Weeknd

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Josephine's P.O.V:

It's Friday! Yay! I'm silently cheering but am still a bit bummed. I still have to get through school darn it!

I trudge downstairs in my half awake state and start looking for the laundry that I cleaned

a few days ago. I have this awful habit of leaving my clothes downstairs.

I look at the clock. Still have 30 minutes before I need to get going.

Wait. Where's Brooke? I listen for a few moments, then hear her walking around upstairs. I beat her down! That hasn't happened in a long time.

With nothing better to do I start listening to my music on shuffle.

Hard time forgiving

Even harder forgetting

Before you do something you might regret friend

I love this song. The song ends and moves on to another one of my favorites: Devil May Cry by The Weekend. At this point my sister has come down and demands that I put the song on the stereo . As we're jamming out I get an idea.

I pull out my phone: Do you need a ride to school?

The response comes back quickly: if you're offering one than I'll take it.

Ok. Be over here in 5.

5 minutes later Landon shows up with his backpack.

Brooke runs up to her room and returns with her leather jacket. Yes she has one too.

"I'm going to ride my bike to school since it's nice outside," she announces.

" Ooh can I see it?" Landon asked with more enthusiasm than should be allowed at such an early hour.

"Sure," and the both of them go outside to admire her motorcycle.

Landon comes in shortly after to tell me that Brooke left and we should be getting ready to leave as well.

Landon hops into the passenger side while I grab my keys.

"Let's get this show on the road," I say. I plug in my phone and we start jamming out to my music on the way to school. One song starts playing and all the sudden Landon yells "I LOVE THIS SONG!". The song is Every Teardrop is a Waterfall by Coldplay, and there's no way that either of us can listening to it at a normal level so we proceed to blast the song and sing at the top of our lungs.

I turn the music up

I got my records on

I shut the world outside until the lights come on

Maybe the streets alight, maybe the trees are gone

I feel my heart stop beating to my favorite song

And all the kids they dance, all the kids all night

Until Monday morning feels another life

I turn the music up

I'm on a roll this time

And heaven is in sight

I turn the music up, I got my records on

From underneath the rubble sing a rebel song

Don't want to see another generation drop

I'd rather be a comma than a full stop

By the time the song has ended we're laughing at each other as we pull into the school parking lot.

"Well that was fun, I think I'm going to make you drive me to school every day," Landon says, still laughing.

"That's fine with me but you'll have to rotate out of the passenger seat when Brooke rides with me."

"Awwww really?" he whines.

"Yes really but if you call shotgun first then she'll obey the official rules of shotgun. We used to do it all the time when we were kids and I'm sure she'll love to have someone to take out her competitive streak on,"

"What about calling shotgun is competitive?" Landon asks confused.

"Oh that's right you didn't grow up with any siblings...you'll see," I told him mysteriously and got out of the car.

Brooke greeted the both of us halfway across the parking lot and we walk into the school together. Landon goes off to his locker while I go over to mine and start chatting with my friends. Eli and David are talking about some math homework that neither one of them had felt inclined to do. Wonder how much their teacher likes them. Brooke is chatting with Regina and Violet. I straighten from my locker and grab Nyssa to walk to class with.

Nyssa and I got to class where we talked for five minutes before the bell rang, then we sat down and pushed ourselves through an hour of torture.