Hard Love

Chapter 1

Bzzzt! Bzzzt! Goes an alarm clock buzzing to get me rolling out of bed in the morning for school. I woke up and hit the alarm to wake up and stretch to go to school as I smell my mother making breakfast.

"Elizabeth! Breakfast!" Mother yells from downstairs. Elizabeth that's me, my friends call me Ellie for short. I get out of bed as I do my morning routine by doing some stretching exercises and then head to the bathroom seeing my bed head which is way out of control. I of course shrug it off and continue to get ready for school. I find my uniform all pressed and ironed on the chair waiting for me to throw it on along with my book bag filled with my homework all finished and a picture of me and my boyfriend Andrew in a book marking its place. Andrew has been my boyfriend ever since 9th grade, we plan to remain together forever, he is like my rock always holding me down. Sure he hovers over me like an owl but I still love him. Nothing will change our relationship. "Elizabeth! Your breakfast is getting cold! If you don't come on down, I'll feed it to the dog!" Mother jokingly yells.

"I'm coming mom!" I yell back to her as I tie my tie and carry my book bag down with me not looking where I am going and bump into John. John is my mother's new husband, I call him John because he my stepfather and I dont really care for him as much. "Oh I am so sorry John." I look up at him as he glares at me and straightens up his tie and goes to the bedroom to grab his briefcase. I run downstairs and sit at the kitchen table and see my mother pregnant with my brother making coffee as I sit and eat my breakfast. "This is really good breakfast mom thank you."

"Anything for my little princess." Mom smiles as she pours me coffee. As I eat, my doorbell goes off and mother was just about to answer it, Andrew comes in and stands at the doorway of the kitchen.

"Ready for school babe?" He asks me. I nod with a bit of food in my mouth. "Okay. Lets go." I swallow my food, kisses mother's cheek, grab my book bag and head out the door. As we are headed out the door Andrew holds my bag like a good gentleman would do then lifts my chin and kisses me softly, and then holds my hand as we walk to school together.

"Can you believe we're already in 11th grade? Soon enough we will be graduating next year." I say with excitement.

"Oh yes. I've already turned in 5 college applications." Andrew exclaimed. Andrew is what you call a smart, nerd like jock. He likes football when he is on the field and the classes when he is not on the field. He is the one that keeps me on my homework, I'm a B average student, he is a straight A student. I really wish I knew his secret, because he juggles between games and decathlons, oh and being my boyfriend. He is definitely one of a kind, that's why I love him. As we walk hand in hand, we end up to school and I smile as I hold my hands up in the air.

"Ah, school. So great to be back here after summer." As I admire school, I smile as I see Andrew with his nose in a book making sure he is all caught up for class, a motorcycle zooms on in almost running me over. "Hey watch it!" I yell at the person parking in the lot of our school all dressed in leather. I glare at him as he takes his helmet off and there he stood a black haired young man about my age, flipping his hair out of his eyes. I couldn't help but notice my mouth somewhat dropped of how handsome he was. I back up and bump into Andrew as I hold his hand and that young man not paying attention to me. "Shall we go in?" I nudge Andrew.

"Hm. Oh yeah. Sorry." He holds my hand and we walk in the doors of school.