Ray of sunshine

Ray of sunshine [1]

EMILY DAVIS

The first day of senior year was pretty much the same as any other day of high school. I woke up late because I snoozed through my three alarms, had to get ready in under 20 minutes, and rushed downstairs for breakfast. My baby brother was up early and munching on the pancakes dad was making.

"You're late," said dad not sounding too surprised.

"I ended up binge-watching the show, it was very addictive" I grabbed myself some pancakes to go and spread some Nutella on them, I mean I was late, not dead and who the hell eats pancakes without Nutella.

"If I have to listen to another one of these amazing shows stories I'll kill myself."

"geez dad, way to be dramatic" I rolled my eyes and quickly looked for my keys if I was late Danny would kill me.

Daniel Jordan aka Danny is my ride to school, my best friend, student body president, and most importantly hopelessly in love with my other best friend Jade Miller. He hates being late to school not for his student body president record but because another minute wasted on being late is another minute him spending apart from jade.

"but Emmy aren't you the dramatic one, right daddy?" questioned Sebastian genuinely confused. This earned him a burst of laughter and a pat on the back from dad.

"You are five! shouldn't you be talking about something else like clouds maybe and stop corrupting his mind dad?" I raffled sebs hair before grabbing my bag and walking towards the door when I heard two honks right on time.
"Bye guys," I said while opening the front door and walked towards the car.

"Any slower and we would be going backward in time," Danny said while I got in the passenger seat and put the seatbelt on.

I took a good look at him as he started the car, blonde hair with piercing blue eyes, was wearing a graphic white tee with blue jeans and converse, he is both academically and athletically skilled. A typical white boy all in all but when I looked at him I don't find my heart skipping a beat, He's like a cute fifteenth cousin who'd make you question whether you could kiss them but shuddering the moment the thought enters your brain.

He must have noticed me staring because the next thing I knew, he was freaking about how he should have gone with his white sneakers instead of the converse and how his stupid choices are the reason why jade and he aren't dating.

"You and jade aren't dating because she already has a boyfriend named Nick and not because of your 'stupid' decision to wear converse." It must be hard being in love with someone, who is in love with someone else and watching them be happy with each other.

"Em! We do not take that devil's name, We hate that son of a bitch" the mention of nick must've riled him up as he started driving way over the speed limit. I don't think he realized this until he saw my panicked face, Going over the speed limit takes me back to a place where I don't want to go again.

"Are you okay their ems? You look a little pale babe!"

"Danny stop the car!" I said in a very shaky tone, My ears had started ringing and my body was shivering.

"Fuck! I am So sorry em, I completely lost control for a second. Em just close your eyes and try to take deep breaths, I'll be careful this time around." He said resuming a slower pace until we arrived at school.

"You can open your eyes Em! Or not because I wish mine were sealed shut, Do they have to make out in the parking lot"
I slowly opened my eyes and saw Jade and Nick involved in a heated make-out session on the bonnet of his car with Jenna standing next to them waiting for the earth to swallow her.

Jade and Jenna Coleman are my favorite twins, my other best friends, my girlfriends, my ride-or-die bitches. Jade is a bit of a hothead with blonde hair and green eyes, she always speaks her mind, she's sassy and moody. Jenna, on the other hand, has brown eyes with her blonde hair and is very thoughtful, what to say and when to say it, half the time she's covering up jades crudeness and she loves to dance, She's classy and fun.

She beamed when she saw us and came over to give us a hug, Danny started coughing really loudly and this finally broke the two lovebirds apart. Jade was completely unaffected by the show they were just putting on but Nick looked rather dazed.

Nick Jackson is my close friend, jade boyfriend, Daniel's ex-best friend- had a major falling out over jade, he loves painting, swimming, and baking, he's the captain of the swim team and my Taco Bell partner.

"Can you believe it's our final year, the first day as seniors, huh?" nick tried to break the tension.

"Seems like any other day to me, especially with you both going at it like dogs in heat" Jenna pointed towards the couple, I chuckled.

"You could just have easily walked away to your boyfriend honey, oh wait you don't have one." very sweetly jade said, getting off the bonnet to hug us and then quickly intertwined her hands with nick again, Daniel rolled his eyes at this like her always does.

Jenna, Nick, and I had a history period whereas Danny and Jade had homeroom. Nick always walks jade to her classes so we split at the entrance, they walked towards Mr. Morris's homeroom class whereas Jenna and I headed towards the lockers to drop our books off.

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The rest of the day went by pretty uneventfully, it was my last class AP Calculus before lunch. This class was both my favorite and the least favorite class, favorite because it was maths and least favorite because it was the class right before lunch. When the bell rang I'm quick to gather my things but Mr. Scott asks me to hang back. I thought of all possible scenarios as though why was I asked to stay back I might flunked the pop quiz that happened last week but I was sure I aced it, did I forget an important assignment or did I do something wrong in class.

"Emily, could please tell Mr Tyler I want to speak to him. You both have the same class next" Mr Scott said without looking up from the papers he was grading. Really dude that's it here I thought I was getting expelled.

"Yes sir," said I as I walked out to grab James Tyler a senior like me. I'd seen him around since we pretty much went to the same middle school and high school but we had never really interacted. He and I ran in different circles so I knew it would be pretty awkward to just go up and start talking causally.

I was thinking about a good ice breaker when I realised I had reached the cafeteria, I saw my friends sitting in our usual spot I waved and started looking for him. I eventually spotted him at one of the corner spots with his friends, here goes nothing I thought and walked over.

"Hey James, Mr Scott wants to speak to you after the next period okay?" 

"is that what people are calling it these days