Have u ever been trapped in your mind at 2:30 in the morning, just staring at your ceiling. Thoughts filling your head as you analyze every single thing that has ever happened in your life. No? Okay. Well, this happens to me almost every single night that I have to wake up at 6 am for school. I'm a senior in high school and school isn't quite my thing. I tend to slack on my schoolwork and my attendance. I was known for skipping the most last year. I missed a total of 74 days and had 23 tardies. The school board had to have a meeting to discuss whether or not I would pass junior year or not. My mom was always on my ass to commit to school but I personally couldn't. It didn't interest me and still doesn't. I can't miss more than three days senior year or else I don't graduate. I finally shut my eyes around 4:00 am and threw myself out of bed as my alarm startled me. I rushed to get dressed and searched in my dark room for my backpack. I found it under a pile of dirty clothes that I haven't washed in a week. It reeked of my dirty clothes so I dumped my books onto my unorganized bed and picked them up. I ran downstairs and hugged my mom goodbye.
"I love you, Mom" I exclaimed as I slammed the door behind me. I walked down the cracked sidewalk. It was about a 20-minute walk from my house to school. My mom couldn't afford the gas to take me to school every morning and kids made fun of my house whenever I took the bus, so I just decided to walk. I walked up to the school and sighed, it never changes. People always talk bad about others, people are separated into certain groups, and some people here are just plain out assholes. Jordan Russell for example, he's the quarterback for our football team. He's popular and gets all of the girl's attention. It's not like I'm jealous. It makes me angry that he actually uses girls. If I met a girl I would never take advantage of her. He just treats people like complete trash and gets away with it just because he's a jock. In the corner of my eye, I see Jordan jogging towards me he slaps the books out of my arm onto the ground and laughs hysterically.
"That's what dorks like you deserve anyway." he chuckled as he ran towards a group of his football buddies. I bent down and picked up my books I realized a freshly manicured hand wrapped around my English book I gazed up and it was a girl I never saw before. The sight of her left me speechless. She had long black hair with very thin lips, and her eyes were as blue as the ocean. She probably thought I was some kind of creep the way I was staring at her. I stood up quickly and reached my hand out hoping to shake hers.
"Hi, I'm Jerimiah. Thank you." she smiled and whispered, "Hey, it's nice to meet you I'm Mariah and it's no problem, he's a dick anyway."
Damn, I like her already. She followed me into school and I went towards my locker and finally was able to get rid of these books they were really beginning to become a burden. The bell rang and I ran to my first period. I was late and my English teacher Mrs. Curry ordered me detention after school. I was pissed. As I walked to my seat I saw the girl Mariah that I met this morning I waved and we exchanged smiles. I kind of felt happiness, nobody has ever been that kind to me like she was this morning.
Idk if this is too long for a chapter, sorry
Hope this is an okay story just started writing again.
-B
