In Eyes

Chapter Three

        I woke up and noticed it was 7:30 in the morning. I was supposed to be up twenty minutes ago! I got out of bed and raced downstairs to the kitchen. I made some hot chocolate and gargled it down. I ate some toast with nutella and went back upstairs. I walked past Jerry's room and saw him still sleeping.

"Wake up, stupid!", I yell in his ear.

        Startled, he jumped and rolled off the end of his bed.

"What the hell! What time is it?", was the first thing he said.

"It's 7:45 and you need to get your lazy ass up so you can drive me to school.", I say.

"Bitch, can't you see I need sleep? God!", he said. 

        I stomped out of his room and slammed the door. I walked into my room and turned the light on. I closed the door and heated up the flat iron tat was on my table with my mirror and makup on a little pink glass plate. As I waited for it to heat up, I went ahead and decided to get dressed. I looked for my pink jeans and grey shirt and the checkered scarf that I told Mitch I would wear today. I sat down at the table and put my mascara on. As I was putting the mascara back down on the table, a scorching hot wave went through my hand. I looked down and realized that I had set my hand down on the straightener! I quickly moved it and assumed that it was hot enough. I took a small strand of my hair and straightened it. I continued to do that throughout my whole head and looked at the time. It was 8:15, meaning that I had to be school in five minutes! I ran into Jerry's room and saw that he was still on the floor, sound asleep. 

"Wake up, bastard!, I yelled in his ear. "I need to be at school in five minutes! You better get me there in time or there's hell to pay!"

"What do you mean by that?", he asked.

"You think you can just go to clubs and stuff when everyone's asleep and think no one can hear you?"

"Where did you come up with that shit?", he said. 

"You think I can't hear you talking to your friends about it on the phone? Because I have it all recorded on my phone!", I said as I took out my phone and played the recording. 

"Don't show that to mom and dad!", he begged.

"Should've decided to wake up earlier!", I argued. 

"Get your ass in the car! I'll be there in a sec.", he finally said.

        I got into his car and saw that he had some beer bottles on the ground. I picked them up and put them in the backseat. I saw him coming outside, forgetting to lock the door. He opened the door, got in the car, and slammed the door shut. He didn't even put his seatbelt on! 

"That's really dangerous!", I tell him.

"What the hell do you care? At least I got out of bed and took you to school. I could've made you walk.", which is very true. so I just kept my mouth shut the rest of the way there.

        When I got to school, I walked to my locker. I was putting my combination in, and was reaching for my stuff to put into it, but realized a little piece of construction paper that had my name in it just lying on top of my history textbook. I reached into my locker and picked it up to read it.

                        Hey Winter, like the season! How are you doing? I hope you're doing well. I want to know if you want to go to a movie with me tonight. We can go see The Hunger Games at 5pm. If you're up for it, then you can ride home with me when school gets out. Hope you can come!! -Mitch

        As I read it, my hearted saying thump, thump, thump the whole way through. The guy who I have liked since school started, is asking me out. But why me? I'm too ugly to go out with him. I'm ugly, who would want to go out with someone like me?  Anyway. I don't have any plans for later. I guess I'll go. I'll find him at lunch and let him know.

        I was on my way to science class and this girl with short brown hair and chocolate brown eyes walked up to me. 

"Hi.", she said.

"Umm..hi?", I said back.

"Aren't you Winter?", she asked me.

"Yes.", I said.

"Oh. Hi. Im Jessica. But you can call me Jess."

"Well hi, Jess.", I said.

"I've seen you around. You're pretty cool. I like your dark brown hair. It's so wavy and curly.". she said.

"Well, thanks...I guess.", I said.

"You're eyes are pretty too. They're almost like my friend, Stewart's eyes. The perfect shade of electric blue.", she said.

"That's cool. Mayne I could meet him someday.", I said.

"Maybe, but he and my friend Ashley are a couple.", she exclaimed.

"Okay, tell me about your other friends."

"Well, there's my best friend, Lexi. She's blonde and blue-eyed. She is really funny.", she said. "And then there's Cameron. He also has blonde hair and blue eyes."

        I was starting to think that she had a lot of friends with blue eyes.

"Then there's Stewart as I mentioned before. And my best guy friend of all, Justin. He has dirty blonde hair and blue-green eyes.", she said.

"Well, you have a lot of blue-eyed friends!", I said. 

"I guess.", then she walked away. She was kinda weird. 

        I continued going to science class. I noticed on the door, there was a sign that said

No class today. Go to the gym.

        So I headed there. I walked through the doors of the gym and saw an emply seat on the bleachers that I could sit, and noticed that it was beside Mitch. This would be the perfect time to tell him that I could go to the movie with him later. I was really excited to go. I could tell that he was too.  I walked up the bleachers and sat next to him.

"Saving this seat for me?", I asked.

"Yeah. Did you get my note?"

"Yeah. It's really sweet of you to ask.", I said.

"So are you coming", he asked with a really obvious feeling that I was going to say yes.

"Sure! It'll be fun.", I said.

"Great"

"Yep!",  I said.

        I continued with my day and couldn't wait for tonight.