Torn

In the beginning there was light

Kristina's POV

*Alarm clock goes off*

My name is Kristina, I was raised by my grandmother her name is Sheila but everyone calls her grammy she took me and my brother in when I was a baby because my mother had Cardiomyopathy; a disease that weakens the heart and most often results in heart failure and she died while giving birth to me. My grandmother told me that our father was no good and that my mother rebeled against her during her high school years and ended up pregnant again then my dad ran off afraid to take any kind of responsibility for his actions. My grandmother loved us as if we were her own, and wanted to make sure we had a chance in life so she moved us out of Newark, New Jersey to Baltimore, Maryland why she would pick a place like here I'm not sure everyday someone gets shot and people get robbed none the less she gave us everything we could have ever wanted and all she asked for was that we go to school, get good grades, and do the right things in life and I like to believe that I have. I've always been the best of the best when it came to school, I graduated with a 4.0 gpa and had my pick of any college in the end I decided to go to Johns Hopkins University I believe that its the best school in the state because I of course want to be a docotor, I'm thinking a pediatrician or an emergency room doctor.

I finally look up from my day dreams to see that its already 7:30am "Shit, I'm gonna be late!" I get up and run past my brother who was just about to go in the bathroom but I beat him to it and slammed the door behind me and locked the door. "Aye ! I know you saw me about to go in there hurry up I need to get ready too!" I hear him shouting through the door but I need to hurry up or else I'll be late for class. I hurry up and jump in the shower and wash up brushing my teeth while I'm in there and jumping right back out sitting my toothbrush back in the cup and wrapped the towel around me then ran back into my room to get dressed. "Thank God I wear scrubs to school, if I had to find something decent to wear I would be fucked I havent done laundry in almost a month" I say to myself as I look around the room and see all my clothes scattered around, I hope grammy doesnt walk in my room she'd be pissed she always likes to see the house spotless and honestly I think it makes the house look unlived in. I finished getting dressed pulling my long curly black hair into a messy bun not even bothering to look in the mirror, grabbed my books and ran down the steps where I was greeted by my grandmother cooking breakfast in the kitchen. "You're gonna be late child, I dont even see the need in you bothering to set an alarm you late all the time anyways" I smile at her kissing her on the cheek grabbing a piece of toast and bacon off of a plate then took a sip of the orange juice she had sitting next to it then started to walk out yelling behind me "Yeah Yeah ! I love you too grammy and Good Morning!" I walked out the house locking it behind me and Unlocked the doors to my car throwing my books in the passanger seat and drove off to school. "I just might make it after all."