10-25-19

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I wake up, the air is mysteriously warm, even though its October. I look down at the date on my arm, 10-25-19. Today's the day. I get up,brush my teeth,wash my face, and stop and stare at my reflection. I look at my hair, dead. I wish I would've been more prepared for this day but recently I haven't had any motivation to look good. I stare at my makeup case. "Most of this is expired" I think to myself. I decided that since I am meeting my soulmate today, I should try to look semi decent. I walk out of my room into the dark and dusty mess of a house my aunt and uncle raised me and my sisters in to try and find some makeup that isn't expired. I carefully walk through the house trying not to step on rodents are roaches that are on the floor. This house is truly disgusting. Ever since my parents left my sisters and I, we've had to live in this shithole with our crackhead aunt and uncle. I never complain though. We could be in foster care. I turn the rusty knob on my younger sisters room door and stealthily sneak past her bed over to her vanity. I grab her makeup case and make my way back to the bathroom. I tie my hair into a low ponytail and begin to look through the pink and purple makeup bag. I manage to find the basics of what I need to look presentable and thankfully none of the things were expired. I finish my makeup and walk back into the room i share with my older sister. My older sister is who I aspire to be like. Besides the fact that she's 19 and still lives here with us. She could easily get a sports scholarship for softball at any college she wants, but she chooses to stay with us and make sure me and my younger sister are okay. She works three jobs to help even out the fact that my aunt or uncle doesn't work and my other sister is too young. I would help out but I don't have enough money to get a license and I basically have no friends that would drive me to work everyday. My sisters never home to drive me so I basically spend my life at home and school. I turn the lights on and it flickers. "Shit" I mumble to myself the light flickers for another 10 second or so and then completely burns out I go into the kitchen to try and find any lightbulbs but all I see in the kitchen is piles or dirty dishes and an overflowing trash can. I walk back into my room and pick up my phone. I turn my phone on and shine the light into my closet. I stare a hole into my clothes. I've basically had the same wardrobe since I was 14. I'm debating on trying to wear something out of my comfort zone but that never really goes well for me. I grab a t-shirt I've worn millions of times and some ripped jeans. I grabbed my worn out bookbag and make my way outside to start my stressful walk to school. As I'm walking to school I take my earbuds out my jean pocket and put them in my ears. Music has always been important to me. It calms me down. When I arrive at school I take my earbuds out and shove them in my bag with my phone. I walk into school and go straight to the cafeteria for breakfast. I never get food at home unless my sisters brings it home. Other than that i'm pretty on my own for food. I walk into the cafeteria and grab a milk and some graham crackers. I never said the breakfast was good. At the table I sat at was my two friends. Rayne and Emett. Raynes your typical good highschool girl, pretty, athletic,an honor student. Me and Emett still aren't sure why she hangs out with us but she nice and a pretty cool person so we let her stay. Now Emett's your typical edgy teenage boy who doesn't give a shit about what anyone thinks. I love Emett with his carefree attitude. He's been my best friend since I moved here when I was five years old. For the longest time I thought we was my soulmate but we have different dates. "So, have you met them yet?" Rayne says as soon as I sit in the chair. "It's 7:15 I basically just woke up" I say laughing a little bit "I know, but love has no time" she says smiling. Rayne is the type of girl to be all mushy when it comes to love. Me on the other hand, I hate mushy love. I find it absolutely disgusting. I just wanna be chill around the person I love not all cutesy. "Whatever" I say The loud school bell rings and I quickly say goodbye to my friends and begin speed walking to my locker. "Hey" I hear an unfamiliar voice behind me. I turn around and see a girl, she's pretty short compared to me but taller than some of the other girls around us. She has long wavy brown hair and blue eyes. She's absolutely gorgeous. I stared at her for a second, not knowing what to say. "Um could you help me find my locker?" She asks "oh yeah of course, sorry. I'm Mya" I say reaching my hand out. Why did I do that? I looked stupid being so formal. The girl grabs my hand and shakes it "Im Lara" Not to be dramatic but my heart melted. Lara is such a beautiful name. There was a short silence between us but it wasn't awkward it felt natural. "Soooo" she said breaking up the silence. "Oh yeah, your locker im sorry" I said awkwardly. She chuckled and walked with me to her locker. "Thanks Mya, I hope to see you around." she says with a smile. She has such a perfect smile. "No problem, you too" I manage to get out. The whole rest of the day I couldn't stop thinking about her. Maybe she was my soulmate. As soon as the dismissal bell rings I speed walk my way to Lara's locker to maybe get to see what her date is. Sadly when I make it to her locker she's not there. I walk out into the front of the school to start my walk home and all of a sudden I saw her. Her beautiful long hair now tied up into a messy bun. I watch her as she walked to her car, she has an old looking blue SUV with a little solar powered skeleton on the window sill. I couldn't help but notice how she had her sleeves rolled up. II looked a little closer to see what her date says. I squint my eyes a little and make out the numbers twelve and seven. I felt my heart sink a little. I went along with my walk with music blaring in my ears. I was barely paying attention to anything when I felt a tap on my shoulder. I took my headphones out and looked behind me. I saw a guy that looked about my age. He had brown fluffy looking hair and was kinda tall but not too much taller than I was. He looked a little out of breath. "Hey, sorry, I was just driving home from school and I looked out the window and saw a notebook on the ground and you walking and im not-" he said "sorry, um is this yours?" he said nervously. "Yea, thanks." I say taking the notebook from him. "You're welcome, I'm Grayson by the way" he says fidgeting with his class ring. "Im Mya, you go to Arcadia high school?" "Yeah its my last year there,oh you probably know that." he says holding his ring up. "Yeah, well thanks." I say walking away. As I was walking away I looked back at him as he was getting in his car. I focused on his arm and read the numbers 10-25-19