Cracks N The Fold

ch.2 curiosity killed the cat

If looks could kill right now my roommate Kaley and her husband John would be dead. It's eight in the morning on a Saturday and for some god forsaken reason they decided to blast rock music. I snatched my pillow and put it over my face intending to scream into it until I heard a knock at my door. My inner monologue screaming for whoever the intruder was to go the fuck away. I couldn't even really sleep last night because my mind was racing with thoughts and all of these things I needed to get done. Whoever said that anxiety is a silent killer I now understand why because she was slowly starting to ruin my beauty sleep and my life. I quietly pretend that I am still asleep and hear feet retreat back from my door and in to the kitchen. I sigh as it won't be long until they realize I faked sleeping, because now my bladder decided that it wanted to make its appearance known and is screaming at me to go and relieve myself. I yank back my covers and scowl at the sunlight that is currently blinding me as I make my way to the bathroom. As I sit on the toilet I ponder about how next week will be at work. Fortunately I started over holiday break but unfortunately for me all the college students who actually lived on campus unlike me were going back to school. Dwight explained to me that it would be a whole different dynamic once they were gone because without their help it would normally only be him, Ashley, and Emily. At least now they have me and the other work study student Alan although I personally think that he could care less about working at the Boys and Girls club. I think the pay is what intrigued him the most. I'm just glad that I was given this opportunity because not only will it look great on my transcript but it will be beneficial to my teaching career in the future. I flush the toilet and as I'm washing my hands I grimace at my resting bitch face yeah I'm definitely not a morning person but catch me with no sleep and you'd learn real quick that I'm not a night owl either more like in the gray area of both. I dry my hands and push my crazy thoughts to the back of my mind as I open my room door and head to the kitchen in search of food. I try to jab my headphones into my phone in hopes of being antisocial this morning but I'm not quick enough and Kaley starts to strike up a conversation with me. Asking me about work and telling me how grateful I should be to be starting a new job. It would be nice if she didn't throw it in my face I got fired from my old job at chipotle however that was not my fault I just had a manager that was way too invested in getting to know me but unfortunately she was either really naive or just persistent because she couldn't sense the little hints that I kept dropping in front of her face to leave me the hell alone. She was one of those married people that didn't give a damn and she wanted to have her cake and eat it too.
After awhile I tune out Kaley and her annoying questions and she finally gets the hint that I want to be left alone. I grab me a bowl, get me a spoon, some milk and my favorite cereal frosted flakes and head back into my room. One of the perks of being somewhat an adult at 20 with roommates that aren't your family is that you can sort of do whatever the hell you want. The only thing is I'm not close with my roommates at all so when holidays and birthdays role around it gets really weird and awkward so I try to avoid them like the plague. After indulging in some breakfast I decide that I'm going to binge watch the twilight movies and go back to sleep. After a refreshing weekend it's time to get back to classes and work. I jab my finger down on the snooze button for the seventh time and turn back over just for five more minutes I tell myself. I don't know who told me to pick classes that are at nine in the morning it doesn't seem bad when you think about it until you factor in the eight in the morning traffic rush as well as the intense battle for parking spots gotta love going to a community college. It's not all bad though it does have its perks the one that stood at the most to me was that it was cheaper and that meant while I figured out where I really wanted to go for university I could at least get my associates degree out of the way. As my phone blared an annoying tune I checked the time and saw that I had overslept I jump out of bed and quickly whisked through my clothes deciding on leggings, my work shirt, and some sneakers brushed my teeth grabbed my school bag, keys, and a banana and headed out of the door and to my truck. Neglecting to lock the front door when I left was a bad habit of mine but since we had ring I honestly didn't care. I hopped into my truck and sped off to class luckily Kaley worked at the other Wake Tech as a librarian so I had her pass in my car to park anywhere on campus so being late wasn't so bad after all. I park my car and was somewhat happy with how the day was starting until I was looking up at four flights of stairs and they were silently mocking me. I knew that my decision to not take the elevator was going to bite me in the ass but it always takes forever. As I force my legs to climb up the last step my body is screaming internally and I mentally remind myself that I really need to work out more as I quietly make my way into my spanish two class. My teacher looks up and mentally scolds me for being late I want to flip her the bird but I decide against it and sit down. Spanish was honestly one of those classes I had to take for my degree if not I would've gladly taken something more appealing. As time agonizingly ticks by I zone out until I see everyone start to pack up and as I'm darting out the door I hear my teacher remind us that there's a Blackboard quiz tonight I mentally roll my eyes. Why couldn't I have picked a cool teacher because Mrs.Lovett just loved to assign loads of homework for no reason like you didn't have other classes and a life and it was starting to get really annoying. At least I only had her class for today I book it for the elevator not wanting to deal with the stairs again. As I hear the ding signaling it's arrival I step inside and press floor one and as I reach floor one I ascend our of the elevator and I head to my truck. I get settled in my truck and decide to drive to starbucks I had four hours until I had to be at work so I decided that I would get some homework done for my online classes and then hangout at starbucks until it was time to head to work at two o'clock.