Lucky Stars & Air Guitars #TeenFictionAnotherYearShortStory

Part 2- Lucky Stars

I'm jolted awake by a blaring buzz. I sit up, as Mer's face shots through my mind. Oh, my God! Did that really happen?! My eyes jolt around to see that my alarm clock is the source. What the hell? The dull sun shines through my curtains. I'm in my bed. It's morning. Holy crap! I must have hit my head so hard that I passed out and slept all night.

My hand raises to grope my face as I search for the damage. Oddly, I can't feel any bump or bruise, and it doesn't even hurt. I scramble to the mirror and analyze my reflection only to confirm that I, in fact, am injury-free. My hands move from my head down to my hair. What? Why does my hair look so short? Just then, another buzzing fills my bedroom—this time, it's my phone.

An anxious spark runs through my chest at the possibility. Maybe it's Kai wondering if I'm okay! Maybe he cares after all! I run to my phone, with hands shaking in anticipation. It's just a text from Mom. My heart drops a little as I slump down on my bed.

Had to leave early. Good luck on your first day!

First day of what? I scratch my head and run my fingers back down along my suddenly short hair. Seriously, what the hell happened to my hair? I've been growing it out all year. I decide to head downstairs and begin my long day of eating ice-cream and crying on the couch. I don't know why Mom would need to wish me luck for that.

I get to the kitchen and begin to rummage around inside the freezer for my secret stash of frozen Thin Mints. I could have sworn we bought like five boxes and put them in the freezer. As I continue to rummage around, a voice I haven't heard in a long time echo through the kitchen.

"Hey queen, You ready?!"

I jump up, slamming the freezer door to find Mer standing in my kitchen in all her eccentric outfit and everything.

"What are you doing here?" I ask, my nose wrinkling up at my former best friend and last person I want to see right now.

"What am I doing here? Are you high? And without me? How rude!" Mer says as she begins to pluck through the snack basket on the counter.

I run over and swat her hand away. "Look, I don't know why you're here, but I don't need your sympathy!"

Mer raises her hand to feel my forehead. "Seriously, are you okay?" She says, before moving her rummaging into the fridge, "Freaking Fred ate the last Chobani-Flip today. You know I can't live without my flip!" She continues as I stand, anger seething inside.

Fred? Her mom broke up with him like in October?

"YASS," she yells, pulling a find from the fridge. "Hurry up! Go freaking change, or we're gonna be late. I'm all for skipping but not on the first day."

"First day of what?!"

"Of senior year, Dum-Dum!"

"Very funny," I say, rolling my eyes.

"Look," she says, opening her phone to our "shared calendar," "First day of school! How could you forget?!"

What?! How hard did I hit my head? It couldn't have been that hard, right? There's no way this is real life right now. I'm dreaming. I need to wake up.

"Slap me!" I demand, smacking the spoonful of yogurt out of her hand.

"Is this Senior Year Shay?" Mer laughs, her eyebrow ring bouncing with every chuckle. "I mean, I kind of like her."

"I'm serious, slap me!" I just need something to wake me up.

Mer raises her eyebrows at me and stares as an interested smile creeps onto her face.

I don't have time to explain who, what, or why. So, I grab her hand and slap it hard as I can across my face.

I stammer back, I sure as shit felt that, and I'm sure as shit still here.

"Okay?" She says, shocked. "Feel better? Ready to go change so we can leave?"

I run up the stairs, leaving Mer sitting at the counter. I get to my bedroom and grab my phone, opening it to scroll through my texts. All from Mer and none from Kai. How? Next, I open my photos and scroll through only to discover that the last pic is of Mer's dog Ringo, dated August 12. OH MY GOD! All at once, it hits me, my short hair, the text, and Mer in my damn kitchen—I don't know how and I don't know why, BUT somehow when I fell at graduation, I went back in time.

As I see it, I have two options: freak out over what I can't change OR make things right. Here's my chance to win Kai back to fix everything that went wrong—starting from the beginning. I don't know what freaking lucky star I wished on for this to happen, but I'm not going to waste my chance. I'm going to get that extra day, extra minute, and extra second with Kai after all.

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