Mine

five

•Joanna•

I woke up the next morning by my annoying alarm clock. School today. ugh.
I stand up from my bed and hear my mom walk in. "Goodmorning!" She said.

"Hi," I replied. I'm not exactly a morning person.

"Someone's moody." My mother roles her eyes playfully. "No I'm not Lauren." I tease and she laughs.

"I just feel like sishsnsb." I whine. "you feel like sishsnsb? You should get that check Joanna." She laughed.

"Good morning beauties." My dad interrupts. "Damn. Why are you guys in such a good mood?" I ask.

"Why are you in a bad one?" My father challenged. I squinted my eyes at him. "Bring it Alexander." I laugh.

He walks over to me in an "intimidating" way and pulls me off my feet and throws me on my bed. I burst out laughing and stop till my stomach aches. "Alright I don't mean to be rude but I need to shower and get ready." I dismiss my parents.

"Of course," My father grins and head out the door. I sigh and walk towards my closet. "No,No,no,Nooo." I repeat while looking through my closet.

I finally settle on a maroon red tank top and ripped light washed skinny jeans with my white converse.

I hop in the shower and let my muscles relax under the hot water. I shampoo my hair and wash my body. After, I am finished I get out and get dressed. I decide to pull my hair up in a ponytail since it's a hot day today. I pull on a light cardigan. I have tons of them but I chose white this time.

I pull my book bag over my shoulder and head downstairs. The smell of pancakes fills my nostrils when I step on the first floor of the house.

I'm still getting used to all of it and it's kind of difficult but I manage to get through it. "Thanks," I tell my parents and plop a pancake on my plate.

I reach for the syrup and drizzle some on the warm pancake. "Can you hand me a knife?" I ask my father. "Sure." He says ,his mouth full.

He hands me a knife and I cut my pancake into small pieces. I grab my fork and shove multiple pieces into my mouth.Once I am finished I say goodbye to my parents and meet Hayes outside.

"Hey" I tighten my grip on my backpack straps. "Hey," He says and reaches into his backpack. "I got you something."

He pulls out a minty colored journal. "Hayes!" I immediately jump into his arms. "Thank you! You do know you didn't have to do this."

"I know but I can't help seeing you upset." He says into my neck and sends shivers down my whole body. I pull away and grab the minty journal. "Thank you," I repeat. "Jo, stop thanking me!" He laughed.

I nod and flip through the pages of the journal. They're blank and I can't help but inhale the smell of books. "I thought maybe we can fill it in together? I mean if you want..Because it's your journal. I..Sorry." He sighs and bites his lip, his arm connects to the back of his neck and he looks down.

I giggle. "I would love that."
"Really?" His blue eyes light up. "Yeah, besides you're my only friend here," I point out. "And probably the only one I'll have." I look down at my converse.

"I'm pretty sure you'll have more friends. I mean look at you, you're perfect." Red rises into his cheeks and he apologizes quickly. "Sorry, I didn't mean it...I mean I did mean it but erm I don't-" He sighs in defeat. "Nevermind."

"You really think I'm perfect?" I look at him. He studies me for a sec and then answers my question. "Well yeah, You're perfect. You're smile, you're laugh, the way your cheeks turn a light pink when you laugh or say something embarrassing, you're voice, you're body, you're sense of humor, you're personality, you're cutness. Everything about you Joanna." He says and brushes his hand across my cheek.

I know they're not a light pink, they're more like a scarlet. I gulp and look right into his eyes. They're are a shade of blue I've never really seen before.

"Sorry." He stammers. "Uh it's ok?" My tone comes out more like a question than an answer. "We should get going." He says and takes out his car keys. I nod and walk towards the black Nissan Altima.

I open the car door and step in. "Sorry I didn't open it." He says. "You need to stop apologizing." I tease. He rolls his eyes and chuckles. He turns the radio up and some music blasts through the speakers. "You should listen to boy bands." I smile.

"Maybe," He smirks. "Wait really?" I ask him. "Yeah, why not?" I can't tell if he's joking or serious but he soon helps me realize he was serious. "I bet you have a One Direction cd in there." He motions towards my book bag. I burst out laughing. "I do!" I gasp. "I was kidding!" He exclaims.

"Welp." I say pulling FOUR out of my bag. "Oh my fucking god! I regret this." He shakes his head. "Oops look like you ran out of time."

I look out the window and notice a fairly large school. I pick at my nails and look at him. "I'm scared." I blurt. "It's ok Matt, Mahogany and I are in all your classes." Hayes calms me down. "If I'm not in the class Matt will and if he's not there than Mahogany will be there."

"I'm not so sure about this Mahogany girl." I admit. "Mahogany? Don't worry about her she's great." Hayes assures me.

We get out of the car and walk towards the building. When I walk in I quickly feel intimidated. This school is huge and the people here so much cooler than me, even though I'm a senior.

"Hayes!" I hear a voice. I turn around to see a girl with very curly brown hair coming towards us. Matt was with her too. Must be Mahogany, yay.

She jumped on Hayes and he held them both so they wouldn't fall. I couldn't help but feel a bit jealous even though I've known Hayes for about two days.
She let go and turned her attention towards me.

"Hey I'm Mahogany Lox."

I gave her a small smile, "I'm Joanna"
She smiled and nodded. "Hey," Matt said. "Hi," I reply and give him a small wave. "Mahogany will show you your locker, it's right next to hers." Hayes explains.

"Okay," I say glad Mahogany isn't a total bitch. "Um, you wanna go now? Since first period is in a couple minutes." She asks. I nod, "Yeah."

"Bye guys." I turn. "Byee." Mahogany waves but doesn't turn back.
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I suck at ending chapters and I suck at writing too lol xoxo - Valerie :)