The Girl With a Guitar

2. First Day Back

My mum usually wakes me up if I sleep in, which I often do, and it's honestly the best thing to wake up to of a morning, unless of course, it's food or one of my friends, which was the case today.

"AUDREYYYYY" I heard Olivia screech from down the hallway of our fairly big house, stomping up to my room. "Oh god, here we go.."

Next second my door bursts open and I am suddenly being squashed by the thing I call my best friend, Olivia Hudsley, who has somehow broken into my house when my parents are at work to get me up for school, how thoughtful..

I groan and push her onto the floor and she lands with a thud. "...Ouch, so mean to me, Audrey" she says as she pouts at me.

"Oh come off it, you interrupted my sleep, you know I love my sleep! I'm not speaking to you now, Liv" I sit up and say, half joking and half not, and turn away from her, crossing my arms and ignoring her as she tries to get me out of bed, until suddenly I feel a sharp tug on my arm and next thing I know, I'm on the floor next to Olivia.

I check my phone to see the time - Half past five in the morning?? "LIV, YOU BROKE INTO MY HOUSE AT 5:30 AM?! ARE YOU NUTS? I'M GOING BACK TO BED, I DON'T NEED TO BE UP FOR ANOTHER HOUR AND A HALF AND I'M MAKING THE MOST OF IT!!!" I whisper-yell at her. She seems to be in deep thought for only a minute until she replies softly with "I didn't break in, your mum gave me a key last time I was here for some reason.. And if you're going back to bed, I'm joining you. Now scoot, Auds."

She always calls me Auds, and she's the only one that does. It used to be Aud because it sounds like "odd" which I am, but it's slowly turned to Auds. I think it's cute.

I move over so Olivia can join me in my ridiculously warm and comfortable bed and make sure I've got my alarm set for 7:00, then we doze off.

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I wake up with my bestie practically on top of me, and I roll her off a bit to check the time - 6:58, seriously? Why does the universe hate me todayy?

I thought I may as well get up now, so I cautiously crawl out of bed without waking the sleeping bundle of human in my bed so I can wake her up how she woke me up and jump on her.

After I'm up, I back out my door for a run-up and line myself up with where I want to land and launch myself at Olivia, making sure not to land directly on her and break her.
She wakes up and freaks out, flailing her arms and shrieking. She finally registers that it's just me and calms down. "Ha, guess I deserved that"
I stare at her and sure "Yes, you definitely did, now uppity up, I gotta get ready, and you should clean up your hair, it's a mess"

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We get ready for my first day back at school, and Liv's first day there. She just moved to my school from the only other highschool near us to escape the drama and get a fresh start. We walk to the bus stop and I decide to play some music.

I pull my phone out and go to spotify and shove my phone at Olivia, gesturing for her to choose something. She ends up going with a Shawn Mendes album and shoves my phone back at me, the same way I did to her. I can already tell this year is going to be chaotic with the two of us together.

We get up to the bus stop and wait for it to come, still listening to our music while randomly following each other in circles until we soon get dizzy.

Just a few minutes later, a particularly old looking bus rolls up, and we glance at each other because OUR bus isn't due for another 10 or so minutes and this driver looks like a druggy, and the bus is abandoned and smells like something died.