Extraordinarily Ordinary

Meeting my distraction

I stood in front of the mirror and stared at my reflection. What I saw was a happy girl ready for her first day of senior year. What I felt, was entirely different. I couldn't help but recall the last thing my mother had said to me before she passed away.

"Beth, I need you to do me a favor. I need you to be the woman I could never be. Be strong, and work hard. Get into a good college and live a life where you don't have to struggle to put a meal in front of your family every night. I want you to believe that anything is possible, no matter how hard life gets. And please, be nice to your brother. I love you so much my darling. Never forget that."

I looked back at my face in the mirror and saw a tear roll down my cheek. I quickly wiped it off and ran downstairs to the kitchen.

"Took you long enough. There's toast and cereal sitting on the table for you," Noah said while he made his coffee.

"Any words of wisdom for my first day?" I asked as I stuffed toast in my mouth.

"If you have Miss Whitman for English then bring earphones. She's practically blind and her lectures drag on forever," he answered.

"I got to leave now, and don't forget to lock the front door when you leave. Have fun!" He called and then left. From the window, I saw his tousled black hair and his bloodshot eyes. He looked like something from the Walking Dead. As soon as his car pulled out of the driveway, Evelyn's pulled in. Katrina sat in the seat beside her. She reached over and honked the horn as loud as possible. Just to stop her from continuing I ran out the door with my stuff and locked it behind me.

"How do you like it? It's my mom's old car but it's better then riding the bus, right?" Evelyn asked while I sat in the backseat. Immediately I felt some kind of spring poking my ass. I tried moving to different areas of the seat but all of them had springs coming jutting out. Evelyn started speeding to school while I looked around for a seatbelt.

"Yeah, I love it," I lied.

"So, are you ready?" Katrina turned and asked me.

"Sure, I guess," I said absentmindedly while still looking for my belt.

"You know what I'm ready for? Love! I'm so sick of always seeing you and Shaun connected at the hip everywhere we go. It's more annoying then you'd think," Evelyn teased Katrina.

"Oh and Bethany, if you're looking for the seatbelt you aren't going to find it. It broke and I couldn't afford to fix it," Evelyn said as she focused on the road.

"Of course there's no seatbelt. Why am I even surprised?" They both laughed at my comment and then started to talk with each other. For the rest of the ride they talked about their plans for senior year while I listened. I was to preoccupied to join their conversation. In my mind I was going over my game plan for the year. Study, get good grades, join plenty of extracurricular activities, apply for scholarships to get into an Ivy League college, and there must be zero distractions. Should've been easy enough, I didn't really have a social life outside Katrina and Evelyn.

"We're here!" Katrina exclaimed. As we got out of the car, Julia and her 'followers' walked up to us. Her pink lace skirt ended just below her ass and her tight-fitted black crop top showed off her tan figure way too much. Her hair was piled into a messy, high bun and she wore giant hoops that made her ears sag. I guess someone's going for a prostitute look this year, I thought to myself.

"I absolutely love your car Evie. Where did you get it?" Julia said sarcastically.

"Because my daddy got me a brand new porche from one of the best dealers in the states," she bragged as she pointed to her car. My eyes followed her hand to a gorgeous, shiny, red porche. I almost died a little inside when I saw it. I had to pry my gaze away because I wasn't going to let her get that kind of satisfaction.