The girl of the sunsets

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Song: Heartbeat - The Fray                                                                                                                                              If you want love - NF

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I hear a melody in the background of my dream and think that it's a little bit annoying, but I don't think more about it. Suddenly my brain wakes me up abruptly and I hear that the annoying music playing on my dream was my alarm. I look at the screen with my eyes almost closed and see it's 3am. I silent it and get out of bed before my blankets trap me there. I open the window to air the room and go to the bathroom to wash my face with cold water to start my day. I look in the mirror with my face freshly cleaned and think I still look horrible, so I quickly switch off the lights of the bathroom and take my already prepared outfit from the chair and start to get dressed.

I've always been a person who gets dressed before they have breakfasts on school days and important days because I'd rather want to go without having eaten anything than in my pajamas.

My outfit is very comfortable because we're flying for more or less seven hours plus all the time inverted inside the airport, so when travelling I always choose some black sweatpants with a tank top and a white hoodie with my air force 1s, in white, of course.

I don't take long getting dressed, so I rush into the bathroom and brush my blonde hair. Yesterday night I had a shower before going to bed, so now my hair is very soft and clean and I love how it feels. Luckily I don't need to spend much time doing my hair every day because it's almost straight. When I'm finished I get out of the bathroom, cross my room and go downstairs to the kitchen.

When I open the door I find mom and dad having a cup of coffee. This is something unusual because dad tends to wake up late rather than early. I take one cup from the cupboard and open the fridge to pour some milk. "Dad, how is it possible for you to be here having breakfast with mom this early?" I ask opening the fridge to take the milk. I pour some and then put it back.

"Very funny, Emery" he says sarcastically with a very fake smile.

Mom looks at me over the edge of her cup that's sipping coffee from and winks at me. "But she has a point"

He looks at both of us and then frowns playfully. "What's this, girls against me? You're always on the same side to beat me. I've got Auden, but he's not here right now so it's not fair for you two to go against me" he says standing up and placing his used cup in the sink. "And Emery, you betrayed me. A few years ago you were in my team, but now I don't know what teenage is doing to you but you choose your mom over me all the time"

That's true, but I guess it's because I have more things in common with mom than with dad at the moment. When you're a teenager you want someone to ask questions about things you find interesting or things you don't understand, like how does this fucked up world work, or how to handle your first love, and in my case I prefer to ask those things to mom rather than to dad. It's not because I don't trust him, but because I find mom closer to me, as if she is going to understand me more than him because she's a woman like me. But I could perfectly ask him any question.

"I guess I just prefer mom's advice most of the time because you have some crazy advice" I tell him. He doesn't answer and goes upstairs into his room, to get dressed I guess. I finish my coffee and put it in the sink too. Mom does the same as me and then I go into Auden's room and wake him up.

He doesn't even hesitate to wake up and within two minutes he's downstairs having breakfast with mom. I don't know how he manages to be a morning person, because I swear I try to be, but I'm not able to wake up with a good mood at 7:00 am for example.