Save My Soul

Chapter 1 ~ WERE LATE?!?!?!

"God Dammit!" I yell in anger as I watch the clock on my black watch strike 12.

Why can't I just wake up on time!!!
30 minutes earlier... (Sponge Bob voice encouraged)

"Holy crap" I croaked out in my deeply sleepy state of mind.

"What time is it?" I question, seriously confused from my deep sleep.

I slowly open my eyes up to the bright like coming in through the curtains, hitting me straight in the face from how I'm laying on the couch. Why is everything upside down? Oh, wait, no I'm upside down. And my mouth tastes discussing. Cheese puffs, garlic knots, and... sour skittles. Gross.

"Fuck we fell asleep playing DnD last night" I come to the realization, seeing the DnD board and pieces all over the floor. I look over my shoulder and see Lo passed out on the chair, halfway off about to fall onto the 5 pizza boxes on the floor below him.

After I'm pretty much conscious, I start to get up and then look over at the clock on the stove.

"Shit!" I yell in shock. It's 11:30, both mine and Lo's classes start at 12! We cannot be late to classes, there is always too much work, and I personally cannot afford to not know what the hell is going on in class. Lo doesn't have this problem since he's... well the smartest person on this goddam planet. But he can't be late again it'll screw over his attendance.

"Lo wake up! We're late!" I scream at my coma sleep-induced friend. Just like I thought he's too deep in his sleep phasing to notice I screamed at him.

You know what, fuck it, I go run into my room to get changed into some more school appropriate clothing, rather than a pizza sauce stained shirt and Deadpool pajama pants.

After I'm changed into a new blue t-shirt and some nice black fitted sweats, I race into the bathroom to grab my toothbrush and toothpaste.

Oh fuck, Lo! As I'm simultaneously brushing my teeth and getting on one shoe, I run back out to Lo.

As I spit out my toothpaste in the kitchen sink, I grab the toaster.

"Wake up, you dirt rat!" I yell while throwing the toaster at Lo's legs, making him fall off the chair onto last night's pizza boxes and wake up in a panic.

"Ahh!" He yelps in shock from the force of the toaster and the hard floor hitting his face.

"We’re late! Classes start in 20 minutes!" I panic trying to find my other shoes in the mess of all the trash we created last night from a thorough game of DnD.

"WHAT!?!" He screams completely caught off guard at how little time we have left to get to class in time.

As I finally find my shoe under the couch cushion, (wait how did that get there??) Lo races past me to get his own shit together.

After I'm finally ready to go, he comes back into the small living room to get his own shoes on.

"Did you eat anything this morning?" He askes me wondering since we were both in such a hurry to get ready.

"Nope, not in the slightest" I reply regretting not eating anything since we won't be able to stop for any tea or begals, since we only have 10 minutes to get to campus and into our classes.

"Here, I'll grab something" He sighs thinking about what we have that we can grab to eat.

"Ah-ha! Granola bars." He realizes, using his telekinesis to grab 2 of them out of the cupboard.

Okay, let me explain. Lo, and I are different ... we aren't human. He's from the planet Lopania which hasn’t been discovered yet but its in the boomerang nebula, and I'm from Venus. He has superpowers, yes, and as do I. One of his happens to be telekinesis at its finest.

I look down at my watch to check how much time we have left. Fuck! 8 minutes.

"Were gonna have to haul ass." Or were absolutely fucked.

"Super style?" Lo asks holding out his fist.

"Super style," I smirk, fist-bumping Lo, ready to do this thing.

We live about 5 minutes away from campus, which leaves us about 3 minutes to get into the building to our 201 Physics class.

We race down the stairs of our apartment complex, out the entrance door, ready to take the quick back way.

We run and run and run until we get to the construction zone right in the way to campus.

"Let's do this Ace" Lo smirks ready to parkour the shit of this construction zone with me.

We start to run up this tall ramp, jumping, rolling onto the building being worked on.

Jumping down to some metal bars, to swing off of, rolling onto the ground level of this building.

Running and running, finally getting onto campus.

2 minutes.

"Run! Run!" I pant running faster than humanly possible with Lo on my tail.
Running into the building, up the stairs to the 3rd floor.

1 minute.

This is it we're not gonna make it.
Running down the hallway at our much more tired pace than before, we finally get to the end of the other side of the hallway the classroom is on.

"Goddammit" I yell as I catch my watch strikeing 12, just as Lo races in front of me to grab the door in time.

Lo practically rips the door open, in such an adrenalin filled state, running into the classroom, both of  us almost slipping as we try to stop ourselves from running anymore.

"What the?" Lo says so confusedly as to why the hell there aren't any people in the damn classroom.

"Fuck." I finish Lo's sentence, just as confused as him. Why isn't there anyone in the class, its 12:03 now the lecture should have started by now?

"Ace what day is it?" Lo asks me, his brain working very hard to figure out the date.

"Monday," I reply 100 percent certain that it's Monday and no other day.

"You dense ass motherfucker! It's Sunday, not Monday." signing in defeat at my pure stupidity.

"But - But, I swear it's Monday," I say utterly confused. It's Monday, it has to be why else would the mail have not arrived yesterday?

*Ding*

I grab my phone out of my backpack, while Lo gets his out of his jacket breast pocket.

"Huh that's weird, we both got a  - " I stop speaking as I open up the email I'm certain that Lo got as well.

"You have got to be fucking kidding me" Lo shouts, angry at our teacher for sending us an email so late about the class being canceled since she's sick with a cold.

"I don't even care anymore," I say defeated and only thinking about one thing. Food.

"Tea and Bagels?" I ask Lo in defeated just hungry as hell and tired from running all the way here.

"Only if they have hot cocoa," He says.
"Deal," I say striking a deal with him. Hot cocoa does sound good...

Authors notes

I'd like to say thank you to anyone who has read this first chapter.

Me and my best friend put this together. Pretty much 50/50.

I'm very excited to share it with the world, and hope you enjoy it.

I cannot wait for future chapters.

- Grace