The world on that day seemed so distant. I can't quite put my finger on what exactly it was but it was different, and yet in total honesty, still the same.

The clouds looked…well like clouds but there was an edge to them that made them look unrealistic, which is stupid because there are real. Like actually really real, I mean you can't touch them but you know that they're there.

Ugh, you're soo messed up...

Its like if an artist had painted them on that day; people wouldn't buy the painting because they look so unrealistic. You know?

Your talking about clouds...?

Anyway, what I'm trying to say is…the day began weird and it ended…well even weirder.

I was walking as usual, on my own, to Physics. I wasn't particularly thrilled anyway seeing as my physics teacher simply cannot teach and uses me as the scapegoat for anything that goes wrong. Which is almost never my fault!

It's all like 'Ashley, was it you who set the class frog on fire?' or 'Ashley, give me that scalpel, you've completely wrecked my car!'

I mean c'mon, it only happened once! Get over it!

You may be thinking, simple, quit or ditch. Well believe me I've tried.

Yep, every trick in the book, no matter what it cost me. Just to have that lesson gone, over, kaput, etc. I mean, it's even the reason why I walk alone to and from class alone everyday.

I'm a troublemaker.

Must. Not. Laugh. *explodes with laughter*

It's not like I don't have any friends, my best friend Aiden has stuck by me through all the crap I've been through over the last…what…15 years! And yeah, life was just fine around school until he got into some fights with some farm boy who moved here a couple of months ago. To cut a long story short, they both got permanently expelled. Which sucks. A lot.

Aiden? Oh, he's that amazingly hot guy that's always phoning you? Right?

And now, I'm on my own. Of course, Aiden visits the house a couple of times a week, or we go out and stuff. That's the thing about Aide, everyone else around can say bad stuff about me and tell him as much 'shes no good for you' crap as they want. But he'll always back me up. He's just cool like that. I mean, he was even great when I came out to my folks. I mean, they pretty much didn't care to be honest. I'm sure if I told them I wanted to be a hobo and sleep outside East District Mall they wouldn't care. To wrapped up in each of their suburban love affairs.

You've got a point there Ash.

Anyway, so just a quarter of the way through physics, just before I had the chance to make any trouble, I was called out by my dumb ass physics teacher and sent to the principal's office. If it was any other lesson I would've complained like hell, but hey anything is better than listening to the man who makes the entire universe and existence sound more boring than a black and white movie about grass, with subtitles. Even if it is to go and have 'a talk' with a woman who has to look you up on a computer screen, just to remember your name. Even though you've seen her at least twice a week for the last five years.

I took my time walking to the principal's office. I wasn't going to risk the talk running short and then having to go back to that bleak torture.

I stopped at her office and was about to grab the handle and walk in when I was interrupted by the P.A. Expecting that I was about to be told to knock as it is 'only polite' I gave the lady a warning look that can only be described as 'evils'.

' No dear, you don't need to see the principal today'. The lady smiled sweetly. I immediately felt bad for giving the lady such a harsh look before and continued in a sickeningly polite way to compensate.

' Sorry, but I thought the principal wished to see me'. I nearly choked as the words came pouring out of my mouth like candy.

' No dear, you mother called and asked for you to go home immediately.' The lady continued to smile. ' And so it looks like you've got the day off'.

' My mother called?' I said, more to myself than to the lady. Before I could focus anymore on my mother and the reasons why she could possibly want me to come home the words 'day off' caught my attention and pushed me out the principals reception, down the halls and towards the student car park.

The drive home came like a breeze. The words freedom, day off and no physics echoed around my mind like the most wonderful piece of music.

There was no car parked in the drive when I pulled up towards my semi-castle home. It wasn't really a semi-castle. When Aiden and I were small we used to play princesses and dragons, and my house was always the castle. Ever since then, the name has kinda stuck; I guess it's pretty cute really.

I began to think that Aiden had somehow managed to imitate my mother and had phoned the school to get me out of physics. The thought disappeared immediately when the blinds of my room flickered and a girl with brown curly hair peeked out and then disappeared suddenly. What was some random girl doing in MY room!

I parked my car hurriedly, all the time furious with my mother for inviting such a monster into the house. I mean who the hell does she think she is intruding into my personal space!

I ran up the steps to the front door and let myself in with my personalised L.W key. ( Oh yeah btw, L.W FTW!)

' Hello' I shouted furiously.

I ran around the building, flinging ever door open, desperate to find the girl.

'Where the hell are you? I demand you to come out!'

She wasn't anywhere else in the house so she must be in my room. I crept upstairs silently.

I opened my bedroom door to find the girl. She was exactly my height. Her eyes echoed the same hazel as mine. And she had the same curly, brown hair that swept past our shoulders.

' Hi, I'm Alex'...