Ebony Erickson woke up like every other morning. Her alarm clock was buzzing and she could hear Rosa, the house keeper, calling her name. It was Monday, the first day of school, and part of her hoped it was the last first day.
"Rosa I'm up." Ebony mumbled as she crawled out of her messy bed. The red paint made her room feel darker than it really was, she stumbled a little reaching for the light switch. Her red locker style desk was covered with her new school clothes. She could hardly see her floor because she had refused to put anything away and her Vans Off The Wall poster was starting to fall off her wall by the door. Her wall filled with skateboards was the only things in her room that actually looked okay. She starched her head as she looked around at the clothes on the floor, there was no need to make today any different. She glanced at the clothes her mother bought before reaching for a pair of worn and torn jeans, and a white tank top that was hanging on the back of her desk chair. She pulled her braids out of a ponytail and then walked over to the skateboards. She looked at them, and then took her favorite one off of the hinges it was sitting on. The board was red and black, her two favourite colours, and her name was sketched into the bottom, and barely visible. She tossed her things toward her door and tried to jump over her piles of clothes to get to the bathroom.
When she was done in the bathroom she headed down to the kitchen dressed and ready for the day.
"Good morning dear." Hazel, Ebony's mother, greeted her.
"I thought I asked you to take her school shopping?" David, her step father said looking at her, but talking to Hazel.
"You did, and she bought a lot of outfits. But this is what I picked, don't tell me you don't like it?" Ebony mumbled rolling her eyes. "Rosa can I have an apple?"
"Yes. I just put fresh ones out." Rosa said as she flipped a slice of French toast.
"Since I don't have my license back yet, I suppose this is how I'm getting to school." Ebony said taking one of the apples and looking it over. She looked over at her skateboard, sitting by the kitchen door.
"Ebony you need to go put on different pants." David said looking at his PDA and not even glancing up at her. "You will not be giving this family a bad name."
"Oh what, like I'm the only one in this family seen in the public eye? I'm gonna be late." Ebony said as she headed towards the door. "You should just be happy I'm not flashing my goods at everyone." She yelled before running out of the house. She knew that she would be in trouble for that later, but it didn't matter to her at the moment.
Jay Lynnwood stepped out of the shower smiling. He had been up for hours because of early morning football practice, and now he was almost ready. As he looked around his room he nodded, everything was where it was suppose to be. 'Perfect way to start off a perfect year,' he thought to himself as he walked over to his dresser and opened the top drawer. He took out the top shirt and put it on, it was a dark green shirt her had never worn before. His mother had done most of his school shopping and had put everything away for him. Next he went to his closet where everything was in its place, organized by color and type. He chose a white and green stripped button up shirt to wear over his T-shirt. Once he had on his dark blue jeans he picked up his dirty clothes and put them in the basket in the corner of his room. He sat down in his bamboo chair and put on his new school shoes. He couldn't leave his room without making this bed. His blue sheets matched his bed spread and just about everything else throughout his room.
Jay smiled as he headed downstairs. Sure he had been going to football practice for weeks now, but nothing felt as good as the first day of school. He could feel the excitement in his stomach. As he rounded the corner at the bottom of the stairs he ran into his little brother Ved.
"Someone's in a hurry this morning." Ved said looking at his older brother. Him and Jay had nothing in common, other than their DNA and looks. Jay was a good boy, and Ved had problems with authority.
"It's the first day of my last year in high school, I don't want to be late." Jay said passing him.
"Wow." Ved said leaving the house with his skateboard under his arm.
Jay made his way into the kitchen. "Morning mom." Jay said kissing her cheek. "Where's dad?"
"He had a meeting early." Lillian Lynwood said smiling at her son. "Have some pancakes."
"I ate after practice this morning. I need to get to school, don't want to be late." Jay told her. "I'll just take an apple." Jay said before leaving the room. He smiled as he made his way to his jeep, that he had washed and waxed the day before. There was nothing that was going to ruin his senior year.
Mackenzie Erickson could feel someone shaking her. She rolled over and put her hands up to block the sun. She opened to her eyes to see her dad standing over her smiling.
"Damn dad." Mackenzie whined. "5 more hours."
"Hurry up. Ebony isn't driving and your sisters already left." Mr. Erickson said walking out of his daughter's room. It was tradition for him to wake up his daughter on the first day of school.
"Yeah, yeah." Mackenzie said rolling over and falling out of bed. She hit the floor with a thud. It didn't seem to hurt to bad because of the pile of blankets she had kicked off in the middle of the night. She stood up and looked at herself in the mirror. Her hair was a mess like always and her clothes were wrinkled. She pulled on a pair jeans, the same pair her had kicked off the night before and couldn't help but turn around and make sure her butt was some what visible. Her blue t-shirt was thin and snug. She scratched her head and stepped into her shoes. As she walked out her door her grabbed her skate board and headed for the stairs. She started to yawn as she made it to the bottom of the stairs, her eyes scrunched shut and mouth wide mouth. Here mouth shut quickly and her eyes popped up when she hit the closed front door of her house. She backed away a little confused and rubbing her head where it has made contact with the glass.
"It may help if you open it first." Her brother Blake said coming down the stairs behind her.
"Yeah I figured that one out, but thanks." Mackenzie said before opening the door and walking down her drive way. When she came to the street she put her board down and rode the rest of the way to school.
Ram Haley sat in his kitchen alone. His house was empty. He looked at the cereal in front of him. It didn't look as good as it did on the box. He pushed the bowl away from him. The cleaning lady would take care of it, she was the only adult he could count on to show up. He looked out his window just in time to see Jay and Mega coming up his driveway. He ran through his empty house and out the door to meet his friends.
"Parents still not home?" Mega asked when Ram got into the back of Jay's jeep.
"Nope." Ram said sitting in the middle and putting his arms up. His parents had taken a trip to Europe for the summer or until they felt like coming back.
"You ready for the new year?" Jay asked.
"Hell yeah. I'm going to get some from one of the Erickson sister's this year. But not the white one she bites." Ram said looking down at his figure.
"What is it with you and that group of losers?" Mega said.
Jay just rolled his eyes as he turned the corner to the school. He slammed on his brakes when he saw the girl in the middle of the road. He had almost hit girl on a skate board with blue in her hair. He watched as a boy came running out to her.
"Watch where you're going." Mega yelled at them.
"Have a little respect for women." The boy with long back hair yelled back.
Jay couldn't help put laugh as he drove past them and into the parking lot.