Prologue:
*Beep beep beep. Beep beep beep. Beep beep - click*
"... 6:30am...? Why must you torture me so?" You groan as you exit your hibernation-like sleep-coma.
It's Thursday, May 14th, 2015. It's 6:30am. You need to get up and get ready to meet your friend at school in just over an hour and a half.
*Buzz buzz. Buzz buzz*
The screen of your phone lights up next to your face. You reach over and grab the phone and hold it in front of your left eye.
"Sorry for telling you on such short notice, but I won't be at school today, so you don't need to come meet me super early like usual." Reads the text your lady friend just sent you.
"... Damn it..." You groan. Hell, you're already awake, you might as well get some morning shit done, seeing as you have plenty of extra time now.
You set your phone back down on your bed and push your blanket off of you and down to the end of your bed. A smile crosses your face as you feel a cool breeze pass over your body from the open window to your left. You slowly push your body up and sit on the edge of your bed, yawning and stretching.
Walking to the foot of your bed, you open your closet and take out a pair of black pants and a belt, a white tee-shirt, a pair of socks and some new underwear. You dress in silence as you enjoy the early morning ambiance. A few birds chirped in the distance, the clock in the hallway tick-tock's away and the sound of a few cars passing on the road on the other side of the wooded area behind your house is all you hear. If this isn't peace, then you don't know what is.
As you cross your bedroom, you turn around and head back to your bedside table to turn off your alarm clock. You don't want to wake your parents and siblings with it going off again.
Turning around once more, you exit your room.
Your sister's room is directly beside yours to the right, your parents down the hall, and your baby sister's room at the far end of the hall. Everyone's doors are shut, so you're a little less hesitant to make a bit of noise, since they won't be able to hear it.
Half way down the hall, you turn left into the bathroom to do your morning business.
*dribble dribble - plop - rip - flush*
Glancing up into the bathroom mirror as you wash your hands reveals the same person that you've seen all your life.
5'10", male, 16 years old, 125lbs, short brown hair, blue eyes, glasses, skinny yet relatively fit, kinda specky.
You take a few minutes to remove a few small blemishes and wash your face. Once you've dried off you hands and face, you return your glasses to their rightful place and head back to your room.
"Phone... Keys... Lip balm... Memory stick... Headphones..." You recite as you place all of your items in their respective pockets.
You turn as you hear another door open and footsteps going down the hall and into the bathroom.
"Most likely mom, she has to go to work."
After placing your binder and books into your backpack, you heft it onto your shoulder and head downstairs. Dodging the creaky stairs, you make it to the bottom with barely a noise. Turning to the right, you drop your bag at the kitchen entrance and proceed to pour a bowl of cereal, then carry it out of the kitchen and across to the dining room. You eat alone and quietly for a few minutes before you hear your mother coming down the stairs.
"Morning." You call out before another spoonful of cereal.
Your mother gives you a nod and proceeds to make some coffee before leaving to check her email on her laptop.
As you finish off your bowl, you meet your mother in the kitchen pouring coffee into a thermos. After placing your bowl in the sink, your mother turns to you.
"I'll be home late tonight, I have a few new clients I have to meet. I shouldn't be any later than 8, so you'll have to make your own dinner tonight." She tells you.
"That's fine, I'll tell the others." You reply.
"Alright, see you tonight," Your mother says as she gives you a hug. "Remember to take pictures on your trip."
Damn, you almost forgot about your trip. The science teachers at your school are taking all the students to the Science Center for the day. Normally, you wouldn't be too thrilled about this, but this time they're offering a special, more in depth tour of the advanced sections of the building, something you're really looking forward to.
"I will. I'll try and get them to blow something up for me." You say before your mother leaves for work.
The clock on the stove reads "7:20", you've only been up for a little under an hour, and you still have another full one before you have to leave for school. What should you do for the next hour? Homework? Go back to bed? Browse Reddit? Yeah, Reddit.
You plop yourself down on the couch before you pull out your phone and open the internet. Within five minutes, all your homepage links are purple and you haven't found anything even remotely entertaining. After browning r/new for an indefinite amount of time, you become vaguely aware of people around you, mainly your younger sister. She climbs onto the couch to sit with you as you turn on her cartoons. Your other sister is still upstairs, probably doing her makeup or something, you don't really care. Your brother grabs some cereal and heads back downstairs to his bedroom. After checking your phone's clock, you notice it's 8:05, almost time for you to leave.
"Yo Chrissy, you gotta walk Sam to school, I've got to leave early for my trip." You call upstairs.
"K." was your only response. She's as annoying in real life as she is in text.
Walking back to the kitchen, you heft your backpack back on and walk to the front door. After putting your shoes on, you tell Sam "if you need anything, go ask your sister." Sam nods in understanding and goes back to watching her cartoons.
You open the door and step outside to the beautiful spring air. The sun is shining brightly and there's not a cloud in the sky. You start off down the street towards your school and see a few other kids also walking, as well as some parents getting their children into their cars. Your get to the end of the street and continue across the road and up a small hill into a small open field area. From here, you can see your school building just past some trees on the far side of the field. As you walk, you stop to turn around and look out back towards you house and the city beyond it. The downtown is bustling with early morning traffic and the sun is reflecting off of almost every window. You love this city, but you'd do anything to be rid of it and the people here whom you hold a burning hatred for.
You return to your walk and soon arrive at the trees on the edge of the field. You take your normal path, noticing that you've practically made a rut all by yourself over the course of the last few years of taking the same route every day. After a few moments of walking through the trees, you come upon the back side your school. You quickly enter the doors just off to your side before making your way to the foyer where you'll be meeting your class and the rest of the science students.
"Yo, Allan! Hold up bud!" You hear from behind you.
"Where's the fire, man? Why are you in such a rush?" Your friend Alex asks.
"I'm going on that science trip today. We're going to the science center." You reply.
"Wow, fucking nerd. Why are they taking you guys there? What are you, 8?" Alex says.
"We get the advanced tour of the place. We get to go in more detail than most people ever do. They'll be doing experiments and showing us some stuff that'll probably make your tiny brain explode, so I won't go into much detail." You reply with a laugh.
"Whatever. Anyway, I guess I'll text you later then, peace." And with that, Alex walked off to go to his first period class.
As you enter the foyer, you see your teacher, Mrs. Lows, taking attendance and collecting permission slips and money. You answer as she calls your name, then you hand over your form and money, then walk back outside to the bus that will be accompanying you to your destination. As you step onto the bus, you see a few people you know, sporadically placed along the bus, but you prefer the front seat, so you spin around and drop your bag, then sit and pull out your phone and headphones. You crank your tunes just as the bus pulls out of the parking lot and off towards the Science Center, not knowing what awaits you in only a few short hours.