Beep Beep Beep

I wake up to the sound of my alarm clock. I open my eyes slowly, feeling tired because I stayed up late talking with Josh, Rex, Adriana, and Lexi, they're my friends and we haven't gotten a chance to properly talk to each other during the summer. I get up and look around, my room is a little messy, next to my bed, I have my desk with my computer and a few other decorative things on it, again, mainly superhero thing. I still had a few posters from a few years ago hanged up over my wall, mostly of comic books, along with the posters I also have a mirror next to my desk. At a corner I had a bookshelf with a few books, Harry Potter, Percy Jackson, Lord of the Rings, and a few other books, and on the opposite corner I have my closet, it contains most of my clothes that are scattered around my room.

My room was lacking some decoration, but I liked it, I had enough room to do activities in here, like my friends could come over and we could play a board game, or maybe we could just play around in here. If I wanted to I could just lay in bed for a few more minutes, maybe an hour but the summer was about to end 2 weeks, there was no time to lose, I still had a few things I wanted to do before the end of summer, like try to visit a new place in New York, I've been wanting to go to the Empire State Building with my friends but we haven't gotten a chance, I also wanted to go see a movie, preferably a superhero movie, Avengers Endgame was coming out in a while, and, I really want to meet the superheroes of our city.

A few weeks ago they announced they would do their annual, Meet The Hero Contest they always do, it was going to be held today. I already saved my friends and me a spot for a chance to meet Blitz and Potato Man, all we had to do was wait and see if our tickets were drawed. The contest starts at 10:15 am and my friends and me had to get there as fast as we could, I had to meet up with my friends and get there, the problem was that it was a few miles away and we couldn't drive yet and we didn't want to bother our parents with taking us so we decided to go there via subway, we already got the money for the subway fare. It would be a short ride, only about 10 to 15 minutes of waiting, but in the meanwhile we plan on catching up.

We haven't had a chance to hang out, we only called each other and texted each other, we also did a few video calls but that was it, we were all very busy this summer, Josh just came back from Germany, Rex was at a summer camp for most of the summer, Lexi was visiting her family outside of New York City, Amanda had been busy volunteering in many different places, and I had to do a program my mom wanted me to do, it was to prepare me for collage, which was in a few years.

All those thought swarmed my mind in the few seconds that I've been awake. I look at my alarm clock and see that its 7:32 am, i'm up in time. I got up, ready to go visit my friends in the first time in months. I start walking towards the bathroom, I slowly passed my parents room and eventually passed my brothers room. I enter the bathroom, turn on the water, take of my pajamas and I get ready to take a fast shower. I start thinking of things we could do if we don't get to see Blitz and Potato Man, we could do a few things I wanted to do, we could go to the Empire State Building or we could go adventuring through New York, we could do a lot of things.

As I finished taking a bath I go get a towel, I get the clothes I took of and put them in the laundry basket and walk towards my room, I pass my brothers room which still seemed as if he was asleep, then I passed my parents room and saw that they have awoken. I open my door to my room and I change into some clothes that I really like, my blue jeans, a light blue T-Shirt, and my dark blue shoes. I look in a mirror, my usual happy self seemed to have become more tired, my black hair is messy as it is before I apply hair gel on it and it also is wet because of me taking a bath, my brown eyes look tired and the brownish skin near them is slightly darker for staying up late with my friends for the last few days, and I did seem to look a little tired and eager at the same time which I didn't think would be a good combination for a day like today.

I went downstairs toward the kitchen, I could see my mom was awake and cooking something which smelled like pancakes, eggs, and bacon. Before I went to the kitchen though, I decided to go see if my brother was up. When I got to Joey's bedroom, I saw that was asleep. Like my room, it was kind of messy, it had a desk that had some funko pops of video games, a closet that was nearly overfilled, a few posters of some of his favorite games, and his bed that was usually neatly made, was messy.

After looking around Joey's room, I looked at my brother, he was still pretty young compared to me, I was 4 years older than him, Im 14, he is 10, his curly dark brown hair looked messier than his room, his eyes, like mine and everyone in my family, was brown, and his light brown skin wasn't dark near his eyes which meant he has gone to sleep early for the last few days, unlike myself.

I had wanted to invite Joey to come with us a few days ago but he already had plans to visit his friends. For Joey, it was his last chance to meet his friends and see them before he went to a different middle school than them and would rather see them one last time than go with my friends and me, which was ok with me and my friends.

I walked out of his room and closed the door and continued to go to the kitchen. As I got closer I looked at my phone, 8:13, good time, we were going to meet up around 9:00 at the subway. I got to the kitchen, there were 3 plates in the table, each one had 2 pancakes, an egg, and bacon. My mom was working on the 4th plate for my brother, my dad was eating his pancake and taking small sips of his coffee.

I go and sit next to my dad. I see that he is reading the frontpage about Blitz and Potato Head. It says something about them saving the city so many times that they are going to add a monument to show their gratitude, it said it is done and has to be transferred to the Central Park. I start eating my food, adding some syrup, butter, and some jelly into my pancakes. My family is usually quiet while we eat unless something bad happened or someone brought home good news.

"Jesse, your Dad and I have to go somewhere for a few days, Mrs. Reyes will come over and make sure your okay after school and before you go to sleep, while she isn't here can you take care of your brother?," asked my Mom.

"Yeah, I can take care of him but where are you going again, I forgot," I replied. I had forgotten, I wasn't paying too much attention to my mom because I got the first text from the group chat.

"We're going to go visit your aunt in Texas, she is getting married with someone in a week and wants us to help her with some decorations but wants an adult only wedding, I think mainly because of Aunt Loris, she has 5 children who are all under 11 years old and are troublemakers."

"Oh yeah, well can you tell her I said hello and to have a good wedding"

"Ok, I'll tell her."

After a minute or two I finished eating my food, I got up and got the backpack I had prepared with a few things we might need, some water, portable chargers, hats, some food, and a few other things.

"Jesse, were going to go to the grocery store to buy enough food for you and Joey, enough for 3 weeks incase were late," said my Dad.

"Ok, when will Joey's friends come over to pick him up?," I asked.

"They'll be here soon," my mom glances at her clock and continues, "in roughly 23 minutes."

"Ok,"

I put on my backpack, I say goodbye to my mom and dad and leave. Then I went to walk towards Rex's house because it was the closest to most of our houses other than Lexi's, she would probably be a few minutes late.

I look at the houses in my neighborhood as I leave the house, the house to the right of mine was Mr. and , it was a cool house, they had a son that was 5 years old called Dollan, he was nice but quiet. Dollan also had a brother that went missing a few years ago, about 4 or 5 years ago, when Dollan was only a few months old. To the left of our house is the house of Mr. and Mrs. Robbins, they have an 8 year old daughter thats named I continue walking and I greet the neighbors I know.

I walk a few more streets down the road and I see Rex's house in the distance with Rex, Josh and Adriana waiting for me, with of course, Lexi running a little late.