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"Ally wake up honey." My mom said while opening my curtains, the sun light shining bright. I groaned and turned over, covering myself with my blanket.
"Mom can I just miss today. I'm so tired." I whined.
"No, it's the first day of school. Don't forget junior year is very important. Now get ready, breakfast will be ready in a few minutes." My mom replied before walking out. I sighed loudly and sat up, rubbing my eyes.
I stretched, and then got up, heading to the bathroom to shower. After that, I walked up to my mirror to look at myself when I heard a truck pull up. Must be the new neighbors.
When I walked downstairs, I heard my parents arguing, and when I wondered about what.
"What's going on?" I asked while walking in, and grabbing a glass to pour milk in. My mom sighed, setting my breakfast down while my dad ran his hand through his hair.
"Nothing honey. Your mom, and I were just talking about money issues but-" I cut my dad off.
"Why what happened? Is everything okay?" I asked, starting to get worried.
"Your dad lost his job." My mom replied. My dad sighed.
"What? How?" I asked.
"We got a new boss, and well he fired almost everyone but everything will be okay." My dad assured me. My mom nodded.
"Yes don't worry Ally, you just worry about school okay?" She said, forcing a smile. I slowly nodded, not fully convinced but tried to let it go.
"Trish is here so I'm gonna head out! Thanks for the breakfast, love you guys!" I said while quickly hugging my parents.
"Love you honey, have a nice day!" They replied. I closed the door, and walked up to my best friend.
"Guess who's totally not ready for school?" My best friend whined. I laughed.
"It's junior year Trish! We're finally almost the big kids! You know what that means?" I replied, smiling.
"We get to prank the freshman's on freshman Friday?"
"What? No! We finally get to go to college in 2 years!"
"Ugh, don't remind me. I don't even know what college I want to go to yet."
"You'll figure it out." She nodded, and we began to walk. "What am I going to do about my parents? Maybe I should get a job?" I texted her what happened while eating breakfast because I'm that stressed out.
"Maybe. Just don't worry too much Als, your parents will figure it out." She replied.
"Yeah but-" I was interrupted when I bumped into someone, sending me to the floor.
"Ow.." I said while rubbing my knee. The guy that bumped into me picked up his phone.
"Great, it's cracked. How about you watch where you're going."
"How about you watch your attitude." Trish snapped back.
"Yeah, whatever." He began to walk away. I got up, and glanced where he was walking off to.
"What a jerk." Trish said next to me. I got up, and brushed the dirt off my jeans.
"Let's just get to school." I replied, both of us walking off.
"Good morning class and welcome back. This is going to be a great year!" My English teacher Ms Sanders smiled. The glass just groaned while I stared at Trish excited.
"This year is going to be so great!" I cheered.
"This year is going to be so not great."
"C'mon Trish! Turn that frown upside down!" Our other friend Dez said smiling, grabbing her lips and putting a smile on her face. She gave him a scary look, and he quickly took his hands away. "Never mind." I laughed.
I don't know why I'm so excited. I guess it's because we're finally going off to college in two years, which is a whole new chapter in life.
"Okay class before we start I'd like to introduce you guys to our new student. What was your name again?"
I heard a familiar sigh. When I looked up, my mouth dropped open. "Austin." He replied, his tone dry.
"Isn't he the guy-"
"Yup." Trish replied.
"Dang he looks like the bad boy type." Dez said.
"What makes you say that?" I asked him.
"Well he's wearing the leather jacket, the black jeans, the black, and white converse, the white shirt, the backpack hanging on his shoulder, the-"
"Okay Dez we get it." Trish interrupted him. "Anyway, he's a total jerk, he pushed Ally while we were walking to school."
"Well he didn't necessarily push me, he actually bumped into me.." I said shyly.
"Ally! Why are you defending him!" She replied, surprised.
"Ooh! Ally's got a crush!" Dez sang.
"Shut up Dez." Trish, and I said at the same time. He frowned.
"No I don't! I just feel like we don't know him well enough to judge him based off an accident." I tried explaining myself.
"Ally's got a-" I put my hand over Dez's mouth, rolling my eyes.
"Whatever you say Ally. Just don't go trying to be friends with him."
"Yeah or you'll end up falling in love with him." Dez said. I took my hand away, and gave him a look.
"Never gonna happen."
"Ugh this has been the longest week ever." Trish said.
"It's Monday, the week barely started." I laughed. We walked up to our lockers, and packed our stuff. When we walked out we met up with Dez, and we all began walking home.
"What do you guys wanna do later?" He asked.
"I'm going to go meet the boys family I'm going to be babysitting starting next Friday." I said.
"Wow you already got a job?" Trish asked. I nodded.
"Yup. Throughout school I went online on this babysitting page, and saw a family needed a babysitter, and well, here I am." I shrugged.
"Nice! Just try not to get fired like Trish does with every job she gets." Dez said.
"It's not my fault all my bosses keep telling me what to do." Trish defended herself.
"Um, that's their job." I told her. She just shrugged, and I laughed. "Oh and guess what? Turns out they're my new neighbors that live right next door! That makes the job even easier!"
"That's great Alls!" Trish said.
"Yeah, I just wanna help my parents. They've been arguing a lot lately, and I don't know..a part of me feels like they're acting different towards each other."
"Different bad, or different good?" Dez asked, his hand on his chin.
"If they're arguing, what makes you think it's a different good?" Trish asked, looking up at him with a look.
"Oh yeah. Different bad right?" We just shook our heads.
"Ally don't worry, parents fight all the time. You helping them with the money will help them a lot! But also make sure to concentrate in school too." Trish told me, Dez nodding too. I smiled at them. Man I'm really thankful I'm going to be graduating with my two best friends in the future.
"Well Ally it was great meeting you! I can't wait for you to start next Friday!" I smiled.
"Thank you so much for giving me the job Mr." I said, shaking his hand. "I won't let you down." I added. He smiled, and nodded.
"Why don't I introduce you to my son." He said, and I nodded. "Alex, come down please!" I then heard footsteps coming down the stairs, and Alex came up to us.
"Hi I'm Ally." I said, sticking my hand out. He shook it.
"I'm Alex." He replied. His dad put his hand on his shoulder.
"Ally will be picking you up after school, and stay with you until 7 when I get home after work, okay buddy?" He told him. Alex nodded.
"Alright dad but I still don't why I need a babysitter."
"You're 12 years old."
"You said it, 12! A pre teen. Almost a teen!"
"You said it, almost." His dad replied. He rolled his eyes, and I laughed. "Well thanks again Alison, and we'll see you next Friday!" I nodded, and picked up my book bag.
"Thanks again, and you can call me Ally." I smiled. He nodded.
"Bye Ally." Alex waved at me, and I waved back before closing the door.
"Bye Alex." I replied, and walked out when I saw Austin sitting leaning on his car in front of the house, smoking a cigarette.
"What are you doing here? Did you follow me?" I asked, confused.
"Don't be an idiot shorts-"
"My name is Ally." I said getting annoyed.
"Whatever." He rolled his eyes. "And to answer your question, I live around here." I stayed quiet, and cringed on the inside. Why would I think he followed me. "What are you doing here?"
"I came to look for a job and-" I cut myself off when I saw him pull out a cigarette, and take a hit. "What are you doing?"
"Why do you care?"
"I don't mean to sound judgmental or anything, but you're giving your money away to a cooperation that doesn't care about you."
"And why would I care?"
"Do you know how many people get cancer because of them? Do you want to be the next victim?"
"I really don't give a shit." Austin replied, throwing the cigarette on the floor, and stepping on it to put it out. "You do realize that no one points a gun to their head or threatens them to buy them? That goes for other varies drugs, and alcohol. They make the choice to spend their money on them, including me." He glared at me. I looked down. I don't why I care so much, I just don't want him to keep smoking those cancer sticks. When I looked up to say something he was gone and I frowned. What was that about.
Is he always this mad? To be honest I wouldn't mind getting to know Austin better. Yeah I've heard around school that he's a bad boy that got expelled from his other school for some reason, but I don't know why there's this part of me that wants to get to know him better.
When I finally reached my door, and walked in, I heard my parents arguing in the kitchen. I started to eavesdrop.
"Lester are you cheating on me?" I heard my mom ask. My beard skipped a beat. Why would she say that?
"No honey I swear I'm not."
"Why did I get a text from an unknown number saying to stay away from you or else."
"A coworker from my job likes me, but she knows I'm married!"
"Just tell me the truth Lester." My moms voice cracked. Tears formed in my eyes. My dad can't be cheating on my mom. She's done nothing but always be there for him, take care of him, and love him.
"I swear you're the only women I love.."
"Okay. I believe you."
I quickly wiped the tears from my eyes, and started to head to my room, when I heard my mom call my name.
"Ally is that you?"
"Um, yeah mom I just got home. If you guys need me, I'll be in my room."
"Ally-" My dad calles me, but I quickly closed the door, and laid down on my bed. I don't know what's happening with my parents, but I will find out. I just hope my dad was telling the truth.
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