Well hello there! Here I am, writing a new fic even when I have one still In-progress. This is my first time writing something AU so excuse me if it is a little bit crappy.
I just finished my final exams, so now I've got some extra time with the label "Writing" on it. When I started writing this chapter it was 10:00 PM and when I finish it, it was 2:00 in the morning, so yeah, that's why this one is waaaaay longer that anything that I've written before :D
Again, English isn't my first language, so I'm sorry for the bad grammar.
By the way, for all the followers of "Rose 'The Raccoon' Tyler" don't you worry! I'm going to publish a new chapter in a few days!
Disclaimer: I don't own Doctor Who :c
"Hmm, did I ever tell you that you look delicious? No? Well, you're, now come here."
*be..p-b..e..p b..p-b..e..p*
"No! Don't go!"
*BEEP-BEEP BEEP-BEEP*
She woke up with a jolt to the loud beeping sound.
It was her alarm.
"Ughhhhhh… Just when I was about to eat it."
She was dreaming of a huge pancake with berries and topping cream. A clear evidence that she hadn't eaten dinner the day before. She was going to put her head on her pillow once more to try to get in her dream again when something clicked in her mind; a quick glance to the clock in her bedside table confirming her fears.
6:30 AM
28/January/2014
She got up as fast as her tangled legs could, running to her bathroom and turning on the hot water, taking what could be barely called a shower, trying to untangle her messy blonde hair while conditioning it with the hope that that would saved her some time.
It was already late, so as soon as she exited her bath, she went directly to her wardrobe praying with all her heart that some decent clothes where magically in the front so she wouldn't have to take a dive within the confines of her closet that, in this moment, looked like The Twilight Zone.
By miracle or maybe by mere luck, a pair of jeans and a blue polo shirt were hanging in the front so with a quick manoeuvre, she got some plain blue underwear from the drawer next to her and started changing, hurting herself in the process but given the hour -6:40- she didn't even care, grabbing the bag that was perfectly set on the floor with her laptop and some notebooks from the previous day, she sprinted downstairs straight to the kitchen almost screaming a quick 'good morning' so she wouldn't have to say it to her parents and her little brother, because that would take her at least 3 minutes more, and at that point, every second counted.
Running in the kitchen like a mad girl she started to prepare her daily dose of caffeine and an absolutely quick breakfast which consisted in a toast (that she stole from her dad) with some strawberry jam. Even though food was always her number one priority she didn't want to run to school… again, so a sacrifice must be done and food was the weakest link.
Putting as much food as her mouth allowed her to and passing it all with a big and loud sip of coffee, she eyed the big clock on the wall with the funny vegetables hanging to each number from 1 to 12.
-6:48-.
With a strangled scream she said 'goodbye' to all her family and ran all the way down the street like her life depended on it so she would catch her bus which always arrived at 7:00, she was very late considering that walking from her house in the top of the road 'till the bus stop usually took her 15 minutes.
Oh, she was so screwed.
Running with all her force she reached the bus stop, glancing to her phone she saw the hour.
-6:58-,
"Oh my God! THANK YOU! " She screamed at thin air.
The bus arrived to the usual hour and she got in. Glancing to the driver seat she spotted Elton Pope who had become a familiar face with the years.
"Hello!" she said breathlessly but still with her characteristic cheeriness.
"Wow girl, remember to breathe okay? Late again?" he said. It was kind of usual for her being late in her way to school, and since Elton was almost an everyday driver she knew her quite well.
"Yup!" she agreed with her tongue-touched smile as she walked to what now was known as her spot; it was right in the back where it was always empty. She was almost alone in the bus, as always they were just two or three people besides herself. It was very early to the people who didn't work or studied.
"Lucky them." She thought.
As she sat down and the bus started moving she saw how the streets started to awake, how people emerged from their houses and how shops and their workers got ready for yet another busy day.
The bus came to a stop as they reached the school, by that point she was the only one inside the bus.
"See ya Elton! Have a good day! Greet Ursula from me, would you?"
"Yeah, sure thing kid. Have a nice day you too."
Getting off the bus she saw the hour in her phone.
-7:27-
"Oh dammit!" she muttered as she ran down through the campus cursing her legs for not being quick enough. She had three minutes to reach her classroom and if she was late again the principal would kill her.
Pushing everyone as she tried to make it on time she finally got the handle of the door of her first class and entered it five seconds before the bell rang. Panting she walked to her seat and dropped her bag, wincing once she heard the loud thud that her laptop make when it touched the table.
She sat down and closed her eyes trying to catch her breath. All seemed to be quiet and peaceful until the sound of footsteps getting closer pulled her out of her trance.
"Hello there missy!" greeted a familiar voice that she could recognize even with her eyes closed.
"Hi Shareen, Hi Jack" They were like the three musketeers, so if Shareen was there, Jack would be there too.
"Late again doll?" Even though Jack always called her 'doll' or 'love' he wasn't more than her best friend. They had known each other since they were kids and they had grown up together, so she was 100% sure that Jack wasn't the slightest interested in her or in either Shareen for that matter who had joined her little duet in elementary school.
Jack Harkness batted for both teams, everyone in the school knew about it and nobody really cared, everyone loved him and his charming and flirting attitude, almost every girl (and a few boys) of the school were drooling after him.
Shareen Costello on her side, was one of the most popular girls in the school, she was a little bit taller than her, brunette and with lovely brown matching eyes, she loved to go to every party that anyone of the fellas did, dragging her two best friends with her even when neither of them were invited.
"Yeah, you know me too well Jacko" she said.
The door opened and their literature teacher, Miss Sarah-Jane Smith, entered the room and everyone gave her a warm welcome. All loved Sarah-Jane and she loved each one of her students.
After 6 hours of classes and clubs, everything related to school was finally over for the day, so she was having a looooong walk 'till home thinking in the important events of the day, which hadn't been more important than a change in the menu of the cafeteria.
"At least the tuna Tuesday's are finally over." She said to herself with a sigh.
She reached her house and knocked on the door because she had, obviously, forgot her keys. After a few seconds of silence had passed she knocked louder. Annoyance and impatience took over her as she knocked even louder hoping that someone would just open the god damned door. Nothing happened. She was going to bang the door when something crossed her mind like an airplane with a message attached to the tail.
'Today is Tuesday…nobody's home.'
"I need to remember to hang my keys to my phone, that way I won't forget them every fucking time I left home." She said as she walked to the back yard and the big tree that was there.
She prepared herself for the big jump.
"Okay girl, you can do it, you were a cheerleader for…two weeks…uh, still, you know how to jump… or at least knew back in the day. Okay. On three. One… Two… THREE!" She jumped with all her strength in the way that that stupid coach had told her and felt like a pro…until she touched the grass again…with her head.
"Fuuuck! Now I'm going to have a headache. Bloody perfect." With a growl she got up and tried again, this time succeeding.
"Hell yeah! I'm a pro at this, by now I would have been the leader of the cheerleaders if I had stayed!... AHHHHH!" She screamed as the branch seemed to break, grabbing it with all the strength that she had, she climbed the tree screaming a little bit every time that she went higher 'till she reached her window, stretching a bit she opened the window with ease because, like she assumed while climb that tree, she had forgotten to close it due to the morning hurry.
She put a foot inside and with closed eyes and a loud squeal jumped inside, she thought that maybe that two weeks with the cheerleaders would've made her do a perfect landing inside her room. Obviously that didn't happened and she fell to the ground of her bedroom just in time to hear her parents' car enter the garage.
With a jump she ran out of her room to open all the doors so they wouldn't notice that she, in fact, had forgotten her keys. She opened the front door to find out that her mum was standing there looking for something in her purse, probably for her keys.
"Hi mum, Hi dad, Hi little boy" She greeted them.
"Hello sweetheart! And what's with you being so in time with the door? You didn't forgot your keys AGAIN right?" Her mum asked as she entered the house giving her a quick hug, her dad behind her with her baby brother in arms.
"Oh C'mon Jacks, leave her alone. Hi darling, how was your day?" Her father asked as he also tried to give her a hug but failed as he had his arms occupied.
"Thanks dad. Well it was fine… normal, just like every other day." She said with a sigh that meant that she needed a change or she would go mad.
She climbed up the stairs to her room. After changing her clothes for some pyjamas she went down the stairs to have dinner with her parent. After a good 30 minutes of talking and eating she was ready to go to bed.
"Night mum. Night dad."
"Good night sweetheart."
She climbed up the stairs AGAIN, making a stop in her bathroom to wash her teeth and her face.
She went to her room and flopped on the bed, that make a loud thud.
"God, I need to change it. It may split in two if I don't." She turned on her TV and put on some rubbish show. After wasting 45 minutes of her life that she would never get back she turned off her TV instead turning on her laptop (which miraculously still worked) and got into Facebook hoping that something new had happened. Nothing at all had happened since that morning when she checked it on her break.
Her eyes started to close by themselves so she turned off her laptop and instead took her phone and checked if she had any new messages or an unseen WhatsApp. She didn't have any. Putting it aside too, she looked at her clock and saw that it was already 01:00 am and she'd have to wake up at 6:30 again tomorrow, so with a sigh that revealed how comfy her old bed was, she closed her eyes and almost immediately fell asleep.
That's how everyday went for Rose Tyler. She had what people called a perfect life; a family, two best mates, good grades and a pretty good social life. But for her all was too ordinary. She needed a change. A quick and amazing one.
Everyone told her that sooner or later she would find the adventure of her life, the one that would swept her in his arms and turn around her boring day-to-day.
What no one told her was that that adventure, well, would basically crash with her.
Thanks for reading! The next chapter will be up soon! Please, please, PLEASE review and tell me what do you think about it :) This is the prologue so it's a little bit slow, sorry :c