Crawling… closer and closer… I'm almost out. I'm not going to stay here forever… I can't… I just can't… it's too miserable… I'm nothing without my sister…I'm only 15…how can I survive on my own…
Beep! Beep! Beep!
Jewel Star woke up to her alarm clock. She rolled to her other side and pulled the covers over her face and moaned.
Her roommate, Marilynn Maculae aka Mack, stretched her arms out then threw the alarm clock at the wall. It was fate that put Mack and Jewel in the same college, and better yet, roommates. They had been best friends since preschool and never got into one fight. It was luck.
"Man I had the weirdest fucking dream. I relived when I was fifteen… except it was a nightmare and I couldn't escape it."
"Another day, another semester to live through. How's that for a nightmare?" Mack mumbled.
"Why can't there just be a never-ending Saturday?" Jewel responded. They both got up and started throwing on clothes, not caring if it was their's or not. Jewel settled on a blank tank with a red strip down the middle and a pair of jeans. Mack was trying to brush through her black tangled hair and put on pants at the same time. She fell on the floor and started laughing.
"Shit, where are my books that I paid for?" Jewel questioned.
"It's in your bag in the bathroom." Mack said in an uncontrollable laughter.
"Gotcha." Jewel ran into the very tiny bathroom and saw the book-bag sitting under the sink. She grabbed it and grabbed the room key.
"Let's not lock ourselves out this time." She giggled.
Both of them ran down the three stories of stairs and outside to Mack's red mo-ped. They hopped on, put on their helmets, and sped off to class on the other side of the campus.
They arrived at the main college grounds about 10 minutes later; they were greeted by Riley and Lionel. Riley was tall and skinny with red hair to her shoulders and hazel eyes. Lionel, on the other hand, looked like a nerd. He was also tall but with short dirty blonde hair and glasses to go on the dent in his crooked nose.
"I swear I'm getting contacts before the end of this semester!" Lionel shouted.
"How early are we?" Mack said once she stopped the engine.
"Oh, hey guys!" Riley said smiling, like always.
"We still have 20 minutes." Lionel replied. Cameron came out of nowhere panting. Cameron was you're average guy that looked like a jock, but he wasn't. He just worked out a lot. Jewel had known him since before they were even born. She stared at him for a brief second then stared at the envelope that contained her classes.
"So what did everyone get?" Jewel asked, jokingly.
"Lionel was the only person to open his." Riley rolled her eyes in disbelief. Opening the envelope at the same time was a tradition for them. Jewel always just teased about what classes they had, even though she knew they wouldn't know until they opened them. This time, everyone glared at Lionel for opening his envelope early.
"Sorry… My roommate Jordan made me. He insisted on knowing." He said.
"You better be sorry. Don't do that again!" Mack exclaimed.
"I got this weird class called 'Living Insane 101." Lionel looked perplexed then stared at the paper harder. "Yep. That's right. I don't remember signing up for it though." He said.
The 4 others got in a circle and counted to three, then opened their letters. Jewel looked down then said, "Hey I got that class too…"
"Me too…" Riley said.
"Third." Mack responded raising her hand.
"Ditto." Cameron muttered.
"Now how did this possibly happen? None of us signed up for this class and yet here we are." Some of Jewel's black hair got in her face with the breeze of the spring air blowing it. She shook her head then looked at everyone's schedules.