I'm jolted awake by the sound of my alarm ringing though my room, once again, I forgot to change it from the default to something more pleasant so I'm not jolted awake every time it goes off.
"You still haven't changed that alarm squirt" a deep booming voice came from down the hall.
Loud, heavy footsteps came from the end of the hall, followed by lighter, quieter footsteps.
"Hun, come back to bed, I want to cuddle some more" the hells going on now, did he bring another girl home.
The familiar face of my bastard of a cousin, Kashou, pokes though my door. Kashou has bags under his eyes, and reeks of alcohol, shortly after, the face of a women appears, she lays on his shoulder and wraps her arms arounds around my cousin's waist.
"Yo, squirt, turn that fucking alarm off, me and Annabel are try'n to sleep" Kashou is clearly hungover, he can't speak properly, and is struggling to stand, even worse with the women strung over his shoulder.
"Yeah, I'm on it, now fuck off back to your room" I try my best to sound commanding and confident, clearly I sounded nothing of it, I knew because they both smirked, as if holding back a laugh.
"Your brother is so adorable" my cousin's eye twitches, he hates it when people call me his brother.
"He's my stupid cousin! How can we be related anyway, he looks nothing like me, and he's still a virgin" the girl begins to laugh hysterically, clearly the alcohols' helps her sense of humour.
Despite knowing that the girl was drunk, I couldn't help but get embarrassed, her laughter is so mocking, so I snapped.
"Get the fuck out of my room you drunk assholes, go fuck your brains out, or something, just get you drunk asses out of my room" the girl has stopped laughing, Kashou grabs the girl around the waist and carries her back down the hallway.
I slam my door shut and pick up my phone, just as it vibrates, signalling a message. I press the home button and enter the code into my phone, it's a message from Zakary, it read something like, 'Dude, two new girls coming to our school today, their meant to be smoking hot'.
Zak could never get the idea that I hate the weird text language that he uses, so now I read his texts three or four times over before I can put together the basic ideas of what he's trying to say.
Despite his weird texts, he's a great source of information, people all around the school use him for a variety of things, be it finding peoples crushes or getting cheat sheets for tests. I don't know how he does it, but people love him for what he does.
I write back a quick, one worded response, so that he can't find a reason to text me further, then put my phone back down on my desk and exit my room.
Kashou came to my apartment without a word, he just turned up, now I need consider either upgrading the size, or kicking out Kashou. I would much rather the later, but he does lighten the cost for food and I don't have to work as often, so now I can focus on school work now, the real struggle comes with the daily women.
Every night he comes home with a new woman to screw, and ever since he turned up, I've been lacking sleep. He can go at it for hours, only taking a break to come to the fridge to grab a beer or two, or take the rare bathroom break.
His nightly activities are where he falls short, and his alcohol consumption, he can go through a cartoon or two a day, and there's never a time that he's sober.
He's also a slob, he throws empty beer cans and ramen containers, used and unused condoms, he leaves his clothes everywhere, hell, he practically lives in his underwear when he's at home.
I'm a generally clean person, I occasionally leave my clothes lying around, but at least I clear up after myself. Now whenever I leave my room of a morning and enter our kitchen and dining area, I'm greeted by the overwhelming stench of alcohol and ramen. After half an hour of vigorously cleaning the kitchen, my personal time is gone and I'm to change and leave for school.
The afternoon is no different, bag the rubbish, dump the rubbish, scrub the floor, it's an endless cycle of all work no free time. This plus is daily screwing had made him a hindrance to my daily life, one that I plan to rid myself of shortly.
"Kashou, get your drunk ass out her for a bit" I try my best to repeat the tone of voice I used when I was angry, to 'encourage' Kashou to exit the room, it worked.
The familiar footsteps of my cousin came down the hall to the kitchen.
"What you want kid, I'm busy" Kashou rounds the corner and he's wearing nothing, he left his room butt naked.
"Would it kill you to put some pants on" I use my hand to obscure my view of my cousins 'package'.
"Where both dudes, who gives a shit" the last thing I need to see before leaving for school is my cousin junk.
Kashou walks over to the fridge and pulls out two cans of bear, then he goes to straighten up and smacks his head on the overhanging cupboard.
"Fucking hell, that hurt like a bitch, who put that there?" Kashou didn't sound like he was putting on an act, was he asking that as a question?
"That's been there since you moved in, never moved or changed" I'm desperately trying not to burst out laughing at Kashou stupid, drunk ass.
"Alright, so what did you want?" that's right, I need to get his drunk ass cleaning up after himself.
"Just start cleaning up after yourself, it's disgusting and it shouldn't be my job" this is the first time that I had stood up against Kashou, and I'm shaking. What should be expected, anger, acceptance, right now I'm just trying to stop shaking so I seem more serious.
"I'll think about it twerp, you get going, you'll be late to school otherwise" I'm pleasantly surprised to receive a calm and pleasant response from him, I breath a sign of relief.
"Twerp, Ichijio, you're going to be late, get changed and go" I look up at the clock its eight, I set my alarm for six thirty though, how did this happen, he changed it.
"Did you fuck with my alarm" why do I bother, it's clear he did.
"Less talk, more ass moving" that bastard, I'll have to deal with him later though, now I got to get change, make my lunch, and make it to school, all in half an hour.
Getting changed was a cinch, in my room, throw some clothes on, pick up my phone, leave.
I had received numerous texts over the past few minutes, but if I'm to get out on time I'll have to ignore them for the now. I open the fridge and begin to make today's lunch.
"Squirt, here, just buy something" Kashou hand me fifty dollars and pushes me out the door, to the point that he's almost throwing me out. But I'm grateful, for once he's taking responsibly for his stupidity and trying to rectify them.
My phone vibrated once more, that makes five times since I collected it ten minutes ago, whoever is texting me, is desperate to get through to me. With the time saved from having not to make lunch, I quickly checked my phone to see who was so desperate to get me.
I'm greeted by thirteen texts all coming from one person, Alisha, starting from the first text I read:
"Yo, where are you, waiting for you" I skip the next few and see:
"Icky, hurry up, I'm waiting at the lobby for you" I skip to the last one and see:
"Ichijio Rakku, hurry up, I've been waiting for 20 mins, I'm losing my patience" it would seem that I'd kicked the hornets' nest, what's Alisha doing in the lobby anyways, guess I'll find out when I get down there.
I arrive in the lobby within the minute, Alisha is sitting on the lounge, starring at her phone, hate filling her eyes. The only option is to walk up to her with confidence and masculinity, two things that I completely lack.
I start a solid stride towards Alisha, with my head held high, and shoulders puffed up, I feel like a man, then Alisha looks at me with those eyes.
"Do you have any fucking idea how mad I am right now?" my head drops in shame, and my shoulders shrink.
"Um, no, what are you doing here" Alisha looks down at the floor
"Well I'm pretty angry" Alisha's voice grew softer, and she began to fidget with her house keys in her hand.
"You okay Alisha, you're normally not this timid" Alisha looks up to me, her eyes bloodshot, her eyes begin to well with tears. Alisha quickly wipes her hand across her eyes to remove the tears.
"I'm fine, I just felt like walking to school with you today, that a crime Icky" Alisha's frown is now replaced with a wide smile.
"Let's go Icky, we'll be late if we wait here" Alisha grabs my hand and lightly tugs me out the lobby, at that time I'd completely forgotten about the tears she almost shed, and began to walk alongside her.
I regret not asking more about the tears she almost shed that morning, maybe if I had, things would have been different.