Re-write of chapter one. Someone who reviewed suggested it and I defiantly agree. So this will be it for now…I'm so lazy. School is hard! lol
The sun shined through my window and directly into my eyes. Every morning I say I'll shut my blinds before bed, but I always forget. So here I was again, sun in my eyes and cussing like a sailor. Damn sun. Who asked it to shine anyways?
I dragged myself up. It was time for school. Yippee. I could skip…. My dad might be mad though and that could end badly for me. Very badly. Mr. Turner was already curious. I guess it had been one to many black eyes, even for Shawn Hunter.
I went into the bathroom and looked at myself. The bruise on my cheek was a couple of days old. It had been the cause one too many beers for good old dad. I hopped into the shower then got dressed. I went into the kitchen and saw my dad at the table. A few years ago I would have sat down next to him, and we would have ate breakfast together. Now I hurried past to scared to even grab a pop tart. I wasn't hungry anyways.
While I was walking out the door, I heard my dad yell, "Be home at four!"
I cringed; there went any afternoon plans. I started walking toward school, ten minutes later I was still walking. Why don't I ever take the bus? At school I saw Cory and Topanga waiting for me on the steps.
"Hey," I called.
"Hey Shawn," they answered together.
I sometimes worry that those two spend too much time with each other. We all walked to our lockers and grabbed our books. English here we come!
In class I couldn't help but get bored, I hate English. So at some point it seemed as though I fell asleep. I guess it was stress or something, but I had a nightmare while snoring away the hour.
The nightmare consisted of a drunken dad yelling at me with fists flying and such. At one point the dream fist came at my face and I jerked awake crying, "NO DAD, STOP!"
Long pause. Everyone looking at me. Still looking. This is where I started to panic, and as Shawn Hunter in a panicking situation I always do the same thing. So I got up and ran out of the classroom.