Chapter 1
"Jenny", my mom again, "you have to stop watching television. It's time to go to bed. It's already 10 o'clock." Ugh! She can just be so annoying. "Okay mom. I'm on my way up." I turned off the television and headed up to my room. It wasn't a big room but it was nice. My white twin sized bed that I had since I was 3 was in front of the wall across the door. It has sticker marks from when I was 5. I never really got those off. The bed used to be the bottom half of a bunk bed which I shared with my older sister when I was 3 and she was 5. Her name was Natalie, but everyone called her Nat. Over the years we also had another addition to our family. Our young and annoying brother Lucas joined our family when I was 7. Now he was 6 and I was 13 and we had absolutely nothing in common. He was young, immature, and annoying and would always follow me around and bug me. I got along with my sister though, well enough at least. The only down side was that we shared a bathroom. She was 15 and claimed she needed a full hour in the bathroom to 'apply her makeup'. It made no sense. She had a mirror in her room. Why couldn't she just do it there?
I put on my Paul Frank pajamas. I got them for Christmas when I was 12 and I loved them. They were very comfortable. I headed over the bathroom, which my sister luckily wasn't in. I brushed my teeth and washed my face, and walked back to my room. I got my bed ready and turned off the lights. It felt so hard to fall asleep. I wasn't tired, not one bit! It's so annoying how I'm always tired all day long and when it's time to sleep, I'm wide awake. I grabbed my ipad and started playing a game under the cover. I had to be careful so my dad wouldn't catch me. He has this stupid rule that when he catches me on an electronic past 9:30, I have to give him all my electronics at 9 o'clock every day for one month. I just got off of that punishment last week and didn't want to go back to it. I was playing angry ants, my favorite game. I was just about to launch the last bird when I heard someone walking up the stairs. I quickly turned off my ipad and hid it under the cover. I lay down and pretended to sleep. I heard my dad banging on the bathroom door, my sister was in there, and gently laughed. My dad could stand in front of the door for hours waiting for her to get out. I'm not really sure why, since he has his own bathroom. I never really complain about it though because I don't like when my sister spends hours in the bathroom either.
"Daddy", I called. "Yes Jenny." "Oh sorry dad I just wanted to make sure it was you."
Finally my sister got out of the bathroom and my dad went back down. I brought my ipad back over the cover and kept playing angry birds. Eventually I got bored of the game and decided to give sleeping a chance. I lay down in bed and attempted to count sheep. For some reason that method never seemed to work for me. Then I started trying to count down from 100. That was just boring and didn't make me anymore tired. After a while I just gave up and lay in my bed with open eyes. I thought of some things that happened that day. I got back a Spanish test. Not exactly the best marks. In English class we went to Starbucks which was fun. In math class I realized that lights in the bathroom where flickering. Not in the whole bathroom. At my school there are 2 doors to enter the bathroom. One is from the hallway to a little room and from there you have to enter the bathroom. The lights in the little room were flickering. I remember asking my teacher and she said that it meant the light bulb had to be switched. Eventually I got bored and closed my eyes.