CHPT. 1

7:45 am

A southern California girl born and raised was woken from her drooly dreams by an alarm clock she had beaten into a snooze several times prior.

The brunette's heavily eyelids stayed closed as she lifted her arm and extended it, motioning to hit the snooze button yet again.

But just as her hand was zoning in on the alarm clock, she heard a voice call out, "Ashley Marie Davies get your ass outta bed right now!"

"Ugh…" Ashley moaned, hitting the snooze button and rolling over to try and continue her sleep process.

To her dismay, she heard the voice pipe up again. "You're about to be late to school AGAIN. And this time, I will not talk to your coach or principal and explain why you were late for the third time this week!"

The brunette grunted and covered her head with a pillow and she lay in bed, trying in vain to tune her mother out.

Suddenly, the door to her room swung open hard and fast, and the intruding voice made an appearance.

Miss Davies was dressed in business attire, a pantsuit with four-inch heels and hair tied back into a ponytail. Her eyes were hazel and hair was brown, just like her daughters.

There was an oddly similar appearance in the two. Sometimes they were mistaken as sisters, much to Ashley's disdain.

Her mother swooped into action, snatching the pillow off of Ashley's head and tossing it into the bedroom floor.

"Okay, okay, I'm up," Ashley mumbled, sitting up on her bed, eyes still half closed. Her hair was all over her head and eye make up she had forgotten to remove the night before lay smeared across her face.

Miss Davies shook her head, walked over to her daughter's dresser, and began pulling out sweats.

"You're clothes are right here. Go get in the shower and please don't forget to get rid of that clown make up you've got on your face," she said, and then exited the room, leaving the door open.

The brunette teen rolled her eyes, stretched, then walked into her bathroom and hopped into the shower.

5 minutes later she was out of the bathroom and throwing on the sweatpants and King High basketball tee her mom had pulled out.

Ashley finished getting ready, threw on her black and white Addidas slides, and slid down the banister to get downstairs.

"Hey mom where's my…" the brunette started off.

"On the counter! And don't forget to grab some fruit to take and eat on the way!" Miss Davies called out from the living room.

The teen walked into the kitchen, grabbed her book bag off the counter and an apple, and then walked to the foyer.

"Bye mom!" she yelled. "See ya later!"

"Bye hun! Have a good day!" Miss Davies called out as Ashley left the house, shutting the front door behind her.

The brunette unlocked her black on black 2009 Ranger Rover, threw her book bag into the passenger side and got in.

She started the engine and looked at the time display.

"Shit 8:10? I'm already 10 minutes late!" Ashley said out loud as she backed out of the driveway and speed off in the direction of her high school.