Alex's POV
I was woken by a ringing noise and groaned when I figured it was my alarm. I hid my head under my pillow in attempt to block out the sound but of course it didn't work, so instead I hit the top of it with my hand, in an attempt to hit the snooze button. I smiled to myself when I did and the sweet bliss of silence came back to me.
"Selena, get up you're going to be late for school!" Ugh, and here I was thinking I could get just 5 more minutes of sleep. "Come on honey, get up!" I felt coldness hit my bare legs as my mom pulled back my duvet. I lifted my head from my pillow to be blinded by the sun coming through my window. I squinted and looked at my mom who was stood beside the window with her arms crossed against her chest, she looked pretty impatient.
"Just 5 more minutes mom, please." I begged her, but she didn't look like she was going to budge.
"No, I'm not falling for that one again Alex. You say 5 minutes but if I come back up here to check on you in half an hour you'll still be snoring! Now get up, otherwise I'll have no choice but to get the glass of water." I let a groan slip my mouth and rolled my eyes as I sat up in my bed.
"Fine, fine I'm up." I really didn't want her to use the water on me again, that is not a nice feeling. I rubbed my eyes as my mom left the room and flung my feet over the edge of my bed before standing up. I walked lazily into my bathroom and did the usual morning routine before getting dressed. I really couldn't be bothered to put anything special on today so I decided on some jeans and a band top that Mitchie left here one time with my converse. Once I was ready, I went downstairs to find everyone already in the kitchen eating breakfast.
"Look what the cat dragged in." I rolled my eyes at Justin's comment, not bothering to come up with a come back. It's too early for that shit. I sat at the table and poured myself a bowl of fruit loops and started eating them in silence, occasionally making a slurping noise with my milk just to annoy Justin. I couldn't help but chuckle to myself when I noticed his face had started to stiffen up as he got more and more annoyed with me. It didn't take me long before I was finished and I stood up, grabbing my backpack as I headed for the door.
"Alex!" Uh, now what. I closed my eyes for a brief second before opening them again and putting on a fake smile as I turned on my heels to face my mom. She was walking over to me with that oh so welcoming motherly look. Note the sarcasm. "I want you to be good today, I got another call from your principle saying that you've been slipping up in a few classes." I had to stop myself from rolling my eyes as my mom began to straighten out my hair.
"Mooom, you know Mr. Laritate has it in for me." I tried to hold back on the whiny tone, but it didn't work.
"Just be good, okay?" I nodded my head defeated as she kissed my head. I turned back on my heels and made a quick escape out the door. As I walked down the stairs to the sub station I bumped into Harper.
"Oh hey Alex, what's the rush?" I grabbed her arm and pulled her along with me out to my car. I knew she'd want to go upstairs and say hi to my family, but I really wanted to leave this place already. Once we were in my car and belted up, Harper took the opportunity to ask what was going on. I began driving, ignoring her questions at first, but I realized she wasn't going to give in when she wouldn't shut up.
"I just wanna get out of that place okay? I don't know what your huge obsession with my family is about anyway." I told her, keeping my eyes on the road.
"I don't know what your huge problem with them is about." Harper counteracted, making me glance over at her with disbelief.
"You're kidding me right? My family are so annoying!" I looked back at the road and turned in to the school parking lot. I instantly started to look out for Mitchie's car so I could park near her, but when I couldn't spot it, I figured she probably wouldn't be here yet and parked in a spot near the entrance. I unbuckled my belt along with Harper and we both got out. "Time?" I asked Harper as I sat up on the hood of my car waiting for Mitchie to arrive. This was our morning ritual, who ever got here first, we'd wait for the other until we went inside. I watched as Harper checked her watch with her books in her other hand, held against her chest.
"8:30, you sure Mitchie's coming today? We're a little late ourselves." I checked my phone, seeing if I had any missed calls or texts from Mitchie, but I didn't.
"Well, I got nothing from her, so I'm guessing she's coming."
"Okay, but I'm not getting another detention for being late so I'm going inside."
"Harper that was one time and we were hardly even late, Mr. Laritate only gave you that detention because you were with me."
"I don't care, it's not happening again." I rolled my eyes at her and nodded.
"Fine, see you later." She gave me a quick wave as she headed for the entrance of the school. I put both my hands behind me as I leaned my weight against them and closed my eyes from the blinding sun. A couple minutes must have passed until I heard approaching voices. I sat myself up and took a quick look around and I spotted Justin walking by with his nerd friends. I laughed to myself as I overheard their conversation about action figures, but Justin must have heard because he looked my way and shot me a glare.
"What are you laughing at?" I gave him an innocent look and held my hands up in defense.
"Nothing, brother." I gave him a small smile and he rolled his eyes at me, letting out a scoff at the same time before turning back to his loser friends. I never really understood that boy, he's so... so... loserish. I got my phone from my pocket and checked the time. 8:35. I took another quick glance around the parking lot to see if I missed Mitchie's car, but I still couldn't see it. Besides, I'd see her waiting for me if she was here. I turned my attention back to my phone and decided on calling her to check where she is. I dialed her number and let it ring a couple of times before she answered.
"Mitchie? Where are you? School's about to start and you're still not here."
"What time is it?" I noticed her voice sounded kind of raspy and I crossed my eyebrows, suddenly getting a little concerned.
"Have you just woke up?" There was a short moment of silence whilst I waited for her reply, but instead of getting an answer to my question I got Mitchie shouting curse words down the phone. I always found it extremely cute when she'd curse, so I smiled to myself a little.
"Shit shit shit! Oh no, I'm so late! Fuck!"
"You want me to cover for you?" I asked her, chuckling a little.
"Please, would you?"
"Of course, how long do you think you're gonna be?"
"I'll be there second period, I'll text you. Thank you so much Alex, I owe you big time." Before I could even respond I was met by the dial tone. I put my phone away and scooted myself off the hood of my car before grabbing my backpack and walking into the school. I was thankful I didn't need to go to my locker, otherwise I'd be late for my first class and I can only be sure that Mr. Laritate would take the first opportunity to get me into more trouble with my parents. I walked into the classroom and headed straight for my usual seat at the back corner by the window. I threw my backpack on the floor under my desk and ignored the weird look I got from some guy who was sat on the desk by mine. Seriously, some of the people at this school are so annoying. I sat down on the chair and put my head in my arms and closed my eyes. I couldn't help but smile to myself at the memory of Mitchie cursing the hell out of the phone call earlier. I felt myself jump slightly at the sound of my teacher slamming the door shut. I always hated my English Lit. teacher, he was so tense all the time, as if he was constantly constipated.
"Miss Russo, what has you so amused?" Me? I didn't even realize I was laughing. Probably at the thought of my teacher being constipated. Yeah, that is funny. "Well? I didn't ask for you to laugh even more." I coughed slightly, in a poor attempt to hide the fact that I started laughing again.
"Nothing, sir." I gave him an innocent smile and luckily for me he decided to drop the subject and get on with the class. He sat at his desk as he took attendance. I called out a yes when he called my name and straight after he called out Mitchie's.
"She's with the nurse, sir." I called out in the most polite tone I could muster. He looked up from the attendance sheet and raised an eyebrow as he looked at me over his glasses. "She uh, she fell this morning and hit her head. You should have seen it, sir, blood everywhere." Okay, I know I was completely over exaggerating, but you can't call me the stupid one for that because he totally bought it and gasped. I had to bite my lip to hold in a laugh as he put his hand up against his chest.
"My God, I hope she's okay. Maybe I should go check on her after class." Uh oh.
"NO!" Everyone turned to look at me and the teacher gave me a really suspicious look. I sunk back in my seat as I quickly thought of a lie. "I mean uh, she's really not up for any visitors, sir. She's completely out of it, when I left her she was trying to climb up the walls insisting that she was Spiderman." I know, I know, that was completely lame, but what was I supposed to do? I was totally put on the spot! I shrugged my shoulders and gave the teacher a dumb look as he seemed unconvinced. "I know, crazy." He just shook his head and dropped it thankfully. The rest of the class I put my chin in my hand and stared out the window. I was never really interested in reading Shakespeare anyway. If you ask me, that guy was a nut job.
When the bell rang, notifying the class was over, I quickly gathered my stuff and rushed out of the classroom, hoping I had a text from Mitchie. The second I was in the corridor I pulled out my phone and grinned when I saw that I did.
'I'm at my locker waiting for you x'I put my phone back in my pocket and rushed to her locker. When it was in sight, I saw Mitchie leaned against. I picked up my pace and when she spotted me her smile appeared and she started walking towards me to meet me halfway. It wasn't until she got closer that I noticed she looked a hot mess.
"Woah, are you ill?" I found myself asking once she was right in front of me. Her smile faded and was replaced with a frown, which was oh so adorable on her.
"Thanks." I couldn't hold in my laugh, but her frown only grew.
"Sorry, but damn girl, you look a hot mess!" I said whilst I stood back and checked her out fully.
"I had a late night, okay." I realized that something wasn't right and my attitude soon became a little more serious with her.
"Is everything okay?" I asked her as we began walking to next class. Mitchie had biology and I had physics so we were in the same end of the school.
"Everything's fine." I glanced over at her as we walked and I instantly knew she was lying. The way she looked down at the floor and the way her voice was a little more high pitched that usual. I could see right through this girl, we have known each other for over half our lives after all. I watched her for a second, but she didn't return the eye contact. I decided to let it slip for now, but I took a mental note to find out what was going on.
