~~~~~~Anna's POV~~~~~~
The alarm just went off and instead of using the ladders to get down, I decided to roll and throw myself off of the side of my bed. The noise that I made always woke everyone else up. I reached up, with the same arm that I fell on, and turned to alarm off. I began to jab my older sister in the side with her phone until she woke up.
After uttering for me to fuck off a couple of times, she gave up and got out of bed.
I grabbed my freshly ironed uniform from on the TV unit after brushing my teeth in the bathroom. I put my Starbomb disc in the CD player in the lounge/study area that we had claimed, smiling. This expression wasn't normal for me on a Thursday morning but, I was reminded of the previous night's events. 'I met Arin Hanson last night. And Suzy Berhow… And main bae Barry!' I was so happy that I could cry.
I slid off my I'm not so grump t-shirt that I wore for bed the previous night, put my sports bra on—for the purpose of comfort only—and put my school shirt on. Mourning over the loss of the comfy t-shirt, I buttoned up the shirt I had switched it with. I didn't wear any bed shorts—'cuz… fuckin' yolo—so it was easier to put my school pants on. Tucking my shirt in, I looked at my sister's bed, still smiling. 'That's where they sat.'
My thoughts were interrupted by Emma casually flipping me off for staring at her. I returned this action, flipping a bird of my own.
I grabbed my clip-on tie and put it on. (You may be wondering why we have clip on ties, this is to prevent students for wearing it short and loose, giving each other swot-knots—which was knotting each other's ties so that it became impossible to undo again—strangling people, ect.)
Next, I put my tank-top jumper on… inside out, at first but then immediately put it on the right way. I should have been used to putting it on as I'd been going to that school for 2 years now, but this happened to no avail.
I sat on the floor after grabbing my socks from the chest of drawers. Putting them on, I wondered why they cared about my grades. Why would my idols be in such a run-down place like this? Why'd they spend half an hour talking to us to just say 'bye'?
My questions remained unanswered as I got off of the floor and grabbed my blazer from the TV unit, put it on and checked for my stationery, bus pass and bus money, in which I had all in my pocket. I grab my hair brush and 1 and a dozen bobbles. Brushing my hair always was where my down fall started. It would get so tatty and messy and go all over the place even if I had been
I go to the study/lounge, pause the Starbomb disc, grab my back pack for school and head down stairs. (I put my phone and headphones in my blazer pocket beforehand.) Grabbing the keys from the kitchen, I consider my options with what I could take for lunch. In the end, I decide not to take any at all.
I move over to where my school loafers are in the hallway and put them on. After that, I sling my back pack over my shoulders as I walk into the living room. It was 7:24 am and I had to leave now otherwise rare pepe uno, Holly, and myself would end up having to meet her boyfriend half way to the bus stop.
I unlock the door and place the keys on the side table before stepping outside. Closing the door behind me, I exited the house and put my headphones on. Upon exiting the gate and shutting it, I had disconnected my phone from the internet and found a song to listen to. Of course, the only song it could have been at this time in the morning would be Miss Jackson by Panic! At The Disco.
Soon, I approached my friend's place and waited a moment for her to exit her home and garden.
"Oi-oi, Holly, luv!" I call to her.
"Hiya Anna!" She says as we start to walk.
"Been reading more fanfiction?"
"You bet I have."
"I don't spy something with my little eye. That something begins with D." I say looking down the street.
"Dick!?" She asks.
"No, I always see dick this time in the morning, you're walking with iss."
"Shut the fuck up!" She says. "But, what don't you see."
"I don't see that shitty excuse for a boyfriend, Darren. We'll get to the bus stop alone today!"
"YAAY!" We say before we link arms and skip down the street like the weirdos we knew we were.
Eventually, The Dream Team was reunited as we neared the bus stop. Holly and I run towards pepe numbers dos and tres.
"KIMMY! ELLIE!" We yell to them and they, jump—because we frightened them—turn to see us, smile and wave while shouting back at us.
"ANNA! HOLLY!" Kim, pepe tres, said while holding out her arms as she was selling free hugs.
"Would you like to buy some of mah wares, small child?" Ellie asks, jokingly, while holding out both sides of her blazer like Inspector Gadget.
"Oi-oi, look!" I say pointing out to further round the corner. "It's the banta-bus!"
In reality the banta-bus was just the number 69 bus.
"Ellie! The 69 will always be a mouthful for you!" I shout in her ear.
"Shut up! Beached Whale, I choose you!" Ellie yells back, while we all laugh, and she puts her arm out, to get the attention of the bus driver so we could get on. "Beached Whale use boulder!"
"It was ineffective!" I reply.
We all payed for our bus tickets and hopped on. We ran to the back and started talking loudly.
~~~~~~Emma's POV~~~~~~
I sat on the edge of my bed, staring longingly into the creased face of Vic Fuentes, while mentally cursing Anna for waking me up this early in the morning. It was 20 minutes to 8 and I didn't need to be up for another hour now. I only had to go down to my placement for 2 hours today.
Eventually, I stood up and walked over to the mirror. Lifting up my fringe, I look at my blue eye that had been covered with my red hair most of the morning. Sighing, I decided to change. The colours for my placement uniform was mostly black, white or grey. After digging around in my wardrobe, I find a pair of black denim jeans, a grey top with a faded black handle-bar moustache on it and a black pair of socks.
I hopped in the shower and hopped out five minutes later, being slightly thankful for the early wake up call, now I felt fresh and ready to tackle the busy-ish day ahead.
After I changed, brushed and styled my hair and applied my make-up, I made myself some food and sat in the living room eating it. Anthony, James and Bradley passed the living room door and went out of the house. I mentally thanked god for getting Anthony out of my sight. 20 minutes later, Nicole and Megan left the house too.
Andrea and Bob, our foster parents, walked down the stairs as I was going up them, to grab my bag and phone.
I greeted them and they replied with the same old "Hello." Once my stuff was in my messenger bag and I had come back down the stairs, I put my ballet flats on my feet and left for the salon.
…
2 hours of time passed and I left Strands with £20 in my pocket for all my hard work. I got home and immediately went upstairs. Breathing out while taking in the sight of my study/lounge, I notice something wasn't right.
"One of these things just doesn't belong here." I mutter in tune and then realise that Arin, Barry and Suzy are sitting on the black leather couch, smiling at my confused face.
"Hi! I didn't expect to see you guys back so soon." I greet with a wave.
"Hi, Emma!" Suzy said, getting up and hugging me. "It's so nice to see you! Let's go and start getting your room packed up!"
"Oh, okay… Wait a minute… You… You're… No. Way. Did you just say…?"
"Aha, come on! The papers are signed." Arin says, putting a confirming voice in my head and a comforting hand on my shoulder. "You're gonna get all of that Cali sunshine! And it's gonna be awesome!"
"YAY!" I cheer jumping up and down before hugging Arin and Suzy tightly.
"What about my hug?"
"Sorry, Barry! C'mon." I said, making an opening in the group hug for big enough for Barry to fit in.
I put K-pop on the speakers before I ran up the stairs that led up to mine and my sister's room with the grumps in tow.
…
As we were in mid tidy and had safely packed all of my sister's consoles away, we all hear "What is this and why is it here?" from Barry.
I turn and take in what he means. "Oh, the Kermit puppet?" He nods. "Well, that's the only one that exists in the world. My grandma made it for my mam when she was, like, four years old, or something. It's hanging from there because it's doing what a spider pig would do."
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~~~~~~Anna's POV~~~~~~
We were on the bus, right at the back, coming back from school, had just finished playing 'Pin the Tie on the Radgie' and I kind of remembered what happened yesterday.
"Hey, guys?"
"Yeah?" The other three members of the Dream Team obediently ask.
"I might have had a break through yesterday." I say looking out of the window, as I was closest to it.
"Tell us what happened!" Kim demanded.
"Well, you know after PE yesterday?" They all nod after I speak. "I got changed and passed out on my bed."
"Aw, poor you." Ellie said, sarcastically.
"I'm not finished yet. Shut up and pay attention." I scold lightly before continuing. "So, Emma woke iss up by saying that my main bae was outside… I got so excited I ran into the window."
"And she was just fucking with you again, wasn't she?" Holly asks.
"No." They all gasp. "He was there with Arin and Suzy."
"Stop lying!" Kim says.
"I'm not lying. They were at my place yesterday and I spoke with them for half an hour straight. They even saw my grades. Barry was teasing me over it."
"No." They all say in sync, their jaws dropping.
"Yes."
"No, I refuse to believe you."
"You said the same thing when I told you I was an orphan in the first place, Kim. Why would I lie to you about a big break like this?!"
"You seriously want us to believe you and take you seriously? Your tie is hanging from you head, and you're asking us to take you seriously?" Ellie smirks.
"Can you at least try?"
"Yeah, we'll try."
"Oh, shush you." I smirk back.
Soon, we get off the bus, Holly and I say our goodbyes the Ellie and Kim and we began making our way up the hill. After a little section of silence, my friend spoke up.
"So, Anna."
"Hmm?"
"You aren't kidding, no?"
"Why would I kid about this shit? Why would I do that?"
"Can I ask a favour of you, then?"
"Go ahead!" I smile at her.
"Can I climb in your suitcase? Please take me with you! Fall Out Boy and Markiplier are there and…" She trailed off as I frowned at her.
"You know, Miss H. Cain, I don't think they'll choose me." I stuff my hands in my pockets.
"Why the F not? Why wouldn't they choose the rarest pepe of them all? Your awesome, Anna. I don't care what you think but I want the best for you so, don't miss me too much, alright." Holly side hugged me before turning into her garden. She faced me while shutting the gate. "Right, its sports day tomorrow so, be prepared. See you tomorrow, alright." Advancing up the steps she yelled "Love you! See you tomorrow!"
"Love ya, betch!" I yell back before she steps through her door and closes it.
I began to walk again. 'What the H? "Don't miss me too much" Yeah, because you think I won't miss my side ho, honestly woman, you confuse me. One minute you don't believe me, the next you do. Mark my words, they won't choose us. I just know it.' These thoughts continued until the moment I put my hand on the door handle and let myself in.
Immediately, I slid my headphones so that they hung around the back of my neck, blasting Black and White by Skyhill.
Paying no mind to the scenery, when I reached the lounge, I was taking my hair tie out of my ponytail. After throwing my bag on the couch, I heard a little 'oomph' upon impact along with a high pitched squeal and a toned down chuckle. At first, I paid no mind. When I had ran half way up the spiral staircase (which looks like this: /wp-content/uploads/2013/04/zje%C5%BCd%C5%BCalnia_w_domu_kokopelia_ ) and looked into my room as the door was already open, I couldn't see any of my consoles and Emma was taking the posters down from the massive wall.
This made me panic. An internal panic attack was happening.
"W-what are you doing?"
"Re-arranging somethings."
~~~~~~Suzy's POV~~~~~~
"Where the fuck are my consoles, Emma?" Anna asked, panic, anger and fear all present in her words. There was a small gap of silence where she expected Emma to have spoken.
How hadn't she noticed us?
From the top of the stairs we see Anna's black socks turn, they now faced the bottom of the stairs. Instead of walking back down them, she hopped the railing and slid down the fireman's pole in the centre. After her feet hit the floor with a rather loud bang, the young girl walked around the stairs and brought her head up to look at us.
With an eyebrow cocked, Anna blinked and stared in disbelief.
"Wait a cotton-pickin' minute with this." She finally said. And after mumbling "What the fuck?" she continued. "What are you guys doin' back here?"
I looked at Arin who had just perked his head up from his previous keeled-over position. He held Anna's back pack tightly in his arms.
"Anna, do the math!" Emma yelled.
"But I'm not good at math!" Anna yelled back.
Arin just nodded at me before he got up, Barry and I trailed after him.
"Hey, Anna. You kinda hit me with this…" He said, holding out the black back pack.
She grabbed it off of him while gripping on to the back of her neck. "Sorry, Arin. I didn't see you guys there."
"Don't worry about it. C'mon, we were just waiting for you to get home so you can get your stuff packed up."
"Huh?" After speaking her eyes dilated. "No way." She breathed out.
"Yes way!" I called back, happily.
A small smile appeared on her face, it was clear that it was rare that she physically smiled. "Oh, my…" She said in a whisper.
She stared and fluttered her eye lids a little before the smile began to fade. She shut her eyes and looked down, her tie—that was in her hair for some reason—fell in front of her face.
She swings her foot to turn herself around and walks over to the stairs. Once stood behind them, out of sight, she started talking to herself. "My emotions! They're torn! What am I supposed to be?!"
"Human!" Emma calls down to her. These two were really weird. I looked over to Arin and Barry to notice them smiling.
"Shut up! I will never be human! Stop trying to ruin my soliloquy, bitch!" Anna replys before continuing. "I'll leave the Dream Team behind! Oh no, my pepes! I worked hard to forage the rarest of pepes! Now that shit's went to waste. I can't leave them! I'll be chilling in the Cali sun…! But they'll be in the cold fucking rain all the time! We'll be too far away! What the shit do I do?! Fuck my fucking life!"
"Stop whining like a little bitch and get up here!" Emma interrupts.
"Okay!" Anna calls back up to her before heading back up the stairs. Arin and I were laughing as Barry simply only smiled. They were the ones.
We went upstairs and helped finishing packing up. I tried to ask Anna what that whole soliloquy was about but failed to get any answer at all.
I understood what the things she was saying meant but I didn't understand how she was able to push those feelings aside straight away and speak little of them.
After we finished packing up, their room looked so bare. Nothing was on the bookshelves or TV unit.
Soon, we left after finally exchanging numbers with them. Apparently, according to Emma, she wasn't busy tomorrow and it was Anna's sports day; Anna was always prone to screwing around with her friends and Emma wanted us to see her sister at her full potential.