(Alex's POV)

BEEP BEEP BEEP, uggg I rolled over and rammed my pillow over my ears. BEEP BEEP BEEP. Ahhhh I can't take it anymore, I slammed my fist shutting the alarm off, and possible breaking the clock. Rolling out of bed I looked blearily out my window. It should be illegal to have kids get up before the sun did. I mean come on! It was only school after all. Summer was over and it was time for another torturous year. The only thing that got me moving was the fact that I would be seeing her again, every day for the next 181 days, not counting weekends. I smiled to myself and grabbed the clothes my mom had set aside next to my bed. I've told her repeatedly that I didn't need her to pick out my outfits I was sixteen for crying out loud! She never listened and I just gave up, it was a losing battle anyways.

"Alex, Get up you're going to miss the bus!" yelled my mom from downstairs

"Yeah I'm up, I'll be down in a minute" I replied pulling on my shirt and buttoning my pants. I stopped briefly to check the mirror. By dark blonde hair was ruffled from sleep, I ran my fingers threw it willing it to stay down which it never did but whatever. I grabbed my backpack from my chair and hurried downstairs.

"Morning sweet pea! Don't you look sharp!" said my mom looking up from the pan she was flipping pancakes from. I looked down at what I was wearing it was just a plain white T-shirt and my favorite pair of jeans. It was what I would have picked if you know, my mom didn't baby me.

"Thanks mom! Hey that smells delicious! What is it?" I said glancing hungrily at the frying pan, I was starved.

"It's your favorite! Chocolate chip mickey mouse pancakes!" she said cheerfully.

"Yeah thanks mom!" I said as she set a plate piled high with spotted mouse head pancakes in front of me….really Mickey Mouse shaped, what was I five? Whatever, food was food and they tasted good.

Before I knew it I said goodbye to my mom and headed down my driveway to the bus stop. Near my mailbox I saw her. She was walking down her driveway heading away from the little grey house. Her long brown hair was pinned up in a way so that it framed her face but her face was bent down looking at the ground like she didn't want anyone to see her. I simply didn't understand Trin. If she knew just how many guys had a crush on her she might pass out. She was so sweet but shy that no one never really got to know her. Not even me even though she has lived across from me for my entire life. I don't think I've ever had a real conversation with her. But this year I was determined to get her to open up to me, she needed a real friend, and that friend would be me.

Like always the bus stop was a silent affair, a very awkward silent affair. Trin just read her book, a massive dictionary-like thing that would have given me a monster headache with my dyslexia. Soon enough the bus came and we were headed to the place where nightmares come true, High School.

The day passed in a flash, I met a new kid her name was Annabeth, I think. She was in my homeroom. She was also in my architecture workshop class. Everyone else was in the workshop to get out of a real class including me. But you should have seen that girl; she really knew her stuff when it came to architecture. Before any of us had figured out how to read a blue print she was already sketching out a design for a complicated Greek looking building, it was amazing.

Anyways at the end of the day Trin and I got off the bus and headed our separate ways. I doubt she even noticed I had said goodbye, she didn't respond. Sighing I headed up my drive way pulling out my key to unlock the door. And that's when I heard it. CRASH! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH a blood curdling scream filled the air and it was coming from Trin's house.

Dropping everything I bolted to Trin's house not knowing what I was going to find on the other side of the door.

Ok guys I'm sorry it's short but I'm exhausted! I'm not really sure how much people read this but thanks for those who do I really appreciate it. Hey guys don't forget to review!

-jgoulding97