Back to School - Short Story Two
I jolt as my door rattles under a pounding fist. Usually, no one ever knocks, so this is different.
Cautiously, I slowly open the door.
"...Um, Kaede? What do you want?" I ask, staring down at my little sister. Her face is red.
"Okay. I don't usually ask people for help, and I especially don't ask you for help, but right now, I'm in a crisis."
"Crisis?"
"Precisely. You see..."
She shifts her weight onto her right leg. Her right hand finds her left elbow.
"You see, I don't know what to wear for the first day of school."
Her foot blocks my door from closing.
"Come on! You have to help me! As much as I hate to admit it, you have... Your fashion sense isn't horrible."
"Gee, thanks," I say, rolling my eyes. She starts tapping on the door frame.
"Can you just... maybe help me pick a top...?" she mumbles, studying her feet.
I think for a second. It's not like I have anything better to do.
Well. I wouldn't say that. I could be reading manga. Or watching anime. Or browsing the internet. Or sleeping. I could be sleeping.
"Fine, fine," I sigh, "Show me what you have."
She bounces up and down excitedly, and I follow her back to her room. I've only been in there a few times, and it's probably the most girliest room in existence. Don't even try to fight me on this.
When we get there, she already has a few shirts laying across her bed. She picks one up.
"I was thinking this one, paired with..."
She moves over to her desk, with skirts strewn about it.
"...This skirt?"
I tap my chin. I have to be thinking with a girly mindset, which is quite difficult.
"I say no. Both have patterns on them. You'd look like a walking flower shop. Lesson number one in fashion is that you never pair a pattern with another pattern. I would say this..."
I pick up a nice navy-blue pleated skirt.
"...would definitely go better with that tap. It brings out the blues in the shirt."
Kaede nods.
"I'm going to have to try it on to confirm that I actually like it."
She jogs to her closet and shuts the door. Of course, she has the biggest closet in the house, next to my parents'.
Soon, she erupts from the room clad in the outfit I chose.
"I like it," she says, twirling around. I smile.
"That's good, then. Oh, hey..."
"What?"
"When does school start again? I can't even remember."
She looks at me with a face.
"You don't know? It's tomorrow. School starts tomorrow."
In that moment, I swear my mind exploded.
Hey guys! Yes, I am alive. I wrote this little thing about back to school because hey, I started high school the 25th!
So far, it's not bad, but not great.
I'm surviving as best as I can.
That being said, chapters will take longer for me to write. I really have to focus this year. The next chapter to the main story still needs work, and probably won't be posted for another week or so (unless I decide to surprise you all and post it earlier, which will probably end up happening). I promised longer chapters, and I'm going to try and fulfill that promise as much as I can.
I have a lot of things planned for this story, and I plan on seeing them through. I have not given up! :)
Thank you all for such positive feedback. It fills my heart with joy.
- Leigh
