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I woke up the next morning and realized that I had left my contacts in. I groaned and tried to get out of bed, but I ended up falling on the floor. I groaned again and pushed myself onto my feet. I walked to my closet and opened the door. The mirror reflected a very tried and very scary looking girl. My hair was a tangled mess and I had bags under my eyes from lack of sleep. I grabbed my brush and started to comb the wild jungle. A half hour later I was looking somewhat like a person and I had given up on my hair, which I had put up in a bun. I walked down stairs lured there by the delicious smells coming from the kitchen.
I walked in to the kitchen and was confronted with the kitchen from hell. William was talking on the phone, pouring himself a glass of orange juice, and packing a duffel bag all at the same time. Mrs. Holmes was running back and forth between the stove, the table and the sink cleaning up after everyone. Mr. Holmes sat in his chair unaware of all the stuff happening around him, reading the newspaper. I sat down next to him and glanced at the front page. There was an article about a recent fire and how the police suspected arson. I reached for one of the bagels that were on the table and stood up and walked over to Mrs. Holmes.
"Mrs. Holmes would you mind if I went off this morning to explore? I have about 15 pounds (about $ 30 in U.S. money.) and I'll bring a cell phone."
"Do you have a map?" She asked while walking to the sink.
"No."
"Well, you can borrow one from our office and you must be back by five. Ok?"
"Thank you!" I hugged her and went out to their office.
A few minutes later I had the map and was all set to start exploring, but Mrs. Holmes called me back into the kitchen. She was holding a small stack of papers and said, "I hope you don't mind, but William left these papers here. I was wondering if you could give them to him. He works at the police station on Oxford Street."
"Sure." I took the papers and put them into my bag.
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I had finally found the police station and was walking up the steps when I tripped and rolled down the steps. I heard someone chuckle. I sat up ready to tell whoever it was that they had no right to laugh at me like that and how would they like it if they fell down a set of stone steps, but the words died in my mouth when I saw who it was. It was one of the most handsome guys I had ever seen. He was tall with an athletic build. His eyes were the color of dark chocolate, and his hair was the same color. He offered me his hand and said, "I'm sorry that I laughed at you. Are you hurt?"
"No I'm fine." I started to rummage through my purse to make sure that everything was there. "Shit." I said under my breath.
"Here these fell out when you fell." He handed me my map, cell phone, and the stack of papers.
"Thank you so much. Oh I'm Serena Longe, you are?"
"Joel Brown, so I noticed that you have police papers."
"Oh, well I'm an exchange student and the family that I'm staying with have a son, William, anyways he left some of his paperwork at home and since I'm new here I decided to explore. Mrs. Holmes asked me to bring them to him."
"I can give them to him if you want."
"Ummm, I'm just going to bring them to the front desk. I'm sorry but I just don't know you." I said as I stared walking up the steps.
"Me and William are working together today. You can ask the guy at the desk if you don't believe me."
"Fine." 'If anything happens to the papers I'll just tell people that a Joel Brown stole them' I said to myself as I handed him the papers. Joel walked into the police station and I sat outside for a few moments just to make sure that Joel didn't run out. After a few minutes my stomach declared that it was lunchtime. Looking around I saw that there was a Mc Donald's nearby.
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June 25th 2004 9:00pm
Well today has been interesting. When William came home he told me that if he does leave anything behind at home to give it to Joel. I don't know about Joel. I guess that I just don't trust him.
There was another fire. On the way back home I saw firefighters and some police looking at the blacked remains of a house. I also heard one of the firefighters talking to another one. He was saying that the family was real lucky that no one died.
On a much brighter note I found a tree in the park that I can climb and it offers a wonderful view of the rest of the park and the street.
Today I also got a course selector from the collage that I'm planning on going to. I looked through it and circled the classes that I wanted to take, but that was all that I did. Tomorrow I'll decide what classes I'm going to take.
Well that's all I have to write about.
I know that, that was an awful way to end a chapter but it was all that I could think of.
I really tried hard to get this done on time, but I just couldn't focus on it. I had to force myself to write for 2 hours yesterday morning. Good news is that I finished.
Bad news: school's starting soon.