The phone alarm sprang to life as seven o'clock rolled around and I too found myself rolling toward the bedside table to kill the beast.
I began to hum a random tune to myself as I threw my legs over the edge of the bed and then slumped over tiredly.
It was going to be my first day at my new school, Sweet Amoris High, and the first day of my new life. That's not a bad thing now... It's quite nice! My old life, and my old school was so... Well, it was a mess! I wasn't the greatest of classmates or the easiest kid to get along with. Always controlling and bossing people around, making life heck for people when things didn't go my way... Man... At least here at the new school I can just start over fresh.
I stood up and stretched. I cracked my back... and my neck... and my shoulders... and you probably think I'm crazy, but oh we'll bad habits die hard! Haha...
I trudged on into the hallway, the boxes and bags still littering the floors from our big move. My poor auntie, she's probably going to be left home to pack all this up... Or pack it out rather, while my parents and I are out. I made a note to help her with that later.
Suddenly, a clunk... Thundering footsteps, scratching the hardwood floors...
Yep. Here come the dogs!
Lobo and Sierra, our bull terriers scrambled clumsily down the hallway to run me over with their big fat muscular doggy bodies as they demanded food for the morning.
I squatted down and cuddled them, Sierra getting a few licks on my face before I pushed her away. Lobo just plonked straight down on top of my lap and stared at me intensely with bugged eyes.
I pushed them off and then after I fed them I had some of my own. My parents and auntie wouldn't be up until at least half past seven, so I wouldn't see them until the end of the day.
Breakfast- ten minutes
Getting changed- ten more minutes
Brushing teeth- two minutes
Hair- ten more minutes...
Man I need a life if I can count how long that all takes. I slipped on my boots and stared out into the streets below us. Would today bring me something new?
My parents got up as the seven thirty alarm went off, and with a quick goodbye I was out the door.
Heading downstairs, passing all the other rooms in the apartment I stopped and turned to the left...
I could have sworn I just saw...
I shook it off and then headed down the stairs, bag on shoulder and water bottle in hand, and then after a quick check of the street names, I boarded the school bus and took my usual seat at the mid back.
It wasn't the exact spot or seat mind you, being a totally different bus, but for as long as I can remember I've always chosen this seat in any school bus to sit in. I sighed and stared out the window as it pulled away from the station and then smiled.
Everything was new. New and ready for me to NOT screw it up! Right?