I just want a cool ranch doritos taco I'm sorry I talk about tacos a lot. But anyway I feel like I haven't updated in a long time but it wasn't that long was it? If it was I'm sorry. :)

"I can't go to school today." I muffled as I stuffed my head into my pillow when I heard my dad walk into my room for my annual wake up.

"And why's that?" my dad sighed, trying to make it seem like he actually cared why I didn't want to go.

"Because," I paused, I had to think of something good or I'd just be dumbing down my chances of getting out of school another day down the road. Before I could even finish, my dad cut me off.

"Anyway, it's only the third day of school, I'm sure you can make it through." He said, walking out.

"I can't!" I called down the hallway, "I hope you feel bad when I don't make it through."

"Just be happy that I'm taking Sam today." He yelled back as he closed the front door.

Once, I made sure that he was out of the driveway and off without any turn backs, I crawled back into bed. With my dad taking Sam, that meant I had an extra few minutes in which I could get to school without being late and what better way to spend those extra minutes than sleeping? I pulled my covers back on and closed my eyes, just for a few minutes. As I woke up, I rolled over to get up and looked at the clock to see how much time I had left. Time was not on my side, not even for a second.

A few minutes, so I thought. I opened my eyes to see that low and behold, I was already late for school and I wasn't even out of the bed. I jumped out of bed, quickly grabbing the clothes that were closest to me, a red flannel shirt, black leggings and black oxfords. I had absolutely no time for my hair so I just put it up in a messy bun and tied a red bandana as a headband. I brushed my teeth, washed my face and put on a quick layer of mascara as fast as I could. I ran down the steps, slipping on the fifth one to make it down.

I ran out the house almost closing the door when I remembered that I left my keys, running back in to grab them and running back out to try to make it to school before second period. I got tons of crazy looks from people regularly going about their day as I speed through the sideways but finally, I made it to Degrassi with just enough breath to make it up the stairs.

As I walked in, I tried to avoid Simpson at all costs even though I would obviously be marked late, I couldn't run into the principal. I looked through classrooms as I made my way to my locker. I passed by a classroom in which Eli was in. As if my presence was known to him at all times, he looked up and saw me. His eyes widened and he made a surprised face both in a sarcastic way to play up me being out of class while he was in class, oh the irony. The teacher saw him and told him to play attention, he snuck a look at me as he went back to learning and I made sure he saw me laugh as I was content with getting him in trouble.

I rushed to my locker and grabbed my books for all my classes before lunch. As I walked to first period, I saw that the door was still open. Trying to not get caught, I snuck in and sat down quickly in one of the seats in the back. Since I was normally never noticed, I thought it was be easy to get away with but turns out, this time wasn't as easy.

"Miss Mitchell, care to explain your tardiness?"

Suddenly the whole class knew who I was and turned around to look at me as I had to come up with an answer. I could feel my cheeks turning red in embarrassment as I was the center of attention. I wanted to come up with an awesome excuse but there was no time to and even given the time, I wouldn't have been able to get one.

"I overslept." I said, quietly, "I'm sorry, it won't happen again."

"Of course it won't," she said, turning back around to continue on with the lesson.

As everyone finally took their eyes from me, I put my head down trying to hide wishing I just didn't come to school today at all.

Next time I told myself to just not come to class at all. Sure, it'd be marked late on my record but I'd rather get ridiculed in the comfort of my own home than the presence of classmates that most likely didn't even know my name.

Considering I came in five minutes before class was over, the bells rang relatively quickly and I walked to my locker as I grabbed all the wrong books. As I was switching the books out of my locker, someone leaned against the locker next to me. I could already tell who is was by their all black converse and black jeans to match.

Even if I didn't know who it was, he was ready to make himself known, "Isn't it ironic how Ms. Goody Two Shoes was late to school while I was being a perfectly good student and sitting in class, learning."

"I overslept well, I woke up then went back to sleep and then overslept. I've never been late to school I think I could get a pass for today." I said, standing up and closing my locker.

" A pass?" Eli laughed, "Oh no, there's no such thing as a pass with me."

"I figured." I said, walking away.

He followed behind me and I smiled to myself as he did. We just walked without actually saying anything but it's wasn't awkward like most of my life was. It was comforting that I could walk alone with him and not feel weird or awkward. Even with my best friends at home, we had silences that I couldn't wait to get away from but I wouldn't mind if I just walked around silently with him like that.

"Well this is my stop." I said, as we made it to the science classroom.

"Alright, are you sure I can leave you here? Do I need to find someone to watch you? Because you need to learn and considering your behavior today, I'm very concerned." Eli smirked.

"You enjoy this don't you?" I tried not to laugh but couldn't help it.

"More than you'll ever know."

This chapter is inspired by me being late to school to get Dunkin Donuts this morning but it was a free coffee so I had to get it right? Right. Just like that's a free review down there take advantage of it yay!