Earth & Space Class

Mommy's client's smoking hot son

June 12

Dear Gianna,

Fuck you fat bitch you left me to go Korea to eat 2 grains of rice per day to become a Kpop star but you are probably going to be broke by the time you turn 30 with anorexia.

-Tessa

Satisfied, I sealed up the envelope and stuck 3 stamps on the edge. Ah. Worth the entire $1.15. It is hard when your only friend moves to Korea, even if she wasn't Korean. And it's hard when your friend is bad at rapping but somehow still makes the audition for the next hit girl group. I kicked the clothes pile next to my bed and got up from the floor, god this room is such a mess, I should clean it before tomorrows party.

"Tessa, would you like to help me organize the dining room? We need more space if one big families are coming in tomorrow," Tracey says, peaking in from the my bedroom door.

"Yeah of course, it's going to be a sit down dinner right?" I eyed my huge pile of dirty laundry. Please say no, please say no.

"How could you even ask? This Peggy Mccaffery is and will be the biggest client I've ever had, wear something nice," and with that, my mother drifts out the room. I scramble to the disgusting mountain, digging for my nice shirts. I finally pulled out two, one was wrinkled and smelled weird and the other had a huge stain on the back. I pulled it up to my nose and sniffed the stain, was that....blood? How did I get blood on the back of a shirt?

After moving a few chairs in the dinning room, I dropped my letter at the post office and came home to sleep. My life has gotten so boring that I go to bed at 7 and wake up at 3. Sometimes I would go on discord to play valorant before bed but today Moe and Haider, my little discord kittens from Michigan, weren't responding.

June 13

I blew on the steaming cup tea, hunched over on the tiny park bench at 6:32 am. The sun already risen, peeking above the ground and all orangey and tangy looking yet the air was nice with a breeze. Perks of waking up at the crack of dawn, you get an early start to the day. By 5 I was bustling out of my neighborhood driving downtown. When you live in Iowa City, there is really no one around in broad daylight, especially not at 6 am on a Sunday. I scratched my hair and leaned back, taking in the few of the quite college campus. The tea I had picked up from the Early Bird Dinner was still warm in my hands and the only thing I could hear was birds chirping playfully as they bounced around the lawns. I feel my eyes start to droop as the now pinkish sunrise dawned over my face and my arms start to relax on the bench. I shifted my body like I was laying on a bed and sighed, taking a sip from my cup every now and then.

"Tessa!" Gianna was running towards me, across the green lawn.

"Gianna? What are you doing here, are you not in Korea?" I blinked, not believing this was real.

"Omg, I missed you so much! How are you, literally I am so excited to be back in school with you!" She wrapped her arms around my shoulder and squeezed it. I could smell something sweet on her, "Is that a new perfume?" I asked.

Gianna took a step away from and looked at me, eyes puzzled and hands at her hips, "I don't wear perfume Tessa," she said my name with such harness that it surprised me, "You know I would never wear perfume," Gianna's sweet face all of a sudden turned sour, and looked at me as if she didn't even know who I was.

"I'm-uh sorry, I am just surprised you are back! When did you even get here?!" I am dizzy, my feet felt wobbly and my face was hot. Gianna's mini white dress started shifting colors, green to yellow, then blue, and back to green. Her face was starting to blur too.