Until You

Chapter 1 - "It's just a stupid prom."

It is 7:00 am and my alarm clock does not stop ringing, which means that in five minutes, or less, my mom will be knocking at my door, screaming my name and saying "Hurry up, you are going to be late".

- If you don't get up immediately, I'm not going to wait for you Mary! – she shouts as she opens the door. I was totally right.

I bet that everyone is probably still sleeping; besides, I usually don't take much time to prepare myself. I got up from bed when I heard the footsteps of my mother going down the stairs. In a rush, I went to the bathroom to wash my face. Then, I looked in my closet for a t-shirt I bought last week and a pair of jeans. After putting on my trainers, I went to the kitchen downstairs to have breakfast. I don't see the point of eating so early, sometimes I get nauseous, so most of the times I choose to eat only a piece of fruit.

- Is that all you're going to eat... Again? – my father looked at me almost laughing, as he ate two buttered toast and drink his coffe.

- First of all, good morning. Second of all, dear father, I'm tired of explaining that I get sick when I eat too much for breakfast. I'm not like you guys! How can you keep so much food in your stomach in the morning for so long? – I said to him as I leaned against the kitchen sink, giving the first bite on the apple.

- You're so stupid, food is the best thing in the word! – my brother laughed at me while eating his super-hero cereals. Ridiculous.

- Thomas, language. I already told you, do not call names to your sister. And the same goes to you Mary. - my mom showed up on the door holding her handbag, as she grabbed her coat from the hanger.

- I know mom, I know. Anyways, today after school Emily is coming here. We are going to start a new project about "How to live with someone who has a serious mental disease".

My mother started asking a lot of questions, giving her opinion on the subject. She had a point: is there any mental disease that isn't serious? She is a lawyer so she always has a lot of questions, and she is used to give her opinion on every subject. Not to mention that she starts talking about it like if she was at court. Seriously.

I could keep describing you the rest of my daily morning but that would be boring. To be honest, my whole life is a boredom, except for the fact that I have amazing friends, who love to hang out together. We are almost ending senior year and going to college. How awesome is that? High school is almost over, and each one of us will follow a different path and different dreams. Now that I think of it, it is not that awesome...

I have known my best friend Emily for as long as I can remember. We always went to the same school, and despite of not being in the same class, we still are very close, since the first day. I have other friends, like William, Tracy, Olivia and Diego. They are not as close as Emily is, but they are from my class and we developed a good friendship between all of us. 

Of course, I have to talk about Nick. There are probably a lot of things that I could say about Nick, which makes this harder. I met him three years ago, when he and his family moved to the neighborhood. In fact, he lives four houses after mine. I only figured that out after his parents brought me home from a party, where I met him. When I was near the front door, some guy showed up and started asking questions like he knew me. To be fair, he seemed really nice and he was cute. He was wearing a Nirvana t-shirt and black jeans with a pair of Adidas footwear. I could never forget what he looked like, and despite being drunk, I still knew how to appreciate a guy. He had brown hair and brown eyes, and he seemed a little nervous. Honestly, that night I was so rude to him and I still feel bad about it, because he was just trying to help me, even though we didn't know each other. We got really close and he always supported me in every possible way. In case you are all asking, we are just friends. I had a boyfriend back then and things did not turn out the way I expected. Besides, Nick has a girlfriend, Charlotte. That is not the point because I wouldn't date him either way. Or would I? I mean, he is very cute but he is my best friend. Emily and he are very supportive to me and I wouldn't choose to lose him or to change things between us just because of some random relationship that would ruin our friendship. Let's be frank, even if I had feelings for him, he is out of my league.