Dreams Do Come True

Vacationtime

Friday 7.00 A.M.

A new day. I wake up and look at the LA-poster one more time before I get up. I can hear my parents downstairs fighting again. My mom's yelling about how my dad does nothing but sitting at home all day. My dad replies with a classic:' Everything's your fault!' I'm not sure if I want to go downstairs yet, so I slowly get dressed and pull out my phone. I got a text from Michael:'Have fun at school today!' Fun.. Yeah.. It's a perfect description if what I won't have. I reply with:' Thanks, you too! :)'
Right as I hit send, I hear my mom yelling:' This is EXACTLY why we're breaking up!'
 What!? Breaking up!? My mind goes crazy and everything becomes blurry. My parents are breaking up, and I didn't even know about it. I hear them yelling about 'couples counseling' and 'fixing it' in the background while I try to get my clear vision back.

After 10 minutes they stopped yelling and I quietly go downstairs. My mom looks horrible. She has mascara on her cheeks and her hair is a mess. She's sitting in the sofa, staring at the wall in front of her. She looks completely numb. I eat some cereal and walk to school.
I try to focus on logarithms and Napoleon Bonaparte, but I can't get my moms voice out of my head. 'This is EXACTLY why we're breaking up!' It echoes in my head. I can't think about anything else. Before I realize it, the day is over.
I walk outside and feel someone jumping on my back. It's Nancy, my best friend.
'Vacationtime!', she screams in my ear.
I forgot about that. A little smile appears on my face.
'I knew you could smile!', Nancy jokes.
But my smile quickly disappears when I see Carla coming towards me. Lara and Justine are following her, as usual. She stops right in front of me and reaches in for a hug. Terrified me goes completely numb and freezes. Confused, Nancy backs away. I can hear Lara and Justine giggling. Suddenly I feel Claras hands in my backpack. She's reaching in and takes something out. She backs away with my phone in her hand. I try to take it back, but her slaves are holding me back.
'One new message', Clara reads out loud. Gavin, Robert and Milo join the group and tell Clara to read it out loud.
'We'll need your passcode, dickface', she says on a bitchy tone.
I ignore her command and keep reaching for my phone. Clara suddenly grabs my hair and screams in my face:' Your passcode, NOW!'
I don't reply. She pull my hair back more until I scream out:'4285'
She pushes me over and types in the code.
'Who is Michael, dickface?', Gavin asks.
'Want to meet up? I got something I want to tell you', Clara reads out loud.
I feel my face turn red.
'Embarrassed?', Gavin mocks.
Everyone starts laughing, when suddenly someone takes my phone out of Claras hand and pushes everyone aside. It's Mason. Because he's older then everyone there, no one pushes him back. He walks up to me and helps me up.
'Don't you kids got better things to do?', he yells at Clara and Gavin.
'Let's get out of here', he whispers in my ear while he puts his arm around me.
I feel save again. He saved me, again. I don't think I can thank him enough.
'Vacationtime!', I hear Nancy screaming behind us.
'Vacationtime!', Mason and I scream back.
'So what are we going to do?', I ask Mason.
'I don't know. What do you want to do?', he replies.
'Sleepover?'
'Sleepover it is.'
'Yes!', Nancy shouts,'I'll tell Sam and Karla about it!'
Sam is her boyfriend and Karla is Masons girlfriend. Yeah, he has a girlfriend. They fight a lot, but he really loves her. I don't think she realizes that. I've been trying to help them save their relationship, but it's not been working out too great.