Strangers

001

I'd been up late all night, for no reason really. I was just listening to music and watching videos of it being performed live, it's the closest I'll ever get to seeing a concert. When I heard my alarm go off I mentally cursed myself for staying up so late, leaving me with only three hours of sleep to make me last an entire school day.

"Sitting on the counter in your kitchen, can you feel my heart beat fucking kicking" I sang along to my alarm once I woken up. I got up and out of bed and look at myself in the mirror, god I looked terrible. I grabbed a pair of jeans and a t-shirt from my closet and threw them on throwing my hair into a half up and half down style turning the top into a bun. I wasn't going to bother with make up today so I grabbed my phone, my bag, and my poster for my social studies class and walked down stairs.

I'm an only child so getting ready for school was quiet and calm, I hated it. My parents both left early for work so I was alone in the house except for my cat, Maxine, she was a ginger cat I'd gotten her when I was 4 as a present. I fixed a bowl of cereal and walked to the closet to get the bag of cat food, Maxine is walking in between my legs and I'm trying not to step on her. I fill her bowls and sit down to eat my breakfast while she eats hers, I get a text from my friend, "hey pulling up in 10" I reply "alright" I finish my cereal and put my bowl in the sink, then grab my house keys, my ear buds, my phone, and my bag and walked out of the house. My friend pulled up and I got in her car.

"God you look terrible, are you okay?" She asked.

"Thanks, Nicole. I'm fine, I just didn't sleep much last night" I said and sat my bag in the floorboard. We'd been best friends since second grade when she moved here from New York.

"Why not?" Nicole asked, and turned the radio down.

"Uh I was busy with stuff" I replied and unlocked my phone, "so you want to come over tonight?"

"What stuff? Yeah, we'll stop by my house on the way and grab clothes." She said.

"Nothing, no stuff" I said annoyed with the question, I heard Bad At Love on the come on the radio, "shh shh shh, it's Halsey" I said and turned the radio up singing along. Nicole wasn't as big as a fan as I was but she still loved her music.

Nicole laughed at me and started to sing along.

We arrived at hell, I mean school, and we turned the radio down, I grabbed my bag and got out of Nicole's car. We walked in school together, our lockers were near each other so we walked to our lockers and got in them.

"See ya kid" Nicole said tapping my shoulder and walking away.

"Bye" I said but to quiet for her to hear.

The day went on incredibly slow, finally it was my last class, social studies, I look in my locker for my poster. Where was my poster? Oh god, I forgot it at home. Nicole walked up to me, "hey what's wrong?"

"My poster. I forgot my fucking poster" I said quietly, I was stressed and if I talked louder I'd end up crying.

"Hey, just explain, make an excuse. You've never done anything like this before, the teacher will be fine with it" Nicole said trying to calm me.

"Y-yeah I'll just tell them something. Go head to class" I said. Once she was out of sight I ran to the bathroom, I stayed in there for the rest of the day until the bell rang. I went to my locker and got into it acting like I'd just came out of class, I finished grabbing my stuff and went to Nicole's locker and waited for her.

A/N

Okay so this is the end of the chapter, if you guys like this please vote and comment. Thanks for reading! Comment for any suggestions you have!- Kaylah 💜💜