Alicia squints her eyes as the harsh sun beams through her dull yellow curtains, she whispers under her breath "uh I've gotta get ready" so she slowly but surely sat up and hopped out of her bed and hazily stumbles down the hall and into the kitchen. she flicks on the kettle and places her tea bag In her cup and tries not to spill sugar over the entirety of the tiled floor and actually into her mug, she did manage but only just. Once she'd put the sugar back on the shelf she jumped on to the kitchen bench. A few minutes later her kettle pinged and she poured it in her favorite blue mug about 3/4 up and filled the rest up with milk, she sips the sweet drink as she pulled out the toaster and put some bread in. She was more awake from the tea so she could walk and see a little clearer, she opened the fridge to get out some butter and marmalade. Just as the door gently closes POP Her toast pops out of the top of the toaster and she shudders from the quite loud sound, after she recovered from the harmless yet traumatic experience she carefully got out a plate and slapped butter and marmalade onto her perfect toast. Alicia enjoyed breakfast a lot more than other meals probably because she spent it at home and not at her kind of grotty school.
Once she finished eating she walkes back to her room dumping her dishes into the sink on the way past. Pulled her shirt and skirt off the coat hanger and but them on. Her phone buzzed on her small bed side table it was a text from her mum " I've gotta work this afternoon so can you please put dinner on and remember to hand in those two notes to the office and don't forget have a good day see you tonight sweetie"
Alicia had completely forgotten about the notes so she walked over to her desk gets the notes, gets her bag and stuffs the notes in the front pocket. She reaches over to her shoe rack and gets her pair of black school shoes grabs some socks and pulls them on and ties them. She gets up from the floor and gets her light blue watch so when she's at school she can see how much longer she has to suffer in these dumb classes, she then wonders into the bathroom and got out her brush from the second drawer down. "Damn I shouldn't have slept with my hair in a bun cause it's gonna be a mess" surprisingly it wasn't too bad, she put two hair bands on her wrist and started pulling her hair into a ponytail wrapped the hair band around a few times and put her favorite scrunchie in her dirty blonde hair. Once she pinned back a few stray hairs at the back it was about time to leave for school so she got her books from her desk got her copy of The Believers by Zoë heller for when her classes were slow, she unenthusiastically walked to the front room closed her front door behind her and she was 'ready' to start the day.
Alicia could either walk or catch the Buss they both took about twenty minutes so it wasn't a matter of time but rather did she want to be crammed onto a crowded bus or walk in the cool breeze of autumn? she did have her jumper on so she felt that it would be better if she walked and not ruin her day from the beginning by having a stuffy bus trip. She looked quite confident walking through her suburban town didn't stare at her feet hunched like a lot of people that she knew she walked in a stride eyes bolted forward but sometimes breaking that to look at birds flying by or people riding past her on there toxically bright coloured bikes.
As Alicia Steadily walks through a quiet street she hums a cute and catchy song she heard on the radio on the bus the other week (even though the bus was already loud enough with the screaming high schoolers, she didn't feel like the radio should be as loud as the kids but she sort of Likes it because she finds nice songs to listen to)
~she used to be in love with me ~~ but now We're just a mem-or-y~.
She got caught up thinking of this song that she had arrived at school and she didn't even realize.
