"Honey,it's time for school." I wake up to see my mom sitting on the edge of my bed, with a strange expression on her face."What's wrong mom?" I ask, feeling a bit uneasy.
"Nothing dear. Why do you ask?"
"No reason." I lie as I crawl out of bed, I walk slowly down the stairs and into the kitchen. I begin making oatmeal, being a little over optimistic about its disgustingly bland taste. I shovel it into my mouth as fast as I can, I can't wait to get to school, After all it is the beginning of a new year, which means new kids, which means new boys.I think this to myself as I hurriedly get dressed. I grab my backpack and rush out the door. I run as fast as I can but it's to late, the bus is already gone. I decided that there is no point in walking home, so I ran the rest of the way to school. When I finally arrive It's time for class to begin, I try to act casual as I run into the room with my books in hand. "Nice to see you too." Mr. Lebioda said as he wrote out our plans for the day. I look around the room hoping to see some newbies, and then I spot him a short scraggly kid with messy hair and green eyes. "Wow." I whispered under my breath.I spent the rest of class watching him, I was obsessed. He was the only thing on my mind. Before I knew it class was over. Me Halie and Aubrey walked side by side then I saw him again getting his backpack from his locker, Halie noticed me staring. "I see you've got your eye on someone."
"He's kinda hot right?" I asked slowly,
"Yeah he's also kinda gay." Halie said as if it were the most obvious thing in the world.
"How do you know if he's gay or not?" I asked raising my voice.
"He has a boy friend." she said flatly
"Who?" I asked enraged by the thought of him being gay.
"Richard, duh everybody knows that!" No wonder his name is Richard, that's exactly what he is, a big fat Richard. I thought to myself.
"What rock have you been living under?" Aubrey asked,
"Same one you are." I said absently.
"How about we try to find you someone who's not gay?" Aubrey joked as we turned to walk out the door. "Let's look tomorrow." I yell as I run towards my house. When I got home my mom was sitting in the living room her face looked like something from a cartoon. "Mom, are you okay?"
"Do I look okay?" she asked, judging by the look on her face no she was drunk again.
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"No." I answered honestly,
"Well good cause i'm not you're idiot father isn't working hard enough to provide for this family so, you gots to skidaddle."
"What do you mean?" I asked in disbelief,
"You got till the end of this week to find someone to move in with." She said, walking toward the kitchen. "You suck!" I yelled as I ran outside and down the street to Emerson's house. I've been running a lot lately. I thought as I pounded on the door, no answer. I tryed again, no answer. So I decided to do things my way I walked around to the back of Emerson's house, to the tool shed I walked inside and grabbed a small hammer. "This should do the trick." I went back to the front door and threw the hammer as hard as I could.Emerson ran outside, "You could've just opened the door like a normal person!" She yelled clearly irritated.
"I'm not really what you'd call a normal person." I said as I stepped inside,Emerson grumbled something as she followed me in.We walked in silence until we were in her room. "What do you want this time?" She asked,
"I need help, I need to find someone to move in with by the end of the week." I said hurriedly.
"Well let's go out somewhere, I sure you'll find someone."
"Yeah, I probably will." I addmitted shyly.
"I know the perfect place to go." She said, looking pleased with herself.
"Where?" I asked
"The most romantic place in the world." She continued without answering my question.
"Where?" I asked more intensely,
"Mcdonalds." She anounced
"Wow, how fancy can you get." We went outside and hopped in a blue truck, "Is this yours?" I asked accusingly, "It's my dads. He won't mind."
"Do you even have a license?" I asked nervously,
"Nah, we dont need a license. We'll be fine." She said this as if she couldn't care less.When we got there we looked around but we didn't see any hot boys just a bunch of hillbilly's. We were just getting ready to turn around and leave when we heard Halie say something we turned around to adress her "Hey me and Jaxon are throwing a huge party, you guys should totally come." Jaxon nodded his agreement.
"When is it?" I asked hopefully,
"Tomorrow."
"Okay we'll be there." Emerson said,
"See you then." Halie said as she and Jaxon walked away.
"Let's go back to your house." I said excitedly. On the ride back a cop pulled us over because of Emerson's wreckless driving. "May I see your license please." The officer asked,
"No, you may not you ugly lopsided son of a bun." The officer looked confused,
"Excuse me?"
"You heard me just fine."
"Well I'm gonna have to give you a ticket, and i'm gonna let you off easy, but only because you are clearly under the influence of some alcoholic substance."
"Son of a bun." Emerson grumbled.
"You welcome." The officer said as he handed her the ticket. He began talking into a walkie-talkie. Then suddenly the truck jerked forward violently. "What are you doing?" I whispered,
