Into The Light

Juniors

"Lila, it's time to wake up sweetheart," Mrs. Campbell says

I slowly sat up in bed and rubbed my eyes before getting up.

"I'll have breakfast ready downstairs if you want to eat before school,"

"I'll be down in about half an hour,"

I had already laid out my outfit the night before, so all I had to do was get dressed, curl my hair, and put on makeup.

I grabbed my outfit and went into the bathroom to get ready, While I let my curling iron heat up, I changed out of my pajamas and used the bathroom. Once I finished getting ready, I went downstairs and sat down at the table

"Good morning," Sarah says

"Good morning,"

"I'm sorry about yesterday, I didn't mean to make you feel insecure about yourself,"

"It's okay, I'm sorry too, I knew you didn't mean it negatively, I've just been feeling insecure recently and that made me feel worse,"

"You're beautiful Lila,"

"Both of you are," Mrs. Campbell says as she hands us each a plate of food

"Thanks, mom,"

"You're welcome sweetheart, you've got about 10 minutes to eat and get out the door,"

I slowly ate breakfast, I wasn't really hungry. I was more tired than anything, I didn't sleep well last night, I had too much on my mind.

"Are you okay Lila?" Sarah asks shaking me from my thoughts

"Yeah, I'm tired, I didn't really sleep well last night,"

"Me either, I kept thinking about school,"

"At least we have the same classes as Zack, Luke, Asher, and Josie,"

"I'm glad Luke is in our classes this time,"

"Me too, I just don't want to have Algebra 2 and Chemistry as the first two classes of the day,"

"Gross, this is going to be a long year,"

"I know,"

I pulled out my schedule to look at it and make sure I knew the order of the classes we had.

1. Chemistry - Yordy

2. Algebra 2 - Clark

3. European History - Taylor

4. English 3 - King

5. French 3- Lyons

6. Choir - Anderson

"Ready to go?"

"Yeah, let's go,"

I grabbed my backpack and walked outside to Sarah's car

"Bye girls, have a good day at school," Mrs. Campbell yells out the door

I wave goodbye as Sarah backs down the driveway and drives away.

"I'm just glad we get out of school at 1:15," she says

"Me too, we can go home and study with Josie while the boys are in their college classes,"

"Maybe we should wait for them, that way we can all work on it together,"

"I guess we can wait,"

"It's just weird, that they're going to college already,"

"I know, but at least it's only three days a week, and they're out by 4:00"

"Yeah, that's true,"

"After they're done with college, they can come over and we can all study together and spend time together,"