I glanced at the clock in my car, 10:36
"Shit." I said to myself.
Mom had said be home by 10:30 or this time I'll be grounded and stuff might start getting taken away. And knowing my luck, the cell phone for sure would be gone and maybe the ipod.
As I gathered up my stuff I glanced at the house. All the lights were out including Mom and Dad's room lights. I left the leftover cake from Taylor's going away party in the back seat and I would retrieve it the next morning.
It was Sunday night and tomorrow was school. I didn't want to get into an argument tonight. Normally I wouldn't do this but in extreme cases I would.
On the side of the house where my room was, was a vine wall and it grew all the way up to my window. And we even had that wood structure to make sure the vine grew the right way. Plus it gave me stability to get to my window.
As I snuck around to the back of the house an outside light turned on. I ran to the wall of the house and pressed my body against it. Even though I knew perfectly well it was probably me to activated it, I still didn't take a chance at either Mom or Dad seeing me out here.
After a minute of creeping along the brick wall of the house I was under my window and by the vine wall. I adjusted my bag and began to climb. The vines were very sturdy and I was able to to get my window open no problem.
It was done and no harm was done. I did leave my window open because it was nice and cool out even though it was early May.
I went into my private bathroom, took a shower and got ready for bed. Monday would be hell seeing how I wasn't going to enough sleep tonight and that I was probably going to have a Pop Quiz in Chemistry because Mr. Barber hadn't given one out in awhile.
Oh why did I stay that late at the going away party? Better yet, why was Taylor even having one on a Sunday evening? That was just so stupid on her part. But that was Taylor for you; she was miserable and wanted you be miserable with her.
She was heading to Chicago to attend some acting school. Taylor had told me the name of school but I had already forgotten it. Even though she was very good at acting it wasn't her passion. It was more her Mom's really.
Her mom was a failed actress herself and was the typical make-your-dreams-live-on-through-your-kids types. Completely unfair to Taylor, seeing how was really wanted to work in relastate. But she had had many chances to get out of this and she hadn't. So now she was moving to Chicago to pursue a dream that wasn't even hers.
As I was leaving her house earlier that evening Taylor had given me one last hug. "We're getting over the summer Miranda, promise." I had of course and then left, rushing home to make curfew.
Taylor's mom I guess had bought an apartment close to the school in order to be quote "Be there for her for anything she may need." A little extreme if you asked me. Plus it was middle of the fourth quarter of school. Taylor was going to have to spend the next four and half weeks or so at a new high school and graduate there.
I was so happy my parent's weren't like that in any way at all.
As for me I knew what I doing in college and where I was going. I was going to spend it figuring out myself and I was going to attend college somewhere in America. Yeah I had no idea but it didn't scare me at all. It took a lot to scare me and not knowing my future wasn't even on the list.
I lived life in the easy lane and didn't worry much about anything. Nothing was so hard it couldn't be solved and nothing so impossible you'd never reach it. By the time school was up in four and half weeks I'd have a school picked out. And if anything else there was always Beauty College.
It wasn't like I hadn't even applied to colleges. I had and I had already heard back from many. Just none of them were the 'one'. Something about each school didn't agree with me. It was picking out a wedding dress or a buying a house; it has to be a good match with you.
Oh well, it didn't matter right at that second. What did matter though was the fact that my eyeliner wasn't coming off and I was really tired. I gave up after the third cotton ball and my entire eye make up remover bottle was gone.
I turned off the bathroom light and walked sleepily to my bed. By now my room was cooled down but I still didn't bother to close the window. It was pitch black in my room and I just fell back on my bed. I looked at the clock one last time and it read 11:49. About six hours of sleep and I couldn't wait.
Now usually it would take me awhile to fall asleep, but maybe it was because I was so tired but that night it didn't take long at all. The last thing I remembered was thinking "This is nice, but how unusual."
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