First star to the left

Part 2

Beep....Beep....Beep.....Bee-Bang!

I groan and roll over to look at my hopefully not broken alarm clock. The red light is still flashing at 5:30. I get out of bed to pick up my alarm clock and head towards the bathroom. As I walk down the hallway, I pass by Hope's room. Her door is half-open, so I take a peek inside. She's curled up in a cocoon of blankets on the floor a few feet away from her bed. How I don't know, she sleeps like the dead and falls on the floor a lot; I usually try to pick her up and put her back into bed, but I'm too lazy.

After my shower, I head back into my room and pull out the dress and shoes from yesterday. I quickly get dressed and brush my hair, pulling it into a neat ponytail as I slip my shoes on. I look around my room and can't find my bag. I dig in my closet, then look under my bed, and still nothing—just my luck. I lose my bookbag and everything in it on the first day of school. I run downstairs to ask my aunt if she has seen it, but she is nowhere in sight once I get downstairs. I look in the kitchen, and I see she made Pancakes. On the chairs are mine and Hope's bags. Leave it to my aunt to do this; I pick up the note she left us and sat down to start eating.

A few minutes later, Hope comes running downstairs, looking frantic as always. "Where is my bag?" I pointed to the chair across from me; she sighed and sat down in her seat, grabbing a pancake, scarfing it down before grabbing my arm, and running to the car.

20 minutes later, I'm waiting by my locker, the same one I've had for the past four years. Then out of the subtle noise of incoming students, I hear what can only be described as Flooly. "Tamani!" Oh no, what did Tam do now? The first block hasn't even started yet. "Short, short, shorty, short," Tam practically sings to Flooly. 

You see, I have two other best friends Tamani and Flooly. They are the best friends you could ever ask for. You see, the four of us have been friends for as long as I can remember. They were there for me in my darkest times. Tamani, or Tam for short, is the classic nerd with the looks of a jock heartbreaker. He has slightly tan skin with rich chocolate brown eyes, his hair is short and the perfect shade of bronze and spiked up a bit at the front. Flooly, on the other hand, is only an inch taller than me. She has shiny blond hair and the prettiest blue eyes ever, but her scowl can kill you three times over. Flooly got her name cause when she was born her dad fainted from the sight of all the blood. Her mom was so delirious from all the medication that she named her daughter Flooly. I call her Loo. She's 5 foot and looks like a college student but has the personality of a 6-year-old. Her least favorite thing is being called short, which ironically is Tams's favorite thing to call her.

"Well, well, well. Isn't this a sight to see? Is miss Ash wearing a dress willingly?" Ah, sarcasm, beautiful sarcasm. I just batted my eyelashes and gave him the beauty pageant smile and wave. "Why yes, I am Tam; thank you ever so much for noticing." We all laughed. "Honestly though, this is the best dress ever; it has pockets!" Tam and Flooly just laughed at me, meanies. "Hahaha, very funny let me see your schedules." Flooly handed me hers as Tam took mine. It turns out I have Spanish, chorus, gym, history, and a full block study hall with Tam and science, history, and chorus. 

Hope then ran up to us and took my schedule. "Yay! We have chorus together and..... That's it!" She was fuming; the past 3 years, we've had practically the same class schedule. This was going to be a big change for her, I mean us. People around us in the hallway turned to look at the loudmouth known as Hope, though conveniently she didn't notice, but Flooly did, and she just smiled and waved at everyone looking at us like the weirdo she is.

"You have ten minutes to get to your first block class." My principal Mr. Cruele said in his normal grumpy voice over the speakers.

"Yay, science here we, I mean here I come!" Tam said with fake enthusiasm. I just laughed; we had science together last year, and I know he hoped to have it together again this year.

"Oh well, maybe it's because you kept squirting water at me last year in class." Tam stuck his tongue out at me and pouted like a child; to be honest, he looked adorable! "Well, I'm going to English. Why am I always alone in English?" Now it was my turn to whine and pout like a child. I was always alone for this class while everyone else was in it together.

"Cause then you can help us by telling us all the answers?" Hope said with an innocent smile.

 "Yeah, 'cause that's fair. I do all the work, so you guys don't have to read any of the stupid books." They all gave me sheepish smiles as Hope gave a shy "We love you." After the group hug, we all said our byes and headed to our first block classes.

English dragged on and on, and you guessed it on. We did the cliche ice breaker games than read a poem to show our analytical skills. I normally love English; it's easy, and I love to read, but I don't think I'm gonna like this year for some reason. Once the bell rang, I practically flew to the door; it's time for Spanish with Tam!

Once in the classroom, I spotted Tam in the front row closest to the teacher's desk. "Hey! How was English?" I just groaned and laid my head against the cold desk. He smirked and gave me a comforting shoulder pat. Once the teacher started class, Tam took out some paper and started writing notes...Spanish is his favorite subject if you couldn't tell. He was always a teacher's pet in this class. After a few minutes of listening to the teacher talk about the class, I felt a tap on my arm; a piece of paper slid onto my desk from Tam.

T: Hey, I missed you over the summer. Even though family surrounded me, I missed everyone here.

A: I missed you too, Tam. How was Washington? Also, how was your way too smart for 2nd-grade sister?

T: Lol, Kate is good; they put her in a 5th-grade math class to try to challenge her.... I don't think it's much of a challenge for her tho. And Washington was ok, lonely without you or our friends.

A: Maybe next year I can join you in Washington?

T: I would LOVE that!!!!!!!!

I laughed silently to myself. Tams's birth mom and two sisters, and brother live in Washington. He goes out there every summer to see them. Just as I was about to write back, the bell rang, and it was time for Tam and me to part ways once again. During lunch, I sat with some friends I've known for a long time; then it was off to art. It's funny cause the art teacher is my aunt's best friend, so  me and her normally spend a good part of the class talking after the art was Science with Flooly! It was only a half block today, so the second half of class was a study hall.

"Hey!" I looked around but didn't see anyone, so I kept walking to class. "Yo! Don't you walk away from me, missy!" I stopped and looked around again. This time I see Flooly right behind me. "Hey, sorry I didn't see you, Flooly." She just shook her and mumbled something along the lines of I'm not that short.

We took our seat in the front of the classroom and listened to another boring lecture about the class. 40 minutes later, the bell rang, signaling that it was now study hall! We talked about our day and what each class was like. "Oh my gosh, in lunch, it was so funny we talking about what kind of-." she trailed off. "I um, don't remember what we talked about actually." She was avoiding my eyes, Flooly is a good liar, but she's not good at keeping secrets. She was hiding something from me.

After class, we walked to my locker, which Tam and Hope talked quietly to each other, causing Hope to laugh her head off. Once I showed up, all the talking and laughing stopped as if the world was put on mute. I gave them confused looks, which Flooly then started a random conversation about a new show she was watching. Within no time, we were all chatting and laughing normally.

Once outside, we all went to our cars, Hope and I had parked farther away from the school but closer to the exit, so we can make a quick escape. Once in the car, we continued to chat about each of our classes and how they were, and who was in them with us. It was a nice way to end the first day, just my cousin and me chatting, listening to whatever was on the radio on our way home.

Hey, I hope you enjoyed this chapter! Just a quick note, at school there are 2 class length methods. Periods are around 40 minutes with about 8 classes a day and Blocks which are 80 minutes with only four classes a day. Anyways, like and leave a comment please, I love feedback! Have a great week!!! Peace and hugs, everyone!!!