Forever Changed

Wake up do the normal routine: get up, get clothes, get in shower, get out, do hair, put eye liner, go in room, put dirty clothes away, go into kitchen, take medicine, get snack, look at clock, 5:57, get school stuff in one spot, look at phone, 6:02, brush teeth, get stuff together, find hoodie, alarm on phone goes off, 6:10, find shoes, put them on, get stuff, leave house, 6:15, arrive at bus stop, listen to people complain, 6:21, bus arrives, get on, arrive at school, 6:34, sit and wait, and wait, and wait, wait, 6:45, fifth person to get off bus, spot out who I know, go stand with friends, talk, and talk, and talk some more, (don’t forget to laugh), 7:05, walk down hall, drop heather off at her class, walk to my class, people watch, arrive at class, 7:13, sit down in 1^st seat on very far table, place book bag and gym bag resting on table leg, place purse on table, place phone on table, sit back, people watch, 7:16, bell rings…

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She wakes up…something is very wrong here… terribly horribly wrong. She got out of her bed, so quitly that you had to strain your ears to hear the sound of air flowing into one ear and out the other. She walked to her bedroom door and took what she could make out in, she could tell that someone was out there, there was a shadow moving back and forth, and she could faintly hear him talking to someone but couldn’t tell what he was saying. She looked through the crack in between the door and its frame; it was her forth removed cousin, or something like that she just remembers that day when that weirdo stepped into her house. Her mom said it was ok they were related somehow and that he would be staying here for awhile. She walks out of the room with hand covering her eyes, stupid bright light. She walks you to him to say good morning and he shot her this I'm gonna kill you now look, it gave her chills where she was standing. She went back in her room to get her clothes and was on her way to the shower when we walked up to her. The look in his eyes made the chills come back and shoot down her spine. He raised his hand backwards and swung with the strength of 10 men and knocked the clothes out of her arms and hit her head so hard that when it whipped back her neck popped. He looked at her with great intensity and said on the verge of yelling “what the fuck is your problem?!” See what her parents didn't know is that this only happened when he went out partying and his fiancée found out, except this time something went really wrong for this to be as bad as it now. She bent down holding her neck and the tears from exploding. That’s when she felt that sudden pain in her side from his fist, she fell and hit the ground with unbelievable force. It was so hard to breath from the agonizing pain in her head and side and from trying so hard not to show submission. He most of either realized that what he's done so far will already be noticeable or was relived for now. She quickly picks her stuff up and walked to the bathroom as normally as she could. When she got into the bathroom she coughed up enough blood to freak her out. She stuffed her clothes under the sink and slowly made her way to tell her mom that she would be staying home today. She made her way across the house ever so quietly. She crawled back into bed and cried herself to sleep like many mornings like this. Almost two years later and not many other bad mornings later he moved out, and that’s when she found out that that morning when she came up to say good morning his fiancée heard her voice and thought it was a girl that slept with him that night and his fiancée left him like that, on the spot. Ever since then her mornings have never been the same.

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Wake up do the normal routine: get up, get clothes, get in shower, get out, go in room, put dirty clothes away, go into kitchen, take medicine, get snack, look at clock, 5:57, get school stuff in one spot, look at phone, 6:02, brush teeth, get stuff together, find hoodie, alarm on phone goes off, 6:10, find shoes, put them on, get stuff, leave house, 6:15, arrive at bus stop, 6:21, bus arrives, get on, arrive at school, 6:34, sit and wait, and wait, and wait, wait, 6:45, last person to get off bus, spot out who I know, pass them completely, (don't forget to not make eye contact), go find a secluded area and sit down, 7:05, walk down hall, walk to my class, arrive at class, 7:13, sit down in last seat on very far table, place book bag and gym bag resting on table along with purse, place phone in purse, put head down, 7:16, bell rings…