Outside the parted pink curtains were birds chirping softly.
The soft morning light shone through, waking Elise up for the first time without any shouting from Tyler.
Rising up from the bed, she stretched as she yawned.
"Where are my glasses?" She murmured to herself and she scratched her head.
A vaguely blurred shape of her glasses laid on the wooden floor right next to a blurred black and brown spot.
She leaned down to reach for her glasses from her bed, but paused when she saw the blurred spot.
What the heck is this?
She got closer and closer, until she saw a pair of black eyes staring back at her.
Elise paused and then put on her glasses.
It.
Was.
A.
Cockroach.
Elise: .....
Cockroach: .....hello.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!"
As she ran down the stairs, she skipped three to four steps screaming her head off. She scrambled to put on her robe to cover up because she was still in her sleepwear, which was just a tank top and shorts.
"Why the hell are you screaming?" Tyler shouted, furious that his peaceful morning was disturbed. "And why are you even awake?"
Tyler: It's five in the morning. You don't even wake up at this hour....
"Kill it! Kill it! It's in my room!" Elise screamed.
"Kill what?" Tyler screamed back.
"There's a— oh my god, it's crawling out! It's on the stairs! Get it away from me!" She shrieked, jumping up and down as she tried to look for a safe place to stand on.
"What is crawling out— oh shoot, it's a COCKROACH!!!!" Tyler shrieked as well, running behind Elise.
"Why the hell are you hiding behind me?"
"It's a cockroach, of course I'm hiding!" Tyler yelled back to defend himself.
"I told you to kill it though!"
"But I'm scared!" Tyler wailed.
"But I'm the girl!"
"So what if I'm a man and am scared of these things, huh?" Tyler screamed, offended.
"I can't believe yo— MOVE IT, MOVE IT, IT'S MOVING RIGHT TOWARDS US!!!"
And that was how their day started.
"Get in the bathroom! Go, go go! Lock it!"
And as you can see...
"There's another one in here! Get out!"
They're not going to be able to get back in the house after school.
"It's sitting right at the door!"
"Just jump over it!"
"What! How? You do it!"
"Do you want to be behind me? Cockroach One is literally at my heels!"
"Why would you name it? It's basically the same as signing the contract with the devil!"
"Watch out! Cockroach Two is marching forward!"
"WHAT?!"
They were late to school.