"Hey mom" I say as I hurdle down stairs " what 'bout dad" I ask
"Hey sweetie dad's preparing for work" my mom barely says before dad appears from upstairs
"I'm here" he said in his make shift best dad award winning voice
"Morning dad" I greet while Anita says "Hey pops, morning". "Good morning my loving ladies'', he greets then walks over to mom and lands her a peck. ' I can never get tired of seeing this' I grin
My big brother Robbie comes down stairs and greets everyone, he ruffles my hair as usual but Anita moves away before he gets to her ' as usual '.
"C'mon, do you really wanna miss my first day of school blessing" He asks faking a hurt tune
"Yeah, with pleasure" Anita says as she rubs her multi coloured hair.
Robbie is seventeen years old and in his last year of high school but Anita and I are sixteen, we have little longer time more, life's amazing. We eat our breakfast in anything but a quiet ambience with Anita and Robbie on each others neck it's quite a sight to behold.
Dad believes it's always good luck to drive us to school every first day in a new semester and obviously pick us up, we started objecting when we turned 13 but yunno parents.
We clear the dishes from the table, give mom a rounded kiss and live for school with... dad.
It's not a quiet ride but it's a usual back to base behaviour and we're all used to it.
"Dad, can you come quite late today, the cheer squad will be having a back to school pep talk" I say
"Even the bleachers" Anita seconded sarcastically, I look at her and roll my eyes "Sure thing Nits" I mouth to her.
'I'm the head head of the cheerleading squad in my school 'Chaden high', so it's up to me to start the session with a tremendous booster pep talk. Anita as she said is a bleacher, more of a ghost bleacher, she never participate in anything... except from an art club, more like a dark shady art club, whereby the arts gives you chill when you stare at it for more than a second
At last we are at school. "Bye dad" we say in unison " bye kids, see you at noon" he replies
"Don't forget, be late" Anita says to my dad's car retreating figures and then we wave at him curtly
I'm about to enter school when I hear, more like I feel someone's presence "Sup Nika" I'm a little startled and turn 'just the person I've been waiting for' JANELLE, she is my best friend, more like my only real friend besides Nits, we hug and walk in together as always.
Our lockers are beside each other, so we keep talking about our holiday and all the fun things we did, our houses are close but this holiday, she and her brother Jamal spent it with their grandparents in Ottawa, Canada. I missed her so much cos we had a plan that had to be aborted.
We hear the bell and have to leave each other "aargh" I groan barely audibly, the first period is always the worst because we have different periods, asides that it's a period before break then we're mostly together. "Hey!" I hear few metres from my ear and I smile it's Colt McRoy, my... boyfriend, he puts a hand on my shoulder and we go to class together, he makes the first period which is history barely tolerable. We find our sits and bring out our books, It's Ms J.P Daniels our calculus teacher, lucky for Janelle she substituted Calculus with extra applied science geek stuff, calculus is always deadpan boring.
'I groan continuously till the speaker comes on that's when I jerk back to reality'
"Hello students of imperial Chaden high, welcome back, I hope you had a wonder summer break, I just wanted to welcome my favourite students back and to give a special announcement to the jocks, cheerleaders and all sport related organisation, the schools on the county have decided to hold a competition among all the schools in the state and guess what... we're all invited, so jocks shock us with your performance and cheerleaders and bleachers, we need you to, don't slack" Mrs Edison says and the whole school is a joyous frenzy and out roar. I squirm and giggle with the rest of the class and with that calculus is dismissed, thank God.