Chapter 3 - Normality
Alexis Grace woke up from yet another bad dream.
She frowned to herself and sat up groggily. The morning sun peeked through the cracks of the wooden blinds of her windows. She lazily stood off her bed and shuffled to them.
In one swift motion, she yanked on the string, fiercely opening the blinds. The sun blazed onto her, illuminating her body and the room. The rays kissed her chalk pale skin and dilated the pupils of her baby blue eyes. If it weren't for the inky irises around her lurid orbs, they would have been completely disappeared into the whites.
Alexis sighed, content and suddenly rejuvenated. It was a feeling she usually got after her skin was warmed by a light. She figured it was an optimist thing, a kind of person she usually was.
She grinned widely and stretched her arms. She turned on her heel and skipped across the hard-wood floor of her wide room to the bathroom. She closed the door behind her and glanced at the mirror in front of her.
Her long chestnut hair was popping into the air like a haystack. She sighed and began raking through it with a comb. "Why do you keep getting like this?" She asked her follicles vaguely. After her usual morning ritual was over, she slid across her plausibly messy room into her walk-in closet.
It was a congenial Monday morning. Alexis brightly hopped down the stairs, fully clothed in her navy blue school uniform. She stepped into the sky blue kitchen, half-expecting to see the two faces of her parents sitting at the dinner table.
As usual the house was empty. Alexis had expected as much. She sighed and sat at the lone table. Her mother and father were constantly working either out of the neighborhood or out of state entirely. She had grown not to mind it, seeing as she saw them at night anyway. It was lonely though, not having any ardent meals with her only family.
Specifically speaking, they were her foster parents. Alexis had no memories of her original mother and father, only a few years at different orphanages per month. She wouldn't mind a few pictures of her family or even her birth certificate, but none were available. Her family died in a house-fire tragedy, at least that was what she was told.
Which brought her back to her nightmare. She gasped as the loud spring of the toaster startled her out of her thoughts. She blinked several times and chuckled. "Why am I such a spaz?" She asked herself. She took a glimpse at her aquamarine watch and gave a loud gasp when she realized exactly what time it was.
Alexis ate her breakfast quickly, grabbed her bag and sprinted out of the door and into the beautiful morning.
She teared the whole way to Norton High School, which is saying something considering she wasn't a very avid runner. She raced through the halls, slipping frequently on the slick floors. She shot into her homeroom seconds before the tardy bell shrieked.
She gasped for air and shakily sat onto her seat in the corner of the classroom. Her head and hair were damp with perspiration. She closed her eyes and let the air conditioning take her over.
"Heya, TardyPants." Alexis heard two voices tease simultaneously. She opened one of her eyes to see the grinning faces of her two best friends. Ryan and Nathan Blake - The most energetic pair of twins you would ever meet. Their mops of red hair glowed against their tan skin. They both wore identical smiles and sat in front of you.
Alexis couldn't help but smile around them, "Hey, guys." She tied her suddenly unruly again hair back into a ponytail and beamed at her friends. "You slept in again." Ryan accused, chuckling.
Alexis rolled her eyes, "Maybe I did." She admitted. "You did, didn't you." It was more of a statement than a question.
"Shut up, KetchupHead." They grinned hugely and gave each other high-fives, "Awesome! We pissed her off before nine o' clock! A new record!" Nathan exclaimed.
Alexis frowned and sat back on her seat. The worst part was, it was a new record.
What a chapter XD
Update...Nothing to say...-so sick-
