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Dawn
I woke up to the sound of my alarm blaring. I reached over and turned it off. I got up and went to my brothers room to wake him up.
Me: "Jeremih wake up its time for school."
Jeremih: "Leave me alone Dawn, I'm tired."
Me: "No we have to get ready for school. Mom'll kill you if you the first day back."
Jeremih: "I don't care. I didn't go to bed till late last night."
Me: "You have 15 minutes. And if you don't wake up I'll dump water on you."
Jeremih: Fine now leave me alone."
Me: "Stop being rude."
He didn't reply. I walked out of his room and went back to my room. I went to my closet to get some clothes. I grabbed a black shirt and a pair of white jeans. I went to my dresser and grabbed a pair of socks and some panties. I went to the bathroom to take a shower. I stripped and stepped in the shower. I turned the water on and let the water loosen my muscles. I washed myself and got out. I dried off and got dressed. I went to my brothers room again.
Me: "Jeremih wake up
."
Jeremih: "You said 15 minutes." he mumbled
Me" "Yeah and that was 20 minutes ago."
Jeremih: "What time is it."
Me: "8:00."
Jeremih: "Oh shit were going to be late."
Me: "Correction: your
going to be late."
Jeremih: "You can't leave without me."
Me: "Says who?"
Jeremih: "Me."
Me: "Who cares what you say?"
Jeremih: "I'm in charge when moms not home and she told me to protect you from anything and everything."
Me: "Were the same age, your like two minutes older. You know what? Just get dressed. Look who‘s the boss know."
I walked out of the room before he could say anything else. I went to the kitchen to see what time it was. It is 8:34, we have six minutes until we have to be at the bus stop. And it takes five minutes to get there.
Me: “Jeremih hurry up, we have six minutes.”
Jeremih: “I’m coming.”
I heard him running down the stairs. I went to the living room and grabbed my bag. I opened the front door and walked out.
Jeremih: “Wait for me.”
Me: “Then hurry up.”
He caught up with me and we walked to the bus stop together. We got there as soon as the bus pulled up. When we got on the bus a kid yelled
“Which one is Jeremih?”
Oh, I forgot to tell you me and Jeremih are twine. But you can tell which is which, like for instance I have long hair all the way down ton my butt and Jeremih’s is like and inch long. It’s a no brainier. But some kids think its funny but whatever.
Jeremih: “Ha ha, very funny Jesse.”
Jesse: “I’m just playing with you man.”
Jesse was pretty hot if I do say so myself.
We went and sat down next to all of Jeremih’s friends.
Jeremih: “Dawn this is Jesse, Kayla, Jason, Sara, and Zeke. Guys this is my sister Dawn.”
Kayla: “Nice to meet you.”
Me: “Nice to meet you too.”
Jesse: “Hi, I’m Jesse.”
Me: “Hey it’s good to meet you.”
He smiled and I smiled back.
Jason: “Hi.”
Me: “Hi.”
When I looked over I saw that Jesse was staring at me. I looked down. We were almost to school. When we pulled into the parking lot, the bus stopped and kids started filing off the bus.
Jeremih: “What’s your first class Dawn?”
Me: “Uhhh…Science.”
Jeremih: “Man if I walk you to class I’ll be late.”
Jesse: “I can walk her. My first class is that way too.”
Jeremih: “Thanks man. I owe you.”
Jesse: “Naw it’s good. You ready?” he asked me
Me: “Sure.”
We started walking toward the D building.
Jesse: “You nervous?”
Me: “Hell yeah.”
Jesse: “There’s nothing to be nervous about you’ll make a lot of friends.”
Me: “Were you nervous on your first day?”
Jesse: “I knew everybody. I knew all the freshman, sophomores, and all the juniors. I had friends lined up on the first day of school. I had friends with me everywhere I went. So you can say I wasn’t nervous.”
Me: “All my friends are going to Tribeca Prep.”
Jesse: “Ah, the rich kid school.”
Me: “Yeah.”
Jesse: “Well then it’s a good thing your brothers here you have upperclassman as friends. And if you don’t make friends today you have backup.” he said with a smile
Me: “Thanks. How does Jeremih know all the upperclassman?”
Jesse: “I don’t really know.”
Me: “What grade are you?”
Jesse: “Sophomore. Here’s your class.”
Me: “Thanks for walking me.”
Jesse: “No problem. Bye.”
Me: “Bye.”
I walked into class and went to sit down in the middle row. I got out my books and set them on the table. The chair next to me moved and I looked up to see who is was. It was a super hot guy. But totally not my type.
Guy: “Well hello there. I’m Gus Shaw. What’s your name?”
Me: “Dawn Mathers.”
Gus: “Your Jeremih’s little sister?”
Me: “He’s like two minutes older but yeah.”
Gus: “Oh well I should have known the moment I saw you. Because you guys look alike.”
Me: “We’re twins so yeah, we do look alike.”
Gus: “Yeah I guess. What grade are you?”
Me: “9th. Aren’t you too?”
Gus: “No I’m a sophomore. That’s a damn shame. Are you in the advanced program?”
Me: “I don’t know.”
Gus: “Let me see your schedule.”
I grabbed my bag and got out my schedule. I handed it to him.
Gus: “Yeah your in advanced science, math, and English. How are your so smart but your brothers not?”
How did I know I wasn’t going to like this guy?
Me: “My brother is smart for your information.”
Gus: “Whoa calm down crouching tiger, I was just kidding.”
Me: “Sure. Why did you say me being a freshman was a damn shame?”
Gus: “Because you’re in 9th grade. 10th graders can’t date 9th graders.”
Me: “Okay. That‘s a bit shallow.”
Not that I would date him anyways.
Gus: “Well it’s true you can’t date lower classman.”
Me: “Why not?”
Gus: “The rules.”
Me: “Who’s rules?”
Gus: “I don’t know but I would never date a niner.”
Me: “They wouldn’t date you either.”
Gus: “What?”
Me: “Oh nothing. You might want to go sit down class is about to start.”
He walked away. I knew he heard what I said because the way he walked away without saying anything else to me. Well that’s what he gets for degrading freshman. We had like three minutes till class starts. Kids started piling in. A kid came and sat down next to me. I looked up and it was another hot guy. “”””””Damn this school is full of hot guys.”””””
Guy: “Hey I’m Zach. Your Dawn Mathers right?”
Me: “Yeah, I guess you know my brother.”
Zach: “Not really but I knew he has a twin and you’re the only one at this school who looks him.”
Me: “Yeah I would hope not that many people look like him. I wouldn’t know which one was my brother.”
Zach: “Ha ha. I know that would be a little creepy. But I bet a lot of guys at this school would love to look like your brother.”
Me: “Why?”
Zach: “All the girls drool over you brother.”
Me: “Oh.”
Zach: “Yeah and all the guys are going to be drooling over you.”
I blushed and looked down. I knew I was pretty but I’m not the type of girl that guys usually drool over.
Me: “I don’t think so.”
Zach: “I do. I saw Gus flirting with you. If you hang around with him you’ll have a lot of girls hating you.”
Me: “He’s not that hot.”
Zach: “Try telling that to all the girls at this school.”
Me: “I’ll probably get a lot of haters talking to you right now.”
Zach: “Uhhh…no I’m not popular so your good.”
Me: “He’s popular but your not? That doesn’t make sense.”
Zach: “His family is rich and he uses that to his benefit.”
Me: “Well I never did like snobs.”
Zach: “He’s the biggest snob here.”
Me: “Yeah he is. What grade are you in?”
Zach: “Sophomore.”
Me: “Gus said sophomores can’t date freshman. Why is that?”
Zach: “Never heard of that. But if a hot freshman asked me out I’d take it.”
Me: “Ha ha. Do you have a girlfriend.”
Zach: “No not right now. What about you?”
Me: “No I don’t have a girlfriend you weirdo.”
Zach: “Ha ha I meant do you have a boyfriend.”
Me: “Nope. And besides do you really think Jeremih would let me?”
Zach: “You have to ask his permission?”
Me: “No but if I do get a boyfriend I don’t want Jeremih to break his face. He gets mad when a guy looks at me. He’s really overprotective .”
Zach: “Oh. He looks like he can break someone’s face.”
Me: “Yeah. He’s two minutes older than me so he thinks he’s the boss.”
Zach: “Two minutes? That’s not that much.”
Me: “In Jeremih’s book two minutes is a two years.”
Zach: “Ha ha my brother is a year younger than me but he thinks he older.”
Me: “Ha ha oh wow.”
Zach: “I know. He’s so weird.”
I was about to say something but the bell rang and the teacher walked in.
Authors Note: All these things about the frogs actually happened to me in 8th grade.
Teacher: “Okay class were going to do a lab today. Today were going to dissect a frog. The people you are sitting next t are going to be your partners.”
I turned to Zach.
Zach: “Lets go our frog.”
Me: “Okay.”
We got up and went to the front of the class. Zach got the frog while I got the dissecting tools. When we got back to our table we set up the tools and the frog.
Zach: “You want to start?”
Me: “No, you can.”
Zach: “Okay.”
He grabbed the scissors and started cutting at the middle of the frog. After he was done he pinned each side of the frog stomach.
Zach: “Okay. Let mess this frog up.”
Me: “Ha ha okay. So what do I do?”
Zach: “Anything you want.”
I grabbed the pliers and lifted up a piece of the frog and it squirted me.
Me: “Yuck that’s disgusting.”
Zach: “Here.” he said handing me a towel
Me: “Thanks.”
Zack: “Welcome. I’d freak out of that thing squirted me.”
Me: “Well I didn’t want to embarrass myself by screaming. So I held it in.”
Zach: “At least it didn’t squirt you in the face.”
Me: “True. Lets get back to work.”
Zach: “You’re a warrior.”
I put down the pliers and grabbed the scissors. I cut the frogs stomach. I handed the scissors to Zach and he cut the frogs heart.
Me: “This is actually fun.”
Zach: “I’ve never had a partner that had this much fun dissecting a frog.”
Me: “It is fun but yeah I’m not normal.”
Zach: “Ha ha.”
I grabbed the frogs leg and broke it. Zach grabbed it’s arm and broke it.
Teacher: “Start cleaning class is almost over.”
Me and Zach went and threw our frog away and washed all our tools and the table. We washed our hands and put all our things in our bags.
Zach: “That was fun.”
Me: “I know. That was cool.”
Zach: “What class do you have next?”
Me: “Math.”
Zach: “Me too but we probably don’t have the same math class since you’re a freshman and I’m a sophomore.”
Me: “I have advanced math.”
Zach: “Oh then you do have it with me. Come on then.”
We walked out into the hallway and then we walked up the stairs to go to the math room. On the way there I saw Jesse.
Me: “Hey Jesse.”
He looked over to see who it was.
Jesse: “Oh hey Dawn what’re you doing?” he said while walking over to me
Me: “Just walking to math.”
Jesse: “You have math next? So do I.”
Me: “Cool. Oh Jesse this is Zach he’s my partner in science.”
Jesse: “Hi.”
Zach: “Hey.”
I could feel the tension in the air. The bell rang and we all walked into class. I went and sat down. I was surprised when Jesse sat next to me.
Me: “Hey.”
Jesse: “Hey I didn’t think you had sophomore English.”
Me: “English is one of my best subject.”
Jesse: “Mine too. But world studies is my worst.”
Me: “I know. I don’t think there’s a point in it. It’s not like I’m ever going to use it in the real world.”
Jesse: “ I feel the same way.”
I smile and then he smiled. We had a lot in common and it didn’t hurt that he was smoking hot.
The rest of the day was a bore. FINALLY the bell rung signally that the day was over. I hope out of my seat so fast you'd think I was having a spaz attack. I ran out of the class room door. As soon as I did I sighed in relief and started walking toward the bus dock. I saw my bus and got on it and waited for Jeremih to get on. He got on followed by some of his friends. My eyes landed on Jesse and when he saw that I noticed him he smiled and I smiled back. Jeremih came and sat next to me.
"Hey Sis'." Jeremih said
"Hey Bro."
"How was your first day?" He asked
"Great, I made some new friends. Everybody refers to me as 'Jeremihs kid sister'. How are you so popular?" I asked
Jeremih shrugged. "I'm hot."
"Sure you are." I said sarcastically
"I am. I mean come on look at me. I'm a sexy beast." He said giving one of his friends a high five. I rolled my eyes and looked out the window.
"Dawn?" Someone asked bringing me back to reality
"Huh?" I asked
"You wanna go to the movies tonight?" Jeremih asked
"Yeah. What time?" I asked
"4:00." He replied
"Sure." Then the bus stop at our stop and Jeremih got p then me.
"Bye guys see you at 4." Jeremih said to his friends
"Bye Jeremih, bye Dawn." They said
"Bye." I said to them
Jeremih and I got off the bus and started walking home.
"I never asked but how was your day?" I asked Jeremih
"It was alright. Pretty boring though. Did you like your classes?" He asked
"Yeah but sophomores are obnoxious." I stated (No offense to any sophomres that are reading this; I am one.)
"Why what happened?" He asked anxiously
"Nothing just this Gus kid saying sophomores can't date freshman."
"Gus Shaw?" He asked
"Yeah."
"Stay away from him. He's trouble." He said while he stopped walking and turned towards me. He was always protective with me about guys but he was never this serious.
"Okay I'll stay away from him." I said
He nodded and we started walking again. When we got to the house mom wasn't there but I wasn't suprised she's never home. Jeremih's basically raised me ever since my dad left. After he left my mom changed she started staying out late, bringing different guys home very night. My dad left when Jeremih and I were seven. We still don't know why he left mom won't tell us. I think it's because he found a different girl but Jeremih doesn't care about the reason he's just mad because when my dad left he took apart of me with him, and I've never gotten the part back. Even when we were younger Jeremih was protective he didn't like anyone to hurt me but what could he do when it was your family that hurt you? I haven't seen my dad since he left. He doesn't call, email anything. When he left Jeremih tried to stay strong for me but everyone needs a shoulder to cry on and he was there for me so I was there for him. I told him that every once in a while everyone has to cry. He told me that he didn't feel sad that he left but I know my brother and I told him he didn't have to be so strong and tough. A break down was bound to happen and when it did I was there for him. He kept asking why did dad leave us. For that question I didn't have a reason and I don't think I ever will.
"Dawn you okay?" Jeremih asked me
"Huh? Oh, yeah I'm good."
"You sure?"
"Yeah." I said
He nodded and I went upstairs to my room. I put my bag on my bed and walked out of my room to the bathroom. When I was done I walked down stairs and Jeremih was watching T.V. I sat next to him and grabbed the remote. I turned it to the soccer channel.
"Change it back Dawn!" Jeremih yelled
"No basketball is stupid." I said simply
"And soccer isn't?!" He asked/yelled
"No soccer is the best sport known to man!" I yelled back
"How? You kick a fucking ball back and forth!"
"So, in basketball you bounce a fucking ball back and forth!" I said mimicking him. "Oooh big woop, anyone can do that. It takes mad skill to kick a ball so shut your face!" I get really mad when he bashes soccer
"Did you just cuss?!" He asked astonished
"Yeah, I do it all the time..." I said calming down
"Oh my God! My little sister is growing up!" He yelled while scooting over to me and then hugged me.
"Eeew get off me!" I screeched at him. "And I am NOT your little sister you idiot. We're the same age. Now get off!"
He leaned back.
"Ah, they grow up so fast." He said while fake sniffling and his eyes pricking with tears
"You're so weird." I said looking at him weirdly
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Publication Date: 01-28-2011
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