A Teen Year Chapter 1

Chapter 1

"Promise me you'll IM tommorow?" asked Stephanie. "Yes!" Aly answered for the millionth time that day. Aly was sick and tired of the same question. "Jesus christ" she mumbled.

"Shut up, Aly!" snapped Aly's sister, Nadia. "That's a bad word." "How is Jesus Christ a bad word?" asked Aly. "Mom and Dad said so" said Nadia proudly with her nose in the air.

Aly and Nadia were carrying pillows and bags from Aly's sleepover at Stephanie's. "Bye, Al!" cried Stephanie from her front doorway. Stephanie had talked about her week at St.Matthews's Christian Academy the WHOLE time. "My new friend is Nicole. She loves texting, too! She's just like you, Aly!" I invited her over too but she couldn't come....."

Aly's dad honked his horn. "Hurry up!" he said. "Aly was the one being slow" whined Nadia, getting in. As dad drove the silver Honda pilot out of Tuscany neighborhood, Aly looked at the screen of her phone thinking about everything.

Tommorow was the first day of sixth grade at Monroe Middle School. Summer was completely over. At the end of fifth grade, Aly's best friend Stephanie decided she was going to St.Matthew's. Was she afraid of Monroe? Likely. Stephanie promised that they would stay BFF's forever by IM'ing every other day once school started. Unfortunately, St.Matthew's started a week earlier than Monroe and Stephanie didn't bother telling Aly. Now she was behind on all the info or in other words, gossip.

Mom was waiting when Aly got home. Nadia jumped in her lap. "I love you mommy!" she said. Suck up thought Aly. Mom was a flight attendant for Continental Airlines, so she was gone for multiple days.

"Guess what?" said Nadia. "What little angel?" asked mom. "Tommorow is the first day of school!" Nadia jumped up and down. Aly groaned. Why did she have to remind her? Mom hugged Aly. "Aren't you excited?" she asked.

After a pause Mom said, "Taryn called." Aly reached for her cell phone. It was a blue Sanyo Katana. Aly liked it because everyone else had Motorolas.

"Yo man!" Taryn said after picking up. "Yo dog" answered Aly. "Too bad Katrina can't say yo dude" said Taryn. "Where is Katrina?" asked Aly. "Italy." "No way!" Yes way!" "OMG!" "She's coming back in a week!" "WHAT?"

Aly didn't like Katrina all that much. She was funny and nice but ever since Taryn met her, they barely talked anymore. "You there?" asked Taryn. "Yah but I got to go" Aly said quickly and hung up.

Aly walked to the bathroom and peered at her reflection. A girl with greasy hair stared back at her. Yuck, she thought.

After a dinner of corn and fish sticks, Mom forced Aly in the shower. "Have fun!" said Nadia. Aly stuck her tounge out. When Aly got in the shower she began to think. Why not look nice anyway? She shampooed twice and applied conditioner. Afterwards her mom curled her bangs to the side of her face. "Brush your teeth and come downstairs".

Aly stared at her reflection again. Now her hair swayed off to the side. Her once short bangs were now just past her chin. Aly smiled. With some lip gloss and earrings, she would look like a hot sexy mama. Aly fluffed her hair and ran downstairs.

Nadia and her mom were already organizing the new school supplies into their new backpacks. Nadia's was hot pink and Aly's was white and purple.

"Hurry up, Aly!" said Mom. Aly grabbed a sharpie and signed her name on her supplies. At ten o' clock, Aly collapsed in bed and grabbed Caroline her squishy cow pillow she won at the end of fifth grade. Aly squeezed her, then closed her eyes. Middle school, here I come!