Broken Record

“Fiooooooonaaaa…?”
“Fionaa?!”
“Wake up Fiona!”
“Fiona!”
It sounds like Jamie..
I feel tapping on my shoulder
Then on my head
Suddenly it felt like someone was pulling on my arm too
“Fio-....”

“Fiona!!” my mom said, startling me.
“M-mom I didn’t see you there!” I said, opening my eyes.

CHAPTER 1
Fiona

“And clearly you didn’t hear me either. This is the third day that you haven’t woken up on time! School still exists, you know” my mom preached.
“My bad…” I said, hoping I’d get out of this mess again. “Just get ready” she said annoyed. Another day of school. I waited at the bus stop in my neighborhood and saw my friend Jamie. “Hey Jamie, what’s up?” I said. “Hi Fiona! I’m doing suuuuper!! Like even more super than a word for super! That’s how super I’m doing!” she said. Jamie is kind of annoying sometimes, but we are really good friends. “Well how super are we talking?” I replied. “Oh you wouldn’t even begin to believe the thing that happened yesterday! So basically there was this show…” she said before I tuned her out. She’s a bit of a loud-mouth too, did I mention that? “...and then I won!! An autograph from the best pop star singer out right now!”

“And.. who is that?”
“And then there was this cat that I found…” she continued, not addressing my question whatsoever.

Then we both got on the bus while she was still yapping about god-knows-what. I looked out the side of thew window and saw my friend Mitchie running to the bus frantically with his hands waving in the air. “Wait wait! Don’t leave yet I’m not on the bus yet! Don’t leave without me! Hey hey!” he said as the bus doors were about to close. “Haha! There goes Mitchie again being late for the.. what is it, hundredth time?” said Jamie with a smirk. The driver opened the doors again and let Mitchie on the bus. He sat down still out of breath from running down the sidewalk. “Hah-hi guys” he said.

“Welcome Mitchie, seems you’ve beat your best time, 25.7 seconds before the bus doors closed!” Jamie teased. “Oh har-har at least I have a better excuse this time” Mitchie replied. “And that is…?” I said waiting for what lie he was about to pull out of his hat.

“I had been studying for a test allllll night! Which is why I woke up so late and nearly missed the bus!”
“Mitchie.”
“Yeah?”
“We don’t have any tests”
“Wait cmon for serious?” Mitchie groaned.
“Yes ‘for serious’.”
“Aw man so that wouldn’t have worked anyways..”
“Even if we did have a test today, none of the teachers would believe you.” Jamie added.

Did I mention Jamie’s totally rude too? “Awh shut up Jamie! We probably do have a test and you’re just messing with me..” Mitchie said sadly. “Awh shut up Jamie” Jamie said mocking him. “Please, if we did have a test, I’d have studied for it. Unlike you, I would have passed with flying colors”. “Sooo, what about that math homework?” I said trying to cut the tension in the bus. “It was really difficult man, I had a lot of trouble understanding it…” Mitchie said.
“I bet you did Mitchie you have trouble with everything you do. You’d probably have trouble walking even if you looked at your legs 24/7!” Mitchie and Jamie were still finding all the way to the school, and even when we were walking to class! Yeah, they argue a lot. A whole lot.

They finally stopped when we sat down in our seats and our teacher started playing some eerie music on her too-old-to-even-exist-anymore record player. Everyone in this class cringed when she played it. It was like nails on a chalkboard, just so cringeworthy it made you want to pull your ears off.Then, our teacher, Ms. Buffle began talking about some literature that we needed to read this semester, which nobody cared about whatsoever. I guess she realized nobody was listening, because she then projected her voice and said “You know, reading this literature can help you get into the colleges that you desire to go to, like Yale for example. As high school students you should be reading these types of books anyways!” She’s always talking about college and stuff, when she hadn’t even gone herself.