I lie awake watching the golden sun peek out of the small corner of the window. The time reads 6:24 am on my clock and I know that I can't savor the last sweet minute of sleep.

BEEP BEEP BEEP. I slam the alarm with my hand and sit straight up causing my head to spin a little.

I shuffle down the hallway kicking dirty clothes out of the way until I find the bathroom. I stare at my self in the mirror repeating the same phrase that I have been saying since the crash 6 months ago.

"Harmony Greene you are  strong, independent, and beautiful. Do not let anyone or anything get in your way."

Getting through my face routine is a hassle and I don't even feel like putting on makeup today.

I exhale loudly. I wonder if he's going to be at school today. Sitting at his table at lunch next to his friends. Telling jokes, laughing, eating Twizzlers. He eats Twizzlers every day at lunch. I wonder why.

I put in my earbuds and a dash of perfume. Then head out with my skateboard towards the dreaded prison. Excuse me I mean school.

  I headed straight to Maddies' locker waiting for her to arrive. I saw her coming down the hallway hand in hand with her boyfriend Jase. She says goodbye to him in the middle of the hallway and he is whisked away by his friends. One of them being Blake Quinn. His chocolate eyes make any girls heart swoon.

  "Maddie, Please say that you didn't sl-"

  "Yes I slept with him. And it was fantastic. I shouldn't have to apologize for it. It makes me happy." She whipped her hair back and sipped her straw with an expression no one should have to see.

"Okay Queen. Just be careful. I don't want things to end up like they did last time..."

"Well they won't. I love him. So much more than Ricky, Dylan, or Warence."

"Hey if anything ever happens, you tell me, Okay?" I ask concerned.

"Yeah I will."

   The bell rings and I turn the Ap Bio door knob and walked in. Today we would be dissecting cats. I kept reassuring myself that I could do this. But when I saw the dead cat I felt a rush of emotions at once. Nausea, sadness, and disgust. I turned around and ran out terrorized. I heard them yelling at me to come back but I would not. 

     I found  the nearest restroom and I puked in the trash bin. I have been a vegetarian since his death about a year ago. I thought I could handle it. But I just fell apart. And now I was crying.

   I decided to ditch class this period. I sat outside the girls restroom just trying not to think about what had happened.

"Harmony? Are you ok?" Someone said.

I looked up it was him. Blake Quinn. My crush asking if I was ok. His dark brown eyes seemed so inviting. But I couldn't. I was surprised he even knew my name.

"Not really. Just the usual Ap Bio cat dissection." I fake laughed a little.

   "Ah, well you mind if I sit with you? I am not having the best start to my day either." He said. His voice was so husky it made me want to drool.

   "What could be worse than a cat dissection?"

   "Someone stole my laptop and my car." He says with a sigh.

    "Yeah definitely worse than a cat dissection." I chuckle.

    "I paid for both of those with my own money." He looks down. 
   "The police are trying to track down where my car went but they think it's out of state by now."

   "Wow we're having pathetic mornings."

   "I am hungry." I say. Realizing I have looked at his face too long.

   "Do you want a Twizzler?," He said smiling. I took one silently.

  "I noticed that you eat Twizzlers everyday. My theory is that if you don't eat a Twizzler you'll explode. Am I correct on my hypothesis doctor" I  stated in a German accent.

   "Yes. You are very correct. The Alien inside me is addicted." He also states in a German accent.

   "Well if it makes your Alein feel any better, when I was little I carried around my pet goldfish, Sheldon."

   "How did Sheldon feel being carried around everywhere?" He says with a smirk.

   "Actually he didn't feel anything he was dead. I carried him around in a bag without water because I didn't know he needed it." I laughed. I can remember that as clear as day.

He started humming a tune. I knew it so I started humming along but neither of us could think of the song.

We both get up and start dancing to the mystery song. It feels whimsical, spontaneous, and I feel alive.

After a while we  sip some water out of the water fountain and slink back down on the hallway floor.

"I can't wait to get out of here." My fingers touch the cold floor.

"Where will you go?" He asked.

"Thailand or Greece or somewhere where I can escape my past."

"If I've learned anything, its that you can't escape your past by running away from it." He expressed with so much emotion.

"What are you going to do once you are out of here?"

"I don't know. Wherever the tide takes me is where I will go."

   From then on we just kept sitting there, eating Twizzlers, and joking around. You'd imagine that it would be awkward but it wasn't.

Then the bell rang. Then people started flooding the hallway and my fantasy morning was starting to fade away.

"Bye Twizzler Boy."

"Bye Goldfish Killer."

Then we walked away in opposite directions and I couldn't stop smiling.

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