Chapter eleven

A Chapter by Kia-chan!

"Alex! Are you goin to school today?" my mom yelled to me from the living room. I opend the door of the closet, and stepped into the living room. " Since when do you care?" I said. " Since I decided to stop smoking that's when!" mom said. I looked at her as if she was crazy. " What?" she asked. I felt like a tiny, bad peace of my life had just been ripped off. I felt happy. For the first time in my life, my mom was doing something good for both of us. I had never seen my mom without a cigarette in her hand! I did'nt think it was possible, but both me and my mom were starting to slowely change. For the good. " It's nothing" I said. Then, I went back into my room, got dressed, went into the bathroom, brushed my teeth, put on my daily eyeliner, brushed my hair, and ran out the door, into the hallway of the apartment building.

I was walking toward Sophie's locker. She was standing there, wearing a purple skirt, a white shirt with purple printing on it, black flat shoes, and a purple ribbon in each of her pigtails. She seemed to be glowing, while everyone else was dull, and gray. I was wearing blue, ripped jeans ( the only kind I had ), a white, long sleeve T-shirt with the words, BITE ME, written in it, black tennishoes, black eyeliner, and a black berrette on one side of my head. I stuck out like a sore thumb, I can tell you that much. " Yo! Sophie! Over here!" I yelled. I saw some kids staring at me. I glared at them, and they looked away. " Oh, hello Alex! Where have you been?" Sophie asked. " I was sick" I said. It was'nt entirely a lie. I had been sick. " Well it's nice to see you! I tried to look you up in the phone book, but I could'nt find your last name" Sophie said. " Hold on a sec- " I said. I reached into my pocket and pulled out a sheet of paper that just happend to be there, took out one of the pencils in my bag, and scribbled down my phone number. I handed it to her " Here. Now you can reach me whenever you need to" I said. She took the paper and read it. " Thank you so much! Do you want my number too?" She asked. " Sure!" I said. I waited wile she wrote her number down on a peace of paper. She handed it to me, " Here! Now you can reach me!" she said. Then the warning bell rang, and we started off to home room.

At the end of the day, Sophie and I were just about to leave the building, when Sophie asked me a question. " Would you like to come over to my house today and eat dinner with my family?" she asked. It was weird. I had never been invited to dinner before. Was dinner a normal thing for familys to eat together? Did they eat together every evening? Were her parents so strict, that they were forced to eat with each other every night? I was puzzeld. Why would she want me to eat with them? I had never once eaten a scencible meal before in my life! I did'nt have any table manners! Was she tying to embarass me or something? "Why?" I asked. " Because my family and I would love to have you over for dinner! We would be so happy if you came!" She said. I emagined a cookie cutter house, with cookie cutter people in it, eating dinner with an imperfect, peace of crap like me. It was unbarrable to watch, let alone emagine! " Well ok. But this better not be some sort of trick! I'm still wondering why you would want me over at your place! Arent you afraid I'll reck your house?" I said. " Of course it's not a trick! we want you to come over! We're having steak tonight, it'll be great!" she said. " Alright. I guess I could join you for one meal" I said. " Yay! I'm so happy!" Sophie said, and she gave me the biggest hug I'd ever gotten. Then, We were off to the wonderful land of cookie cutter houses.

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