Chapter 1

“Alisha!” Mrs. Thompkins calls through Alisha’s bedroom door.  “It’s time to get up for school!”

“Yes, mom, I know.” Alisha replies back.  “I’m up getting ready!”

As Mrs. Thompkins heads back downstairs to begin breakfast for her husband and Alisha and her brother, Ellis, Alisha gets herself out of bed and dresses in the clothes she picked out last night for the first day of her sophomore year:  a calf-length black skirt, pink sweater, and gold necklace.  Then she heads into the bathroom to style her long brown tresses in curls. 

Heading downstairs, Alisha joins her brother, father and mother for a family breakfast before they all go off to school and work.  Mrs. Thompkins always insisted they enjoy a family breakfast before anything else, if it was the only meal they had as a family for the day.  And that’s exactly what the Thompkins family always did. 

“Good morning, father!” Alisha said, giving her father a kiss on his cheek.

“Good morning Alisha.  How did you sleep?” Mr. Thompkins asked her.

“Just great.”

“Yeah, I’ll bet!” Ellis said, sarcastically.  “Just who is it that you will have your eye on this year?”

“Oh shut up, Ellis!” Alisha said bitterly.

“Alisha!  Ellis!” Mrs. Thompkins chastised them both.  “Alisha, as the older daughter, I expect you to treat your brother with kindness.  And Ellis, please don’t goad your sister.”

“Yes, mother.” Alisha and Ellis said simultaneously.

“Now apologize to each other.”

“Sorry, Alisha.” Ellis said, obeying his mother.

“Yea, I’m sorry too.” Alisha reciprocated.

As the Thompkins Family finished their breakfast, Mr. Thompkins got up, kissed his wife and wished his family a good day before picking up his briefcase and heading to Bradford and Thompkins, Attorneys at Law, where Mr. Thompkins was a partner in his firm he operated with his long-time friend and college buddy.

“Good morning, Chelsea.” Mr. Thompkins greeted Chelsea, who came to pick up Alisha for their first day of their sophomore year.

“Hi, Chelsea.” Alisha greeted her, who had just said good-bye to Ellis and her mother before following her father out the door.

“I can’t wait to get to school.” Chelsea said, enthusiastically.

“You mean you can’t wait to get your fix on some hot-looking guy.” Alisha said, knowing her best friend so well.

“Isn’t that the only reason for going to class?” Chelsea asked the rhetorical question.

Alisha disagreed, but kept quiet.  Chelsea was only interested in meeting guys, whereas Alisha was interested in her studies.  She wished to be a lawyer just like her father.  She loved going to her father’s practice and watching him work with his clients and sitting in the courtroom as he defended clients he knew were guilty.  The legal system has always fascinated Alisha and made it her life’s choice to be a lawyer one day.

As Chelsea pulled into Fairview High School’s parking lot, blond-haired, Hadley Jamison, noticed the girls as Chelsea parked her Jeep Wrangler.

Author's Note

Same story, just changed the names.

Reviews

[Schatzi]

Hi Tootsie,

You have a good handle on teenage angst. The story is good. There is only one potential issue that I could see. In the first conversation, is it necessary to do the so-and-so said so often? Could it be implied instead? Just a thought, take it with a grain of salt. Thank you for sharing your story!

Kind regards,

Schatzi

[A Soap Mess Stories]

Thank you for the suggestion Schatzi.

[Ruth]

So far enjoying...the scene holds a real tone and the characters already in my mind :)

[A Soap Mess Stories]

Thank you Poppy