3 Chapter 3 (2/2)

On the way to the second lap she realizes that more girls are lagging behind. She pushes more so that she can have a gap between her and the rest. She finishes the race with an impressive gap. The coach calls her over ”Come here”

She goes over to him. ”What's your name?”

”Skylar Gray.” She hears murmurs between the boys by the bleachers, but she doesn't care for them. ”That was really good.”

”Thank you, sir.”

The rest of the girls come filing in. They rest on the bleachers heaving up and down. When Lola catches her breath, she sits up. ”Damn Skylar you run fast.”

”Thank you” as she grins at her.

”Some of the boys are not in attire. So, you all run next week ten laps.” Grunts can be heard amongst the boys that are targeted at the coach.

The coach carries on ”Don't thank me. Thank your friends.”

They get dismissed early today and she couldn't be happier. She wanted to go home and sleep. She reaches her locker and takes out her back pack.

”Where do you live?” Lola asked.

”23 ilkey road.”

”We live in the same direction. It's just that you live further up.”

We take our bags and we heard home. ”Bye” as Lola hugged me. She had gotten to her house. Skylar still had about ten minutes to go before she reached her destination. She walked faster so she could reach there sooner.

When she got home, she undressed and went straight for the shower. She scrubbed her body quickly and let the water trickle down on her. When she was done showering, she felt refreshed and even though it was afternoon she changed into her pajamas.

She felt very comfortable in them. Instead of taking a nap she decided to do her homework instead. She opened her books, but she felt drowsy.

When she was done with all her studying, her mom was calling her downstairs. It was dark out and she realized that she had been in engrossed in reading for all this time.

Her mom is sitting by the counter and she sits across her. There is a box of pizza on the table and two cans of coke.

Before she says anything, her mom jumps to ask her ”Tell me about your day Sky.” As she is already munching on a pizza slice. Skylar also opens the box and she takes a piece out. The pizza melts into her mouth, she was starving.

”It was okay, I guess.” She tells her about Lola and they met. But Skylar doesn't tell her mom about Reign and Karly. She didn't want her to go into a rage.

When she is full, she gets up. ”Thanks for the pizza mom, I'm tired. So, I'm going to bed.”

”My pleasure honey. Sleep well.”

She heads back into her room, then she switches off the lights and goes underneath the blankets. Exhaustion takes over her. She had a long day and she was glad that the first day of school was over and done with.

Her phone vibrates, and she sees a message from Lola. ”Are you awake?”

”Yeah but I'm going to sleep.” She had barely slept last night because of the stress of being new. But now that was out of the way she felt all the exhaustion that had been building up since yesterday come down on her. She could even barely keep her eyes open.

”Okay night” as her phone beeps again.

”Night, Sweet dreams.” Then she turns off her phone. She closes her eyes and she go to sleep.