Chapter 4
I woke up the next day fully rested for the first time in a long time. I dressed and walked out to the kitchen to find something to eat. Mom was sitting on the couch waiting for me when I got there.
“Heather how would you like to go to McDonalds to get breakfast and I’ll drive you to school today?” I looked at mom like I couldn’t believe what I just heard, and I couldn’t. Mom had never asked me if I wanted to do anything or even volunteer to drive me to school.
“Yea! I would like that!” I told her. I got my school things and we went out to the car.
“I’m very sorry about how I have been acting lately, I think work just got to me.” Mom said when we were in the car. She started the car and backed out of the driveway. Then she continued “I will try not to let work get in the way of the way I treat you again. And I’m sorry it tock me this long to treat you the way you should.” I didn’t know what to say; I was speechless, she was apologizing for the way she treated me.
I looked at mom and to me she looked different, she had a different look to her. She looked happier than I had ever seen her. I started to relax more and mom and I talked on the way to McDonalds. We went through the drive-thru and got our food and she drove me to school, and I ate on the way there. When I got to school she dropped me off at the front entrance and I waved good-bye to her. I watched her drive away then I went into the school. I had enough time to go to the cafeteria and find Marco or Celeste. I couldn’t wait to tell Celeste what happened this morning. This would shock her just as it did me.
I got to the cafeteria and looked around till I found Marco. I was really hyper by the time I found him sitting with his back towards me, he was sitting with his friend Jake, so I put my finger up to my lips to single to Jake not to tell Marco I was behind him, and I snuck up behind him and grabbed his waist and scared him half to death. Marco jumped off of his chair and turned to look at who had just scared him. He turned to look at me and he put on an annoyed look on his face.
“Thanks, I think I just lost a couple of lives when you did that.” He told me then looked over to Jake, “And what kind of friend are you? You didn’t tell me she was behind me!” Jake just smiled at him.
“Hey has any of you seen Celeste yet? I really need to talk to her.” I said not able to control my happiness from this morning. Marco shook his head, “ No, I haven’t seen her yet.”
“OH.” Just then the warring bell rung so I started to go to class, all day till lunch I keep thinking about what the morning had bung. I wasn’t really able to pay attention in class all morning.
At lunch Marco and I met up and walked to the cafeteria hoping Celeste would be there, I hadn’t seen her all day. When we found her sitting alone in the cafeteria Marco and I walked up to her, she was just sitting there, with her book bag but she didn’t have a tray of food.
"You aren't going to eat?" Marco asked Celeste.
"No, I'll eat when I get home, I'm all signed out and after lunch I'm going home." Celeste looked over at me.
“I’m sorry I didn’t call last night when I got the letter from my father, he is sending for me and I am going back to Japan.” I just looked at her.
“So you are leaving us…” I just stopped there. Marco changed the subject.
“Did any one hear about Kitana, the teachers aide? Someone said she was in some sort of accident." Marco asked. I looked at Marco. "Yeah, She wasn't there when I went to check out of Mrs. Karthe's class. And that is strange because she is always there." Celeste said. I just looked at Celeste, what was she talkin about she and Kitana lived in the same house. I knew Marco didn’t know that because he never really had spent time at her house. But I just turned and looked at Celeste
"So what are you going to do the rest of the week?" I asked her. "I'm going to pack, get ready for my trip, and stuff like that. It shouldn't take me long to do." Celeste said, just then the bell rang and Marco and I got up to clear our plates. We said our good-byes and Before I left Celeste handed her book bag to me and left the school. Then started to run to my next class before I became late for it.
The rest of the week was really boring at school. I ate lunch by myself the rest of the week. I was just too depressed to talk to others, even Marco.
It was like that for the rest of the week, at home mom still had her meetings after work so I was alone at night till she got home and we would talk about school for a while and I would go to bed. Friday night she surprised me by being home when I came home from school. I walked up the drive way after getting off of the bus and I saw mom’s car in the drive way. I opened the door and mom was sitting on the couch. She got up and walked over to me.
“Keep your coat on we are going to one of my meetings together, I asked my boss and he said that you can come and watch how we do things. We are going to go to one of my colleges house for the meeting tonight.”
“Cool!” I put my schoolbooks down and followed my mom out to the car. Mom put some music on and we listened to that while we were driving to the house that the meeting was going to be held tonight. I wasn’t paying any attention to the road, I was just jamming to the music and looking out of my window at the trees that were passing by us when suddenly I head a screech of tires and saw a car come right at us. I trough my arms to shield my face before we hit the other car, but I still hit my head hard on the dashboard of the car and I was out.