Jane cracked opened her eyes to the sunlight streaming through her window. She moaned and covered her eyes. She didn’t want to go to school today, she didn’t want to go to school any day, but today most of all.
“Jane get up!” Jane moaned louder as she heard her cell phone shake with her dad’s recording for her alarm. She sat up and squinted. She glanced at her clock and saw it read 6:40. “Crap!” she yelled, suddenly hyped up.
She took a quick shower and dried her hair as much as she could before putting it up in a ponytail. She ran down the stairs and grabbed an apple and granola bar before heading out to the bus. Her best friend Faith was waiting for her and she gasped as she reached the big yellow bus.
“You forgot to switch your clock didn’t you?” Faith smiled. She knew Jane had an intendency to forget things.
“Well, I meant to!” Jane protested, laughing.
“And let me guess you forgot today was our big algebra test, right?” Faith asked, pulling out her textbook for some last minuet studying.
“No, that I didn’t forget,” Jane groaned. “I studied all last night until two in the morning.”
“Does your dad know you have a test today?”
“Isn’t that obivious? He came in and cleaned up my books in the middle of the night,” Jane said before she could stop herself.
“Jane! You have to stop falling asleep while studying,” Faith scolded.
“Well sorry, I’m not the person who gets perfect grades even if I don’t study!” Jane glared at Faith and then turned away.
They sat in silence for a few moments until the bus came to a stop and their friend Penny walked down the aisle to their seat. “Hey!” she said, clearly very hyper aside from their big test today.
“Hey,” Jane and Faith grumbled in unison.
“What’s up with the two love birds today?” Penny giggled.
Jane and Faith glared at her and Penny quieted. “Well, I was going to give you guys something today but I can see you’re very grumpy-”
Jane and Faith turned to her eagerly. “What is it?”
“Here,” Penny pulled two envelopes from her backpack and handed them to her friends.
“Ohmygosh Penny! I totally forgot about your b-day! I’m so sorry,” Jane exclaimed.
“It’s okay Jane,” Penny laughed.
“Are you serious? We’re going to meditate and everything?” Faith began to shake with excitement.
“Yep, included with candles,” Penny smiled devilishly.
“How did you know that we’d always wanted to do that?”
“Jane, you really do have short term memory loss,” Penny laughed. “You guys told me, so I decided to make your dream come true.”
“I’m so excited Penny! I totally won’t forget this!” Jane giggled and her friends giggled along with her.
As soon as the bus pulled up to the school they skipped inside the building giggling the whole way to their algebra class. “Time to endure the pain,” Jane cried and pretended to kill herself and laughed.
They walked in and sat down at their desks, pulling out notes before the test to refresh their memory.
“Okay class, now that you have reviewed your notes I’ll pass out your test, do not start until the everyone has their paper,” Mr. Chinchi instructed and began passing out the white sheets.
Faith sat up straight and moved her blond hair from her face, taking in deep breaths. Penny nodded her head slowly, checking things off in her head. Jane drummed her fingers on her desk until a piece of paper landed in front of her.
“Okay Jane, you can do this,” she whispered and picked up her pencil. She quikly read the directions multiple of times and scribbled down the answers to the problems. Soon, the time was up and her paper was covered with her writing.
“Okay, now hand in your papers, and you may leave class a little early,” Mr. Chinchi told them and smiled. Most of the kids cheered but Jane handed in her paper nervously. She was afraid she would fail.
