It was a Monday morning and I was woken up by my alarm at exactly 5. am, the alarm made a piercing noise through my ears.
I covered my ears in hopes that the alarm would just stop as I couldn't reach it with my eyes closed, I had slept late last night cause of my constant thinking, it was something that I always did on the nights I was stressed, it started at a young age and got worse when my parents passed away. I was left all alone with Ivy.
I was scheming on how I was going to carry out my plan successfully and turn every single tiny part of my dreams into reality there was no way I would ever feel really happy and fulfilled, I would be the sad old lady.
That wasn't going to happen and even at the thought of it, it didn't seem like something I would be able to put up with at the end of the day.
I remember how I always explained everything in detail each time my mum asked me and my sister what we wanted to do and achieve during our existence here on earth.
We were quite young but maybe somewhere deep inside of her she knew she wouldn't be around us for long, she always treated every moment so special and loved having things put together before my time was sure I had gotten this trait from her.
I had always liked coffee it just always made me happy. So now I had to settle for working at a coffee shop although this isn't what I wanted to do, I had to start somewhere, everything was taken away from me and my sister, or else I would have been so close to achieving my dream, I am grateful for my experience at the coffee shop. I learned how to make different types of coffee and even came up with different recipes.
My constant turning from one side to the
another side of the bed, growing and covering of ears only confirmed my consciousness and I was very much awake already. I struggled but I couldn't waste any more time as I had to be at the coffee shop before 8 a.m.
" I don't know why I even got a clock in the first place, who gets woken up by a walking clock they bought with their own money and accommodates at their home, so disrespectful" I murmured as I kicked hard my thick white duvet out of my body to the other side of the bed.
My legs on the floor, I scanned the floor with my legs searching for my slippers and I finally found them, sitting on the bed searching for them was barely an excuse to pass time, sometimes I don't know why I enjoy playing these stupid tricks on myself. I remember mum always teasing me about this on the same day she died.
I didn't want to go to school or get up from my bed that day. She came into our room and woke me up to go get it, I hesitated but even after getting up from the bed, I moved around the room searching for my assignment which I knew pretty well I didn't have,e, unlike my sister who was a morning person.
I Got up and quickly spread the bed as it was one of my daily routines immediately I get up from bed in the morning. I staggered into the bathroom and took off my pajamas, I had to brush my teeth first then I turned on the shower to have my bath.
As I brushed my teeth, I couldn't help but wonder how stressful the day was going to be, sometimes I wished I never really had to work.
It's been so draining and stressful especially since Kai recently ended our relationship, even though he was the one who cheated on me for some reason I am happy that the relationship ended. But at the same time, it hurts to know that he could be that cruel toward me. Kai was my high school crush and soon became my boyfriend.
He proposed to me in the presence of the whole school, he was the guy every girl wants, and the fact that he chose me got me on the bad side of many people at school leaving no one excluded the boys and I couldn't comprehend why.
Everything changed when Kai went to a new school and met his friend Thomas, Thomas had a lot of impact on his life and the bad seemed to overcome the good.
He somehow managed to make Kai a drug addict and a playboy, in less than six months after he left I started getting the news he was always being with different girls but still, that didn't prove the fact that he was cheating, despite all the rumors and everything my friends said I couldn't bring myself to believe Kai would do that until.
I saw something unbelievable after paying an unexpected visit to his place. It was this rude girl in my class named Allison, she was one of the girls who tried hurting me several times.
Kai knew just how much hurt she caused me and went ahead to do that I couldn't bear it anymore. I was going to end the relationship but I guess I wasn't fast enough, he broke up with me and he made it publicly.
It was going to be another day at the coffee shop and I wasn't going to let any bad energy get in the way this time as that's what always happens just when I seem to be getting my life together, I struggled so much in life and I also struggled to get this job at the coffee shop, it was one of the best if not best coffee shop at a place where most rich men lived here in the US at Central Park, New York.
Although my first week there was rough as I had not gotten familiar with the job and people there yet but all thanks to my friend who I met at the coffee shop Cody, he was the one who took his time to teach me everything I know about the coffee shop.
I was having my bath when I suddenly got flashbacks of my mum on that unfortunate day.
It had not happened before so I found it strange and I got startled as I heard my mom's scream like everything was happening again before my eyes.
I quickly shook my head placing my hands on my hair allowing myself to feel the water as I thought I could help.
I stepped out of the bathroom with my white towel wrapped around my chest, my small wardrobe was visible as soon as I came out, of the bathroom, I stood there a few minutes staring at it, didn't know I was already lost in thought and Ivy was standing in front of me.
" Hi," Ivy said as she smiled with her pretty pink lips which made her dimples visible and her ocean blue eyes lit up as she walked towards with two cups of coffee on a tray in her hands. The breeze was a paid actor as it threw her dazzling blonde hair backward, she looked so beautiful this morning that I couldn't help but compliment her.
" You are an angel," I said smiling as she walked in.
" You are also pretty," she said with a cute smile.
"We are just too pretty, our parents had good genes " she continues.
" You aren't wrong about that, I agree," I said as I took a cup of coffee from the tray.
"I am graduating high school tomorrow and it's my birthday, "Ivy said giving me this weird-looking face.
" What is it girl, why staring at me with that weird look? " I asked about drinking my coffee.
"Yes, I remember my promise and I would keep my word."
I had forgotten I promised her a luxurious handbag if she graduated high school with good grades and if was also her birthday tomorrow, thank goodness she reminded me, or else I would have been the sister who doesn't keep her word.
I had been saving for that for a long time now, no matter how difficult it was I wanted to make my sister happy at all costs.
I could praise myself by giving myself the best big sister in the world title.
Today is our parent's seventh year since they had been taken away from us, we try as much as we can to be positive cause it was Ivy's sixteenth birthday tomorrow and our parents wouldn't be happy to see us sad but they would forever live in our hearts.
I have been holding the cup too long that my hands were weak and I spilled hot coffee on myself.
