Maxi Pad: A Short Story

First, it was dark. Then, I opened my eyes. Damn this daylight savings time, it's 7:50 and it's still dark outside. I don't care that it's morning. I'm already late for school. There's no reason to not sleep even more. It's not like anyone at school is going to care that i'm not there. Except Maxine, but she's my best friend. She kind of has to care about me, but no one is forcing her to care about me. I was asleep for a little while before I received a text from Maxine that woke me up. Her contact in my phone is Maxi Pad. She hates when I use both of those words to refer to her. “Dude, where the hell are you?” She texted, I assumed she wanted me to text her back. “Not at school, obviously” I replied . That might have pissed her off because she never replied back. Normally she replies back at lightning speed. I would've texted her back to see if she was angry at me but I got hungry and didn't care anymore. …show more content…
But I have no job and no money. I live with my parents but they expect me to wake up to go to school by myself. Hell, in 3rd grade I almost got expelled because no one ever bothered to wake me up to go to school on time. I avoided that by moving in with my grandparents for the rest of the school year. And I lived there until the summer right after 6th grade. My grandparents by then were fed up with raising more children. They said I was a pain in the ass and didn't want anything to do with me. It was a wonderful thing to be told during such a hormonal time in my