Labyrinth

*Chapter 1: Calculus*

"Nate! So help me..."

"I'm up, I up!" I jump off the bed and onto my feet.

Without wobbling I might add.

"It's the second freaking week, how do you still not get this."

"I'm sorry that I need an extra hour of sleep more than you to look somewhat decent, Regina."

"That's what a shower is for now get. Yourself. Ready. Before I toss you into my car and you go to school in your sweaty PJ's Nathaniel!"

"I'm getting ready, now leave!" I retaliate and she shoots me a menacing glare which chokes me to submission, and squashes whatever courage I had inside, "please." I add sheepishly.

She turns away leaving a commanding presence lingering in the air of my room, and I gulp down the saliva that I was too afraid to swallow in her presence.

I do my morning routine quicker than usual and head downstairs to an empty bottom floor and Regina swinging her keys on her finger and leaning by the door.

She looks me up and down just to make sure I'm "perfect" enough for her.

She calls me with her finger and I follow like a dog too afraid to disobey.

Honestly it's better this way, last week she told me to go take another shower because I smelt funny, and when I came back down she'd left me behind and I had no choice but to walk to school, since our driver is on his vacation.

I mean no one misses the first week of school, maybe the second week but not the first, and I wasn't going to be the first person to do so, so I walked.

I breath in the fresh morning air still moist from the nights light shower.

I walk on the recently cut grass glittering fresh with morning dew to Regina's red Maserati GranCabrio and hop in soundlessly.

I sit in silence as we drive to school staring out of the window uninterested by the silhouettes of the homes waiting motionlessly Infront of the sun burning low behind them.

Staying silent in Regina's car is basically a requirement, she likes to think while she's driving and says when I talk I impede her thinking process.

I only listen to that rule with no argument because like her I just like being alone to my thoughts during a drive as well.

Sitting and thinking about how the day could go, whether or not I'll make a friend or enemy, and trying to remember whether I finished all my homework the day before, that's how I like to spend my drives to school.

Since I'm on the school topic, the first week was... ok I guess.

I made a total number of zero friends, but I did say hi to a couple of people in my class.

Regina isn't in my class, thank goodness.

And I made one enemy.

And I categorized everyone I've come across into two piles, one pile is for people I wouldn't mind knowing, the other for people I find  uninteresting or just don't want to be around.

That was my productive first week so I'm overly exited about today.

Note the sarcasm there.

"Out." Regina rudely commands, kicking me out of my headspace as well as her car, and of course I have no chose but to get out.

Lucky for me ever since my first day here, I learnt from my mistake on the first day and decided to bring a hoodie to school everyday since.

To be honest I always wear a hoodie, I have no idea why I forgot it on the first day, but I have a feeling it had something to do with Regina rushing me to get up and get ready, but since then I haven't and will not let her make me forget something like my hoodie again.