Worst. Morning. Ever!

"Oh no!” I squeak “I'm gonna miss the bus!” I say as I grab my bag and run through the house.

As I enter the kitchen the toast cooking in the toaster pops out of the toaster and I grab it without slowing down. I reach the front door and run out to the bus stop, forgetting to lock the door behind me. (oopsies! lol!! :3)

I put the toast in my mouth as I put on my backpack and run towards my usual bus stop. As I get there I see that I’m too late, the bus was already beginning to leave without me.

“Heck! Can this day get any hecking worse??” I mumble through the piece of toast in my mouth. I look down at the watch that I keep on my wrist. “Ugh, it’s 8:00 am! I’ll never make it to school on time!”

I kick it into high gear and run as fast as I can in a desperate attempt to catch up with the bus. As I’m running though, I hear the hit song “What Makes You Beautiful” by One Direction. (heres a link but you definitely have already heard of it because its the best song ever!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJO3ROT-A4E) I immediately recognize it as Peyton's text message noise.

“Oh my g*d! I forgot I set that ringtone for Peyton! He’s the dreamiest guy in the entire school!” I say to myself.

I reach for my phone to read his message.

“Where are you? I didn’t see you get on the bus at your stop.” Peyton texts.

I quickly burst out “Hey Siri, text Peyton back: OMG! Having the worst morning EVER! I missed the bus and now I’m going to be late!”

Siri types a little and then repeats back to me: “Okay! Here’s the message I’m going to send!: ‘OMG! Having the worst morning EVER! I missed the bus and now I’m going to be love!’ Are you sure you want me to send it?”

My heart skips a beat and I almost drop my phone, “Oh g*d! I can’t send love to peyton! Delete! Delete! Don’t send!”

“Sending message!” Siri cheerfully replies.

“Oh no no no! That’s so embarrassing! I’m never texting with Siri ever again! Heck you Siri!” I fumbled with my phone to text Peyton and correct the message.

I’m paying so much attention to my phone that I’m forgetting to pay attention to the floor and trip on a rock. Right as I fall face first onto the pavement, toast falling right in front of me, the school bus carrying everyone from school drives right past me, people looking through the window and laughing.

“This really is the worst day ever! I’m never gonna live this down!” I say, sitting up and picking up my piece of toast. “I just hope Peyton didn’t see…”

Phew! Finally made it. That was the most humiliating walk to class I’ve ever had, but at least I’m here now! Now I just need to sneak into class without anyone noticing I’m late.

I turn the door handle and walk into my first period classroom, accidentally slamming the door behind me like a total klutz! Every single head inside that classroom turns to face me as the noise rings out.

“Sorry Mr. White, I missed the bus.” I turn bright red as I try to quietly take my seat. Mr. White is a nice teacher, probably my second favorite, right after the football coach, Varnolik.

“Don’t worry about it. Just make sure to check with your lab partner about anything you may have missed.”

“Heya Sima!” Jesse turns to me.

This is Jesse, he’s my lab partner for our first period science class. He always wears a beanie and a yellow jacket. He’s a real chemistry nerd and is always making odd concoctions, he reeks of chemicals.

I internally groan, today is gonna be a long day.

As I’m getting up to leave class Peyton walks up behind me. “Hey Sima-”

“Eeek!” I scream as I jump up.

“Oh, sorry, I didn’t mean to startle you!” Peyton apologizes, looking cute while doing so.

And that’s Peyton. Wow… What more is there to say except Wow… Peyton is the HOTTEST guy in the entire school. He makes Harry Styles look average at best. Not only is he super attractive, he’s smart, funny, and even the head of the Sonder High football team! This is actually how we met, seeing as I’m on the cheerleading team, we end up spending a lot of time together. He has incredible brown hair and wears our team’s varsity jacket all the time, it’s gray and the sleeves and accents are purple, the shoulders are striped with orange and black, and the front of the jacket has a big S (For Sonder High School), and the back has a portrait of our mascot, JAJ, a brown dragon. He’s just so dreamy and- Erm… looks like I’m getting a bit carried away.

OMG! It's Peyton! He's so close to me I can almost smell his cologne. Play it cool Sima! Play it cool! My face turns bright red and my legs almost give out due to handsomeness overload!!!

“Hey Peyton, didn’t see you there, haha” I say as I try to regain my balance.

Shoot! I just realized I never texted him back explaining that Siri sent that message! Oh no, he's totally going to know I’m in love with him if I don’t clear it up now!

“Oh, and about that text I sent earlier, that wasn’t me- Er, well, it was me but I didn’t mean to send it- Well I did mean to but I didn’t mean to say I love you- Well I do love you- AS A FRIEND I MEAN- Ugh… I’m being such a baka today…”

“Err.. haha, yeah, don’t worry about it. I figured since it would be kinda weird if you said you loved me.” (heart status: broken </3 )

“Haha.. Yeah.. Well I need to get going or else I’ll be love- I MEAN LATE, to my other classes. Gotta go!” I said holding back the tears in my eyes and running out of the classroom.

Uh! Can this day get any more embarrassing?

I run over to my locker to get my things. As I’m arranging my books I hear the voice of the meanest bully in all of the school: The Shellkeeper. “Well well well, if it isn’t Toast Girl.”

I absolutely hate Shell (Her name is Shell but we sometimes call her The Shellkeeper because they’re OBSESSED with shells (much worse than rocks)). She’s the most popular girl in school because everyone thinks she's this perfect girl, but in reality she is nothing but a nuisance to me and Caitlyn. Constantly judging us and bullying us. Yet, everyone still buys this innocent pretty girl act she puts on. Ughhh I hate her so much!!

“Ugh.. What do you want Shell? Can’t you see I’m busy?? ” I snap back at them.

“Yeah I bet you’re real busy seeing as you missed the bus! That’s right, I know all about that.” She smirks.

Ugh, just my luck that the one of the people to notice was Shell. “I’ll have you know I just overslept. That’s why I’m late.” I say far too confidently before realizing what I had just said.

Wow, nice going Sima, you've gone and done it now.. Why’d I have to go and open my big mouth?

“Ha, is that why your hair looks like a rat's nest?” Shell sneers at me

“Well-well at least my hair is it’s natural color” I snap back at them (shell dyes her hair, unlike sima who has natural midnight blue hair with purple streaks)

Shell gets visibly angry at my comeback. Great, you’ve really gone and done it now Sima. I should have known better than to provoke them.

“But that’s not all I know… I’m sure you had a nice trip to school? You even lost your breakfast.” Shell grinned.

I quickly shut my mouth and start to blush out of embarrassment. Shell can clearly see this is having an effect on me.

“What was it again? Toast right?” They continue with a devilish grin “It would be such a shame if that pathetic incident were to get out to the whole school.”

“Knock it off, you wouldn’t!” I plead. My stomach churns at the thought of Peyton finding out.

“Oh you clearly underestimate me, Toast Girl.” Shell says, clearly proud of her new nickname for me.

“How do you even know about all this?” I ask

Shell smirks as she walks off, “Doesn’t matter how I know. What matters is that you’ll be Toast Girl by the end of the day.”

Great, just my luck. If word really does get out about my toast incident, I can pretty much kiss my social life goodbye! I just have to hope that Shell was just bluffing. Maybe they were just saying that to mess with me. Ugh, who am I kidding, this is Shell we’re talking about after all..

I have a feeling I haven’t heard the last of Toast Girl……