Ellen's English Blog :)

This is a bit of my English short story. enjoy!

I hear the loud ringing of my alarm clock. I wake up startled and confused. My head feels as though is weighs 100 tonnes. I slowly get up and look at my alarm clock. It’s 10:32 am. School started more than two hours ago! I walk up to the mirror and see a repugnant creature staring back at me. It was me. My eyes are red as candy-apples and my hair is a bird’s nest. I stand there for a second looking at myself. I know that I can’t do anything about the way I look right now, so I swiftly slid into a pair of my favourite denim jeans and put on my red chequered flannie. I ran downstairs and saw that the TV was turned on. There was a search going on for some paedophile murderer. I payed no attention and Popped a mint into my mouth, grabbed my backpack and literally sprinted out the door. It was a tedious cold, wet day. The sky was grey and the wind splintered against my face as I ran. As I approached the gates of the school I heard the melodious sound of our school choir singing ‘La traviata’. I silently walked into the hallway, nearly out of breath. It was exceedingly quiet. “Adriana!” I tuned around and saw the school janitor running up to me with a soda in his right hand. How does he know my name? I thought to myself. “Yes?” I said, raising one eyebrow. “I was just emptying out the vending machine and I thought that you might like a soda.” I just stood there for a while, not used to strangers being kind to me. But eventually I gave in and took the soda. “Thanks…” I said suspiciously and walked towards the opposite direction just to get away from the janitor, even though my classroom was the other way. Once I was out of sight, I opened the soda can and gulped down half of the drink. My throat was burning from all that running, and this was the only way I could quench my thirst. I took the can away from my lips to take a breath when I suddenly felt lightheaded and tipsy. The soda tasted perfectly fine, so I had no idea what the problem was all about. After wobbling around on my legs a bit I collapsed onto the ground and watched everything go dark.