September 30th started out like every other Wednesday for Lola. She was asleep in her bed when her ridiculously loud alarm went of at 5:45 AM. Lola had to be at tennis practice in fifteen minutes, but she was extremely tired from going to bed so late because she was studying for her tests. Also, Lola isn't really a morning person either, so she wasn't super eager to get up and ignored the beeping of the obnoxious alarm. Suddenly, her older sister Genevieve came running across the hall into Lola's room because the ongoing sound of the alarm was irritating her. Genevieve turned off her sister’s alarm clock and looked at the time, it was 5:50 AM at this point. “Lola!” Genevieve yelled, “How did you not hear that?” Lola was still in bed and half-asleep. “What are you talking about?” she said, “…Oh no I have to be at tennis at 6:00 AM!” Lola jumped out of her bed and grabbed her tennis bag that she packed the night before.
Fifteen-year-old Lola, a freshman, went to go wake up her mother so she could drive her to school. They went in the car and Lola made it to tennis practice by 6:05 AM. Her tennis coach was not very happy about this. In fact, she was so upset with Lola’s tardiness that she made Lola pick up all of the tennis balls that were on the floor after morning practice.
After tennis practice, Lola went to the locker room and got ready for school. She studied her vocabulary flashcards on the way to class because she had a quiz first block. Her review paid off because she got 100%! Before second block Lola stopped by Genevieve’s locker because on Wednesday’s Genevieve doesn’t come to school until 8:40 AM because she is a senior and has a first block free, and usually brings her sister breakfast. Lola happily took her bagel and coffee and walked to her locker to grab her books for her next class—Spanish. Lola was excited for Spanish class because she was doing a presentation! After her presentation her teacher told her “Muy bien, Lola!” and Lola met up with her friends, Brittany and Eloise, in the quad so they could walk down to the cafeteria for lunch. For the last fifteen minutes of lunch, Lola went to the library to review for her history test that was next block. After she took her history test, she went had drama class. She loves acting and looks forward to this class everyday!
After school, Eloise went home with Lola to hang out for an hour, and after she left Lola did her homework. She ate dinner with her family and told them all about her day, and how she vaguely remembers Genevieve coming into her room early this morning to tell her that to her, “perfect happiness is waking up naturally and on time without the horrible sound of alarm clocks.” After dinner and finishing the rest of her homework, Lola got ready for bed, read the October issue of Vogue, and fell asleep dreaming of fall fashion.
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Jaclyn, the little things make this work. The sister's irritation, the tennis coach's punishment, the flash card review, the fact that morning is a dim memory by dinnertime. Well done.
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