It was 8 in the morning and the alarm was ringing desperate.
Valerie was fighting against her heavy eyelid. She couldn't be late again or Mr. Summers would give her a detention, and in the moment the last thing she needed was to serve Summit School. She was already a senior and that's why she would do anything to be free from that place!
Unwillingly she forced herself to leave her comfortable bed.
The fat smell invaded her nostril when she crossed the corridor from her bedroom to the bathroom.
Probably her mother was cooking bacon with eggs to some of her boyfriends. Valerie was sure about it when she heard the eccentric laughs coming from the kitchen while she was entering in the shower. That's was, definitely, disgusting.
By the way, her mother was disgusting, if we can say Marian Smith was a mother. She was the kind of woman that any sane person would never get close. She was alcoholic, drugged,bitch... She'd never treated Valerie as a daughter. If wasn't because her grandmother, possibly the girl would have lived in some orphanage, of course this might be better.
Valerie has never met her father. People say he had died when she was born.
A car crash or something like that. It didn't matter at all. He was dead. Anyway, his death was welcome, 'cause it was thanks to this fact they received some money and because of this money Valerie didn't live on the streets.
After finishing her shower, she got dressed in 5 minutes, got the old schoolbag and without looking to the obscene scene in the kitchen (she knew what's happening because of her mother's moaning) and slammed the door behind her.
Turning to the elevator's direction she almost stepped on Mike Peterson, her 12 years-old neighbor who was lying down the corridor. He might be doped as always.
She took the elevator e got prepared for another tiring day.
It was these mornings’ scenes that gave her strength to keep studying. She needed to study to get a good job. And she needed a good job to see herself free from that messy place, from her alcoholic mother, from everything she'd lived until her 17 years old.
She knew she'd never been and would never be part of that world! Actually, she didn't want to be part of anything!
The only thing Valerie Smith knew was that the Earth wasn't her place.
