The annoying blare of your alarm bloomed to life in a series of brain-piercing shrieks, earning a muffled groan from you. You groped around your bedside table, but all you managed to do was knock your green-tinted glasses to the floor; almost doing the same to your lamp two seconds later. The alarm wasn't stopping, and the insistent beeping had started rattling around the inside of your skull in a rather unbearably obnoxious way. You groggily slid your eyes open, slowly sitting up and blinking around in search of the annoying contraption. It was marginally harder to see anything without the aid of your glasses, and turned searching into a game of guessing what this or that blurred object was. It turned out that somewhere in the night, you'd managed to knock the clock into the incredibly small crack between your bed and the table, ad you had to fish it out with your …show more content…
Resolving to finish your essay later, you opened the most recent design for the robonoid. "They," Lapis began, "They said it shouldn't be more than a week, maybe two or three at most, until people can start moving back upstairs..." "Fine. As long as you're out of here soon," you said off-handedly, your attention unwavering from your laptop. Lapis huffed, but didn't say anything to your blatant response. Sighing, she stiffly made her way to the bathroom. You could hear running water behind the closed door, and the soft hum of Lapis muttering to herself. You couldn't make out exactly what she was saying, but she didn't sound overly happy. You were pretty sure you were the source of that. Oh well. Let her complain. You were going to act how you wanted, it was your dorm after all. If she wanted any form of warm reception she could go somewhere else. You'd managed to contribute a few meager sentences to your failing attempt at an essay when Lapis came back out. She took in a sharp breath, drawing a side-glance from you, pinching the bridge of her nose as she
making a very loud, annoying, ringing sound. This is done in order to get the
“Well I can’t talk too much right now I have to go to work. Bye son have a goodnight. Lili I’m leaving alright.” He said and left for the mill.
Look around my brethren, for countless generations these plains have been shared between all, man and animal. But now a looming danger comes near. Another race, once few and weak, now can overpower us easily. They have minds like us too till the soil, but are plagued by their possessions. They claim this Earth of ours for themselves and for their own purposes, they allow the rich to enjoy special luxuries that the common people cannot. They take the money which the common depend on to support those ruling. We cannot assimilate into their nation. Their nation is one which is filled with strife and deceptive rulers. Only 12 years ago they promised we could keep this land. But now they overrun our hills and plains once more. My brothers, shall we allow them to take more of our home? No! We shall fight until they let us be.
11:14 p.m.-I slowly ascend from my small wooden chair, and throw another blank sheet of paper on the already covered desk as I make my way to the door. Almost instantaneously I feel wiped of all energy and for a brief second that small bed, which I often complain of, looks homey and very welcoming. I shrug off the tiredness and sluggishly drag my feet behind me those few brief steps. Eyes blurry from weariness, I focus on a now bare area of my door which had previously been covered by a picture of something that was once funny or memorable, but now I can't seem to remember what it was. Either way, it's gone now and with pathetic intentions of finishing my homework I go to close the door. I take a peek down the hall just to assure myself one final time that there is nothing I would rather be doing and when there is nothing worth investigating, aside from a few laughs a couple rooms down, I continue to shut the door.
My nights of sleep seemed to have no chance. The twisting and turning of the
The forest knew I meant it no harm and welcomed me as her impermanent guest.
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