MONDAY

Monday! Monday! Khloe hated his day with every living cell in her body and to make it worse, it was the first Monday of school after summer break which made her hate it even more if it was possible. She tried to lighten her mood by raking her mind for anything she could look forward to but as usual for the past weeks, nothing came up apart from talking to her best friend Samantha. The idea of prom never excited her anymore, not after what happened with Garret.

"Khloe,"

She heard someone scream her name and without second thought, she knew it was her young brother, Jack and for the first time in forever, she was thankful for his interuption because she was almost sinking back into thoughts about about Garret which she really needed to stop doing because those thoughts led to nothing but tears.

Without bothering to shout back at Jack who was probably already downstairs waiting for her, Khloe headed to her bathroom to prepare herself for what she already knew was going to be a very long and hectic day which would eventually lead to a year with the same effect.

She swiftly had a shower , brushed her teeth and started on combing her hair. Monday was not a day she particularly dressed her best for but since it was the first day of school and not to mention her final year of high school, she decided to make an impression. She looked herself in the full body mirror and smiled to herself, atleast she was confident in her looks, heck! even her brother who degraded her in everything she did admitted that copper brown hair and pale blue almost grey eyes made her a beauty.She looked at her slim body and thanked the heavens that all the crying and skipping meals had not reduced her size because this was the exact size she needed and any reduction would make her look unhealthy. She made a mind note to never miss meals again and try not to cry because seriously, she had cried enough during summer break but atleast no one knew about it not even Sam or Jack.

Khloe looked in her closet and was faced with the horrible remainder that she had not gone shopping for the whole summer break and she would rather skip school than put on one of her old clothes on the first day of school. As she was still contemplatimg on what to do, she spotted the dress she had bought for the summer break party and cancelled on the lasg minute. She pulled out the short sleeveless midnight blue dress and smiled because this was exactly what she needed to lighten her mood and make a lasting impression , a slutty dress to contradict her good girl face, she chuckled at her own thought.

"Khloe Lawrence!"

Jack yelled again and she rolled her eyes at his antics but decided to to be quick or else she could be late.

She quivkly put on the fress together with the matching heels, applied alittle eye liner and decided to just let her hair hang loose to save some minutes.

"Coming,"

She shouted as she exuted her room and went downstairall the while mindful of the three inches adorning her feet.

"So this plain look us what took youan eternity to pull off,"

Jack commented and shook his head in disapproval but Khloe just smiled because she knew him well enough to know that if he even commented about her looks at all, she was really looking smart or hot in this case.

She strode towards the table to atleast have a bite of her breakfast but the look she recieved from the little guy made her change her mind about it and instead headed for the exit door with jack jusf afew strides behind her.

"Now, now before you leave,"

Mrs Lawrence their mother said.

They both stopped in their tracks and turned to look at her, she was already clad for work in a red pant suit and black heels but her line of work did not put emphasis on punctuality, atleast not on her. She removed a silver necklace from her neck and gently put it around her daughter's and said,

"Khloe my dear, as I always tell you, you have to stand out and that can only be accomplished by having some jewellery on you." "Now off you ho before you are late,"she added and bothof them hurriedly rushed out.

The ride to school was not peaceful at all for Khole all because of her brother.

"Oh God!" Khloe exclaimed loudly because she was really frustrated. First, his insists that they use the family SUV or land cruiser instead of her Sedan which luckily, he gave up on within afew minutes and now here they were in her car with the music bkasting so loudly and Jack singing along like a lunatic. She looked at him and shook her head wondering how anyone could be in such high spirits on a Monday morning but that was Jack , always so hyper that Khloe could never blame anyone who suspected that he was on drugs.

Finally, Khloe dropped off her brother at Rosevelt Elementary which was a relief. She watched him disappear insidd the green gate but not before turning around and sticking out his tongue at her and running off before she retaliated.

Khloe just smiled and drove off and in not more than ten minutes, she hed already rounded the corner and into Rosevelt High's parking lot. She parked her car and grabbed her phone from the dash board before moving out.

"Okay this is it,"she mumbled and exited the parking lot.

"Khloe!"

Someone shouted Khloe's name and she rolled her eyes wondering what was with people and shouting at her today. She turned and immediately broke into a massive grin and had it not been for the heels, she would already be in her friend's arms.

Sam rushed over and as usual, she was dressed like someone straight from the run way with a peach jump suit tightly clinging onto her shapely body together with black heels and being the Sam that Khloe knew, she had a blackvelvet scalf and shades covering her all too familiar chocolate brown eyes which she always claimed to bring out sophiscation.

"I missed u babe," Sam said even though she had slept over at Khloe's just one week back and they had talked over video call just last night but regardless, Khloe also replied,

"I missed you too, Sam."

"So, any plans for the weekend?"Sam asked and Khloe shook her head, leave it to Sam to plan for the weekend on a Monday morning.

"None that I know of,"she replied.

"I thought u and Garret have a date,"Sam said despite knowing that they broke up afew weeks back. Khloe sighed and stopped walking to face her friend and then said to her,

"Sam, me and Garret broke up and it is really over."

Sam just smirked and shot back,

"You guys always say that but before we know it you are all over each other again."

"Well this time there is no going back again because he already did and I refused," Khloe said in a lower tone than she intended to and felt her wyes sting but she knew it was the right thing to do despitrme her feelings for him.

"Oh Lord!thank the holy virgin then," Sam almost shouted and even clasped her hands together while making then face skywards but stopped mid-way on sensibg Khloe's sour mood . "Look-,"she tried to explain but Khloe just shook it off by saying,

"It's okay for you to be happy and I think things ard better this way." and Sam silently agreed to this.

By this time,they had reached the halls and Khloe wondered whether everyone was very happy or she was the the one in a bad mood and she suspected it was the latter. Most of the students were hastily moving around and ramaginfg through their lockers while the mnerds were already rushing to class and Khloe always found it offensive calling almost all hef classmates in the Bilogy class nerds but not today.