2 weeks later, and now my mother is headed off on her buisness trip...

"Now don't answer the door for anyone آپ don't know and call me if anything bad happens-"

"Okay okay! Sheesh. I'm 13 years old, I know how this works سے طرف کی now..."

"I know...it's just...this is your first time being alone for a couple of days and-"

"I'll be fine, mom, I swear!"

She smiled and gave me hugs and kisses. Then she got her lugage and left. I sat down on the سوفی, لٹانا in the living room and watched TV.



A couple days went سے طرف کی and things were going fine. I'd go to school then come ہوم and Stacy would make me dinner. Then my...

I woke up to the sound of my mother coming home. I sat up and rubbed my eyes, "ey mom," I yawned.

She looked over and smiled at me, seeming very excited, "Quater, guess what?"

"What?"

"I got promoted!!!"

I blinked, "r-really?"

"Yes!!!"

I ran over to her and we jumped up and down, sqwealing with excitement. This promotion could give her مزید money and we could finally do all the things we couldn't before! Then my mom got a worried expression on her face, "but, though this is good, I'll have to leave آپ here alone for a few days for a buisness trip..."

"Oh..."

"W-Well not completely alone. Stacy will...

I got off the bus and walked over to the collage apartments where my mother and I had lived for as long as I could remember. We didn't have the money to get a house but I guess that didn't really matter since it was just the two of us...


I got to room 605, our room, and went in. The door was unlocked since I didn't have a spare key and my mother didn't get ہوم till late.

I sighed and flopped down on the couch. I hated coming ہوم to no one there. It made me feel so alone...

After a moment I got up and went to my room, throwing my bookbag in the corner and laying down on my bed. I stared at the...

"Miss Queen...Miss Queen!"

I blinked and looked up at my teacher, who was towering over me and scowling.

"Miss Queen, where's your homework?"

"...Oh! Umm," I went through my bookbag and pulled out the math worksheet, "here," I held it out to her. She snatched it out of my hand, "next time get your head out of the clouds and focus on school!" she stormed up to the front of the class, to her desk.

The other kids snickered and I shrunk down in my chair. That was embarrassing...I got out my book and began reading...I must've read the period away cause سے طرف کی the time I finished the chapter, the گھنٹی, بیل rang....