Chapter 2- Prequel Part 2

6 months later, I'm finally walking across the stage at our graduation ceremony.

No surprise that I got no applause when I grabbed my diploma.

I didn't care, I was just relieved I survived four whole years of this miserable place.

When me and my family arrived home all I wanted to do was lay down and forget about school, but I hear a knock on my door.

"Come in." I shout with my face buried in my pillow.

My parents walk in and sit on any available space left on my bed. My mom starts,

"So good luck on graduating high school, third best no less..." She trails off as my dad interrupts.

"Could have been the best if you weren't playing around so much and reading manga instead of studying."

Under the pillow I roll my eyes. I don't bother trying to defend myself or contest his statement.

Sometimes, there's no arguing with parents, the easiest way out of these conversations was just agreeing and moving on.

"Well despite that, you have some really good college options but they're for mediocre majors that won't benefit all of us. It seems the best colleges overlooked you for other candidates. That's..... disappointing."

"Yeah, your mom and I worked hard to get up early in the morning to get you to school, helped you get your materials for those demanding projects, and this is the best you have to show for it. So we decided that if you aren't going to take your education seriously, we'll have to. We already signed you up for a good college with a major that'll take care of all of us in the future."

I jumped up at that statement.

There's no way I was going to let them just do me like that.

"I did my best in high school and you're complaining about things you should be doing like it's my fault. I was literally an outcast in high school and you guys were no help at all. If college is anything like high school, I'm not sure I want to go to anymore. I was thinking of getting a part time job and going to a technical college while looking into different majors to see what I want to do."

I didn't know why I bothered telling them this.

They're not even trying to hide that they're basically telling me to get a good education and job so they don't have to.

The silence is the made me slightly uneasy, but I didn't back down from my dads' glare and my moms' disapproving sneer, wondering what their response would be.

I didn't expect them to stand and begin to walk to the door. As my mom walks out and just before my dad follows and closes the door behind him, he says,

"If you feel like you can be rebellious and not listen to us, don't expect us to allow you to live with us if you not in the college we applied you for."

What he said finally processes in my mind.

They were threatening to kick me out for just because I didn't want to go to college?

It's not like I was unreasonable and didn't have a backup plan.

I looked at the college brochure they left and saw the entrance date was less than two months from now and it's three states away.

There's no way I can properly prepare for any of this with two months.

2 months later...

I walked toward my dorm room carrying my clothes in my hand with a solemn expression on my face.

I was mentally trying to prepare and encourage myself by saying that maybe college wasn't too bad.

I had this feeling that I wasn't ready and that I was forgetting something but didn't know what.

I was still waiting for word back from various grants and scholarships I applied for last second.

I expressed this to my parents but of course they weren't concerned about that.

Coming up to the dorm room, I prayed to every god I knew that my roommate wasn't an asshole.

I opened the door to see a guy with pale skin and neck length dark hair jamming to Nickelback.

I know that appearances aren't supposed to define your character but, this guy looked like an asshole. Oh Bastet, why have you forsaken me?