Big Sister

{MAYA}

Maya Smith squinted her eyes and found herself looking up at the sun, "darn it vampire!" she told herself and chuckled.

A vampire seriously?

In the morning she was a zombie and now she was thinking of herself as a vampire. The school wasn't that far from her apartment and that's another reason she didn't drive to school.

She took her phone out of her bag, connected it to the earbuds, and place only one into her ear. She had listened to her mother's warnings regarding placing both earbuds into her ears.

"If you want to destroy your ears, why don't you hit your head onto the wall so many times, I am sure it will work." Those were her mother's words to her and her siblings whenever he saw them with earbuds or earphones

And also, she had to place one earbud, after all, she was on the road and she didn't want to find herself on social media as a lady who had been hit by a bicycle because she hadn't heard the bell.

It would be an embarrassment.

She arrived at the university gate and handed her identification card to the guard and after the lady confirmed it was her, she allowed Maya to enter.

The University of Ronto had restrictions, and Maya was surprised that the rules were followed till she was in her fourth year. She had thought the rules would have a bent a long time ago like the other universities she knew.

She thought of walking on the grass and avoiding the pathway so she would walk under the shades but talked herself out of it. She followed the same pathway, and when she arrived at the hall her class was going to take place that was when she changes.

Maya had done that at the beginning as a joke, and it became her normalcy.

She entered the hall and found a few students had arrived, she walked to the middle of the class and took her seat.

She watched as students began coming in, and behind she could hear the students talking about their current relationships. Maya Smith didn't want to hear anything about it so she decided to focus on something else.

She placed the other earbud into her left ear, reduced the volume of her phone, and changed the music playlist.

Opening her school email, she closed it and opened her email. The school email had no message. Her personal was something else, it had everything from blogs, and quotes to subscriptions. She scanned through as fast as she could and deleted the ones she didn't find useful.

When she was done, she took out the book for the class she was attending, she sighed as she read the topic. She hated math but she had to attend the class. The professor entered and surprisingly the student went quiet.

"Hello, ladies and gents, mothers and fathers, wives and husbands, girlfriends and boyfriends, or can I say, lovers?" Professor Remington said which earned laughter across the hall.

"I can see you are happy but I am sure some of you now are killing and torturing me in their heads. It's not my fault you have math as a common course. I love math, how many love math?" With that, he got grunts from the students.

Professor Remington continued, "don't worry guys the torture will end soon."

Maya only wrote that down, and her mind wandered.

She remembered the first time she had arrived at the university and thought that she was going to be taught only the course related to her field of study, but the surprise was on her she had learned writing skills, communication skills, business skills, and even math.

She remembered not being alone who had had that idea in mind.

"… and make sure you prepare well. Have a good day." And then she heard the chair movements, she looked up and saw the professor leaving the hall. How the hell did the class end that fast?

Maya closed her book and asked the lady who was sitting next to her, "excuse me, what did the lecturer mean by, prepare well?"

The lady looked at Maya, and answered her, "there would be a cat next week." And with that, she left before Maya would ask her why the class ended that fast. She texted a friend and asked if she would help her with the book so she would copy the notes.

She went and meet the friend who gave her the notes and since she didn't have any other class she walked back home.

"Mom, I am back." Maya called as soon as she arrived, "mother what are you preparing?" continued Maya, she smelt something good.

"Hi." Her mother greeted.

"Maiaaaaa." Maya heard and run.

Lewi and Levi had arrived as soon as she left for class. Maya had to run far because the twins were going to tackle her to the ground.

"Children, no running in the house," Amelia shouted at her kids and she couldn't help herself but smile. She was so used to telling them that, that whenever they run around the house that was the same thing she said to them.

Maya ran back to the kitchen and hide behind her mother, for a 22 twenty-two years old lady she knew how to behave.

"Your phone is ringing," Her mother told her, and one of the twins ran and picked it up. Reading the caller ID, "It's Brent, mmmmh, sister you have a lover?"

"No Lewi," Maya shouted.

"I am standing here."

"No, Levi."

"Still me."

Maya begged him not to pick, but he picked anyway and put it on the loudspeaker. "Hello," Brent began, and when he heard a voice belonging to a guy he ended the call.

Maya walked to his brother and asked him to give her the phone, it might have been something important and since she had a serious face on, the twins stopped their game.

Big sister has spoken.