Sarah wiped some sweat away from her brow as she flung her hand around, without mind to what she hit, working to silence her alarm clock and its insistant wailing. It was actually playing a radio station, but the shitty modern pop 'music' pouring out of it sounded more like a blaring claxon then entertainment. "<strong>Who listens to that shit...</strong>" The music suddenly stopped and her blanket was lifted off her, the bright morning light immediately blinding her and she let out a surprised, tired groan.<br/><br/>"<em>Oh, sorry...</em>" Sarah heard her sister Chloe's voice as the blanket was lowered back onto her head.<br/><br/>Sarah groaned and turned over, sliding one leg off her bed and grunting aloud as she pushed herself up. She swung the blanket off herself and stood, looking at her sister and grinning. "<strong>Morning already?</strong>" Sarah chuckled, her sister sighing in response and stepping aside as Sarah stretched her arms out and quickly left her bedside, heading towards the bathroom and flipping on the light. Back in her room, Chloe opened up the curtains and sunlight poured into the room, filling it and the bathroom in a basked orange glow, dawn was just pushing up over the horizon. That meant it was still nice and early, she'd set the alarm early. Or someone else had...<br/><br/>With her bathroom light on, Sarah blinked herself awake and stared at the mirror, her eyes were a little red and her hair was all messed up, frizzy and just wacky in general. She turned around and twisted on the shower, straight to hot and pulled off her grey top, tossing it nonchalantly aside. Chloe appeared and stopped abruptly, turning around outside the door and clearing her throat. Sarah paused as she was taking off her underwear, glancing at the door and sighing. "<strong>Yes?</strong>"<br/><br/>"<em>Uhh, well... she's in a hurry...</em>" Chloe again cleared her breath uncomfortably, looking inside the bathroom as Sarah tossed her underwear aside. "<em>And when she's in a hurry...</em>"<br/><br/>"<strong>The tired, smelly older sister doesn't care. If her boyfriend can't find a better time to smooch, he'd better find himself a decent schedule.</strong>" Sarah replied as she stepped into the shower and closed the door, sighing aloud as the steamy water seemed to erased all passes of her exhaustion of working a 16 hour day ending only hours ago, and the grime and smokey dust smell that had settled onto her.<br/><br/>"<em>You know about Thomas? She's only been going out with him for like, a day.</em>" Chloe replied, stepping into the bathroom and flipping on the mirror light, grabbing a small comb and running it through her dark hair, she was humming a quiet tune as she did so.<br/><br/>"<strong>Thomas? Thomas Kopetski? I thought she was dating Ryan Davidson...</strong>" Sarah replied.<br/><br/>"<em>Naw, she broke up with him weeks ago, she's been dating Kyle Troymer for the last while. Just broke up with him a few days ago.</em>" Chloe replied, chuckling.<br/><br/>"<strong>Thomas Kopetski... ha. As in, Leon Kopetski. I dated that idiot in high school, never met a more useless human being in my entire life. The guy was a total spaz, his dad owned 5 cars and has never so much as had to carry a grocery bag in his entire life, let alone do fuck all else.</strong>" Sarah barked in response, rolling her eyes and running a handful of shampoo through her hair.<br/><br/>"<em>Well, Thomas is the same.</em>" Chloe replied. "<em>So I'm told, I heard he actually had someone carry his backpack once, like 20 feet from the school to the car. He's rich though.</em>"<br/><br/>"<em>His hair is worth more than this house...</em>" Amata added in as she entered the bathroom and kissed Chloe on the side of the head, grabbing a second brush.<br/><br/>Sarah peeked her head out of the shower, flicking her dripping fingers at her blonde sister, whom jumped away in surprise. "<strong>Well in that case, young lady, you can go live in his hair. I'm sure its got a lower electricity bill, given the low activity in that region.</strong>" Everyone laughed at that, except Sarah whom turned off the shower and set off to dry down.<br/><br/>20 minutes later, she was sitting at the kitchen island as Amata finished making pancakes for her sister, Sarah was just finishing up her toast and an apple. She didn't want to eat much, based on the news she was watching, it was going to be a busy day. "<em>Didn't you go to school with her?</em>" Chloe asked, looking up periodically from a romance novel splayed out in front of her, nodding at the TV achor woman, Haley Alls.<br/><br/>Sarah nodded, but didn't respond, she was watching the images and video of the news. She threw a small piece of gum into her mouth and chewed it until it balled up, broken from its stick form and focused her attention on her sister, reading across from her. She was startled a little as her pager vibrated in her pocket, but paid it no attention. If it did it again, she was in a rush. Once was hardly a reason to get worked up, it was usually a cat up a tree or some old lady left her oven on and was burning down her 40 year old wooden house. Even if she went through the downtown like a terror on wheels, she'd never get there on time. Sarah looked up at the clock as Amata served up the pancakes and both hungrily began to eat. Then the news story came on about the riots and the disturbances, everyone in the room took notice as Sarah abruptly turned off the TV as the report started. Both her sisters looked at her, and she smiled. "<strong>You'd think people on the west side would be used to losing to us in the community football games by now.</strong>" Sarah laughed, her grin disappearing as neither of her sisters seemed appeased. "<strong>Don't worry about it you two, stuff like this is bound to happen with this economy. People are angry at the government, not us. Just... don't go out that way today, huh?</strong>" Both of her sisters nodded and Sarah smiled, looking down at the newspaper in front of her.<br/><br/>After 10 minutes and a final check up, Sarah led her sisters outside and approached the car door, stopping abruptly as Chloe stepped in front of her. Hearing the door closed, Sarah looked over her should at Amata, locking the front door and moving to join them at the car, swaying her arms from side to side with a little exact waggle in her walk. Sarah raised an eyebrow from behind her sunglasses and watched as she approached the driver side ahead of Sarah and Chloe, turning around and leaning against the door. "<strong>Oh I see... today is the day huh.</strong>" Sarah asked, putting her hands on her hips. Neither of her sisters replied, just stared.<br/><br/>Admiting defeat wasn't something Sarah did often, but there was usually no turning the opinions of her sisters when they both stood their ground. Solidifying her defeat, Sarah chucked the car keys to Chloe who giggled in joy, tossing the keys again to Amata who practically squealed as she opened the driver side door and slid in. Sarah snuck in the backseat and dropped her bag next to her, flipping up the sunglasses. "<strong>Now, make sure you-</strong>"<br/><br/>"<em>I got it!</em>" Amata yelled, putting the car in drive and bolting out of the driveway.<br/><br/>"<strong>Right...you've been driving a whole 2 years, silly me to doubt.</strong>" Sarah responded as she leaned back, laying her head against the headrest and sighing deeply, rolling down the window on her door and smiling as the chilly air rushed in to meet her. The radio was turned on, and a sickeningly similar song to what Sarah had woken up to started blaring on the radio.