Reserved by the Big Bad Wolf.

It's officially the last day of high school. I dont know if im scared or excited. Being an orphan, i have nobody to support me financially but atleast i have my best friend Lisa for moral and emotional support. I love Lisa to bits! She is my rock. I dont know what I would do without her. Now that im pretty much done with highschool and turning 18 i will have to leave the orphanage. Lisa's mom and dad have said I can stay with them until I'm on my feet. Lisa is way too excited to be getting a room mate. As for me, well I dont know what its like to not have a room mate (or 5 roommates to be exact), but im really excited to be moving in with Lisa. Her family has always treated me as their own since i was small. Lisa and i have been friends since we started Junior school and were instand best friends since day one. I already have my job lined up. I start tomorrow afternoon. That gives me enough time to move my few belongings to Lisa in the morning and for us to set up the room in a way we are both comfortable with. Lisa insists we change it so it will be our room and not just hers. Even if it is temporary. I know better than to argue with her. She doesnt stop till she wins. I find myself rolling my eyes at the thaught. "Can you guys please hurry up. We all need to shower and we are going to be late!" Im banging on the shower rooms door. Ever since Jen and Zelda came out to each other about being lesbian they have taken double their usual time in the showers. Im so glad this is my last day here. About ten minutes later they both came out blushing..... They should be.... We all know whats happening in there. I rushed into the shower room and clean myself as fast as i can. I dont want to make Lisa wait again. As soon as im ready i rush out the door and Lisa is waiting already. Oops. "Clarry would you hurry up. Its the best day of our entire damned school career darn it!" Lisa is shouting between laughing hysterically. She is so wierd. I just love her. I jump in the two seater drop top pink car that Lisa had resprayed to be the exact shade of her absolute favorite color. The day went by fairly quickly since there was no actual work to do and all our teachers just gave us pretty much the same speach about the future and let us converse amoungst ourselves for the remainder of the period. Just to think we came to school for a whole day, moving from class to class, doing absolutely nothing, just to get our school leavers certificate at the end of the day. I do however pride myself with absolutely no absenteeism. Probably because its better to spend the day at school with my best friend, rather than a day in bed at the orphanage getting the hairy eyeball from passing nuns. There are five minutes left on the clock and we are done with school. Some kids will go to college, some to university and the others, such as myself who cannot afford it, will get jobs and start living adult lives. The bell rings and we all head off to collect our certificates. Not wanting to be caught in the crowd, Lisa and I dawdle behind the rest taking in the scene of the corridors for the last time and talking about memories and what we will miss. After we collect our certificates, Lisa drops me back at the orphanage for the last time to start packing. My get out of jail free card only starts tomorrow morning. I have all my things packed up within ten minutes except what i will need tonight and in the morning. I lay on my bed thinking of the girls in the room. Ive never relly gotten along with them. They all about two or three years younger that me except Jen and Zelda. They are only a year younger than me. But they are too sexually orietated for me and have no filters. The nuns are always sending them to confessions to repent their sins. I must say, the stories about catholic orphanages make them out to be worse than what they really are. The nuns here are more like mothers. Not that i know what its like to have a mother. I was given up at birth. My parents were apparently under aged and chose to give me up anonymously. So i have no way of finding out who they are. The nuns looked almost as sad as me when they had told me. Only sister Anne had the tiniest clue. She was the one who took me from my mothers arms. She said that i am the spitting image of my mother. She said my mother was crying uncontrollably. When Sister Anne had told her it does not have to be anonymous, she had apparently refused to give her name or a reason. Sister Anne said my mother had run down the street so fast ot was almost difficult to believe what she had seen before her very own eyes. She assumed that my mother must have been an athlete as she was very fit and in fantastic shape. Sister Anne had tried to find out who she was but came up empty handed. Sister Anne has been very close to me since that that. She is practically my mother here. I even go to her room and have tea with her sometimes. No other kids around here are allowed to go to the sisters quarters. But Anne made an exception for me. It was almost 9pm when I looked at the clock. I had been day dreaming for ever. It will be lights out in a few minutes. I quickly shot into the shower and changed into my jamies and climbed in bed in the nick of time. Sister Dorah poked her head in the door shouting "Lights out girls!" and proceeded to put the lights off before heading for the next dorm room. I can hear her shouting all the way down the hall. When all went quiet, I closed my eyes and let sleep consume me. My alarm chimes at 6am. I set it early last night so i can shower, pack up my last few belongings and say my goodbyes to those who were close to me. Sister Anne was full of tears and sniffles but seemed to cheer up when i said i will come and visit her. I definitely will. I love her as I would love my own mother. I was already waiting by the drop off point with my bags when Lisa pulled up. "Is that it?" she asked as she cane around to the boot. "Yeah, we arent exactly spoiled here." I said jokingly but also quite serious at the same time. "Oh well we will have to change that. Mom and dad guessed you might not have much, so dad gave me his card to take you shopping for some clothes and a few decorative things so you can feel homely in our room. Its all about you today. But,...... I think we shoud drop these belongings first so we have more boot space. I have a feeling we are going to need all the space. I even left tge roof up to give us some extra space, but we can put it down on the way to the mall. " " Lisa, how much are you planning on buying? You really dont have to. I like your room. Our decorative choices are pretty much the same? " " Shhhhht, i wont hear any of this nonsence. We are going and we are buying things and we are going to have some fun while we are doing it. Subject closed. End of discussion! " Lisa said between giggles. Not that Lisa needs an excuse to go shopping. She practically lives at the mall. " Ok but just remember my shift starts at 5pm and I absolutely can not be late on my first day. " " No problem. Ive already sheduled our day. We will drop your current belongins at home..... Huh..... How does that sound..... Home..... Has a nice ring to it right..... Our home...... I'm so excited...... Anyway, we can be at the mall by 9:30am spend about an hour in the home decor shop. Then sit and have breakfast for another hour, then spend about 2 hours going through clothing stores. Have lunch and be home by about 2:30 pm which gives you about two hours to get ready and half an hour to get to work which is five minutes away. We can unpack and decorate tomorrow. " " Why do I need two hours to get reday? " " Because! .... Oh my word you such a chop.... Its your first night..... Its a bar..... And their are some really hot guys who go there? Why else? You have to look fabulous! Not that you dont always look fabulous. The amount of guys who practically grovel at your feet, and you dont even wear makeup. Oh.... I am going to enjoy dolling you up honey! You are going to look so damn sexy that that hot boss of yours is going to give you an instant raise. " by this time Lisa was giggling like a school girl who had just heard the word s*x out loud for the first time. " Oh Lord Help me!" As per Lisa schedule we were at the mall by 9:30 and the day went perfectly according to her plan. As much as i wasnt too keen on this whole shopping expedition, we actually really had tons of fun. When we were packing the shopping in the car we ran out of space and Lisa had to pack things up on my lap too. I was wedged in there like a sardine in a tin. We laughed practically all the way home. Now to start getting made over by my personal beautician, Lisa...... I KNOW IM GOING TO REGRET THIS!