Ellen's New Life

I woke up. Slowly opened my eyes. The light coming in my room through the window was blinding me. I yawned.

"Oh, how much I hate the morning after a wild night," I whispered to myself.

I slowly got up. My eyes were bleeding, my head was burning. I walked out of my room and went downstairs to the dining room.

I opened the cupboard and reached for the box of cereal. I poured some milk over the cereal and sat at the table to start eating, when I noticed the little note on the table.

Dear Ellen,
Me and Lyn went for a walk. You still slept so we didn't wake up, you know, because of the party last night... Call Mikey. He said he needed to talk to you, so I told him you'll call him back when you wake up. Oh, and I hope you slept well.
xoxo
Gerard <3

I smiled to myself. My dad just couldn't stop writing xoxo's and <3's at the end of letters and notes. He seemed so childish sometimes.

I went to the phone. My feet were feeling so heavy...

Mhmm. Mikey's number had to be somewhere there...