Finding her happily ever after

Aurora's pov "If I don't see you downstairs in the next 5 minutes I'll have to come up myself to pull you out. Get out of that damn bed and get ready right now.." Aurora could hear her mother Helen screaming on top of her voice from the kitchen downstairs. I hate waking up in the mornings and I've been silencing my annoyingly loud alarm for almost an hour now. I see the time and realise it's already 7:50am and my classes start at 9am sharp. "I'm up mum, I'll be down in a minute.." I yelled back at her. Well technically I'm still on bed but definitely I can't tell her that.. If she gets to know I'm not out of bed yet she wouldn't think twice about coming up here and pour a bucket of ice cold water on my head. I'm going to have to rush now or else I'll miss my bus to school and I'll have to hear my mum screaming my ears off. Yesterday night while coming back from my last party for the summer I hit a pole damaging my car pretty badly. Unfortunately, I have to take bus to school today but dad has promised to get it ready by the time I come back home in the evening. Thank God for my dad bring so supportive of me or else my mum would have chewed my head off for what happened last night. I take a quick shower and an aspirin for my hangover headache and get dressed as quick as my aching body allowed. I'm wearing a simple black tshirt and blue denims with black sneakers. I leave my waist long brown curly hair down without trying to style it in any way. I have big brown eyes that matches my hair. I apply very little make up, just some maskara and a red tint on my lips. I grab my backpack and run down. I see my mum making yummy pancakes for breakfast and my dad reading a newspaper with his glasses on, a large coffee mug on one side and half eaten mostly forgotten plate of pancakes which must have gone cold by now on the other side. Well they are the most amusing couple I've ever seen as they love each other so much still fight until one of them break the other's head. I give a quick peck on the cheeks for my mum and a big bear hug for my dad making him finally look up at me. He wouldn't know even if there was an earthquake when he is reading one of his stupid magazines on automobile or the daily newspaper. My dad Derek Cooper is an automobile engineer who works for a big company who designs and manufactures cars. And my beautiful mom Helen Cooper is an elementary school teacher who loves those bratty little kids a little too much. I grab a pancake and stuff it in my mouth while pouring some syrup directly from the jar into my mouth. My mum flicks me on the head asking me to slow down but I'm getting late for my first day of school. "Go safe kiddo.. have fun." shouts my dad as I say bye to both of them and leave. Well I'm Aurora Cooper or Ari in short as all those who are close to me calls me as, currently in final year of school finishing my course in journalism. I always wanted to become a journalist and one more year my dream will be coming true. Well not fully as I still have to get the job I'm eyeing for from the day I started my school. I reach school just 10 min before the final bell and walk towards my locker. I have already received my schedule a few days ago through email and I just checked that on my mobile now. I look across the hallway for my best friends Sam and Carly. We have been friends since high school and do pretty much everything together. Well except for the fact that they hooked during the summer after all these years of friendship and now making me feel left out on first day of our last year at school. I see that we only have a couple of minutes before the final bell and I think of going to my class without them. But then I see them running towards me or may be just our lockers which is where I'm standing any way. Carly is giggling and blushing hard while Sam has one of his arms around her waist as she started taking her books out for the first class. I just roll my eyes at them and laugh while all three of us make our way to the first class of last year in this school. Thank God for all the classes went smoothly so far and it's lunch time now. I'm starving as I didn't have proper breakfast as well. We take lunch and go to our usual table. Carly immediately launches into her story telling how she went to Sam's place after the party yesterday night and announced to his parents that they were now dating. Sam's parents love me and Carly more than Sam probably and always told us that they would be more than happy if one of us would marry him to straighten him up. They must be over the moon now that he was with Carly. I'm really happy for them both as she is my best friend and he is more like a brother I never had. I wish some day I meet a guy half as good as Sam at least. The rest of the day went well and Sam decided that he would drop Carly first then me home as his place was close to mine. Sam parked his car in our drive way coming in to talk to my dad seeing that he was standing in front of my now repaired red convertible. I was extremely happy to have my car back and I ran towards it. "Oh dad, thank you so much. It looks as good as new." I hugged my dad and spoke in a single breath. He just laughed at me and nodded his head. He greeted Sam and they both started talking about cars. Sam likes writing about all sorts of automobiles. He has a blog for this with more than ten thousand followers. He is amazing and my dad loves him like a son. We all went inside and my mom greeted us with drinks and some hot cookies. "oh mum, these are yummy" I spoke while munching on those hot baked yummy cookies. My mum is known for her cakes and cookies all over our neighborhood. Sam stayed for some time collecting information for his next blog from my dad and then left the home just before dinner. Family dinner is a mandatory routine in my house. We sit together and eat as we discuss our day. I love my family and I'll miss them a lot when I go to New York for my dream job.