Snippet #767910

The day wasn't off to a very good beginning. Roslyn had woken up with a start because somebody crashed into a telephone pole outside their house. Running to see what had happened, she had almost wiped out on the carpeted stairs in her socked feet. The only reasonable food in the house was a batch of cornmeal muffins that had dried out because someone left them on the counter. She ate one and put a couple more in her bag. Sometime after that, when she was almost ready to head out the door, she found out that a stray cat had wandered in through an open window during the night, and not only knocked everything off of the coffee table, but left behind... A present, which she was left to deal with. After that was finished, she heard her bus steadily pulling away.
About half an hour later she arrived at school, shivering cold from the outdoors and sporting a brand new blister on her foot. Outside, it was cloudy, windy, and looked like it would rain. It wasn't making Roslyn feel any better. Inside the school, you had to be on your toes. You never knew when a fireball would come at you, or someone would accidentally contact you telepathically, trying to get the attention of a friend.
When Roslyn finally reached her locker, she was safe. It was Ina generally deserted part of hallway near the ATOPE classroom. A group of people she knew walked by, and greeted her casually. She was lucky to even have acquaintances, and it was only because her father owned a company that produced electronics popular with young people. Roslyn would occasionally let something slip about new prototypes.
After shoving her bag in her locker, she hobbled over to a nearby bench and flopped down. She doodled absent mindedly on the cover of a notebook, waiting for school to start. If the way the morning went was any clue, it was probably going to be a terrible day.