Shelley woke up at 11AM.  Her mother didn't like her sleeping in this late, but she usually didn't say anything about, thinking Shelley was old enough to manage her own sleep schedule.  At any rate, it was a weekend, and Shelley didn't have anything she needed to do.  Shelley groaned to herself.  She had stayed up pretty late playing games, even though she kept telling herself she would finish her homework early so she wouldn't have to worry about it over the weekend.

She washed up, brushed her teeth, and headed downstairs where her mother was preparing lunch.  Shelley usually skipped breakfast if she woke up this late.

"Good morning, Shi Ling," her grandmother said, "I used to wake up late when I was your age."

Shelley nodded, unable to count how many times her grandmother had said this in the past.  "Hey mom, I'll be going out later today," Shelley said.

"Oh?  What for?" her mother asked.

"Oh, umm...well, you know..." Shelley didn't have a good excuse, it wasn't like she had any friends that she was close enough with t ohang out with over the weekends.  "There's this...game coming out..."

"Shelley, I swear, you spend too much time and money on those.  I've a mind to forbid you from playing games until your grades improve," Shelley's mother complained.

Shelley bit her lip.  She had slowly stopped buying at game stores, and started making more and more purchases online so her mother wouldn't nag her about it as much.  "I...I know mom...but I really want this game...I'll work harder at school, so will you please let me...?"

Shelley's mom didn't say anything for a bit, but because she had argued with grandmother yesterday, and they had sort of reconciled, she felt that maybe today she should be nicer to Shelley, if only to make grandmother feel happy.  "Fine."

"Th-Thanks...Mom..." Shelley said, wishing that she was actually going to buy a game because it wasn't normally this easy to get her permission.

After finishing lunch Shelley headed out.  It was 12PM, and she had two hours to figure out how to get to school.  She normally took the bus, but it wasn't running on a Saturday as expected.  She also hardly ever went out without her mother who drove everywhere, and school was too far to walk to.  Shelley wandered around, until she found a bus stop for non-school-buses.  She had a hard time reading the bus lines map and determining which bus she should get on, and by the time she had figured it out, realized that several of the buses she could have gotten on to go to her destination had already come and gone.  When the next one finally arrived, she got on, and then had a hard time paying the bus driver, fiddling nervously through her wallet.

The rest of the ride she sat through nervously, desperately afraid she'd miss her stop, and causing her to hit to 'next stop' button twice, coaxing some condescending giggles from the two younger boys sitting in the seats behind her.

She got off, seeing recognizable scenery of the area near the school.  It was only 1PM.  She had made good time considering she didn't get on the bus until 12:30PM, but now she was an hour early and had no idea what to do in the mean time.  Well, almost no idea.  She pulled out a handheld gaming console, found a place to sit and whiled away the hour playing, not even considering the possibility that the school gate might be locked for the weekend.