Honestly, I'm procrastinating having to write several other things

I lay on my bed in a dreary state. My stomach was revolting against me, and all I wanted to do was sleep. But sadly I had several essays due by Friday, the most important of which was due tomorrow at midnight. Before I could convince myself to get up and get ing, my cell phone went off. I sighed, trying to will the energy to answer. Around the third ring, I managed to extract it from my pocket. I had expected it to be my boyfriend calling, but, to my surprise and confusion, it was a call from the home phone.

I flipped it open, wondering why someone in the house was calling my cell while I was procrastinating on my bed. "Hello?"

"Do you need me to pick you up?" my mother’s tired voice asked. She’d arrived home moments ago, and I had given a weary ‘Hello’ to her greeting as she had walked through the front door downstairs.

"…Mom, I’m home." I replied, confused as to how she had thought I was out somewhere when I had called down to her just a minute before.

"What? Where are you?"

"I’m up here in my room. I said hello when you came home." I told her, the whole conversation beginning to feel extremely ridiculous.

"Oh. I didn’t hear you." She said. "Your sister didn’t know where you were, either."

I rolled my eyes. My sister had a friend over, and they were in their own little world behind her door. She d it when any of us disturbed her for anything, so it was not surprising that instead of telling our mother that I was in the house somewhere, she had just said she didn’t know. "Well, I’m home."

"Good." My mother said simply, before hanging up abruptly.

I stared at the phone, then returned to feeling sorry for myself. ‘In a few minutes I’ll start that World History essay,’ I told myself. ‘Just a few more minutes…'

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Yeah, this actually happened. In case anyone is concerned, I am mostly done with my World History. It just needs a conclusion and a revision of the introduction. 'Compare and contrast the causes and characteristics of the Chinese and European voyages of exploration between 1400 and 1550'. Oodles of fun. Really.