Ace blinked awake slowly, his gray-green eyes stared blearly up at the ceiling as his left hand reached out to turn off his alarm clock, he blinked in bewilderment as his out streched fingers brushed against a smooth wall and leavered him self up on his elbows, a very low moan escaping his mouth at the pain in his left leg, ribbs, right arm and skull. He blinked again to find himself streched out sidewise across his bed, not a normal position for him to sleep in, then again he never slept on his back either.
He rolled over and up the bed until his side rested against the head board and he could reach out and just hit the snooze button on his alarm clock, he was about to close his eyes and go back to sleep again when the blinking red numbers on the display of the clock pierced his hungover brain, with in seconds Ace became a blur of movement as he stripped off his pyjamas and hurriedly yanked on relatively clean clothing. His movement came to a pause only once and that was to take stock of his apperence in the mirrior, he winced to see one of his eyes was rimmed with black and his lip was split. He reached out and grabbed a ball cap off the maniquin head he had some how collected and yanked it over his own face so his features were hidden in shadow.
Running again he sprinted down the stairs, taking them two or three at a time, his throat was dry and his mouth tasted like he had been munching on something with fur, Drinking on a school night he thought grimly as he stuffed a half empty jar of advil into his pack. your gettin' stupid Demorai, he didn't have time to stop and grab anything to eat or drink as he raced out the door, he was lucky that his fathers car keys were still sitting on the counter by the door so he could grab them as he ran by, the man would kill him for taking the keys when he got home from school but right now that was far from high on Ace's list of concerns.
He staggered out his door, pulling his well worn leather jacket on over his arms as he did so, the quick wave of dizziness washing over him having as much to do with the momentary loss of balance and tumble he took as much as him still being unused to the newhouse and the three stairs in front of the door. He fell to his knees for only a moment before he scrambled back up and raced for his dads car, hitting the unlock button with some what shaky fingers even as he cut across the grass.
He wrenched the door open and throw himself into the car, sliding and turning the key in it's slot even as he reached out to yank the door closed, checking carefully over his shoudler he pulled out of the gravel driveway and drove off down the road, he had hardly driven a block of his way to school when he was forced to hit the brakes because some idiot girly had stopped in the middle of the road to yell at her friend, he glared at the ever so slightly too slim area between her car and the other side of the road, there was no way his dad car was going to fit in the narrow space. He slumped down in thr drivers seat as he waited for the girls to be finished chatting.