Anna's First Day

Anna slowly roused from sleep, blinking her eyes as she glanced towards the alarm clock. Her eyes shot wide open, and Anna sprung up from her bed.

"Damn it, I'm late!" Anna shouted to herself, throwing the covers off her bed. She quickly ran down the hall, already stripping out of a sweat-stained T-Shirt. She threw the garment off halfway down the only hallway of the small 2 bedroom house, and began stepping out of her panties as she opened the door to her bathroom. Once she was done stripping down, Anna turned on the water and instantly stepped into the shower, letting out a loud gasp as the cold shocked her. "I can't waste any time!" Anna said to herself, already applying a liberal amount of soap into her hands.

A little over 5 minutes later, Anna turned off the water, and quickly snatched her towel off the rack. She rubbed her body to a semi-dry state in under 10 seconds, before sprinting out the door and into the living room. There were quite a few boxes Anna still hadn't opened, as she hadn't finished unpacking her clothes from the move-in, so she was going to have to scrounge the boxes for something to wear. Because Anna knew neither of her only two current outfits would be decent: the beyond dirtied formal suit, and her 'PJs', which consisted of just the T-Shirt and underwear she slept in. Given she lived alone and had done her shopping yesterday, there wasn't any need to wear any more than those two outfits until she started teaching.

Boxes were being torn into en masse as Anna desperately scrounged around for another decent outfit to wear on her first day. She realized she never asked the principal what the dress code was for teachers. If it was expected to wear a formal outfit every day, Anna realized she would only have one outfit to wear anyways. Unfortunately, it seemed that there was a few boxes missing from her delivery. Specifically, Anna realized as she went through the boxes that the number of boxes left and the amount of boxes she packed with clothes wasn't close. She did find about 5 boxes of computer tech she had no recollection of purchasing or owning, which puzzled her.

Anna looked up to the sky, and pleaded for any outfit to be inside the last box she had yet to search. Anna took hold of the box cutter, and sliced into the cardboard slit.