Today was the day. The end of my beginning, and tomorrow would be the beginning to my end. It would be the start of a new school year. I was moving with my mom halfway across the country, away from all my things. My friends, enemies, family, and childhood. What was bugging me the most was that I had just started getting used to being in high school. Now, I'd be the new kid in a school hundreds of miles away. Don't get me wrong, Mom said it was a great school and all, but moving is lame. That fact has never changed. We've moved a bunch of other times before, but we always ended up staying in this one city.
I am just tired of moving. Once we get there, I am going straight to bed. I know that it would be barely getting dark by then, but all this moving business always gets me beat. I mean, I know I'll end up taking a nap on the plane, but there's always jet lag involved. My family has a bit of money, and we were able to get even more out of my scumbag step-father who decided to leave my mom for another woman. What a loser. My mom says that deep down he's a good guy, and although I appreciate the type of person she is, he still doesn't deserve her. Not now, not ever. She's the kind of lover and fighter person who does that forgive but not forget thing. He tried to get back with my mom, but she's a prideful and smart enough woman to never let that sort of thing happen. She's still friends with him, but that's all they'll ever be now. Sucks to be that jerk.
I'm so glad he's gone. I never liked him anyway. Maybe moving there will be a good thing. Being so far away from the place I used to call home will at least help me be able to forget about my past and everyone else. Wait a minute, what?
"What did you say?"
"Well, when I sent Gilroy to get the tickets, I forgot to tell him to get you one as well, so he assumed that you'd be staying with your aunt and uncle. He had to come back and get you another ticket, so you won't be sitting with us, unfortunately."
Oh, right. I forgot, the butler, Gilroy, the maid, Lilah, and the nanny, Cherry were also coming with us. I thought my mom would be hiring a new crew, but I suppose they are like family.
"You forgot to tell him that I was coming with you instead?"
"Oh, I'm sorry honey."
"It's fine. I'll go find my seat."
Man, did I hate sitting by people I didn't know. Luckily, by the time we were informed of everyone being on board, I was next to the window with an empty seat between me and some redhead girl with glasses. We took a few glances at each other every now and then through the first half hour of the ride. I wanted to sleep, but my brain wouldn't let me. I ended up taking out my GameBoy Advance and started playing Black Matrix Zero, a game only released in Japan. My real father brought it home to me from one of his business trips to Asia when I was nine. I miss Kojo... He was actually a good guy. Aah... My family's fucked up. Not really corrupted, but out of place.
I scoffed unintentionally as scraps of the past passed through my mind. I shouldn't give those memories the time of day. They'll have to wait for another time.
My eyes began to burn a bit and became heavy. I stopped playing my game and leaned against the wall beside me. I drifted into sleep. Time passed like nothing.
When I came to, I could feel the stare of the girl near me boring into the side of my head.
"What is it?" I asked monotonously in a somewhat low voice before I actually looked at her. She wore glasses, styled her reddish hair in an asymmetric fashion, had nice eyes, and had an equally nice figure.
"My name's Karin. I was wondering if you'll be attending Senju High as well?"
I answered hesitantly since her words seemed a bit forced, "Yeah, I'm new."
I held out my hand to shake, which she took firmly. She seemed nice enough. However, there was an odd air about her. Oh well, best not to think too much of it. That might end in negative consequences.
Karin told me a bit about the school. She told me about the classes, the special classes, who to be around, who to stay away from, the teachers, some of the rules, and other small things. I didn't really pay much attention to what she was saying though... Karin also mentioned two others who were on board with her. It seems the three of them already live near the school. They were returning from vacation to visit distant family.
By the time our conversation was near the end, we were just stepping out of the terminal with the two friends she had introduced me to, Jugo and Suigetsu. I received a message from my mother.
Honey, we're across the street at the park when you get out.
"Well, I guess it's time for me to take my leave," I said while I bowed. I began to walk away before an amusing thought came to my head. I am going to turn around and say something as I wink at Karin, then turn back like nothing happened. I smiled before doing just that, and left satisfied, the words repeating in my head. Her reaction was priceless.
'By the way. I'm a girl.'
I heard one of the guys with her snickering before I spotted my group of adult associates. I looked back again, but the three were already gone. I chuckled quietly to myself, thinking of Karin's face yet again.
Yes. I am a girl, of course. However, I look majorly like a dude. I act just like one at times too. The only differences are probably my female voice and the way my face looks, but apparently people don't pay attention to that. I always crack up at my mom's reaction. She always gets frustrated and tells them I'm a girl, then makes the funniest remark when they walk off.
"I don't see how these people cannot notice your huge breasts, Rori!"
It makes me laugh every time, but I get really embarrassed about it when others overhear.
Man, was I glad to hear my mother offer to take us all out to dinner. Cherry and Lilah turned down the offer and said they wanted to go explore around town, so my mother gave them each seventeen hundred dollars and told them to be at the new home by four in the afternoon. They curtsied and walked off in some direction giggling hysterically.
My mother, Gilroy, and I wandered aimlessly in the other direction in search of food. We came across an Olive Garden and our meals were magnificent! Especially mine. Our waiter was beautiful. He had charcoal black eyes, long black hair tied into a low ponytail, and a smile to die for, even though it was fake. You do what you can to be good at your job, right? Of course I kept my gaze away, as usual. I'd rather not stare at cute guys and have them think I'm some random homosexual guy. Especially with all these dumbass homophobes on this forsaken planet. Ugh.
Once we finished, it was about an hour past noon. We decided to take a cab and finally check the place out ourselves, since my mother and I had yet to see it.
"Gilroy, don't you think it's a bit small?"
"Nonsense. Since you rid yourself of the unwanted materials of your other home, everything fits perfectly."
He meant my step-father's stuff. Ha, seems like Gilroy never held a place for him in his heart either.
My mother was a bit disappointed at the size, but I absolutely loved the house. In my opinion, our previous house was a bit big. It was a mansion with five stories and about twice the volume. This home was three stories and the perfect size. The first floor, or ground floor had a marvelous kitchen, a cozy spacious living room, a long hall with no walls void of closet space, a small bathroom, and a rather large guest room. The next floor had three bedrooms that were all the same size, and the highest floor had a master bedoom and two other bedrooms.
The master bedroom will be mine, as my mother occupies the two bedrooms. The one with the larger closet would be her bedroom, and the other would be used as office space for that and other miscellaneous things.
I found it odd that her closet was bigger than mine. I didn't mind though; I didn't have that much in the first place. I hung several shirts, three jackets, and about six dresses I only really ever use for special occasions. I also had two pairs of sandals, a pair of moccasins, a pair of slippers, two pairs of boots, and another pair of sneakers that I aligned against the back wall in the closet. I had the three doors taken out and laid against the side wall in the closet because closet doors really annoy me. I have no idea why. I keep them there for when people come over. I don't really like people to see what I have in my room. It's a privacy issue I have.
I put my shorts and pants in one of the two bottom drawers of my dresser underneath my underwear drawer. Next to that drawer, I had all of my chargers, batteries, and small electronic devices such as earbuds, my two iPods, my portable game consoles, USB disks, memory cards, and my two old cellphones that are now disconnected- I have a lot of information and numbers of people I don't talk to that I just don't want to move to my newer phone, and the other one I used as a business phone for the things I help my mother and the house workers with. Underneath that drawer, I kept all the girly things my mom's given me like make-up, lingerie, body spray, hair accessories, three pairs of shoes, and the jewelry I didn't wear.
In my room, I also had an entertainment center across from my horizontally planted bed. It had a twenty-inch flat screen with a DVD player, Nintendo 64, GameCube, XBOX 360, and PlayStation 4 attatched. Two racks were installed at each side from the center, one filled with DVDs, the other three with videogames.
My bed has a light grey sheet with four dark grey pillows and a large dark red comforter that is dark grey underneath. My dresser is on the side near the window next to my closet while my bathroom is on the opposite side.
The girls finally showed up and my mother had them help Gilroy finish unpacking and arranging things in our new home. I had nothing better to do, so I went to help also. My room was unpacked and organized the way I wanted, and I wanted to organize the kitchen and help set up most of the living room. Once we were done, it was almost eleven at night. I was tired and my eyes had become slightly droopy. I dressed for bed and laid down, grateful that the slight burning feeling underneath my eyelids was finally beginning to subside.