Ashley Spinelli's POV
I looked out the car window and saw the familiar streets passing by. I haven't been here for six years. I would often wonder if my childhood best friends still lived here.
I moved away in grade five when i was 10, My mom and dad wanted a change.
One year later, mom had told me I was going to be a big sister.
Nine months later mom had twin girls, Amanda and Amber Spinelli (Mandy and Emmy for short).
It was three months later that my dad had got in a car accident and died on the scene.
Six months after that my mom met Marcus Carpenter.
Marcus has a son, Timmy and a daughter, Diana. The two are around my age.
After six months of my mom and Marcus dating, they decided to get married, so my siblings and I changed our last names to Spinelli-Carpenter.
My mom and stepdad have now been happily married for 3 years now.
On my 16th birthday my stepdad Mark had decided we move so he asked me where I'd like to move to, I told him, Arkansas, where I grew up.
I would usually wonder if my old friends still looked the same but realized they might not. It's been six years after all and I look nothing like I did six years ago.
I stopped going by my last name Spinelli when I moved to Montana, instead I went by Ashley or Lee for short.
I got rid of my orange ski cap (or so they think, I've kept it in a box under my bed, the box has a secret compartment that I keep my ski cap in). I also stopped wearing pigtails to just letting my hair fall down a couple inches passed my shoulders with my bangs going to the side covering the right side of my face. I still wear my leather jacket. I now wear tight jeans or ripped jeans with a tank top. I even got rid of my combat boots for black runners.
It was a 10 hour drive from Montana to Arkansas. When we got to Arkansas, I saw Third Street Elementary and Kelso's where I used to hangout with my friends everyday after school.
Seeing Third Street Elementary brought back so many memories. King Bob, the diggers, swinger girl, upside down girl, the Ashley's clubhouse, Guru kid and many more. I looked back to when I was in grade four, how we would always pull pranks on Principal Prickly and Miss Finster and how I accidently called Miss Grotke 'mama' and T.J stood up for me risking his reputation for me. Then I thought back to 'The Experiment' of boys kissing girls and girls kissing boys. It gave me a wonderful feeling and butterflies in my stomach thinking back on my first kiss with T.J in grade four. The memories made me happy and I felt like breaking down in tears.
When I saw Kelso's it also brought back some memories how we would always walk in the store laughing and having a great time chatting about Señor Fusion and Beanie McChimp.
We finally got to our new house. I looked out the window, there was something familiar about this place even the street we're on. Just then i realized the new house we're moving in is indeed...the house I grew up in.
Memories started flooding back again, of T.J and I we would always run around playing and play wrestling when we were younger and how my dad and I would always watch wrestling every night together and that day Gretchen came over to visit. I chuckled a bit to myself looking back to how stupid I had been thinking that Gretchen was trying to steel my parents from me.
I tried to hold back my tears thinking about how many memories I had in this house.