So Small
My name's Korea Erin Sanders, but I just go by Erin and this is my story so here's a little info about me. To start with I'm 5'4 and I have short blonde hair it's naturally curly and well very annoying, but only sometimes, anyways I'm a dancer, but what is gonna surprise you most is I'm a tomboy no not just a small tomboy, but pretty much the toughest roughest one you'll ever meet I know it seems crazy that I'm a dancer, but that's just one little weird fact about believe me there's tons of others about, anyways back to the point, let's see I'm also part Indian, but mostly Hawaiian and what's really cool is I was actually born in Hawaii where I lived for three years until we moved which was after my mom died, but no need to bring up anything sad so. That's pretty much everything you should know about. WAIT! One more thing I'm also extremely small and light, I've never had a boyfriend and never kissed a guy so there you go now you know everything you need to know about me, so here's my story.
Chapter 1
Goodbye's Are Hard
"Erin, come in here we need to talk!" My dad shouted. I jumped down from my bed and walked to the living and stood beside the couch sit down my dad gestured to the seat on by my older brother Wyatt. "What's up dad?" He asked.
Dad sighed and looked both of us in the eyes. "I…. a deep breath…. Lost my job about a week ago, and I know I should've told you guys sooner, but we don't have to worry my friend Kyle found a job advertisement on the internet for a deputy at the police station in Forks, Washington. Now I know that that's good many miles from here, but I sent for an application through email and I've filled it out and sent it back I got a reply and it said that I was hired and would start in eight months and I know I should've told the two of you sooner, but I just didn't know what to say. Now eight months isn't super long, but it's long enough to say your goodbyes to your friends and to pack up the stuff tomorrow I'll be going into town to get our house put it on the market." Dad said.
I stood up and walked back to my room I could hear Wyatt assuring Dad that it wasn't a problem. Maybe not for him it isn't, but for it was a different I had three of the best friends and I was on our schools cheer squad and dance team, but the hard thing to do was to say goodbye to my friends, the three of us had been best friends since preschool. How could I say goodbye to them? Like I said not a problem for him. I thought. I laid flat on my back and stared at the ceiling for hours and at some point I fell asleep. I woke up the next day looked over at my alarm clock and I swear I was probably the closest sixteen year old to accomplish a heart attack it was twelve thirty in the afternoon I never slept that late in my life, but thankfully it was summer break so I wouldn't be late for school. I sat on my bed for a few minutes before I finally stood up and went to go take a shower. I turned the water on, quickly undressed and got in after washing my hair and body I just stood under the water letting warm me up, but the hot water eventually ran out so I turned it off and got out and went to get dressed then I grabbed my phone and called up my BFFL. I dialed her familiar number, the phone rang twice. "Hello?" Sofia answered. "Hey Sophie, I was wondering if you could come over I really need to talk to you, but I'd rather it was in person." I said. "Sure Erin I'll be over in a few." She said and hung up. Now for the my other 2 friends, Lindy and Adam. I thought.
I called the other 2 and soon enough we were all sittin' on my bedroom floor. I took a deep breath. "So why exactly did you call this meetin' Erin?" Lindy asked. "I called this meetin' cause there's somethin' I need to talk to you guys about and I thought the sooner the better so please don't kill me when I tell you this." Another deep breath. "My dad lost his job today and he knew that he wouldn't be able to get it back, so he called a friend and his friend was able to get him connections to another job and he filled the application out some how over the internet and waited a few hours and got a reply back sayin' he was accepted they also said he had eight months to get everything together, but the problem is it's Washington and from Texas it's a five day drive and I'm not gonna try to figure how many miles." I said. Lindy looked dazed, Sophie was fightin' tears, and Adam looked pained. "What town in Washington?" Adam asked barely above a whisper. "Forks, a small unknown town." I replied. Sophie took a few calming deep breaths. "Well is there any way that you dad would let you move in with one of us?" She asked gesturing to the three of 'em. "No, my dad would never let me do that not after what we did last summer." I said with a shaky laugh. "Yea, Erin has a point. Well the best thing to do is to make the best of the eight months we have left together. Make plenty of memories, we'll take tons of pictures till we can't stand a camera and we'll video all of us together. We can leave are marks on our small town of Hallsville." Lindy said comin' at of a daze. She was right that was the best we could do and with all of those pictures and videos we would never forget each other and maybe at some point in life we'd see each other again.
Eight Months Later
I walked out of our house with the last box, but this box was special to me it held all the pics of me and BFFL's from these past eight months somewhere among the boxes that had been sent off to our house in Washington was the vids of us. I climbed into the backseat and pulled the door shut. I sighed as my dad started the truck and pulled outta the drive. This would be the last time I saw that house now it stood empty waitin' for the family that bought it to move in. That house held so many memories for me, but the new family would never know that I just hoped they didn't ruin it. I stared out the car window aimlessly as I watched, but not really paying attention, as our small town slowly became part of the past. I turned from the window and thought about all the good times that Lindy, Sophie, Adam, and me had had in that town. I knew that everyone would miss those noisy young teenagers that once pranced the streets makin' the small old town seem alive and young again. I remembered Adam's last words to me he said, "This town just won't be the same without you, everything will seem bleak and borin' without you the town has no spunk it to make it young and alive like it used to be, now it'll be an old tourism spot like it was before you came." I felt the tears well up in my eyes, to be honest I'd never been a crier and it hurt to think about my friends cause I knew it would never be the same without them and I also knew I would probably never see them again. There's also somethin' that no one knew, I fell in love with Adam and I would definitely miss his teasin', sweet, lovable, carin', laid back manner.