CHAPTER 1
I had been living in the same house in the same town for the first 16 years of my life. I didn't want to move. I had a great group of friends. I loved my school, my teacher's and everything about my home town. Now here I am across the country moving to the rainiest city in the universe. As we enter my new city I see the sign "Welcome to Seattle" and I feel sick. Who would ever want to live here?! It rains constantly! I swear there are only 5 days a year with sun. Who would ever choose to live their life under a constant cover of clouds and rain?
My mom got relocated here when her law firm decided they needed another lawyer out on the east coast. They paid for everything for us to move out here. Our 6 day journey, our new house, and everything we'll need to live comfortably. My family consists of me, my older brother Killian, my mom Charlie (short for Charlotte) and my dad Christopher.
We pull into what looks like a very fancy neighborhood. Nothing like what I'm used to back in PA. We lived in a pretty good sized house there. We lived in the up scale (if you can call it that) part of town. I don't know if I've ever seen houses this big in my life.
We pull into the driveway of our new home. As soon as dad parks the car, Killian and I jump out and run into the house. I start to walk around the downstairs as Killian runs upstairs and I am amazed at the size. I have definitely never seen a house this big. There are more rooms then I can count and that's just the first floor.
I make my way upstairs and find Killian trying to decide which bedroom he wants. Both are identical but one looks over the back yard and one the front.
"I can't decide!" he says in mock frustration. I walk over and look out the window.
"I'll make it easier for you" I say. "I like this view better then the street."
"Only because I'm the best big brother ever, I'll give you the room you want" he says.
"Oh like it really even matters to you. How often do you really plan on being here this year anyway?" I ask rolling my eyes as I walk into the other bedroom.
My brother is going to be a senior when school starts again next week and he has no trouble at all making friends. He was in the popular crowd back home but has friends from a bunch of other schools in the area as well. I, on the other hand, had my small group of friends who I only met because we played sports together. If I wasn't athletic…well…I'd be a total loner loser freak.
I played soccer and basketball by in my home town and I plan on, at least, trying out for them here. I have a feeling my new school is going to be about 10X the size of my old school. Who knows if I'll even come close to making the teams here?
I hear my parents yelling for Killian and me to come down and unpack our stuff from the car. The moving truck just pulled up and they'll need our help setting up our bedrooms and such.
My mom was so excited to move into a new fresh home. She is a lawyer by day but interior design is her true passion. She can't wait to start decorating the new house. Dad was a stay at home dad while my brother and I grew up, which is where my love of sports comes from. Once we started high school and could watch ourselves after school, he started a one man mowing and plowing business. He also worked part time at a garage back home but he's never wanted to do it seriously. He says turning it into his full time job would take all the fun out of it.
After everything's unloaded and set up it's coming on 10 o'clock. Everyone is exhausted so we each head up to our bedrooms and fall asleep in our new home.
Dad has already set Killian and me up at our local public high school Seattle High School. He told us we could choose wherever we wanted for high school. Because we couldn't finish in our home town both he and mom wanted us to be happy wherever we ended up in Seattle. We decided to stick together at public school.
Come Monday morning, Killian has already managed to make friends with almost every kind in the neighborhood. Lucky for me, my dad called the soccer coach at SHS and arranged for me to have a late tryout given the circumstances.