Ally's POV
"Wow", I said starring into the eyes of my lab partner Elliott. "I know right," he responded with a rather sour attitude. "Who ever thought that teaching ourselves about the structure of an atom could be so…boring?" "Boring?!" I protested. "This is the most exciting this I've done all week!" "Really?" he asked with a confused yet, playful grin. "Yeah," I answered feeling a bit embarrassed. "It's been really hard getting out lately. I mean, with the move and all." "Oh yeah," replied Elliott with a frown. "I forgot about that." I could tell that bringing up the move would make him unhappy. We have been friends since we were little and we did everything together, even our Dads work together at the local sports authority. Well, at least they used to.
My dad has this crazy dream of opening up a successful music store near the beach in Miami. So, he is always looking for an extra job opportunity to make some extra money to put aside for that. I always thought that all those extra jobs would just be like raking leaves for 20 dollars a pop, or offering to shovel people's drive ways in the winter. Never in my wildest dreams that it would ever amount to this.
Last week, the C.E.O of Sports Authority sent out an email to the staff asking if anyone would be interested in a manager position in Miami. Knowing my dad, of course he replied with an immediate "yes" without even consulting me about it. He kind of just makes his own decisions about what he and I do. He and my mom are divorced, and my mom is spending the next 3 years in Africa studying monkeys and how they behave in their natural habitats. I think she's planning on writing a book about it or something but I'm not positive, we've never really talked about it. Anyway, we have to move to Miami in 3 days and my dad has been super strict about letting me hang out with my friends after school because he wants everything all packed up and ready to go by the time we have to leave.
**RINGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG**
The bell sounded signaling the end of the day. "Oh great," I said sarcastically. "I get to go home to packed up boxes and an up-tight dad who seems to have forgot every single word in the English language except for 'Miami'" I groaned at the thought.
I had exited my classroom and began heading to my locker when I heard a faint but familiar voice coming from behind me. "Hey Ally?!" it was Elliot. He ran through the halls and caught up to me putting his hand on my shoulder. "What's up?" I asked. "Well," he began. "I was just wondering…since you are leaving soon, what do you say we go out tonight? Just you and me as friends. We can grab some dinner maybe catch a movie?" I stopped I stared at him. Looking it to those beautiful eyes that I had just met only moments before. "I'd like that" I said with a smile.