It had started with a simple fight
"Mom! Everyone gets an F once in a while!" I yelled.
She glared, hands planted firmly on her hips, "No! I will have none of this! I am not everybody!"
This was Pleasantville, where everything was supposed to be, pleasant, but it was far from that.
Okay, so I lied, no one here gets bad grades.
NO ONE!
The teacher was so shocked, she almost shi- "Bella are you listening?" "Yes! Yes I am!"
Okay, Okay, lets rewind, go back to before that.
"Mom!" no answer. "MOOOOOOOOM!" no answer.
I stomped up the stairs, growling under my breath about mom being deaf.
I reach the top and slammed over the door. "I cannot believe I had to find-" I stopped mid-sentence.
Mom was on the floor, curled up in a ball, sobbing her eyes out.
"Mom?" I asked softly.
She looked up; her eyes were red and puffy, mascara running down her cheeks.
"That bastard!" she screeched and stood up, only to shatter the vase, and throw a chair.
I ducked and the chair hit the wall where my head had been two seconds ago, the wood splintered and I gulped.
Oh great, I knew what was coming next.
"Ohh oh ohhhhh," she moaned.
"Why? Why does this always happen to me?" "Shh shhh," I said, trying to calm her down.
"They always leave me, WHATS WRONG WITH ME?" she screamed.
"Nothings wrong," I said in a soothing voice.
"Should I go get the chocolate?" I asked.
She nodded and sniffled.
I sighed.
I knew exactly what was going to happen by heart.
First mom would eat lots and lots of chocolate, and I mean like a horse, or a pregnant woman.
Then she would work out like crazy, which meant she worked out her fingers using the remote, and I'm talking about watching TV 24/7 and sobbing over love stories and chick flicks, a soothing medicine that cured over a thousand heart broken women out there, also a family recipe.
The Swan women have had a history of dating asswh- "Bella!" yelled mom.
Oh yeah, blanket.
Forgot.
I ran and grabbed a blanket and got her set up in front of the TV.
Then I went to my room to stare out my window and think.
I called up Grace, my best friend, or at least as close of a friend as you can get when you move a lot like me.
"Hello?" "Hi Grace," "Oh hey, guess what-" I cut her off and said in a rush.
"Listen, I'm moving." Silence at the other end of the line.
"Hello?" "This better be a joke," said Grace.
"No, I'm not joking, do you really think I would joke about this kind of thing?" I asked.
More silence.
Then shouting.
After some sobbing.
"How could you do this to me?" "I don't have any other friends!" "I'm destined to me a loser forever!" "No no," I said, trying to sooth her.
"You'll make other friends quickly-" The dial tone.
She hung up on me.
I saw that coming.
I guess I would just let her cool off and read a little.
I yawned and looked at the clock, 2:30 a.m. I had school tomorrow too, but I wasn't going to be able to sleep tonight with Mom sobbing loudly in the next room.
Guess I'm gonna pull an all-nighter.
It didn't matter anyway since we were moving soon.
I stood up and stretched and decided to get dressed.
I shoveled cereal in my mouth with one hand and held a book in the other, scanning the lines I managed to spill milk on the front of my shirt.
"Ah man," I groaned and wiped it off, there was still a stain.
I stood up to go change.
What the heck? It doesn't matter! Then sat back down.
"Mom! I'm taking your car!" I yelled over my shoulder. She wouldn't care anyway since she was busy upstairs feeling sorry for herself.
It was a shiny cute little pale yellow bug. I angled into the car and started the engine, before I knew it I had arrived to my school.
