The next morning Tea was up eating her breakfast scrambled eggs, waffles, bacon and orange juice. Drinking her juice made the cut on her lip sting the juice was pulp free as she smeared butter on her waffles when her parents walk in.
"Well good morning my angel." said Tea's father
The first sight is her father walks in after her mother Mrs. Marvelli it looked like Tea's father was crying by the sight of his red eyes and sniffing his nose that something was wrong.
"Hey dad are you okay?" asked Tea
Getting himself a tissue and blowing his nose Mr. Marvelli replies
"Yes Tea, I'm fine."
From the look on her mother's face it felt like they were about to tell her something.
"Tea, me and your mother have talked."
"And we've decided that you should go with your Aunt Emily in Lima,Ohio."
Aunt Emily is from her mother's side Tea remembers very little about her. Moving out of the house where you feel like you can't breathe would be fine.
"When do I leave?" asked Tea
"Tomorrow." replied Mr. Marvelli
Even though she didn't mind moving Tea was going to miss her friends especially Betty. Tea hated that she betrayed her like that but Betty is the only person Tea will miss.
"We're sorry but we had to do this."
Sinking in her hospital Tea was happy she was leaving because she couldn't take eating the awful hospital food any longer.
Putting all her things in boxes Tea sleeps in her room one last time she gazes at the Audrey Hepburn poster.
"I guess you and me are heading to the end of the road. I can't take you with me to Lima. I know that my days of hard partying are over. I don't know what the hell will staying at Aunt Emily will bring. I'm going to stand out like a sore thumb in the new school-McKinely.
"You'll be fine Tea."
"Yeah right."
"You can always do cheerleading again. That made you happy. Didn't it?"
"Well yeah but"
"Trust me when I say this cheerleading will make you happy again."
Drifting off to sleep Tea remembers the days cheerleading, the squad wasn't that good never made it to first place in any competitions. Even when she came out as a lesbian, she didn't know many gay and lesbian cheerleaders but seemed unlikely that she would met any either.
Leaving everything to head to Lima,Ohio Tea looked at her Audrey Hepburn poster one last time and wondered if cheerleading was her calling to keep herself out of trouble?
