A/N; So here's chaptah 2! i hope u enjoy. remember to leave comments!!!!! and reviews!!!! :) love you all. happy reading.
As i made my way down the stairs, i told myself i would make the best of this "new opportunity," as my mother put it. i think i could do it, for her. it was, after all, my fault she had to leave her old life behind in the first place. i guess you could say i felt a little guilty, but most of all resent for the man who started it all.
"hey mom, im here. what do you need?"
"here, take these boxes upstairs, and then come back down to grab the stuff for your room, ok?"
"sure thing"
well, yippee. something to look forward to...NOT. walking up and down the stairs with 20 pound boxes every 5 minutes. yay. after about another 3 hours we were finally done. i was completely winded. moving an entire houses worth of furniture is super exhausting. i dont think i've worked out like that in, well, forever, and i dont think i ever want to again. seriously.
Ohh I've been travelin on this road too long
Just trying to find my way back home
The old me is dead and gone, dead and gone
Ohh I've been travelin on this road too long
Just trying to find my way back home
The old me is dead and gone, dead and gone
i opened the text and saw that it was from my best friend back home. His name is John. Hes pretty awesome, just saying. Hes always there for me and hes even gonna come visit me soon. im so excited. i miss him so much already. we've been best friends since before i can remember. our mothers were friends before we were even born. its sort of weird how they met. after all, it was in an aerobics class. yep, thats your cue to laugh. i know i do when i think back on the story. ok, back to the tale. well, my mom had decided that she wanted to lose a couple of pounds. she insists that she just wanted to get in shape, but im not that naive, ive seen picture of her in her early twenties. of course she was pretty, where do you think i got my looks from?, but she could've lost like five pounds. no offense. anyways, it seems that john's mom had the same idea. so, there they were, two twenty- year- olds, in an aerobics class. their teachers name was camille. you may ask how on earth do i know their teachers name?!? well, theres a simple answer for that. ive heard the story like 50 gazillion times!!! and it was starting to get annoying. it seems like every time our two families get together, one of our moms just has to tell the fateful story. so, the gist of it is is that camille (the aerobics teacher) paired up my mom (anna) and johns mom (elizabeth) in the aerobics class, and they have been "the best of friends" ever since.
wat up ketchup?!?, the text read.
ketchup. of course he would say that...ketchup is a nickname ive had ever since i was a little girl, but ONLY john was allowed to call me it. it was an inside joke between us and it'd stay that way until the day we both perished into the abyss of damnation. ok, so maybe i go a little overboard in my dramatizations but they're funny, admit it.
nothin much mustard. hows life back in the fast lane?
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good good, hows the new mansion?
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eh, its ahhight. the rooms gorgeous though. thats about the only plus.
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oh, come on. albuquerque is supposed to be one of the coolest places on earth. lighten up. for me?
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ughhh, ok. ill try.
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thats my girl.
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shit. moms calling me for din-din. check ya later?
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fo sho ketz :)
i slowly sauntered my way over to the kitchen. of course it was all state of the art, stainless steel, granite countertops, and a gas stove. looks like we'd be living the good life. what a great perk! i hated all this modern shit. what was the fascination with it anyways, huh? Stainless steel appliances and granite counter tops were just another lame excuse for a stereotype, only to be reinforced by the boring Americans that currently rule our country. Definitely not my choice on what the new house would look like. I definitely would've rather had something with a little bit more color. This place just seemed so dull and lifeless, for anything good to come from living here. I was actually surprised so many people actually lived here, or at least in this neighborhood. Anna had told me that the "statistics were approximately at a population of 2, 500." And that was JUST Albuquerque itself! I mean, who on earth would want to live here? Its desolate and plain, and i think i might kill myself before i even start school here. That was at least one plus from this crazy move. Anna timed it perfectly-- which i had to give her credit for-- for me. Its gonna be about 3 weeks until school starts. So i got to spend almost the entire summer with all of my friends back home, and now, hopefully, i shall meet some new friends before the school year starts. i mean, i may seem all broody and negative, but thats not the real me. Well, it is, haha, but just a miniscule part. Most of the time im a happy little camper, but this move has gotten me all out of wack. About that friends part though...I think i might head out and enjoy this loverly scenery and try to find some new people to acquaint myself with.
"Yo ma, Im going exploring," I told her from the other side of the island in our kitchen.
"Ok Gabby, be back by sundown ok?"
"Ok."
I cringed as i heard her whisper the name i dreaded. I grabbed my cell and iPod and ran out the door. As I stared out into the vastness that I now knew as my home, I decided to start on the right. Okay, let's go. About 15 minutes after I started making my way down the sidewalk on my right, I stumbled upon a hu-uge park. And i mean huge, it was ginormous. It had a swing, slides, and a see- saw (my favorite!)! It even had some bike trails, tennis courts, and even...basketball courts. While i was examining the park and all of its glorious contents, something in the back far right corner caught my eye. There were some boys playing basketball out on the courts. Wow. Finally, something to look forward to about this place. Damnnnn. I must say, these boys were P.D.S.... if you don't know what that means, it means Pretty. Damn. Sexy. My girlfriends back home and I made it up one day when we were boy watching :) The basketball boys looked to be about my age. Sweet. I wonder if they went to my new school. Well, no time like the present. So, of course, being my suave self, i made my way over to the courts. When i got to the edge of the court, one of them caught my eye, and Oh. My. God. I think i just saw my life flash before my eyes. And im not saying as in like one of those cheesy lines like 'i think i just saw my life flash before my eyes, because a face like yours would only be found in heaven'. No, I meant that I could just see him in my future. Its not a really big deal, it happened with John when I met him and with my friend Kelsi back home. Usually it just meant that they were going to be my friend, which i could see with him because he obviously likes sports ad just by that i knew we'd get along great. The 'Oh. My. God.' part came from when ours eyes connected. His eyes were a piercing shade of blue, like no other i've ever seen, but when he looked at me... I don't know, but something appeared there, in his eyes.