Chapter 1
"Strike
one," Frankie yelled. Jennifer got ready to try again. The pitch came to her
and SMACK. She hit a home run. She actually hit a home run. She began to run to
first base. Then she passed it. Then she second and third. She was approaching
home when she saw her parents car pull up to the field. What are they doing here she thought. She
reached home and slapped all her teammates hands. Her parents walked up to
where she was. Just as she was going to sit down on the bench her parents came
up.
"Jenn,
great hit!" her father said.
"Thanks.
What are you and Mom doing here?" Beth asked getting a drink of water.
"Um…
honey we need to talk. Let's go home," her mom said.
"Okay,
just let me go say bye to everybody. I'll be right back," She called to her
parents as she ran out to the field. About ten minutes later she came back and
got in the car with her parents. They got home about five minutes later. They
walked into the house and sat down in the living room. Then her dog Macy ran up
to her.
"Hey
Mace," Jennifer said scratching her ears.
"Jenn,
there's no easy way to say this but…," her mother said.
"We're
moving," her father said finishing his wife's sentence.
"What?"
Jennifer cried.
"We're
moving," her father repeated.
"No,"
she screamed as she ran to her room. How could they
do this to me she thought. Her mother and father appeared a few minutes
they appeared in her room.
"Jenn,
please don't be mad," her mother said sitting down next to her on Jenn's bed.
Jennifer didn't say a word.
"Listen
your father got a in Kingsport. He's going to be doing the weather for a local
TV station. I know that you're going to have to make new friends and that
you're going to start on the first day, but it's only five hours away from
Hampton," her mother said putting her hand on her daughter's back.
"But
what about Frankie and Alice and Greg and Anna. I don't wanna make new
friends," Jennifer said getting up and going to sit on her beanbag chair.
"I
know sweetheart. That's why we're moving in a couple weeks so you can arrive in
the middle of the summer and make some friends," her father said.
"What?
We're moving in couple weeks?" Jennifer said getting and wiping away some
tears.
"Yeah,
so we have to start packing today. That's why we came and got you," her father
said.
"Fine,
just fine," Jennifer said very angry as she stomped out of her room.
