3 months later…the day before Labor day
The door bell rang, startling me. I climbed over the boxes that's where packed on the floor. The person behind the door kept ringing it. I opened the door to see Vern standing there ringing the door bell.
"Ok Vern, I know the bell works," I said. I saw Chris, Teddy and Gordie standing at the end of the driveway. I grabbed a paper on the counter and walked out of the front door, locking it.
"I am not so sure I should do this anymore," I said as I walked down the sidewalk.
"You have to, your leaving tomorrow you have to do this," Gordie said.
"I know,' I said as I got to a one story house, that was blue. It was surrounded by a white picket fence. A car was in the driveway. I looked at the paper and it read 22 Daren road. I looked up at the house and it read 22. I took a deep breath, opened the gate and walked up to the door. I looked behind me at Chris, Teddy, Vern and Gordie. I rang the door bell, and I heard footsteps inside. A young man opened the door. He had short brown hair, brown hair, and muscular. It was Charles.
"May I help you," he asked looking at me then the four boys.
"Charles," I asked.
"Who are you," he asked.
"It is me Katerina," I said, a few seconds he realized what I had said, and picked me up and hugged me.
"Come inside, all of you," he said. I stepped inside, and so did Chris, Vern, Teddy and Gordie.
"How did you find me," he asked, as we all sat down in chairs.
"I found your letters in a box," I said.
"Dad wouldn't let me see you," he said, "How is Sky,"
"He is ok, excited to move,"
"Your moving," my brother asked.
"Yea tomorrow, to Ohio, with our Aunt," I said.
"Who are these guys," Charles asked.
"O these are my best friends Chris, Vern, Gordie and my boyfriend Teddy," I said.
"You changed a lot Kat, like the way you look, the way you talk, you talk like your happier," my brother said.
"Well I guess you can say they changed me in a way…"
We talked through the night, about friends, family and life.
Teddy, Vern, Chris and Gordie walked me home after we left Charles's house. We came to my house. I looked at the four boys that changed my life forever. I gave each of them a hug then walked up to my front door and opened it. Before I went in I looked at them once more.
"See you guys around," I said.
"Not if we see you first…" Chris said. I smiled at them then walked into my house. I ran up stares, turned my little beat up radio on….
When the night has come
And the land is dark
And the moon is the only light we'll see
No I won't be afraid
Oh I won't be afraid
Just as long as you stand, stand by me
I walked to the window and looked outside and watched the four boys walk down the driveway. They all looked up at the window at me, then walked down the street. I watched them walk until I couldn't' see them anymore…
Darlin' darlin' stand by me
Oh stand by me
Oh stand now, stand by me, stand by me
Whenever you're in trouble just stand by me
Oh stand by me
Whoa stand now, oh stand, stand by me