--Autumn
Life well what people with out one call life, is a realization. You wake up one morning it has to be a gray dull morning but nonetheless you wake up and after realizing you are not at home anymore. Well you are at home but it's not the home you want to be in. You're in your new home in the middle of nowhere with nothing to do but sit on your bed and watch cartoons on a Saturday morning when all of your friends are having fun in Cleveland going to a movie or on their way to some stupid concert in New York or Toronto.
So as I sit on my bed with my box of lucky charms in my lap as I watch an old super man cartoon. My brother knocks on my door. He is as all of us are -except little Spring majorly- pissed off about moving here.
"Gutten Morgen mein Bruder" I said in German as my brother sat down next to me. I hated all six feet of him. He was annoying but in a time when we both knew nothing but our family in this town we were more civil to each other.
" Isn't more like Gutten tag shrimp girl?" he said as he sat down on my bed. Shrimp girl my most beloved nickname.
"Whatever all I know is it's boring whatever time that it is" I said as I collapsed back on my bed.
"No ballet huh?" He said as he cracked a smile I nodded.
"Some girl that was hitting on me in my math class said there's a dance troop here, You should join" he said as he tussled my hair.
"But it's not the NYYB" I said as I sat up. He was already down the hall.
"There is never gonna be another NYYB especially in Colorado shrimp" He called before he closed the door to his room. His words hung in the air. Maybe there wasn't going to be another NYYB or the MYB. This hurt me for a moment before I looked around and saw my rifle leaning against the wall. I grabbed my box of shells and headed outside in my pajamas. The police issue target was set up out side. I loaded it and took twenty steps back and fired. BANG. A dog barked in the distance I hit the target.
I continued to do this until I noticed some of the neighbors poking their heads out of their windows. I yawned. This was all so boring. I stopped and turned around. Across the street stood a bewildered doctor Brown. I smiled and waved. I had some how made it all the way to the front of the house with out missing one single shot it was a record. I yawned and put my rifle on the porch before the good doctors son confronted me.
"You're in my Biology class" Ephraim said stuffing his hands into his coat pockets.
"And?" I replied as I stretched a bit before looking around the yard.
"You weren't in class, well you haven't been to class," He said as I picked up some stick off of the yard.
"So?" I then sat on my porch and looked up at him. His eyes were pale like the sky.
"Well not being in class can't be good for your GPA, and it can have long term effects" I smiled
"And you're one to talk Ephraim Brown? I know you have skipped school several times in the last couple of months, well the last year that you have gone to this school, And I know that you went to Denver every time to look at some kid named Collin with that blonde girl Amy Abbott the other doctors daughter" He just looked at me for a moment a sly side look.
"And you know this how?" I smiled and stood.
"I would say that I am Psychic BUT I'm not I will say how ever that I, Autumn August Wood know you"- I started to straighten the collar of his jacket- "Ephraim Brown better than" – I leaned in close- "you know your self" I whispered with I little smile I then started for the door and turned around to find Ephraim still standing dumb founded at what I had just done.
"Oh yeah, and it's amazing what's on the Internet these days" I said as I grabbed my rifle and went in the house.
My brother was in the kitchen I could hear his kitchen music blaring in my ears, some old song by sum 41. I put my rifle in the closet and ran into the kitchen my brother was peering out of the blinds watching Ephraim walk across the street.
"Winter Decmeber Wood where you spying on me!?" I screamed as I threw a pillow at him. He smiled with out saying a word.
"Autumn and Goth kid sittin' in a tree can't wait till I tell ca-airy" Winter sang as I passed him. Cairy was my friend from Cleveland who was super obsessed with being a social elitist. If she heard that I had even spoken to a Goth she would never speak to me again. The question is why should I care if she is in fact several hundred miles away, and I am the most interesting thing at this high school.
"So you haven't been going to school? Dad is gonna kill you!" Winter said as Spring my little sister sprinted down the stairs and ran to the back door holding her favorite stuffed animal.
"Hold it munchkin" I yelled as she zipped passed me. I sighed and she stopped. "Where do you think you're going?" I inquired tapping my foot. My little sister looked exactly like my mother, black hair, green eyes and super olive. Her long black hair was tied by as always into two crooked braids. She turned around and frumped with a frown.
"I'm going to Delia's!" She declared with a smile as she looked at me.
"The store? Isn't that in Ohio?" I said confused as munchkin shook her head.
"No, Delia lives across the street from us,"
"Ephraim has a little sister?"
"Yup, and dad went to school with her dad"
"What?" Winter stepped in the kitchen and pulled a can of pop out of the refrigerator.
"Bye Spring, have fun at Delia's" Winter said waving. He flicked me in the head and put the now empty pop can down on the counter.
"I didn't appreciate that," I said as he grabbed his football off of the table. "What? Where are you going?"
"To go play foot ball in the park with Bright"
"You made a friend?" I said laughing.
"We can't all be anti-social like you Aught, I'll be back at six or something"
"Fine" I screamed as I tossed his empty pop can out and ran up the stairs. I figured I might as well change into something else besides Scooby-doo pajama pants and a turquoise tank top. I showered and threw on a pair of jeans low rise and a gray turtleneck sweater seeing as it was mid-fall I didn't feel like freezing my self completely.
I went outside and stood on the porch for a while. My mom was at work in Denver and my father was away "in town" setting up his new office. He was a Physiologist who had toyed too much with the Idea of being a real doctor.
Spring was playing across the street with Delia. I after much deliberation decided to walk over. I didn't even need to look both ways I just walked. I could hear that no cars were coming. Spring instantly looked up at me.
"Aught, This is Delia! She's in my class, her brother knows you" Spring said with a grin as she looked up at me.
"Hi, Delia, I'm Autumn, Springs older sister, I go to school with Ephraim" I said as I waved with a little smile. Just then Ephraim came out and stopped dead in his tracks. He blushed when he saw me.
"Hi, Autumn," Delia said back in little kid fashion. I looked at Ephraim and smiled before starting over to where he stood.
"I need the notes for biology," I said as I put my hands in my pocket he nodded.
"Do you ever plan on going to Biology" Ephraim said as he lead me in side the first thing that caught my eye was the piano. I walked over to it and just looked at it.
"You play?" He asked as he went about rummaging through his bag.
"I did, until… never mind," I said as I shook my head. "Do you play?" I said as I sat down at the bench and lifted up the key cover. He walked back in the room holding three notebooks. I started playing Beethoven's second. I only played half of it and it was only the half that I remembered. I then stopped and looked up at him.
"You play so well, why did you stop?" He asked as he sat down next to me. I smiled a little.
"I don't think you know me well enough for that to warrant an answer, my dad doesn't even know why, but that doesn't say much now does it?" I uttered ruefully as I closed the key cover.
"I know how you feel"
"No I don't think you do," I said as I stood and walked over to the door. "Look, just e-mail me the notes" I said as I stretched and looked at the door.
"I think I know it better than you do, when we first moved here my mom had just died a month before my dad grew this nasty beard and I still managed to be nice to people in general, and make a friend, but you, you come here and all you do is bitch from moment one, it's not like you're alone or anything" he screamed as he stood and walked over
"How would you know if I was alone or not?" I screamed back firmly holding my ground. "You don't know what you think you bump into me one day and all of a sudden you are something in my life? Ephraim brown, you know nothing about me, and when I say nothing I mean nothing" I said as I shoved him. He stood there and took it.
"I know why your Mom and Dad choose Everwood and I know why you are no longer in Cleveland so obviously I know more about your life at the moment than you do"
"Try me!" I said crossing my arms.
"I know that before you went away over the summer and before your school year ended you had been pre-excepted by Julliard and that not even a month after I know that your mother lost her job at the firm she was working for and she fell into a depression and her therapist told her that she needed to get out of the city, and that's why your father dropped everything to start a private practice here, and your mom only works three days a week in Denver before coming home and making your life hell, and your dad choose Everwood because my Dad and your Dad are friends" I stood in disbelief as he screamed those words at me. I felt my eyes get watery- Just don't cry- they got dry again- wimp I knew you'd cry- and a tear rolled down my cheek.
"Goodbye Ephraim" I said as I turned he put his hand on my shoulder.
"Wait, look I'm sorry I was being a total ass" he said as he shook his head.
"I could see that, but I really have to go"
"Why?"
"Because if I stay here I'm going to hit you" I said as I opened the door and slammed it. Delia and Spring were playing in the leaves. I walked right passed them and walked across the street to my safe haven the empty house.