~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*after the car trip~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
"Em' show Liz where her is room." Spike said as we walked in the door. Emma led me into a third bedroom. "I'm glad you came while we were still on break that way you and I can get to know each other and you can meet all my friends before you start school." That's when it hit me I was 12,000 miles from every thing I had known since I was little. This scared me so I went into my new bedroom and started unpacking. Emma walked in and helped me unpack. Emma found an old teddy bear that my mother had given to me when I was born and under the teddy was a picture of my family. She asked me about both. I took the photo out of her hand gently and said "It was last year at Disney World. We were at a restaurant eating and it was all of us in different goofy hats all smiling happily and some laughing. My mom looked so healthy I found out she was sick after that trip. We spent a month with her in the hospital then the cancer took a turn for the worse and she died in two days. She died very suddenly at exactly 12:17p.m. and 10 minutes later my dad picked my sister and I up from school and I knew immediately when I saw him I hit the floor crying my mom was my life line." A tear landed on the glass that I quickly wiped away as I continued "I was devastated when I had learned of her death. She had always understood me and it took Stephe a while to learn what had happened." I was wiping tears all through this explanation. "Oh my goodness, I'm so sorry. I didn't know." Emma said as she walked over to me and gave me a small hug before I pulled away. "I'm sorry I've never been a real 'hugging' person."
"That's okay, if you're not your not."
"Let's continue unpacking" I said as I reached down into another box and carefully pulled out a wooden jewelry box heavily wrapped in paper. I sat down on the freshly made bed and asked Emma if she would want to help me take my jewelry out of its wrapping. She eagerly sat down and gingerly opens the ornate lid and lifted out one of my many necklaces. "Why do you keep your necklaces in a straw?" She asked quizzically. "My mother taught me that it keeps the chain from getting tangled up and breaking the chain."
"Ohh I'm guna have to remember that." I lifted out my mother's diamond cross and slowly unwrapped and ran my fingers over it.
"EM' YOU HAVE VISITORS"
Two guys walked into my room just as I pulled out my sister's basket-ball necklace and Emma pulled out my sister's basket-ball out of a box. A guy with brown hair and looked really hot in white t-shirt grabbed the ball and started to dribble it. I never knew I could clear a room so fast I grabbed the ball and fell on the floor.
"Hey chick what the heck"
"Umm Sean that was her sisters."
"And…. It's just a basket-ball?"
"Sean listen, it WAS her sisters. Her sister's dead" she said the last part quietly as she saw me on the floor holding my ball and crying. The other even hotter guy had curly brown hair he leaned down and put his arm around me and said "I'm sorry my friend was an idiot but he sees a b-ball and has to dribble it. My name is Craig what's yours." I composed my self slowly and said "Yea I understand……. Its just I'm still very sensitive about her. She was the last person to dribble and play with this ball. Hi my name is anything derived from Elizabeth." The guy that played with my memories had looked in one of my boxes and pulled out my bra and tried to cheer me up by saying "Would I look good in this? Everyone looked at him and we all laughed so hard that Emma and Craig were wiping away tears themselves. Sean put my bra down, thank goodness, and said "Now on a more serious note"
Craig said "you can be serious?"
"Every once in a while, but anyways Emma are we going out on Friday or not?" it was only Monday. "Yea of course were going we always go out on Fridays." Craig rolled his eyes "Great another Friday alone!" Emma said" hey wait I don't want to leave Liz here alone! Liz why don't you and Craig double with us? "
"Fine since I don't know anybody else I'll go if Craig wants to, but don't you too start making out on us!" Craig replied "I would be more then happy to go on a date with her but if you break this rule we will leave you on the spot." Emma rolls her eyes "Right, I wouldn't embarrass you like that. That's what single dates are for." At this Craig and I rolled our eyes at the mental picture and groaned and Sean got this really big smile on his face and started to chuckle. Craig said "Okay we'll let you two girls talk. See ya on Friday 5 ok with ya'll?"
"Yea, 5s great" Craig and Sean left. Emma and I started unpacking again. She worked on my clothes and I continued working on my jewelry. So what do you think of Sean? She said trying to make polite conversation. "He's cute, but I like the Craig guy better. "I used to have a thing for Craig when Sean and I weren't a couple" Emma said. "So, you and Sean haven't always been together?" I asked out of pure curiosity. "No, last year Sean got into a fight and he pushed me, and I didn't forgive him for a long time." Emma replied. "Oh, I'm glad ya'll are together ya'll seem like a cute couple."
"So you like Craig?" she asked. "I just met him, but he is really cute" I replied. "He also seems really sweet." All the sudden I heard someone yell "HEY EMMA, SHE HERE YET?" "Yea Manny she's up here come on up." Emma yelled to the person downstairs. "Who's that?" I asked Emma as the girl from down stairs walked in. "Liz meet my best friend Manny. Manny this is Lizzie." Emma introduced us. She was really sweet and seemed really nice and she was really pretty. "Emma, we still on for the mall?" Manny asked. "Sure as long as Liz is invited." Manny said "Sure, why not, the more the merrier." I say "Hold on a sec while I find my purse." "That's cool, we have all the time we need while were on break." I dug through my stuff for a few minutes, and then found my purse. I asked "Do I need to get my money changed to Canadian?" They both say "Probably, but there's a place to change it in the mall."