Later that afternoon:
Me, Tara and Kevin were sitting around in the living room watching tv, Jake was taking another nap, twice today, and Rain was in the kitchen making some phone calls. "Ha, ha! Man that's funny!" Kevin said loudly, breaking the awkward silent that was present for the last half hour. "Yea." I sighed. "Man, I'm gonna miss you guys a lot!" I said slowly. "We'll miss you too" Tara said. I knew she would. After all we have grown up together. What about me and Kevin though, were we going to break up now? Or give the long distance thing a shot? I didn't know what we'd do, but I know we had to talk soon. Well, we didn't get a change to talk that night. Or the day after for that matter. I was kinda upset. Did he want to break up with me? I shrugged my thoughts away. Kevin and Tara had already left and I was playing a board game with Jake. Rain was in the kitchen once more, making more calls. It was around 8:30 when I noticed the time. "Oh, my god, look at the time, we should really get you to bed, Jakie" I said. "No!" he screamed. "Just one more game, please?" How could I resist those baby blue puppy eyes? But it was too late. "No, Jake, it's too late, you need to get to bed." I said. I was tried myself. I hadn't gotten much sleep the night before. I stayed up most of the night, thinking about moving. And we were finally going to do it. I was kinda glad. "No!" he screamed again, but he was yawning, so I knew it was really time for him to go to sleep. I lift him up and carried him up the stairs; man I wish we had an elevator or something. I helped him get his jammies on and tucked him in. "Good night, Jakie" I said in a quite voice. "Sleep tight." "Don't.let the be-d bugs bi.te" and he was sound asleep in a second. I shouted a good night down the stairs to Rain but I guess she was still on the phone cuz she didn't say anything back. I tiredly walked to my room, and fell a sleep instantly as I plopped down on my bed.
I woke up early the next day, even though I was really tired the night before and barely got any sleep at all. Today we would start packing. I walked to the bathroom, and washed my face with cold water. It was cold, but awakening. I slid down the stair's handrails and landed on the carpet at the end of the stairs. I heard some noises coming from the kitchen so I figured Rain was up already. When I walked in, she said a quite "good morning" and went pack to packing the kitchen stuff. I helped for a while, but I had my own stuff to pack so I started back up the stairs. "Wow, I didn't know the house would get sold this easily!" Rain said, stopping me in the middle of the stairs. "Yea." I said sleepily. "So did you find a new house in Tulsa?" I asked. I hoped she did, I mean, if our house got sold already, that means we would be moving soon and we needed a new house to live in at Tulsa. "Yea, it's not as big as this one and it's not that new, but since I don't have a job and all, even though with all the saving, we have to be careful, money wise." Oh, my god! This was coming from my spend-a-lot sister. She would spend more than her 3 months of allowance when she went on a shopping spree. "I guess we better go shopping once more in the city before we leave, you know, for the new upcoming school year." Ha, she was back. I suddenly thought about starting school in Tulsa. What were the kids like there? I wouldn't have any friends! I would be the new kid! My worries went away, I was very out going, and I bet I would meet tons of new people the second school started. Yea.I had no worries about school. The only worries I had left now was about Kevin and I. I really had to talk to him. We would be leaving soon and it was definitely necessary that we talked! "Ok" I said sleepily. I liked shopping, but shopping with Rain was a pain. She would be in a store for at least 2 hours and could come out empty handed. That's why we never really went shopping together. I would go with my friends, and sometimes mom and she would go with her friends. I was still excited though, I needed new clothes for school. I walked up to my room. Hmm.where should I start packing, I thought. I went back downstairs and took some boxes out of the garage. First I decided to pack all my valuables, then books and stuff and then clothes. The next couple of days, we spent packing. Since Jake had no clue how to pack, and when we tried to teach him, he would just throw everything in a box and state that he's done, we decided to pack for him. I did his clothes and Rain did everything else. I helped pack up the living room and kitchen stuff. So, finally we were almost done with everything, except the big stuff, like the couch, tv and beds and stuff. The only other stuff that hadn't been packed was mom and dad's stuff. I tried to do some of it, but froze and couldn't move when I walked in the room, until Rain walked in the room, to find me sitting on the floor, just staring at my parents' picture by their bed. She did something I never thought she would never do. She sat down next to me and stared at the picture with me until Jake came in the room, stared at us with a frustrated look on his face. "What's wrong, Jake?" Rain asked. "I don't like packing!" he yelled and stormed out of the room, left me and Rain laughing hysterically. When we calmed down, I got up, picked up a box and started throwing things into it. Rain did the same. We decided to separate the clothes by the ones we like the best, (mom's not dad's) and the one's that could go to charity. We gave all of dad's clothes away, except his tux that he wore on their wedding day, which holds too many memories, happy ones, we couldn't find mom's gown though. After working on it for couple of days, we were basically done with packing. The things that were left were the big stuff, which we rented a truck to take to Tulsa, and things that will go to charity. We would be moving the next day. Today Tara and Kevin are coming over, so we can spend time together for the last time, although they said they would visit, school will be starting soon, maybe during winter break. I went to my room to get ready, I wanted to look good for Kevin, and I wanted to convince him that I am worth giving a chance at long-distant for.
I got dressed in my sexy black leather skirt and a lacy tank top. I put on some eye shadow and lip gloss. I didn't look whorey or anything. Just sexy. They arrived around 6. Kevin gave me a passionate kiss at the door. Tara didn't mind. Most of the night we just sat around and talked. They both said, they would write, and I said I would write back. Kevin offered to cook something but I told him that we had packed everything up. So he offered to take us to Mc. Donald's but we didn't much feel like being in public, so he decided to go and pick something up. He is such a gentleman! When he left, me and Tara talked about girl stuff and at some point we both cried, for a little bit. I wasn't surprise when I cried. She was my best friend ever since kindergarten, and now I was leaving and we wouldn't see each other for a long time. "I'll miss you so much!" I managed to say through tears. "I'll miss you too!" she said, almost going hysterical. We were really crying, hard. Oh, my god, I'm having second thoughts, do I really want to move?? How can I leave Tara? Kevin? Everybody else? "You'll be fine, its better if you move, go start a new life. I'm just sorry I won't be there for you, right after your parents." she stopped. "You were there for me when my parents got divorced. I would have never gotten over it, if you weren't there for me!" "Shut up about it already!" I said, "Let's just enjoy our time together" she nodded. "You'll always be there for me, we'll write, you'll visit. We'll always be best friends!" she nodded again. I hugged her. Just then Kevin walked in with the food. He looked at me and smiled. I smiled back.
"Uh.I think I forgot the shakes" he said, and walked out the door. He would get his time with me.soon. We sat and hugged some more then she put a little box in my hand. It was wrapped nicely in polka dotted, pink wrapping paper. "Oh, no!" "No presents!" I said, but I had gotten her something too. "Hang on" I said. I ran upstairs to get what I had gotten her. I had picked it up when Rain took me and Jake shopping. It was fake pearl earrings on real gold. I ran back downstairs. "Whatya got there?" Tara asked, smiling, knowing that I had gotten her something too. "Oh, nothing, just something I got for you" I smiled. We exchanged our gifts. I couldn't believe what she had gotten me! It was the same earrings that I had gotten her. How well did we know each other? "Real well" Tara said. I was glad though, I really liked the earrings but they were kinda expensive so I couldn't get 2 pairs since I had to pay for it with my own allowance. Rain bought all the clothes so I figured I should at least buy the earrings with my allowance. We exchanged 'thank you's. By that time, Kevin was back. We sat down and ate our burger and fries. It was around 10:30 when we were done with the food. Tara got up. "I better go, you know Sara, and she doesn't like it when I come home late. Man, I couldn't even get it through to her that my best friend is leaving tomorrow, that b.." we laughed. Sara is Tara's step mom and she hates her, she hated her dad too for a while that he even married her. With that Tara hugged me one last time, (well not last time, they came over the next day and said good-bye before we left.) and left. Kevin and I talked for a long time, and made out part of the time. We talked about what I wanted to talk about too. We agreed on being friends. I was really upset when he suggested this and even started yelling a little, then he reminded me of Jake, it was late and he musta been a sleep, so I calmed down. But I was still upset. Then we talked about it and it made sense. I mean, we wouldn't be together and so we'd drift apart, which was probably true. And he's a 15 year old guy, so he might feel insecure and drift away from me to different girls, by me not being there to take his mind away from other girls with my charm and beauty, he said. I was kinda taken back, that he would actually think about other girls, but I was impressed by his honesty. He really was a good boyfriend and now he is a good friend. Besides after I thought about it, what if I like other boys? Instead of ending it then, it was better to end it now and still stay friends. I was happy and tired at the end of our long conversation. It was around 12:30 when he left. I directly went to bed, and fell a sleep, tomorrow was going to be a big day. I woke up early in the morning, partly because Rain woke me up to start getting ready, and partly because when she tried to wake up Jake, he made a really big fuss and woke me up. Rain decided to let him sleep a little bit more. 'Sides all he had to do was to put his clothes on. We had to load things in the truck. I got up and took a warm shower. My last time taking a shower in this bathroom. I got dressed in jeans, a tank top, (cuz it was so hot) and sandals. Today, for once in my whole life, I didn't slide down the handrail of the stair's. I knew I wouldn't get to do it again, but I just didn't feel like doing it. I went into the kitchen where Rain was carrying the 'kitchen stuff' labeled boxes into the truck. I saw Larry, Rain's boyfriend (ex-boyfriend?) carrying the couch with a couple of his friends. A bunch of Rain's friends were there too, helping us get our stuff in the truck. Rain looked sad, I thought maybe she might cry, but she didn't. I managed a shy "hi" to her friends and went back to the kitchen to get some boxes. I wondered how they (meaning Rain and Larry) ended their relationship. Did they brake up? Or are they willing to have a long-distance relationship? I couldn't ask Rain, she would just tell me that it's none of my business and yell at me for sticking my nose in everything. I shrugged it off and went back to carrying boxes. After I carried a bunch, Rain asked me to wake up Jake. I went upstairs to wake him up. I helped him get dressed and get his stuff downstairs. Larry and his buddies were carrying my stuff out to the truck. God, we had so much stuff. How would we fit everything into the new house? Rain said it as smaller than this one. Finally all the boxes and the furniture were placed in the truck. Kevin and Tara walked over a little while before we left. This was awful. I couldn't say good-bye. I didn't want to. Tara hugged me, I was wearing the pearl earrings she gave me, and she was wearing the ones I gave her. I hugged her back, tightly. I couldn't speak. There a knot in my throat and if I said anything it would open up and I wouldn't be able to stop the tears from falling down. Same with Tara, I could see the tears in her eyes, but she was trying hard not to let them fall down. "I love you, you take care. Best friends forever, k?" I managed to say and put my hand out so she would shake it. We had a special, best-friends handshake. I couldn't help the tears from falling down my cheeks anymore, I just let go, and she did too. Kevin just stood there frowning while we said good-bye. She shook my hand. "Love you too, take care", "Best friends forever" and she hugged me again. I pulled away, if I didn't I would start bawling like a baby. I smiled at her, she turned away to wipe away her tears and to pull herself together. I turned to Kevin. He was standing there looking as miserable as I felt. I hugged him. "Take care" he said and hugged me back.. "You too", "Friends?" I asked "Always" he said back. I gave him a little kiss on the cheek. By this time Rain was done saying good-bye and thanks to her friends, and Larry. And Jake was already in the car, all buckled up. I noticed that Rain kissed Larry on the lips and said "See you soon, k?" "Sure, babe" he said and let go of her. 'See you soon'? What does that mean? Rain got in the car, still trying to hold her tears back. I hugged Kevin and Tara one more time, said thank-you/good-bye to Rain's friends and Larry and got in the car. I couldn't stop the tears as I waved at Tara& Kevin. And we drove away, on to out new home, in Tulsa.
Me, Tara and Kevin were sitting around in the living room watching tv, Jake was taking another nap, twice today, and Rain was in the kitchen making some phone calls. "Ha, ha! Man that's funny!" Kevin said loudly, breaking the awkward silent that was present for the last half hour. "Yea." I sighed. "Man, I'm gonna miss you guys a lot!" I said slowly. "We'll miss you too" Tara said. I knew she would. After all we have grown up together. What about me and Kevin though, were we going to break up now? Or give the long distance thing a shot? I didn't know what we'd do, but I know we had to talk soon. Well, we didn't get a change to talk that night. Or the day after for that matter. I was kinda upset. Did he want to break up with me? I shrugged my thoughts away. Kevin and Tara had already left and I was playing a board game with Jake. Rain was in the kitchen once more, making more calls. It was around 8:30 when I noticed the time. "Oh, my god, look at the time, we should really get you to bed, Jakie" I said. "No!" he screamed. "Just one more game, please?" How could I resist those baby blue puppy eyes? But it was too late. "No, Jake, it's too late, you need to get to bed." I said. I was tried myself. I hadn't gotten much sleep the night before. I stayed up most of the night, thinking about moving. And we were finally going to do it. I was kinda glad. "No!" he screamed again, but he was yawning, so I knew it was really time for him to go to sleep. I lift him up and carried him up the stairs; man I wish we had an elevator or something. I helped him get his jammies on and tucked him in. "Good night, Jakie" I said in a quite voice. "Sleep tight." "Don't.let the be-d bugs bi.te" and he was sound asleep in a second. I shouted a good night down the stairs to Rain but I guess she was still on the phone cuz she didn't say anything back. I tiredly walked to my room, and fell a sleep instantly as I plopped down on my bed.
I woke up early the next day, even though I was really tired the night before and barely got any sleep at all. Today we would start packing. I walked to the bathroom, and washed my face with cold water. It was cold, but awakening. I slid down the stair's handrails and landed on the carpet at the end of the stairs. I heard some noises coming from the kitchen so I figured Rain was up already. When I walked in, she said a quite "good morning" and went pack to packing the kitchen stuff. I helped for a while, but I had my own stuff to pack so I started back up the stairs. "Wow, I didn't know the house would get sold this easily!" Rain said, stopping me in the middle of the stairs. "Yea." I said sleepily. "So did you find a new house in Tulsa?" I asked. I hoped she did, I mean, if our house got sold already, that means we would be moving soon and we needed a new house to live in at Tulsa. "Yea, it's not as big as this one and it's not that new, but since I don't have a job and all, even though with all the saving, we have to be careful, money wise." Oh, my god! This was coming from my spend-a-lot sister. She would spend more than her 3 months of allowance when she went on a shopping spree. "I guess we better go shopping once more in the city before we leave, you know, for the new upcoming school year." Ha, she was back. I suddenly thought about starting school in Tulsa. What were the kids like there? I wouldn't have any friends! I would be the new kid! My worries went away, I was very out going, and I bet I would meet tons of new people the second school started. Yea.I had no worries about school. The only worries I had left now was about Kevin and I. I really had to talk to him. We would be leaving soon and it was definitely necessary that we talked! "Ok" I said sleepily. I liked shopping, but shopping with Rain was a pain. She would be in a store for at least 2 hours and could come out empty handed. That's why we never really went shopping together. I would go with my friends, and sometimes mom and she would go with her friends. I was still excited though, I needed new clothes for school. I walked up to my room. Hmm.where should I start packing, I thought. I went back downstairs and took some boxes out of the garage. First I decided to pack all my valuables, then books and stuff and then clothes. The next couple of days, we spent packing. Since Jake had no clue how to pack, and when we tried to teach him, he would just throw everything in a box and state that he's done, we decided to pack for him. I did his clothes and Rain did everything else. I helped pack up the living room and kitchen stuff. So, finally we were almost done with everything, except the big stuff, like the couch, tv and beds and stuff. The only other stuff that hadn't been packed was mom and dad's stuff. I tried to do some of it, but froze and couldn't move when I walked in the room, until Rain walked in the room, to find me sitting on the floor, just staring at my parents' picture by their bed. She did something I never thought she would never do. She sat down next to me and stared at the picture with me until Jake came in the room, stared at us with a frustrated look on his face. "What's wrong, Jake?" Rain asked. "I don't like packing!" he yelled and stormed out of the room, left me and Rain laughing hysterically. When we calmed down, I got up, picked up a box and started throwing things into it. Rain did the same. We decided to separate the clothes by the ones we like the best, (mom's not dad's) and the one's that could go to charity. We gave all of dad's clothes away, except his tux that he wore on their wedding day, which holds too many memories, happy ones, we couldn't find mom's gown though. After working on it for couple of days, we were basically done with packing. The things that were left were the big stuff, which we rented a truck to take to Tulsa, and things that will go to charity. We would be moving the next day. Today Tara and Kevin are coming over, so we can spend time together for the last time, although they said they would visit, school will be starting soon, maybe during winter break. I went to my room to get ready, I wanted to look good for Kevin, and I wanted to convince him that I am worth giving a chance at long-distant for.
I got dressed in my sexy black leather skirt and a lacy tank top. I put on some eye shadow and lip gloss. I didn't look whorey or anything. Just sexy. They arrived around 6. Kevin gave me a passionate kiss at the door. Tara didn't mind. Most of the night we just sat around and talked. They both said, they would write, and I said I would write back. Kevin offered to cook something but I told him that we had packed everything up. So he offered to take us to Mc. Donald's but we didn't much feel like being in public, so he decided to go and pick something up. He is such a gentleman! When he left, me and Tara talked about girl stuff and at some point we both cried, for a little bit. I wasn't surprise when I cried. She was my best friend ever since kindergarten, and now I was leaving and we wouldn't see each other for a long time. "I'll miss you so much!" I managed to say through tears. "I'll miss you too!" she said, almost going hysterical. We were really crying, hard. Oh, my god, I'm having second thoughts, do I really want to move?? How can I leave Tara? Kevin? Everybody else? "You'll be fine, its better if you move, go start a new life. I'm just sorry I won't be there for you, right after your parents." she stopped. "You were there for me when my parents got divorced. I would have never gotten over it, if you weren't there for me!" "Shut up about it already!" I said, "Let's just enjoy our time together" she nodded. "You'll always be there for me, we'll write, you'll visit. We'll always be best friends!" she nodded again. I hugged her. Just then Kevin walked in with the food. He looked at me and smiled. I smiled back.
"Uh.I think I forgot the shakes" he said, and walked out the door. He would get his time with me.soon. We sat and hugged some more then she put a little box in my hand. It was wrapped nicely in polka dotted, pink wrapping paper. "Oh, no!" "No presents!" I said, but I had gotten her something too. "Hang on" I said. I ran upstairs to get what I had gotten her. I had picked it up when Rain took me and Jake shopping. It was fake pearl earrings on real gold. I ran back downstairs. "Whatya got there?" Tara asked, smiling, knowing that I had gotten her something too. "Oh, nothing, just something I got for you" I smiled. We exchanged our gifts. I couldn't believe what she had gotten me! It was the same earrings that I had gotten her. How well did we know each other? "Real well" Tara said. I was glad though, I really liked the earrings but they were kinda expensive so I couldn't get 2 pairs since I had to pay for it with my own allowance. Rain bought all the clothes so I figured I should at least buy the earrings with my allowance. We exchanged 'thank you's. By that time, Kevin was back. We sat down and ate our burger and fries. It was around 10:30 when we were done with the food. Tara got up. "I better go, you know Sara, and she doesn't like it when I come home late. Man, I couldn't even get it through to her that my best friend is leaving tomorrow, that b.." we laughed. Sara is Tara's step mom and she hates her, she hated her dad too for a while that he even married her. With that Tara hugged me one last time, (well not last time, they came over the next day and said good-bye before we left.) and left. Kevin and I talked for a long time, and made out part of the time. We talked about what I wanted to talk about too. We agreed on being friends. I was really upset when he suggested this and even started yelling a little, then he reminded me of Jake, it was late and he musta been a sleep, so I calmed down. But I was still upset. Then we talked about it and it made sense. I mean, we wouldn't be together and so we'd drift apart, which was probably true. And he's a 15 year old guy, so he might feel insecure and drift away from me to different girls, by me not being there to take his mind away from other girls with my charm and beauty, he said. I was kinda taken back, that he would actually think about other girls, but I was impressed by his honesty. He really was a good boyfriend and now he is a good friend. Besides after I thought about it, what if I like other boys? Instead of ending it then, it was better to end it now and still stay friends. I was happy and tired at the end of our long conversation. It was around 12:30 when he left. I directly went to bed, and fell a sleep, tomorrow was going to be a big day. I woke up early in the morning, partly because Rain woke me up to start getting ready, and partly because when she tried to wake up Jake, he made a really big fuss and woke me up. Rain decided to let him sleep a little bit more. 'Sides all he had to do was to put his clothes on. We had to load things in the truck. I got up and took a warm shower. My last time taking a shower in this bathroom. I got dressed in jeans, a tank top, (cuz it was so hot) and sandals. Today, for once in my whole life, I didn't slide down the handrail of the stair's. I knew I wouldn't get to do it again, but I just didn't feel like doing it. I went into the kitchen where Rain was carrying the 'kitchen stuff' labeled boxes into the truck. I saw Larry, Rain's boyfriend (ex-boyfriend?) carrying the couch with a couple of his friends. A bunch of Rain's friends were there too, helping us get our stuff in the truck. Rain looked sad, I thought maybe she might cry, but she didn't. I managed a shy "hi" to her friends and went back to the kitchen to get some boxes. I wondered how they (meaning Rain and Larry) ended their relationship. Did they brake up? Or are they willing to have a long-distance relationship? I couldn't ask Rain, she would just tell me that it's none of my business and yell at me for sticking my nose in everything. I shrugged it off and went back to carrying boxes. After I carried a bunch, Rain asked me to wake up Jake. I went upstairs to wake him up. I helped him get dressed and get his stuff downstairs. Larry and his buddies were carrying my stuff out to the truck. God, we had so much stuff. How would we fit everything into the new house? Rain said it as smaller than this one. Finally all the boxes and the furniture were placed in the truck. Kevin and Tara walked over a little while before we left. This was awful. I couldn't say good-bye. I didn't want to. Tara hugged me, I was wearing the pearl earrings she gave me, and she was wearing the ones I gave her. I hugged her back, tightly. I couldn't speak. There a knot in my throat and if I said anything it would open up and I wouldn't be able to stop the tears from falling down. Same with Tara, I could see the tears in her eyes, but she was trying hard not to let them fall down. "I love you, you take care. Best friends forever, k?" I managed to say and put my hand out so she would shake it. We had a special, best-friends handshake. I couldn't help the tears from falling down my cheeks anymore, I just let go, and she did too. Kevin just stood there frowning while we said good-bye. She shook my hand. "Love you too, take care", "Best friends forever" and she hugged me again. I pulled away, if I didn't I would start bawling like a baby. I smiled at her, she turned away to wipe away her tears and to pull herself together. I turned to Kevin. He was standing there looking as miserable as I felt. I hugged him. "Take care" he said and hugged me back.. "You too", "Friends?" I asked "Always" he said back. I gave him a little kiss on the cheek. By this time Rain was done saying good-bye and thanks to her friends, and Larry. And Jake was already in the car, all buckled up. I noticed that Rain kissed Larry on the lips and said "See you soon, k?" "Sure, babe" he said and let go of her. 'See you soon'? What does that mean? Rain got in the car, still trying to hold her tears back. I hugged Kevin and Tara one more time, said thank-you/good-bye to Rain's friends and Larry and got in the car. I couldn't stop the tears as I waved at Tara& Kevin. And we drove away, on to out new home, in Tulsa.