Disclaimer: I don't know of any story like the one I have written. If there is then it was not intentional and I don't own those stories and probably never will. I am not going to write this every time. I feel I only need to write this once.

I hope you like this story. It is completely fiction and if they relate to some real occurrence well I didn't know. This story is like a diary entry more than first person.

Chapter One: The Change

Hi, I'm Karen. I really have never told my story to anyone, but I kept it written down just in case someone needed to know what really happened. Here it goes.

It all started when I woke up as usual. I was getting ready for school and then mom calls from downstairs.

"Karen, come down stairs I need to talk to you."

"Coming mother!"

I slowly descended the stairs knowing my mother never talks to me and that something must be wrong.

"Karen, I have been thinking a lot on this matter and truly believe that this would be the best thing for you."

"What is it mom?"

That's when she started to explain the situation to me and how my world would do a complete three-sixty.

"Sweetheart, I wish I could make this easy on you, but me and your father are not doing well, we think we will be getting a divorce. We really don't want you around this type of environment, so we have decided that it would be best to send you off to boarding school. We really didn't want it to come down to this, but it's the best thing for you at this time and the best thing for us too."

"Mom, you guys can't get a divorce. I mean you guys don't even fight, well not that I see of anyways. It is the middle of the school year they won't even take me into a new boarding school. You know how strict those places are. You have always told me you would never send me to a place like that anyways. I don't even see how this would corrupt my environmental setting as you think."

"Dear, we are really thinking in the best interest for you here. Don't make this harder than it already is, please, I don't know if I can take you fighting me all the way. You are going to Lanyard's Academy for Boys and Girls over in Tannic Ranch, Montana."

"Mom that is like fifteen states away you can't do that to me. What of my friends I have known all my life? What will become of them? Huh? I don't see why you can't send me somewhere a slight bit closer."

"I told you don't argue. We have already worked everything out. You can talk to your friends over the Internet. We are even going to give you a laptop and cell phone and you'll have unlimited long distance minutes. We want to make this transition to be as easy as possible. We love you, we really do. You will be leaving in a week. You might want to start getting e-mail addresses and phone numbers."

"But what about Michael?"

"You can e-mail and phone him. That's all I can tell you to do. Now hurry up before you are late for the bus and I have to take you to school. I am done talking about this subject for today."

I head for the bus and pray that by the time I get home tonight that my mother has changed her mind or says, "April Fools!" and takes me in her arms and tells me she will never let me go. Just in case I do tell everyone that I am moving to a boarding school, but I kind of left out the part about where it is and why I am going. I find it eases the pain of the whole ordeal. I come home and on the table I see two things that make my stomach churn with reality.

O.K. did I make you guys wait long enough? Well one to the story.

I know that this chapter isn't long, but it is only the first one. Please review and keep reading. Even if you don't like the story please let me know, so I can see how to fix my errors in the future.