Hey everyone! Sorry it's been so long but these last two? years have been super crazy! I finally got my drive back and managed to write two chapters in one day. I'll hopefully update regularly and I for sure will NEVER take an entire year EVER again. :)

Chapter 5

Moving day

Beth's pov
The day has finally come! We are going back to Buckman! It took forever to get everything ready to leave, and when we finally had the trucks loaded it took even longer to say goodbye to everyone. I'll admit I cried a little. We had lived in the little town of Oakwood, Ohio for as long as I could remember. Of course there was the one year we spent in Buckman, but that was only a year and we always knew we would be coming back to Oakwood someday. Now we were moving forever. The house I grew up in was sold and the house next to the Bensens was bought. It all felt a little bittersweet. I looked over at mom to see she was crying as she hugged Sheral Montgomery, our neighbor from across the street, I don't even know why she was crying, maybe it's the hormones. Mom never really liked Sheral and my sisters and I never really liked her kids. At least the Hadfords were fun. Those Montgomery kids were a bunch of sticks in the mud.
I jumped a little when the moving van started up. I hadn't realized I was staring. I tried to burn the memory of our first house in my mind as Eddie and Caroline came up to stand on either side of me. I could see out of the corner of my eye that Caroline was crying. Eddie wasn't, or at least she didn't show it.
"Come on girls. It's time to go," I heard dad call. I sighed before turning around and following my sisters to the car. We climbing in and turned around in our seats to watch as Oakwood, Ohio vanished.
"Well, It's off to Buckman we go," I said after we had all straightened out in our seats, "Let's hope this plan of ours works."
Eddie laughed and I got a good look at her for the first time today. She looked good. She had let her long blonde hair cascade down her back with just her bangs pulled back and the ends curled. She had a light blue cami on underneath a thick crème colored cardigan and a tan and blue scarf around her neck. Her skinny jeans were tucked into a pair of crème colored, comfy looking slipper boots. Now I know why it had seemed that every boy in the whole seventh grade had come to say goodbye. It's amazing how fast word travels in a small town. Eddie had been wearing a skirt the day after we came up with this crazy plan and not even an hour later boys could be seen doing a walk by just to get a peek. It was hilarious. Me and Caroline got lucky. We didn't have to change our appearance too much like Eddie did, but our personalities had needed a major make over if this was going to work. Caroline had wanted to show up with a bang of course but considering she was supposed to be shy, me and Eddie convinced her to simply wear her hair up in a pony tail with a light pink t-shirt and jeans. She had on a white wrap around jacket and pink converse. I had thrown my hair up in a messy braid and added a head band. I had on make-up too, and not just eye make-up either like I usually wore. This was a lot of make-up and it was driving me crazy. I reached up to rub my eye three times in the first two hours of driving and Caroline had to swat my hand away. She gave me a welt! It hurts! You see, that's me being all dramatic. Do you think it's working?
"I see it," Caroline's loud voice jolted me awake, "There's the sign, Buckman, West Virginia 2.5 miles." Immediately me and Eddie sat up to try to get a view of the small town.
"Calm down girls," mom laughed, "You've been waiting to get here for almost 15 hours. I'm sure you can handle a couple more minutes." But mom didn't really understand. We had been waiting way longer than 15 hours to see Buckman again. Heck we've been waiting longer than the week leading up to the actual move. It's been exactly 5 months, 2 weeks, 3 days, and about 9 hours since we had stepped foot in this town. I started getting butterflies in my stomach thinking about what was in store for both me and my sisters.
"We need to go over the game plan," Eddie said, interrupting my thoughts, "Everything has to be perfect from the minute we exit this car."
"We've been over this a gazillion times already," I whined, pausing for a second, "How was that?" I straightened up waiting for their opinions.
Eddie smirked, "Perfect, those boys will never know what hit them." Laughing we all watched in anticipation as the house came into view. We looked out the window to the right, grateful for the dark tint covering us, at the one house we got so used to looking at from across the river and noticed nine 'inconspicuous' blobs up on the widows walk. It was showtime.