Growing Up Fast
I'm sixteen now. I've been living here with my mom for over 14 years. Grandma Swan passed away when I was six. The cool thing was the stay here wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. I got to spend a lot of time with grandma Swan before I started school while my mom was at work. Grandma Swan taught me how to make cards and I got to send one back home to my dad on special holidays. But now my mom thinks that I'm old enough to start deciding some of the things that I want to do. I know exactly what I want to do when the summers over. I want to go live back with my dad. My mom has met a new boyfriend who she met a few months after my birthday when I turned four. Yea he's a little younger than her but they make a good couple. He makes her really happy and he's nice to me.
Well it's not really that I want to go and live with Charlie my dad but I miss my hometown. I want to know what it feels like to live there again. It's going to be August in a few days and school will be starting there in Forks. I go to tell my mom what I want to do. She says 'Are you sure?' I said 'Yes'. My mom helps me pack all my stuff. Over the summer we had went to the mall and we had both picked out different outfits for the seasons. Nothing to over the top though. My mom had insisted on the idea. We loaded all the stuff up and put it in the trunk of Phil's car. He drives me over to the airport with my mom. When we get there they announce that the plane will be ready to aboard in five minutes. My mom tells me that if I ever want to come home they will be their and that I can whenever I want. I tell her that I know but this is the right thing to do. I get my suitcase and my mom promises to have all my stuff shipped to Charlie's. I tell her that I will call her when I get there and she tells me to be safe. Phil waves to me from inside the car and my mom gives me a hug. A part of me wants to stay thinking that my mom needs me but she has Phil so she will be just fine. I go to enter the plane knowing this was the first being of the trip back to my hometown.
I had already called Charlie the day before to see if it was okay with him. He seemed very excited to know that I would be coming back to stay not just visit. I had visited him for two weeks to a month for the past few summers but this time I would be moving in. I get on the plane all alone ready to go. I strap on my seatbelt and the plane gets ready for takeoff.