So I've heard that America may be going into war, and it's really freaking me out, and writing usually calms me down, so I've decided to write another chapter for y'all! I'm going to be adding some more of Olivia's point of view in this chapter.. I'll try to add more to this chapter than there was in the last one. And I realize there was lots of word mistakes in the last chapter, but forgive me, I'm writing this from my iPad mini and auto correct is becoming my worst nightmare... I hope you enjoy chapter 1 of About Average!
-Lilly's point of view-
When I had finished talking, I realized the small amount of southern drawl in my voice, I figured it was because the elders in my family and the past elders were born and raised in the south parts of America.
"That was just the story of your life, I want to know about you," said Olivia, I got what she had meant."
"Well, I have been in a dance class for four years, my favorite color is purple, my favorite animal is a panda, I will only listen to country or rock music, my favorite movie is Cabin in the Woods, my favorite book is Listen by Stephanie S Tolan, my favorite singer is Alan Jackson, my favorite song is Country Boy by Alan Jackson, my favorite tv show is House,MD, and I want to be a neurosurgeon when I grow up. Now it's your turn to tell me about yourself," I said without hesitating.
"Well, I'll get to that when we get home, the roads are a bit too busy to be chatting," said Olivia
Then, I heard my Chattahoochee by Alan Jackson ringtone come on, I said,"Well, I don't really know who would be calling me right now, I lost over half my contact list."
I grabbed my iPhone out of my pocket and looked at the caller ID, it said "Milo", Milo was my bestest friend in the world.
"Eh, sorry, I really gotta take this call, it's important," I said as I hit the green button on my phone screen.
"Oh, hey, let's switch to FaceTime," I said as I pulled my iPhone away from my ear to tap the FaceTime button, as so did Milo.
"Oh my gosh! Hey girl, it's been forever since I've seen you! And I need to see your mom and mike, I miss them so much! And did you move? I don't Remeber you walls being like that," I said as I looked into my best friends brown eyes.
"No, we didn't move, I'm in the hospital, my mom got hurt, it's not too big," said Milo.
"Oh my gosh! Is she alright? Hand the phone over to her," I said as a few seconds later the phone was moving.
"Oh lord Jill, I miss you so much! Wasn't there problems with your foot before? And where's Mike? I miss y'all so much," I said.
"Yeah, it's the foot, and mike, he's at work," said Jill.
"Love you, bye! And tell Mike that I said I love and miss him," I said into the phone as I hit the hang up button.
A good ten minutes of silence passed as I then watched Olivia pull into a parking space near an apartment building, we got my bag out if the trunk and headed up an elevator to the third floor, we then entered the door of apartment 120.
"Nice place," I said as I got a better grip on the handle of my suitcase.
"Well, why don't I show you around," said Olivia, then she started to walk and I followed.
-Olivia's point of view-
I showed her around, and lastly we got to her room, I already had it set up, a dresser, a nightstand right next to her full sized bed, a table lamp and an alarm on the nightstand, the walls were neon green, and her bedding was paint splatter bedding.
"Woah, this is pretty cool, I was expecting a mattress in a basement with no heaters," said Lilly,nth at sentence made me crack up a bit.
"So, what do have in that suitcase of yours," I said as I watched her plop down on the foot of the bed, I just kept leaning in the doorway.
"Mostly clothing, but I'll show you the items that aren't clothes," said Lilly as I watched her zip open the smaller pocket of the two, I'm guessing she had lit the clothes in a seperate section.
"Um... This is my jewlery box, it has my nail polish, my earrings, my perfume, and it's where I keep all of my bobby pins. And as you can see, there's a lock on it, I always had the lock so my little sister wouldn't be getting in my stuff, and the keys, I hid them in my suitcase," said Lilly as I watched her reach into the suitcase for the next item.
"This is the scarf that I knitted, ove had for years now, I think I did it when I was six or seven," said Lilly, that scarf was really pretty and cool.
"And this is my Miranda Lambert poster, her signature is on teh bottom left corner, I got this when my mom, my great aunt, and I went to her concert when she performed in Minnesota, it was pretty awesome," said Lilly as she rolled it back up and layer it on the floor next to her feet.
"This is a picture of my aunt Melissa, my cousin Ashley, my grandma, and I down in Boyton Beach, Florida. My grandma lived in Florida so my aunt, my cousin, and I took a trip down to Florida, I can't wait to tell you about it," said Lilly as she gently set the framed picture on her bed.
"And lastly, this is a picture of me and my little brother and sister at a photo shoot at JC Penny's. It's very valuable," said Lilly as she laid it on the bed next to the other framed picture, this one was framed in glass as well.
I walked over to get a better view at the pictures, I sat on the bed and put the one in Florida on my lap, the ocean was in the background, palm trees also, and Lilly was in a beautiful hot pink sundress with watercolor flowers.
"So, who is who," I asked as I motioned her towards the picture.
"Well, that's me, the blonde is my cousin, that ones my aunt, and that's my grandma," said Lilly as she pointed everyone out.
"Who's who is the other picture" I asked as them I watched her pull the other one on to her lap.
"That's my brother, Logan, that's my sister, Autumn, and that me in the middle," said Lilly as she pointed everyone out just as she did on the last picture.
"So, you said you would tell me about yourself," said Lilly.
"Well, I'm going to let you get your things settled in, then when you are done, we're going to go to the craft store so you can get some decoration for your room, then when we get done setting them up, I'll make some hot cocoa and we can talk," I said as I then exited the room to go get some tacks.
"And here's some tacks so you can pin your things up on the wall," I said as I handed her a little bag of multi colored tacks.
"Okay," I heard Lilly said as I exited the room to let her get settled in.
About ten minutes passed as I was texting on my phone.
"I got all settled in, and here's the rest of the tacks, I didn't use them all," said Lilly as she sat next to me on the couch and passed me the bag of tacks.
"Okay, let's hit the road," I said as put the bag of tacks in a drawer, Lilly and I both got our shoes on and headed outside and got in the car.
We arrived at the craft store and entered the door,we headed towards the decorations section.
"Oh, I like this." said Lilly as she picket up a neon pink fuzzy rug, she handed it to me and I put it in the shopping basket I picked up by the entrance.
"And this would be nice too, that's all I really want." said Lilly as she passed me the neon purple peace sign shaped pillow that had sequins on it to me, I'm surprised that she didn't get more things.
We walked up to the front of the storw and checked everything out, then we headed back home.
I started to make hot cocoa as I waited for Lilly to get do e setting up her new things, when it was done, I put it in 2 white mugs, I sat on the couch with mine as I set Lilly's on the counter so she could grab it when she was done.
"Hot cocoa's on the counter,take a seat." I said as I watched her come walking out of her room.
"Okay." She said as she grabbed the cocoa and sat next to me.
"So, ask me question, I'll answer." I said as I took a sip from my mug.
"Hmm... What do you work as?" asked Lilly as she used her tongue to grab one of the marshmallows from the drink.
"I work as an SVU detective, I solve rape, sexual assaults, and do estic violence, you know what that is, right?" I said as I took a big gulp from my mug.
"Yeah, you don't have to explain, I've had that talk WAY too many times," said Lilly, I understood what she meant, talks like that were extremely akward, nobody likes them.
"Do you have a boyfriend?" asked Lilly as she took another sip of her cocoa.
"Nope." I said, I popped the p at the end.
"Do I have a grandma and grandpa?" asked Lilly.
"No." I said.
"Okay, so since your a detective, I'm guessing you work with someone." said Lilly as she headed over to put her empty mug in the sink.
"Yeah, I work with lots of people, maby one day I'll take you to work with me so you can meet them all, there all nice people, I'm sure they'd want to meet you the second I tell them I adopted you." I said as I then headed over to the sink to put my mug in it.
"So, are you signing me up for school or something?" asked Lilly.
"Yeah, you start next Monday." I said, next Monday was still a week away.
"Okay. I'm actually gonna head to bed, it's getting pretty late and I'm getting pretty tired." said Lilly as she headed down the hall to her room.
"K. Night, sweet dreams!" I said just before she entered.
About ten minutes later, I quietly walked down the hall and looked through the crack in her door to check on her, she was actually kneeling down and starting to fold her hands, I guess she was praying, I listened without making her notice me.
"Dear god, I would like it if you could send this message to all of mah family members, her it goes, mom, you should start to realize why I shut you out, please, I love you, dad, I'm really mad at you, I wish you would have called me on my birthdays, I missed you so much, I cried myself to sleep somenights, I hope you know that you left me in unbearable pain, aunt Jenay and uncle, I missed y'all so much, I wish my mom wouldn't have kept me from seeing you, Lucas, Elli, and Norah, you Gus were the best cousins ever, I missed you with all mah heart, aunt Melissa and Michelle, you two were a huge part of my life, I miss you, Cody and Caden, you two had so much life ahead of you, oh sorry, I shouldn't exactly be crying when I'm saying this message, Caden, I hate to say it, but you looked like frikin chuky the killer doll when you were a baby, you gave me and Ashley nightmares. Uncle dusty, you were the best, you reminded me of tigger a lot, and Ashley, I wish you could've gone to college, you were the best older cousin ever. Barbara and Stacy, I cried when I had to go home from Florida, I didn't want to be so far away from you. Grandma Marcy, you were the best grandma ever, I miss you and Sassy so much, I wish I could've spent more time with you. Grandpa Rick, I cried over you the most, I wish you wouldn't have been at that party." said Lilly in a soft voice, I could see the tears streaming down her face, my god, why this happen to her? I headed to bed right away, I couldn't bare to see a child in that position.
Okay, so I put A LOT in this chapter, I thought of something super big that is going to happen later in this story, I don't want to give it away. Feel free to PM me any questions about this story. I hope you enjoyed chapter 2 of About Average! 😀