In the summer of 1995, on a bright and early Saturday morning around 9:23 a.m. the Street family has just purchased a new house and are moving today. They just got a good deal on a 3bed/3bath house in Dillon not far from where they live. The house is a mess as there are boxes everywhere taking up much space in the living room. Little 7 year old Jason Street is in his room sleeping. Mr. Street took off from work today to get everything situated. He is outside cleaning the garage. The U-Haul truck are on their way. Mrs. Street is in the kitchen taking everything out of the cabinets and putting into a box that reads kitchen on the side of it. Mrs. Street has to get Jason to wake up and get dressed so he can get his room cleaned and move everything out. She goes to Jason's room to see him turning over in his bed with the sheets over him. Mrs. Street knew Jason was already awoke. She walks in quietly over to him. She sits on the edge of the bed and begins to rub his arm.
"Jason sweetie, I need you to wake up." "There's a lot that needs to be done today."
Jason who was really an early bird didn't want to get up because he didn't want to leave the house. He takes the cover from over him and slowly turns over to face his mom.
"Mom why are we leaving, I don't wanna leave." Jason moans.
"I thought you were excited about the new house?" Mrs. Street asks
"I won't make any friends." Jason answers
"We're not moving far remember, we'll still be here in Dillon." Mrs. Street answers
"Where's dad?" Jason asks
"He's outside cleaning out the garage." "I made breakfast for you, so go wash up and we can get your room cleaned up." Mrs. Street said
"Yes ma'am." Jason replied as he got up out the bed to wash up and get dressed for the day.
Outside, Mr. Street is almost done cleaning out the garage and has boxes lined up to be put on the U Haul truck because most of the boxes won't fit inside their cars. Mrs. Street continues to put the items from the cabinets in the boxes. Jason comes in the kitchen ready for breakfast.
Mrs. Street has his sausage, eggs and pancakes ready for him to eat. Jason sits at the kitchen table. Mrs. Street brings Jason his orange juice.
"Mom will I be able to play football this year?" Jason asks.
"I'm not sure honey I don't want you get hurt and me your father haven't talked about it."
"Well I do wanna play." Jason adds.
"I'll think about it." Mrs. Street replies with a smile. A horn is being honked loudly as a big orange and white truck pulls up in front of the house. The U Haul truck. Jason looks out the window to see the truck stop in front of the house.
"Okay Jason that's the moving company, hurry and finish eating so we can get started moving." Mrs. Street urges
"Okay." Jason quickly finishes eating putting the plastic plate and fork in the trash. He comes outside to see the truck. Mrs. Street goes outside to where Mr. Street is. The driver and the passenger both got out the truck to greet Mr. and Mrs. Street as they began talking. Jason goes to his room as he looks around. Everything is just about cleaned up. Jason sees the labeled boxes lying on the floor. He looks in them one last time. In the box labeled football toys, he sees his Dallas Cowboys poster, football and other items he had when he was apart of the Dallas Cowboys fan club that gets free memorabilia. Mr. Street comes inside to see what Jason doing.
"Hey, Jason!" Mr. Street calls out.
"Yes sir." Jason calls out
"Is everything in your room ready to be loaded on the truck?" Mr. Street asks.
"Almost." "Only my dresser and my mattress needs to be put on the truck. Jason replies.
"Okay." Mr. Street answers. Mrs. Street comes inside the house.
"They're ready honey." Mrs. Street said to Mr. Street.
"Alright, let's start with Jason's room first and then we'll do our room." Mr. Street said.
"You don't want to start in the garage first and get that out the way?" Mrs. Street.
"I figured we can just load everything in our truck, it's a not a lot." Mr. Street
"Okay, what do you want to do about the attic?" Mrs. Street asked
"Crap, I forgot about the attic." "Let's do the rooms first and I'll go in the attic when we finish the rooms and kitchen. Mr. Street answered
The Street family cleaned out the house starting with Jason's room then their room, going throughout the whole house getting everything out and packing it up on the truck. The moving company men helped clean out the house and packed it on the truck. Everything was finally finished. The Street family looked throughout the house one last time.
Mrs. Street sighs as she looks around the house standing in the empty living room. Mr. Street notices his wife looking around one last time.
"Everything okay Joanne?" Mr. Street asked rubbing her shoulders.
"Yeah, I just can't believe we're leaving." "Just the memory of bringing Jason home from the hospital." Mr. Street rubs his wife back.
"I know but this is a better fit." "Three rooms, our room, Jason's room, the office/guest room." Mr. Street points out.
"I just get emotional when I have to leave something I'm used to." Mrs. Street said.
"Well after we get everything in the new house, how about we all go out to dinner tonight." "Will that help?" Mr. Street asked rubbing Joanne's back.
"Yeah that's fine because we have to talk too." Mrs. Street said.
"About what?" Mr. Street asked casually with a small frown.
"Jason." "He wants to play football but I don't agree with it." "I don't want him to get hurt." Mrs. Street said.
"It's just football with kids his size." "They don't get hurt." Mr. Street assured Joanne.
"I guess it's time to go." Mrs. Street said
"Okay let's move out." Mr. Street said. They walk out the house closing the garage door behind them. Mr. Street locks the door. Jason is sitting on the truck watching the moving company guys finish packing everything.
"Are we still leaving?" Jason asked
"Yeah son we're about to head out right now." Mr. Street answered.
"Are you going to follow me? Mr. Street asked Joanne Street
"Yeah." Mrs. Street answers nodding.
"Come on Jason, you're riding with me." Mr. Street said. Jason hops off the van and gets in the passenger seat as Mr. Street gets in the driver seat. Mrs. Street gets in her car a 1990 Toyota Camry V30. Mr. Street begins to take off followed by Mrs. Street and the U Haul truck follows suit. All 3 vehicles began to drive toward the other part of town. Jason looks out the window to see some boys playing football in a nice cut grassy field. This catches his attention as he sees the boys about 7 of them playing by an elementary school.
Jason turns to his dad to ask him a question. "Hey dad can I ask you a question?" Jason asks
"Sure son what's on your mind." Mr. Street replies.
"Do you think I can play football?" Jason asks somewhat timidly afraid of the answer being no. Mr. Street looks at Jason.
"You're really want to play football?" Mr. Street asks
"Yes sir?" Jason answers.
"I won't say no that you can't, but let me talk it over with your mother and I'll give you a definite answer soon." "Deal?" Mr. Street asks
"Okay." Jason answers.
"How about I hang some tires for you in the backfield once we get settled and that way me and you can play sometimes."
"Okay." Jason replies liking that idea better. Mr. Street looks at the clock in the van it's 10:47am. He begins to drive slowly looking for the address
"Ah, here we go." Mr. Street says reaching the family's new home. He pulls inside the driving space. He gets out as Mrs. Street pulls in the driving space next to him. She gets out as well. Mitch wants the U Haul driver to back the truck up on the grass to unload everything in the house. Mitch looks around the neighborhood. They live across from an elementary school. Jason is going to be home schooled until he starts Middle School. Mrs. Street unlocks the front door going inside to see where everything is. She likes the house it's very nice, roomy, and cozy. Jason goes inside and sees the house. He is amazed on how big the house is and it has a stairs that Jason can run up and down on. Mrs. Street looks at Jason who is in awe.
"What do you think Jason, do you like it?" Mrs. Street asked looking down at Jason.
"I love it." Jason answered in all smiles as he runs upstairs to see the rooms. Mrs. Street goes upstairs as well to see the bedrooms. Jason is in his soon to be room looking around the room though it's empty. Mrs. Street looks in his room it's a pretty nice sized room seeing Jason would be growing into it pretty soon. Jason opened a door to see a bathroom. Jason is a bit confused.
"Mom!" Jason calls out
"Yes son. Mrs. Street answers
There's a bathroom in my room." Jason says pointing as he holds the door open for his mom to see.
"That's how the house was built." "Some homes have the bathroom in their bedrooms, our does too." Mrs. Street explained
"Cool." Jason said. Mrs. Street smiled this was going to be a good day for the family.
Outside Mr. Street and the U Haul guys are unloading things off the truck. Mrs. Street goes downstairs to help unload the items out the boxes while Mitchell and the U Haul guys bring everything in off the truck.
Jason went outside to see if he could help unload the stuff of the truck.
"Hey dad, do you need some help?" Jason asked
"Not out here, go inside and help your mom unload everything out the boxes okay." Mr. Street said.
"Okay." Jason answered as he went inside to help his mom. She was looking through a box sorting things out. Jason began to help by looking through a box to help sort things out. Mrs. Street smiled at Jason who was looking through to see what he could find.
"You really want to help?" Mrs. Street asked
"Yes." Jason answered
"Alright come on let's start in your room first." Mrs. Street proposed as she picked up the box and went up to Jason's room to get it setup. Time passed by as the Street family were moving in and it was now 6:38 p.m. Mr. Street stopped as he looked up at his wife Joanne.
"Joan, what did you want to order for dinner." He asked
"Remember you promised to take me out." Joanne Street reminded Mitch.
"Right." "What restaurant did you want to go to?" Mitch asked
"Can we go to Applebee's?" Jason chimed in eagerly.
Both Joanne and Mitch looked at Jason.
"Sure honey Applebee's sounds good." Mrs. Street replied casually.
"Yes!" Jason says excited.
Mrs. Street goes in her bedroom upstairs to get her purse.
"C'mon son let's go to the car." Mr. Street said. Mitch takes Jason outside to ask him a question.
"Hey son, why do you want to play football so bad?" Mr. Street asked
"Because I wanna play for the Dillon Panthers like you one day." Jason answered. Mr. Street smiled at his son who wanted to continue a tradition in Dillon. Mitch played Tight End primarily but also got snaps at QB. He was 16 and his team won a state title. He has the ring to prove it.
"Tomorrow I'm off from work and I'll set up the tires so you can throw the football in the backyard and we'll play catch all afternoon." "How does that sound?" Mr. Street asked. Jason's eyes lit up with excitement and enthusiasm
"I can't wait." "I wanna play for a team too dad." Jason replied. Mrs. Street was coming out of the house. She locked the front door. Mr. Street put Jason in and went to open the door for Joanne.
"See son, one day this is what you do for your girlfriend when you go out." Mitch said giving Jason a tip for the future.
"Mitch!" Joanne said not wanting to Jason to hear or know about girls right now. Mitch came around and got in the drivers seat of his caravan.
"What's wrong with Jason knowing about girls?"
"He's 7 Mitch." Joanne reminded Mitch.
"Gotta start'em off young." Mitch replied. The Street family ride up to the Applebee's which is like 10 minutes away. They arrive in the parking lot which isn't that full. They find a good spot and all go inside. They are greeted by a hostess.
"Hello welcome to Applebee's." "My name is Valerie, will it just be the three of you." The lady asked.
"Yes ma'am just us three. Mr. Street answered.
"Okay right this way." The lady said leading them to their table. Jason was looking up at her. She was somewhat pretty in Jason's mind she was slender with green eyes and a nice smile and long hair down to her shoulders. The Street family took their seats as Valerie took their drink orders. They later on ordered their food and ate as a family enjoying their time together. They finished their meal about 30 minutes later and Mitch paid the bill with his debit card. The Street family go to their new home.
"Home sweet home." Mrs. Street says as they pull up in the driveway. Jason hops out the van and runs to the door to be first. Mr. and Mrs. Street both get out and go inside the house.
"Mitch are you going to put Jason to sleep?" Joanne asked tired as she sat on the bed.
"Yeah I got him." Mitch answered "What's wrong Joanne?" She sighed before began to speak.
"Jason is going to be relying on you to play with him tomorrow and he's going to be asking me about football all day tomorrow." Joanne complained
"It's okay honey just relax." Mitch said. "It's just a little faze that all little 6 and 7 year old boys go through." "I don't think he will want to do this forever." Mitch explained
"I hope not." Joanne replied showing the concerned look on her face.
"I'll go put him to bed." Mitch said as he left the room and went to Jason's room. He opened the door. Jason was trying to do push ups. Mitch seen this and began to laugh.
"Son what are you doing?" Mitch asked with a huge grin on his face when he seen Jason trying to workout.
"I'm doing pushups, so I can be ready for tomorrow when we play football." Jason answered. Mitch instantly could see Jason was serious about football and looked at him differently. Jason had his mind made up.
"Okay we'll before we play I have to run a few errands and I'll be back after you eat breakfast and we'll play catch."
"Okay." Jason replied nodding his head.
"You ready for bed?" Mr. Street asked
"Already?" Jason asked in a bit of a protest.
"Yeah son, you have to be well rested in order to play catch tomorrow." Mitch said persuading Jason to go to bed.
"Okay." Jason replied somewhat sadly but did it anyway. Jason got in the bed as Mitch tucked him in under his Dallas Cowboys covers.
"What time will you be back tomorrow?" Jason asked looking up at Mitch
"I will be back at 10." Mr. Street answered. "I'm going to hang the tires up myself before I leave while you're still sleeping."
"Okay." Jason said.
"Sleep good son." Mitch said as he kissed Jason on the forehead. Mitch got up and turned Jason's light off and went to his own room down the hall, where Joanne was laying down in a robe reading a book.
Joanna continued to read as Mitch came in the room. "Is everything okay?" "Is he sleep?" She asked
"Yeah he's fine." Mitch answered closing their room door. He went to the bathroom in the bedroom.
"What time will you be back tomorrow?" Joanne asked
"At least 10." Mitch answered
"Okay." Joanne answered as she begins to yawn getting sleepy she puts the book down and turns her lamp off and gets comfortable in the bed. Mitch soon comes to bed as he gets in the covers he kissed Joanne softly on her lips.
"Good night and I hope I made you happy today with the move." Mitch said
"I couldn't be more happier." Joanne answered. Mitch smiled at the response.
The whole house was quiet as the Street family went to sleep in their new home.