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"Here's my car," Tori points to a slick black car. Caleb and I look at each other with wide eyes, mom and dad never had a car like this mom drove a SUV while dad drove an old station wagon that he got a discount on.
"Don't be scared it's not going to eat you." She says while chuckling. Caleb and I roll our bags to the nice car and and put them in the trunk of the car, then we both slip inside of the car Caleb in the front while I am in the back.
Tori is already in the driver seat and has turned on the car. She pulls out of the airport parking lot and zooms away, the car drives smoothly.
"I'm so happy that I found you guys." Tori tells Caleb and I.
"How long were you waiting out there?" Caleb asks the question that I wanted to know.
"Two hours maybe," She sighs. When we are out of the airport territory she gets on the interstate and starts to head north.
"So what kind of place are you taking us to, to eat at?" I ask her.
"Um..it's a restaurant my brother owns," She answers looking in the mirror at me.
After a while the car goes silent. It's not an uncomfortable silence but serene silence. I don't know what I was expecting when I came to Chicago, but I definitely wasn't expecting this.
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Tori pulls up into a plaza that has different looking shops and food places.
"The place is right here," Tori points to a restaurant that says 'George's Place' above the doors, "Come on." She leads the way for us. When we walk in a burst of smells hits my nose making my tongue immediately water.
"George it's me Tori!" She yells trying to get someone named George who is probably the owner of this place and also probably her brother.
"Tori," A man comes out he has jet black hair and tan skin like Tori but he doesn't have any tattoos on his arms. They both talk a little I can't hear what they are saying since they are talking so low.
"This is Beatrice, and Caleb you know the kids Natalie had," My ears immediately perk up to the name of my mother. How do they know my mother?
"Wow they've grown so much since the last time I saw them," George gushes. George walks over to Caleb and crushes him into a bear hug. After he's done hugging Caleb he walks over to me and hugs me the same way.
"Oh my I remember when you both of you came out of your mother's womb, you were so little then." He gushes some more.
"George that's enough, they are hungry." Tori states a little bit on the commander side, man does this woman change personalities a lot.
"Oh stop it Tori I was just going over some good memories jeez don't have to get all tough girl on me," George nudges his sister, "Now what do you want to eat," He says while clapping his hands.
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After eating at George's Place you can say that Caleb and I were both stuffed and ready to go and crawl in a cave to sleep in. George was actually good company, he made me forget why I was here in Chicago in the first place. Maybe I can talk to him more.
When Tori, Caleb, and me got back on the road Tori was quiet, actually Tori was also quiet while we ate at George's, wonder what's going on with her.
Finally we pull into a neighborhood. Kids, Teens Adults, Elderly you name it they were out here. I saw a family outside playing in the yard and a pang of jealousy went through because it wasn't my family. Tori pulls up into a dark green two story home.
"Here we are," Tori sighs she gets out of the car and pops the trunk for Caleb and I.
"I'll grab your bag Beatrice," Caleb tells me.
Thank you." I follow Tori into the green house when I get inside the walls are painted a light crime color and there is a bunch of art pieces on the wall. Caleb comes in and hands me my bag and then looks around just like me.
There is a sitting room with caramel chairs and a glass table in the middle of the room with random magazines on it.
I walk further into the house and I see on the left side that there is the living room with a flat screen TV hanging on the wall while black leather chairs face it. On the right side there is a kitchen with an island mixed with the bar, there is a sink at the end of the island/bar,across there is a gas stove with a hood over it. Two silver ovens are right next to the gas stove and diagonal to the ovens is the refrigerator.
Brown cabinets are all around part of the kitchen that doesn't have the appliances. Then there are sliding glass doors that lead to a porch and big yard.
"Make yourselves at home," Tori starts,"Your rooms are upstairs and the names are on the doors." She tells us while grabbing a bag and then heads to the front door, "I have to go to work but I will be back around six." She finishes and then closes the door behind her.
"Well this is our new home." Caleb says after we hear Tori's car drive away. He looks sad at me.
"Yeah," I look sadly at him. New home, new life, new beginning.
"I'm going to go look at my room." I sigh and run my hand through my hair. Caleb nods and I roll my bag up the steep stairs.
When I get up the stairs there is a long hallway with a bunch of doors on each side. I walk down the hallway and I see 'Jacob' on one of the doors. I walk further down the hallway and I see on a door 'Beetrix' I snicker at the name.
I slowly walk into the room. There is blue paint on the wall and there are pictures of art all over the wall like there was downstairs. A queen size bed sits in the middle of the room it has a black comforter on it. There is a cherry chester-draw right next to the door to come in and there is also a cherry nightstand right next to the bed. In the corner there is a desk with a little blue lamp on it.
On one side of the room there is a door that leads to a bathroom. Woah my own bathroom, in Maryland I had to share a bathroom with Caleb. But I still rather share a bathroom with him and have my parents back than have my own and not have my parents at all.
I walk out of the bathroom and back into the bedroom. There is a door on the other side of the room, I open it and there is a walk in closet.
'Well since there is nothing else better to do,' I think to myself and I start to unpack my stuff. First I put my parents picture on the dresser. After that I hang up an fold my clothes and put them in the chester draws.
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Thank you for reading my story. This chapter was mostly a filler but trust me things will start to get more interesting.