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"So…how was Michigan when you lived there," Tori, Caleb, and I are all sitting at a wooden table that sits in the kitchen eating dinner. Caleb and I both look confused when Tori says Michigan.
Caleb and I have lived here in Chicago, Illinois for about a week now. We have already registered for the high school up the street I think its name was, Faction High, I don't know, but next Monday we start school which is really nerve wracking since I don't know anybody here.
"Um we never lived in Michigan, do you mean Maryland?" Caleb asks while chewing on his dinner, today we got to eat Italian food yum.
"Oh yay, um Maryland that's what I meant little old Maryland," Tori rubs the back of her neck and flushes red. I chuckle quietly finding her embarrassment funny.
Tori has been a good guardian so far; I mean she doesn't do the things my parents use to do but then again she isn't my parents.
"Tori where do you work?" I'm curious to know where Tori lives because all this time I really don't know. She tells us when she is going to work but has never told us where she actually works.
"Oh um at a tattoo parlor," She perks up after I ask her that question.
"That sounds cool, so did you do all of your tattoos by yourself or did someone else do them?"
"Well my first one was by my boyfriend that I used to date in high school," She smiles at the memory.
Maybe I should ask her more questions about her past.
"Why didn't our parents tell us about you and uncle George?" Caleb asks the question that has been eating me since we got here. Tori freezes at the question and she turns red.
Is it that bad?
"O-oh um I don't know maybe they were trying to protect you," She stutters and her joy is immediately gone.
Protect us from what?
"Hey it's time to go to bed, don't want you guys to look like slugs in the morning for your first day of school," Tori jumps up and grabs all of our plates even though I haven't even finished. I look at Caleb and he just shrugs and gets up and heads for the stairs.
"Do you need help?" I ask Tori as she tries to wash the dishes.
"Uh no I'm fine you just go get ready for bed," I nod slowly and she looks up at me and smiles but it doesn't even reach her eyes. Even though it is killing me to know what is wrong I smile at her and head upstairs.
When I get in my room I grab my pajamas and head into my bathroom and turn on the shower. As I am in the shower I think about how much my life has changed just in a month. My parents died in a fatal accident, me and my brother are shipped off to relatives that we barely know but somehow they know us, and now we are about to start a new life with new people.
What the Hell!
I stay in the shower for a good fifteen minutes letting the hot water cascade down my body to release all of the tension in my shoulder. When I finally get out the whole bathroom is fogged up by the steam from the shower. I wrap a towel around my body and put one around my hair, after slipping on my pajamas I walk across the hall to Caleb's room.
"Hey," I whisper softly to Caleb who is on his bed with a book obviously he was always the nerd in the family like dad.
"Hi," He looks up from his book and gives me a warm smile.
"I'm going to bed, good night," I tell him and leave his room.
"Good night Beatrice," I hear Caleb yell.
I slip into the nice soft bed. I wrap the warm duvet around me and snuggle.
Well tomorrow here I come!
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Sorry guys for not updating in a while, school had gotten in the way so I had to take care of that but I hope you like this chapter.
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P.S I'll have the next chapter out tomorrow ;)