"Sweety, it's time you k

"Sweety, it's time you know the truth about your father."1

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I'm sixteen years old. I have white blonde hair, dyed of course, and purple eyes. I live in Tennesse with My Mama and two older brothers, Tyler and Shawn. Tyler is pretty much my best friend. Both of my brother's graduated already. Tyler is going for a degree in psycology and Shawn is going for a degree in the medical field to become a surgeon. They both still live at home though. Tyler is 18. Shawn is twenty-one. They are both around six feet tall. Tyler is built like a football player, Shawn is slimer.  Shawn has a girlfriend. Anne. She's nice and pretty. They have been dating since tenth grade, for almost six years. 3

when i was six, my best friend, Jackob, moved to Ohio. He and I had known each otherr since we were in preschool together. 4

I can remember how we met too.5

I was the outsider of the class. I was shy and no one really knew me. One day, Mama forgot to pack me a lucnh so I sat alone in the classrom and coloured instead. Someone tapped me on the shoulder but I just ignored it. They tapped again a little harder. And again when I didn't answer. The forth time they poked me.6

"Ow!" I said, turning around.7

"Don't you have a lunch?" A little boy asked me.8

"No, my Mama was busy today and she didn't make me one."9

"Want some of mine? I have PB&J. Mama always told me its nice to share."10

"Well, okay."11

"I'm Jackob. What's your name?"12

"Eleanore."13

"Do you want to be my friend, Eleanore?"14

"Yes, I do, Jackob."15

From then on we were inseperable. and then he moved.16

The same year, my father passed away. I was close with him. We did everything together and I loved him. 17

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Now, tenn years later, Mama is telling me that what i thought was true, isn't. "Sweetheart, your father killed himself. He put his life in a gun. Sweety, you wouldn't have understood then. But, BabyGirl, I know he loves you. And I know you were his last thought."19

"Mama! He couldn't have! If he did... Mama, what if he didn't go to heaven then? Mama..."20

"Sweety, I have more to tell you. We're moving to Pennsylvania."21

"Mama, no. My life is here, Mama."22

"Sam got transferred. We have to, BabyGirl. I packed you're things while you were at school, get in the car. We're leaving."
"Don't I get to tell my friends? What about Tyler and Shawn?"23

"Baby, call your friends on the way, text them. you can still keep in touch. And the boys also transferred. Baby just except this."24

I cried all ten hours of the drive...25

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We arrived at our new house around one in the morning. I hadn't slept the whole ride. I walked into the house and Mama told me to pick a bedroom. I walked upstairs with Shawn and Tyler and right into the attac. it was a finished attac so I decided this to be my room. When you would walk up the stairs, to the right was a space big enough for my queen sized bed and to the left was a large area where I could put my TV and loveseat aloge with my stereo and other stuff. At the bottem of the stairs was a closet. I curled up on the carpet and fell asleep. I had a long day ahead of me...27

I woke up a few hours later to Mama Shaking me. I sighed and sat up. 28

"You are so lucky I'm a morning person, Mama." I said.29

"We have to start unpacking, Sweety. You have to go to school tomorrow." I groaned and followed her down the stairs, throwing my hair into a ponytail. I started grabbing boxes off the truck and setting them down. i was stronger than most girls, I could bench 150 pounds. 30

I helped carry my bedframe and matrises up to my room. I carried a lot of my stuff. It wasn't very hard. Once all of my stuff was upstairs, I started unpacking. The first thing I did was make my bed. My bedset is black silk and the pillowcases are as well. One of the pillowcases is dark purple. 31

I'll admit it, I'm spoiled.32

I was hoping to paint my walls dark purple.33

The next thing I unpacked were my clothes.  I put everything in the closet space at the bottem of the sairs. I had what I called a hanging dresser for my jeans. Its just something that you hang from you closet for jeans. My shoes were at the bottem of the clothes box. I put them all at the floor of the closet. Before I realized it, it wass lunchtime and I was done unpacking. Mama had made everyone sandwich's.34

I sat at the table, eating a lettuce, chicken, ranch sandwich when someone knocked on the door.35

"BabyGirl, would you answer that?" Mama told me. I set my sandwich on the plate and headed for the front door. 36

The boy who knocked on the door was tall, about as tall as my brothers. He had long natural blonde hair, and was dressed in a similar fashion as me. Skinny jeans (of course my were a bit tighter and has showed his boxers a bit) and a band tee and a sweatshirt.37

"Uhhm, hi." I said, a little bit nervous and self concious of the accent that I had. It was normal down south but not so normal in Pennsylvania.38

"Uh, hi." He siad. "I'm you're neighbor. My Mama thought it would be nice if I introduced myself and stuff. She's baking cookies for you and your family right now. I'm Jake."39

"I'm Ele." We shook hands. "Do you want to come in for lunch? Mama's making sandwich's."40

"Uhm, okay." He smiled as if he knew me so well.41

He stepped inside and closed the door. I led him to the kitchen. "Mama, this is Jake. He lives next door to us. Jake that's my Mama and stepdad and my two brother's, Tyler and Shawn." I reclaimed my seat and finished eating. Shawn ate a PB&J sandwich and finished around the same time I did. "Do you want to see the rest of the house, Jake?"42

"Sure." 43

I led Jake up the stairs. "That's my Mama and Sam's room. That one is Shawn's. That one is Tyler's. And this one-" I walked up the stairs into my room. "This one is mine."44

"Ele." I turned to look at him. "You honsestly don't remember me, do you?" 45

"What are you talking about, jake?"46

"Mama always told me it was nice to share." Jake said in a southern accent. And then it hit me.47

Standing right in front of me was Jackob. My childhood best friend. "Jake!" I jumped into his arms. He laughed and hugged me back. "Jake, you are so tall! I missed you so much, Jake!"48

"I missed you too, Ele." 49

"Eleanore, Jack, come down here. Jake, time for you to go, please." 50

Wr let go of each other and headed back downstairs.51

"Bye, Jake. See you tomorrow."52

"Bye." Jake left. I knew I was in lovewith him from then on.53

Jakes hugs were so amazing. I never wanted to let him go when we would hug. He was like a really big teddy bear.54

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The next morning, Jake came over to pick me up before school. Walking to school I felt like a little kid. We kept pushing each other and laughing and joking as if he never moved away and we'd been best friends for eturnity. I was so happy that I had a friend here. I didn't have to go my first day alone.56

As soon as I walked into the school, I was terrified. Everyone looked like they had been attending for their whole life.  I grabbed Jake's arm as he led me around. We found out that we had every class togehter. 57

I found my seat in my first class next to Jake. a girl sat in front of me. As soon as she sat down, she turned to me.58

"Hi! I'm Crystal, head of the cheerleading squad and number one flyer."59

"Uhhm, hi. I'm Ele." I glanced over at Jake.60

"Crystal's one of my friends." He said to me. I nodded.61

"Do you do any sports, Ele?" Cyrstal asked me.62

"Well I did volleyball and was on the dance team."63

"Tryouts for both of those are coming up! I'll do dance team with you! If you want to..."64

"Okay!"65