Locker Room Romance

Kenize's family story

It's been a year since my Mom dead of lung cancer and still to this day I can't walk into her office upstairs without getting hit in the face with flashbacks. My Mom's death was really hard on my Dad, my Dad never worked since my Mom was the one who made the money for our family but when my Mom passed my Dad was rush to find a job so he could support me. I'm an only child so we never had a hard time with money. When my Dad told me that we wouldn't be able to pay for our house in NYC, I was surprised since we have always been on top of are house payments. What came next was even worse, my Dad looked at me and said "sweetie, we are gonna have to move because the job I got is in a small town called Blue Ridge, Georgia". I didn't know what to say, I never thought I would have to move and leave all my friends.

  Not even a week later we had almost the whole house packed. It was heart breaking to see my Dad walk out of the house that him and my Mom started a family in. I was slightly relieved that I didn't have to walk by her office anymore, still though I knew I was gonna miss this house and the memories made. That 13 hour drive was so miserable, my body wouldn't even let me take a nap. We drove 13 hours straight, no stopping. When we finally made it to Georgia it was 2 in the morning and all i wanted to do was sleep. 

We came upon this little dirt road leading to a small farm house in the back. My dad parked and said to me with the sweetest voice " hon, this is our new house. i know it isn't what you thought it would be but its all we could afford at the moment." I knew he only said that because of the face I was making. I didn't mean to make a face, it just kind of happened. I felt so bad. All I could say back to my dad was "It's different but we can make it work". He smiled at me and open the car door.