Theirs

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"Honey please don't fight me on this?" Mom pleads with me as she puts the last thing is the tahoe she got last year. " It'll be good for both of us."

"No it won't." I tell her again.

Even at 12 I knew this wasn't for "us" it was for her. She has wanted to leave forever but she stayed for dad and he died last year, the Cancer won. The last straw was her getting a job she can do online. So now I am leaving everything I have ever known to go across the country and live with the grandmother I met once when I was 11 at my dad's funeral.

"Yes it will. You will meet all kinds of new friends." She says smiling. "You'll love it!"

"I have friends here." I say thinking about them.

"No you have 2 friends." She says. "You'll have so many more!"

"I only need them. I don't need 20 friends." I say looking down the street to see those two friends walking down the street to my house no doubt to say goodbye.

Mason Harrison and Adrain Duvall. The sons on my dad's two bestfriends. They are a year old and a grade above me but they are my bestfriends, my protectors. I throw my bag down and run into their arms. When I slam onto Mason he steadies us and and Adrian joins the hug.

"Don't worry Al." Mason says when I start tearing up and sniffling.

"We'll see each other again." Adrian said.

"We will miss you so much." Mason tell me and thay go back and forth trying to clam me down and tell me they'll miss me.

"I don't want to leave." I tell them.

"We know Al, but you have too." Mason tell me. "You'll come back some day."

"Alaska now." Mom demands but I ignore her.

Then mom comes over and forces us apart. Sue doesn't like how close we are. They thinks I should have more friends that are girls, or well any. What she doesn't know is the girls at school hate me. Call me names and say horrible things to me and. Adrian and Mason are the only ones who help me. The teachers just stand by and watch.

She pulls me to the car and they just stand there and watch cause they have no choice.  I can see the poem in their faces and I know they can see it in mine. 

The memory keeps playing in my head over and over on replay as my plane touches down. It's been 15 years since I can back.  The first few years it's all I wanted to do but mom cut all contract with everyone even dad's best friends. The only thing she didn't do is sell the old house.  The said it would be too painful. She died 8 months ago to one of he alcohol binges. I was away for the weekend and she just kept drinking and have herself alcohol poisoning.

I am officially an orphan.

When I found out the house was still there I decoded to come back and get it fixed up to sell.  After my 18th birthday I could have come back but what was the point?

To see to now who probably forgot about me a month after I left? No I grew out of that illusion. I knew they had forgotten and moved on cause that just how things work.  I moved on to eventually I made friends, a bestfriend even, she has been there with me through everything since we were 15. She even came with me today. Allison (Allie) Cooks

We are gonna be here for a while and she didn't want me to go alone so she loaded up and joined.

"You ready?" She asks next to me when we start departing the plane.

"As I'll ever be. I haven't been here since I was 12." I tell her again.

"I know just take things slow." She tells me.