Forever Eddie's Girl // Eddie Munson Fanfiction

Preface: The Move

     August 8th. It was the morning of the big day. I have procrastinated all week about packing the last few boxes of what remained of my room. "This isn't really happening, it can't be." I thought to myself as I hear my mother yell from downstairs. "Raine! We have to load the last boxes into the moving van and get on the road if we are going to make it to the new house by tomorrow afternoon!" Oh, mom. Poor mom. She has been through so much in the past two months. I can't really blame her though, losing a husband who actually treated her well isn't really the easiest thing in the world to go through. Jacob, my stepfather had just been diagnosed with lung cancer last September. The doctor gave him a year to live but the poor bastard only lasted 9 months.

     I didn't really like the guy, but he did treat my mom really good. Flowers on all occasions and random days of the week. I always told him to just buy her a damn greenhouse because our home was starting to look (and smell) like a funeral home. I never felt the attachment to Jacob though, not because of anything he did, but because of the impeccable numbness my real father left me, when he decided my mom and me weren't enough to fill his heart. Apparently, my father's secretary filled that hole pretty well, or he filled her holes. Whatever though. I was over it. 

     I wasn't really upset about the whole moving to a whole new state and starting a new school. I adapt to change pretty well. What was eating away at what was left of my cold heart was the fact I was leaving behind my lifelong best friend and partner in crime Haley and my steady one whole year relationship with my boyfriend, Corban. Truthfully, it was easier to leave behind my relationship than it was leaving behind Haley. Her and I have been through everything together. My dad leaving, her mom becoming an alcoholic and ditching her and her older sister Laighla to fend for themselves 95 percent of the time. Laighla was 3 years older than Haley and had really stepped into the mother role. She even had two jobs by 16 just to make sure Haley had everything she needed for school and to keep food on the table. 

     Haley and I just turned 17 this past May. Her birthday falls on May 7th and mine May 9th. We were destined to become best friends from the get-go. We shared birthday parties growing up and as we got older, we started going and hanging out at the beach on our birthdays, all dolled up just to throw in everyone's faces that this day was our day and our day alone! God, I'll miss her. Even if she was the prettier one of us two. She always had a way with the boys. Me? Not so much. Awkward nerd who loved reading Harry Potter and Twilight books while she loved makeup and kissing. She promised to come visit often and would facetime every day and every night before bed. She made me promise last night when she was over "If you meet an actual boy that you fall for and you don't just feel safe with him like Corban, but actually feel fire and he makes your heartbeat really stupid fast, please PLEASE go for it. Corban will understand. Its not like you guys have done anything more than JUST hold hands." 

     She wasn't really wrong. Corban and I have a boy girl "were dating but just because we don't want to be single" relationship. We are not into into each other, but we also don't want to be the only two single people at our ever-small high school. He knows that I care for him, but not in a "you're the love of my life" kind of way. If I was blessed to find someone at my new high school that took my breath and melted my heart with an intense flame, then yeah Corban would totally be okay with it. I wasn't crossing any fingers though. After all, who ever falls for the book nerd anyways?

     "Raine? Are you all packed and ready to leave?" Mom asks as I walk down to the kitchen. I nod my head as I put my earbuds in. This is going to be the longest 13 hour drive of my life. But I finally felt ready to maybe get a fresh start and maybe my senior year won't be completely horrible.