dont let me go <3 -matt sturniolo

moving.

chandler winchester, a 17 year old girl, just found out her parents need to move because her dad got a better job.

"somewhere in massachusetts, close to boston. somerville? i think thats what they said. i dont know," chandler says, talking to her best friend layla over the phone.

"that's like, across the country! and its may. we were supposed to spend the entire summer together," layla complains.

"i know, i know. anyway, i have to go. we are leaving in 4 days and i have to pack everything. apparently there is furniture and stuff there already so we just need to pack everything that fits in out suitcases and totes. anything that doesnt fit will either go in a haul truck or in the back of my moms car."

"alright. im gonna miss you."

"i will miss you too. trust me."

"oh, i know. okay, you gotta go. bye. i love you."

"i love you too. bye."

chandler gets off her bed and starts to pack, starting with her clothes. she sets out 4 outfits for the days shewill be staying home and puts her other clothes in the totes and baskets. all of ther bathroom stuff will go in a suit case because she has one suit case with a lot of bathroom utilities. chandler gathers all of her books and notebooks and anything else she has in her room and separates them into piles.

it will be easier to organize later.

her floor is now covered with random things: clothes, books, notebooks, markers, pencils, decorations, stuffed animals, fake plants, pictures, everything. chandler and laura, her mom, are going shopping tomorrow for totes, baskets, duck tape, and bubble wrap. she has never seen the house she is moving to, not even in pictures. her parents wanted to surprise her.

she gets tired, as it is now 10 pm. so she goes to bed. there is a lot of packing tomorrow.

the next day

chandler wakes up around 9:30 and goes to the kitchen to wat breakfast. she pours herself some cereal and milk and starts to eat. she is scrolling through tiktok when she finds a video of these three boys laughing really hard in a car. they all look the same. she swipes onto their account and reads their bio, "triplet yourubers. @sturniolos new vid on fridays. other socials below."

she went to their youtube page and started to scroll through their videos. she clicked on their recent one, "don't correct our grammar."

she was laughing so hard at one of the boys that she spit put her cereal all over the kitchen tabel.

"CHANDLER!" her mother screams, "what the hell was that for?"

"sorry mom, im watching a youtube video," chandler replies, unable to stop laughing.

"clean this mess up."

"okay."

"when youre done, get dressed. we are leaving in 10 minutes."

"got it."

she starts to clean up the milk and finishes her cereal. after chandler isdone, she goes off to her room to get ready to go shopping. she grabs one of the piles of clothes she kept out and puts it on. then she grabbed a pair of socks to put on along with her white air forces. her and laura walked to the car and drove off to their local walmart. they walk in, buy the items they need, paid, and walked out. once they got home, chandler took a tote and started filling it with her clothes. they will definitely have to go get more.

once she is finished with her clothes, she moes onto her books, pencils, markers, and notebooks; she put her decorations and fake plants in there too because there was enough room. she goes out to get another totes and brings it back into her room. its slightly bigger than the other one.

i can put my stuffed animals in here for now but my covers and pillows will go in here later. 

all chandler has left are her pictures and their frames. she takes out all of the pictures from the glass frames and puts them into a big envelope. the envelope goes in the tote with her notebooks. she writes, "my pictures" on the envelope.

walking out of her room, she goes to her mom and asks if she can use the bubble wrap for the frames. she takes the wrap and walks back to her room.

after she finishes wrapping the frames, chandler asks her mom us she has any frames that are going in a separate tote. they have a lot of family pictures so she thought there will be a tote for frames.

"yeah, there will be. its the one by the tv in the living room," her mom responds.

"alright, thanks."

chandler walks over to the tote and gently sets the frames in there. then she walks back to her room.

chandler looks around for a sharpie to write on the boxes according to what it inside.

dammit.

she forgot about her guitar. chandler got it from her grandpa the day before he passed, when she was 8, and she had to learn how to play for him. she started writing her own songs and lyrics. it helps pass time.

over the next few days, she just rests and makes sure she has everything packed up. she helps out her parents in their bedroom, the living room, the kitchen, and her mom's office room.

finally, the day comes; time to move to massachusetts. it is 3 am. they get a uhaul truck and shove all of their totes and baskets inside. everything inside the house is gone except for the furniture.

everything fits perfectly into the truck. calvin, chandler's dad, drives the uhaul truck, laura drives her car, and chandler drives calvins truck.

they plan on driving straight there. its really early in the morning. they will stop and eat around noon. calvin drives first, then chandler, then laura.

they stop at hardees around nokn and they go inside to eat. currently, they are in hanover, virginia. after they eat, they go to get gas at a nearby gas station. chandler also stocks up on snacks. by the time they leave the gas stations, its 1 pm. the estimated time to areive at the new house is around 9 pm.

once they get to the house, everyone agreed on sleeping as soon as they get there and unpacking the next day.

they get inside the house and calvin walks to his room and is out in 5 minutes. chandler walks around the house and explores for a little bit.

"oh my lord! this place is huge!" chandler yells.

"yeah, it was a lot of money so dont mess amything up," her mother says.

chandler and laura walked outside to the truck. later that day, when they were loading everything up, all of the totes that had covers and pillows were set near the door so they could easily grab it. they grabbed those totes and brought them inside.

laura showed chandler where her room was and she walked inside. she immediately got ideas for how she wanted to decorate it. when you walk in, the closet is on the left side and her bed is againstthe wall in the corner. there is a small dresser with a mirror on the right side wall and a window on the back wall.

chandler sets her tote down, grabs two pillows, a blanket, and one stuffed animal and lays on her bed. shehad her phone charger with her in the truck. she plugs it into the nearest outlet and scrolls through tiktok. she comes upon another videoof those boys.

she goes back on youtube to finish the video she was watching earlier because she never got to finish it. later, she goesto their instagram and tiktok pages and follows all of them.

ahthors note:

this chapter and the next is a bit slower so bare with me. i have to set a back story and i cant just jump into things lol

much love <3