At the Park Bench

Preface

Preface

Friday, August 1

I got this journal back in June for my birthday. And since I'm starting junior year at a new school I think writing it down will help me have a place to empty my thoughts since I won't know anyone, again. Starting junior year in a new school is like starting high school all over again and it wasn't so great the first time. At least I met my best friend Jess. Sadly we won't get to finish high school together. I was really looking forward to graduating and staying in the same school for four years. But then my dad had to get a job offer like last time.

"I know I said that we will stay here till you graduate and move off to college but I got the job offer I've always wanted" my dad said.

"What you expect me to pack up my thing again after just being here for two years. You want me to leave all my friends again and start over in the next place you got an amazing job offer at" I yelled for probably the thousandth time.

He just looked at me like he did all the other times he's told me the same speech. Ever since my mother left my dad and me with him my dad has been dragging me across the country every time he gets a job offer that is just this big thing for him every time. I know it's hard for him to be a single parent to a teenage girl and he just wants to provide the best for me but I don't understand why we have to be moving all over the country.

I don't remember the last time we've stayed in a state for longer than three years. The first time we moved was when I was five and it was a month after my mom left. Since my mom couldn't tell my dad where we can live my dad made the decision himself and moved us across the country to Utah. Don't ask me what a marine biologist has to do in Utah I've given up asking him for his reasoning.