The Academy Of Mystical Arts

Giovanni

I stared out the window of my stepmom Lorelei's car, the tense silence that sat in the car since we pulled off made me wish I hadn't put my headphones in my big suitcase.
we'd had a big argument about my dad forgetting to take off work to come with us to drop me off at the train station for boarding school, she was mad at me for not being grateful to him for all that he does for us, I can't see why though wouldn't you want to drive your daughter to boarding school and say goodbye for that last time before you didnt see her again until thanksgiving break?, well not my dad he cared more about work than anything it was always his main focus, he's a film director from new york productions one of the most famous production services in the world, we lived in a luxury apartment in manhattan new york and even though id been getting sent to boarding school practically my entire life its still kind of hurts when he seems not to care about the little time we have together every year.
I know he works hard but we both know with how much money he makes and how much he works he could've retired years ago or worked from home or cut down his work hours a little or at least tried to be in my life I havn't him in person for almost a week and we live in the same house.

I could sense lorelei staring at me through the rear-view mirror, I keep my eyes trains out the window.
I hear her a sharp intake of breath "look i'm sorry for blowing up at you earlier vanni I know this must be hard for you and I should've taken your feeling into consideration" she turns onto a stop light, I just keep staring out the window.
she sighs in defeat " please don't let our last few minutes together be regrettable, you can be angry at me and your dad all you want after you get off" I meet her eyes in the rear-view miror "fine" I say her face immiedietly brightens and a wide smile stretches across her face " ok so tell me about what you're excited about!"
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When we get to the train station it is absolutely packed with people even time square was never this packed Lorelli messily parkes the car in one of the car spots and we quickly get all of my stuff out of the trunk,
it's 11:43 and we have to be on by 12:00 meaning we have a little over 15 minutes to get to the train threw the crowd, lorelei makes me hold on to her hand as she expertly weaves us threw the sea of people, we get there in ten minutes flat with seven minutes left to spare.
"ok time for pictures!" lorelei squeals in excitement and claps her hand like a baby, I couldn't help but smile at the sight, she puts me into at least five different poses and takes so many pictures id be surprised if her phone storage wasn't full by now. "last call for train 262A" an irish accent rings out across the station "ok! Ok!" lorlie screams "its time" she pulls me in for one last hug "im gonna miss you so much" she whispers "me too" we stay like that for a few seconds before she pulls back "ok your gonna go in there and your gonna be amazing" she says "im so proud of you" now go in there and find your seat dont let me keep you waiting" she wipes tears from her eyes and hands me my suitcase "me and your dad will send the rest of your stuff tonight it should be there by tomorrow!" she shouts over the noise as i walk away i nod waving goodbye she waves back tears were now streaming down her face and a huge sad smile graced her mouth, eventually her hand disappeared behind the crowd.