Next Door Lover

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POV Katie

"Cmon Katie. You have to have a plan since you're finishing highschool. You are not going to live in this house without a job or an education path." My mother argues with me for the third time this week.

I'm actually due to graduate in a week and my senior year will finally be complete. And yes, she's right because I know what I want to do but it's not acceptable according to my mother. I love photography, in anyway, but my mother thinks it's a waste of time.  She thinks it's too hard to become accomplished enough to do well in life, but her life and my life are very different.

My dad is Peter Jackson. Yes, the same Peter Jackson who directed The Lord of the Rings. And being him, gets you into all the big time parties and you get to talk amongst big time celebrities. So while she lives the life of luxury, I'm limited on what I can spend and forced to go to public school. I excelled in school but outside of school, I sort of got a rep. Not really bad but I have an 'I don't care' attitude, which makes me think I can do whatever I want.

My mother says it'll get me no one where in life. She's also the one who nags about everything I do or who I'm with, and hates my Tattoos. Which sucks because the first one I ever got was for her. My father agrees with my mother in the aspect of I need to be doing something but he would never push me to do something I don't want to do.

"Mom please. I just haven't decided if I'm going to college yet and I don't need to accept anyone's offers until the end of summer. I want to relax this summer. I've been working hard for four years. Doesn't that deserve a little time for a break?" I ask , knowing I just don't want to accept most of the colleges offers because it's not a photography major.

"Of course it does sweetie. I just don't want you to fall behind and get used to doing nothing. You'll get nowhere in life if you do nothing." She says and I roll my eyes. Like I said, her motto for everything. Which is why she is in book club and PTA and church choir, and endless amounts of extra curricular that she's doing. I've poured myself into my studies and being valedictorian isn't good enough for her. She doesn't get that I'm not her.

I walk away, having enough of that conversation and head upstairs to my room. I sit at my desk and move all the college letters to the side and sigh. I hate school. I don't want to go another four to six years for a job I'll end up hating. It just doesn't sound appealing but I also can't think of a job that doesn't require at least a bachelor degree and pay well enough to support myself financially.

I pick up my camera, which is my pride and joy. I wish my mother didn't hate it. She doesn't get that it brings me so much happiness to look through these lens, but to her I'm wasting my time. I glance out of the window and see the neighbors next door. The two little children are running around the front yard and their bombshell of a mother walks over to give them chalk. Thankfully my phone rings and pulls me from my thoughts. I smile seeing my bestftiends name pop up on my phone.

"Hi Leah!" I say into the phone excited

"Hey Katie, there's a party tonight, I'll pick you up at 9!"

"Ugh Lee, I don't really want to go" I sigh

"Cmon! You barely came to any this year and it's the last one of the school year!"

"Fine fine. And we can stay at mine because my parents will be out until Sunday" I reply hearing her squeal in the background. Leah and I have been friends since 2nd grade. Finding friends at that age isn't hard but keeping them as you grow older is what's tricky. Especially with a famous father, you tend to get unwanted people who pretend to be your friends. But not Leah, she will tell me how it is, always and will tell a bitch off when I need her too. She's the best.