Lynn had finished unpacking her suitcase and putting her clothes away.
It was four o'clock. Three hours before the dinner with her mother she was dreading. Staying in her sterile room was not an option because it would only make it more awkward. Lynn was nothing like Carrie.
Lynn took out her black spiral bound sketchbook and sat on the large window sill with her knees close to her chest. A 2H pencil to start with.
There was a lonely silver birch tree, with orange leaves in the centre of the part of the garden her window looked at but most of it was cut off by a going-orange hedge. Lynn decided to draw the view. Pencil strokes scratched the paper as she worked on losing herself in her world and leaving the pain of the real one even only for a bit.
Lynn was done an hour later and she came back to reality. Mary knocked at the door and said that the room would take on a soul the more she lived in it. She looked at Lynn's pencil sketch and complemented her skills before leaving.
Lynn's sneakers were silent as she walked slowly to the dining room driven by hunger not because of a want to see her mother.
She sat down at a prepared plate of white chicken meat and a mixed salad.
"I hope that you have settled in well", Carrie says.
"Yes, thank you", Lynn replied in almost a monotone.
"Your new school is about twenty minutes away on foot and five minutes by car", the thick American accent made her sound like a posh billionaire's wife. "Lynn, my work schedule varies, I am a model, so I got to a job whenever the job is, so I might not always be around, I'm sorry" Carrie says her voice heavy with emotion. Lynn was not surprised that her mother was a model, she had seen her photo on a magazine in duty-free.
"Will I be able to take my chosen A-levels, or whatever is equivalent here?" asked Lynn.
"Yes, dear; art, photography and music, correct?" Carrie informed.
"Yes", Lynn confirmed.
Eventually, they get up and both leave for the sort after solitude of their rooms. Lynn's jetlag had definitely started to kick in, a four hour time difference from London to New York was rough, so she fell asleep on her bed in her clothes.
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Teen FictionLynn is a nerdy quiet girl, who as transferred to St Robert's College after her father died and she is now living with her mother. Tess is a popular girly girl who is the queen of St Robert's, almost. Clyde is a not so popular jock who only wants to...
