The Hidden World

Chapter 2: Background

Just some random little song that I think you'll like up above. :) I hope you enjoy the new chapter and sorry about the title. I can't think of anything clever or good for this chapter. It's just an information chapter really.

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I was at home sitting on the couch watching YouTube on my t.v. when my dad got home. He walked into the kitchen where my mom was and they started talking about us moving next Friday. I didn't really care to be honest. I didn't have anybody here that would miss me so if we moved it would actually be a good thing for me. We were going to be moving to a place called Rosebud. It was supposed to be where dad had a job working on a high school building, he would only have about 6 other people helping him though. He would be away for about half a year if we didn't move there. And he thought it would be good for us to get out of the city and to the country for a little while.

(I chose the same place I live so that I knew that there would be woods around the house where they live. Sry if it sounds stupid and uncreative. I'm basing a little of this story on my actual life but not all.)

Dad worked as a Carpenter. He did dry walls,framing, and ceilings. It paid him $1,000 per hour. He worked out of town most of the time and I didn't see him much. He doesn't really know me that well since he's gone most of the time, he thinks that I don't talk much and keep to myself all the time. Which isn't true at all. He tries to get to know me and have daughter father days with me but they usually end up with us either not having as much fun as we thought we would or him talking to me like I'm my actual age. He forgets that I'm mentally older than I am physically. But I still thank him for trying to get to know me better. It's a nice and thoughtful thing to do when he's so busy all the time with his job.

My mom had a job too, but she never really had to work seeing as dad gets paid enough. She gave piano lessons at her very own business she made. She never actually asked to be paid but she ended up getting about $120 a day. She would always let me clean the house and take care of the stray animals that I would find and she payed me for it. She said that any money she got she gave to me. But in reality she only gave me about half. And I honestly didn't want any of her money to begin with. She said I needed it but I never spent it. And if I did it was on all the animals that I took care of.

I would constantly be talking with my mom like we had been friends all our lives and sometimes she would tell me stories that 7 year old really shouldn't be hearing. She used to forget how old I was sometimes because of how old I acted. I was really close to her. She taught me how to play the piano and a couple of tricks with different animals. I love my parents but I would rather be with my mom than my dad sometimes. Dad spoiled me and let me have anything I wanted, while my mom disciplined me and taught me that money can't do everything for you.

I heard my mom call me by my nickname, Pumpkin, and I got up. I turned off the t.v. and walked into the kitchen. Dad was sitting at the counter on one of the bar stools and was drinking a cup of coffee while he looked at my mom as she cleaned the dishes.

I walked over to the bar stool beside my dad and climbed into it. I waited for my mom to talk again and when she didn't I looked at my dad and ask what they needed me for. He set down him coffee cup after taking the last sip and turned to face me.

"Your mother and I have been talking and would like to have your opinion on the matter of moving. You told me yourself that you didn't have any friends here so it wouldn't be a problem to you, but your mother and I want to make sure you're okay with this." He said to me like I was his age. I liked it when he would actually except the fact that I understood him when he talked to me like this. I nodded a little and spoke.