DESPITE THE FACT THAT I WAS EXTREMELY TIRED ON THE PLANE, I COULD NOT sleep, which gave me about five hours to think, so I came up with a pros and cons list.
Cons: I am leaving my home, mom, friends, and volleyball team behind.
Pros: Reels is where Van, Tessa and Mac live, as much as I love her, I don't have to deal with my mom twenty-four-seven, and I don't have to deal with the tormentors at my school anymore.
Maybe a fresh start won't be so bad.
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When I finally got off the plane, I waited at the baggage-claim for my aunt Taylor to get me. To my surprise, she brought everybody: Hazel, who's fifteen, like me, the twins Parker and Winter who are both eight, and Shay, who is an infant at only two months old. Needless to say, the car ride home was not a very quiet one.
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Everything had changed. Nothing about Reels was the way I remembered. My aunts house even seemed bigger, which is odd since they added a baby and a puppy, Sky.
My Aunt must have been working pretty hard last night, because the attic had a desk, bed, nightstand, shelves and dresser for me, with the same furniture on Hazel's side of the attic. I started pulling things out of my carry-on, my laptop first. The beginning of a new life.
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