Challenging the Boys

Chapter 6

After dropping the bomb at the lunch table and finishing my afternoon classes, I finally arrived home.

Monica, for unknown reasons, was extra happy that I was going to tryout for the team, while Lauren strangely enough had closed her book to congratulated me from being different from the other girl, and not going for the cheerleading team, while giving Lexi the stinky eye. And Will, well Will looked at me in shock for the hole lunch break, barley eating his food.

I entered my room and went to the window sill.

Why couldn't it rain already.

Rain always calmed me down.

Weirdly enough I loved watching the little drops of water sliding down the glass of the window.

And today had been such a stressful day all I wanted was to sit on my comfy white desk chair and watch the rain go by.

I finally got up, when it stopped raining  and went to one of the untouched boxes piled up in one of the corners of the room.

I took the one on the top and opened it carefully making sure I wouldn't break anything.

Inside where my old dark blue and white bedside lamps, from my old room.

God I missed that room.

Yes I liked the new one, but my old one kept all the memories I had made since I was a little girl.

I gently placed them on the bedside tables and passed to the second box.

In it where old yearbooks and boxes of jewelry I had packed. I put everything with an order on the shelves above the desk, than looked back in the box where there was a folder I hadn't noticed before.

I opened the folder to see what was in it and found old Polaroid pictures Sam, Jax and I had taken with Sam's old Polaroid camera, the year she would take it with her wherever she went.

The first one of the pile read BEST SUMMER EVER! on it.

It was a photo we had taken last summer, at the bubble party. It was the last day of summer and one of Jax team mates had thrown one of the best parties I have ever been invited at.

Someone had put a kilo of soap in the washing machine and the machine started creating a huge amount of bubbles that started overflowing onto the floor making everywhere slippery. The white bubbles took over the party and everyone was dancing and covering them selfs in them.

Sam and I had to take a picture of us covered in soap, so it would remind us of that day forever.

I took out all of them and started sticking them carefully on the wall, so I would always have a reminder of my life in LA.

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I stayed there for I don't know how long, maybe minutes, maybe hours sticking photos and going on my personal memory lane, until I heard the front door closing with a loud noise.

Mum was home.

It was time to face the fear and tell mum my full plan, hoping she would be ok with it.

I carefully closed the door and headed downstairs to greet my lovely mother.

"Hey mum."

She was sitting on the couch like she had let herself drop onto it, and looked exhausted.