Elastic Heart

Chapter 2 || The Arrival

I stared out the window of the car watching as the town that I have lived in since I was a child, grew smaller and smaller as we drew nearer to the airport.

I used to love Seattle in middle school. The hype of really tall skyscrapers and the modernity really went well with me. However, once high school came about my sense of reasoning towards that angle shifted.

I slowly began to detest the city where the mean girls were praised and the shy ones were disregarded, bullied even. I kept staring out the window of the car as a few years escaped from my eyes.
I quickly cleared them off.

This was not the right place for those kinds of emotion. I looked at my new guardians, Joanne and Aaron.

They saw how detached I was away from anything right now so they were chattering about how the weather here is so much like the weather at Hazleton.

I wasn't really particular about weathers. I liked the rain and the cold but my skin was always shining.

How? I have no idea.

It's a seven hour flight from Seattle to Hazleton. It was surprising to know that they even have an airport because Joanne told me that they don't even have train stations yet.

However, I liked long flights, although I never sleep on the plane. The entertainment was too interesting for me to even bat an eye.

Joanne and Aaron have been really nice about the while living with them agreement. I told them that I didn't want to come off as a bother to them whatsoever but they just waved the accusation away saying that they've always wanted to live with a teenager.

It's supposedly refreshing and a tool to keep them young or on the edge or something like that.

Their house was a fairly large bungalow with four rooms, one guest, one living room and one master for both of them a kitchen and three restrooms.

They led me to the guest room which as they said was now mine.

Joanne nervously said that he decorated it for me and that she hopes I liked it. When I entered the room I was amazed.

The wallpaper of the room was a creaming purple that gave the room a feminine feeling. It had a wooden floor, There was a queen sized bed, a comforter, a book shelve, a desk with chair and a television. It was cosy and comfortable, not too extravagant but just right.

"It's perfect!", I told them and hugged them. They were surprised by my enthusiasm but joined in the hug laughing.

I absolutely loved to read books and I knew that in no time that empty book shelve would be filled up.

One of the best things about both of them is that they didn't hover. They left me to unpack and get settled before seven.

By seven was dinner time.

It was nice to be alone, not having to wear a smile constantly and behaving like you actually want to have certain conversations.

After I had unpacked y small suitcase, and then I took a bag of my bathroom necessities and took it to the bathroom to clean myself up after the day of travel.

I came down by six fifty-five to find Joanne setti g up the table. Aaron was watching a football match in the living room.

I joined her in setting up everything and then we all sat down.

Dinner went by quickly because I was very hungry. After eating I helped Joanne clear the dishes and went to the kitchen to wash them. Joanne insisted that I let her do it but I didn't budge. Finally she settled I helping me.

"Jade, I just want you to know that we really do want you here. I don't want you to feel like you have to thread the waters here because you don't. We just want you to be comfortable".

I stared at her unable to give any actual reply without shedding some tears so I just hugged her.

When we were done I told her and her husband who went back to watching his football match, goodnight.

I went to the guest room, my room.

When I laid on my bed a sense of nausea washed over me and I could feel my thoughts go wild.

I didn't hate Seattle one bit but I couldn't stay there while I was being maltreated and I couldn't do anything about it.

I let out a sob of tears as I realised that no one would actually miss me there. That no one would care to where I had gone, if I was even still alive.

I couldn't sleep even after I was done crying. I just laid awake and thought about my first true love and the heartbreak that came with falling for him.

I fell asleep a little after midnight into a dream world.

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I loved that I was in a new town. I loved the house. I loved Joanne and Aaron.

They were amazing and gave me money to do things that I wanted to do, how could I not love them.

Since I was almost the end of the school year when they took me from Seattle, I had another three months which was summer before I was to go to my new school.

These three months moved like the flash though.

I dyed my hair from brown to a lighter shade. I got braces that I only needed to use for three months and I didn't need to wear it to school (thank god) because it made my teeth straighter and more orderly.

As the night before the new school day came so did my nerves highten

All the kids here had grown up together, their grandparents had been toddlers together. I would be the new girl from the big city, a freak. Maybe if I looked like a girl from seattle it could work to my advantage.

Who am I kidding.

A Seattle girl was supposed to look confident, tall and definitely bold. I was none of that. I had a very slim figure, model size even and my skin was always golden. That was my only pride. I was just a bit shorter than girls my age but it didn't matter because I couldn't change that.

Before I knew it I was off like a bulb and dreaming about a perfect world, where I wouldn't have to worry about fitting in.

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