Life's Challenges.

Part Six

6.

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Why don’t you have your mom take you?"

This was getting frustrating."Because Emily, my mom thinks it would be bad for me. I need someone beside an adult. I need a friend my age to come with me. Emily, I don’t have real friends at school and now I have you to trust with the truth and all other. Please come. I do not want to go alone and I'm not asking my mom because I already know the answer. Please."

She had a worried kind of face on. Someone that was about to say no."You know what, never mind. I know you’re not going to go and I should have never asked. I’ll just wait 'till I meet a real friend that will go with me to see my dad. Whatever, I’m going home, I'll talk to you later. Or not" I mumbled.

"No, can you just give me a chance to talk. Man, you have no patience do you. I’ll go as long as I won’t have to come running back here in the middle of the night to tell your mom that she needs to come get you because you won’t move from your dads grave site. Got it?''

"Yes ma'am" I replied confidently."Sure thing"

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          "Why would you do that without consulting me first?!"She shrieked.

"Mom, its fine, I’m okay. I’m not acting different, I’m perfectly normal right? I’m acting the same way I have been the last couple of days." she had a worried look on her face. "I’m fine." I repeated.

"Okay. “She was finally giving in. “just tell me before you do something like that again. I almost had a heart attack when brad told me where you guys went was going to come look for you two until brad assured me that Emily would take care of you. How did you know that his site was around here anyways? For all you knew, his grave could have been in Miami. We are in Michigan now and i know you did not go all the way to Florida in 15 minutes.''

          "I knew because i knew that he was buried in his hometown. Figured that this would be the only site around so I looked. It only took me and Emily about 10 minutes to find him. He is in the second row. Two places away from the end starting at the left. I took down some real mental notes because i knew that i would be going again. Oh, yeah, me and Emily are going back tomorrow. Hope you don’t mind. And we are going back a week from now, for his birthday. You can come then."

          "Well, as long as I know you’re safe, physically and mentally, then it’s okay just don’t go berserk on me again okay. We just moved here. I want this to be a good year. I have the feeling that we will be here for awhile."

          "Good. I like it here."

"So do I." she answered.

 It was 8:00.my mom had come home early. They did not need her at the job tonight. It was getting slow.

My mom was making dinner right now. i told her i was not eating macaroni again and threatened to go to Emily’s and eat there. She said no because they probably needed a night without me once in awhile.

i had protested against her word and stated that i had only been there the last 2 days and brad did not mind was going to eat there in the first place until she came home early. She, obviously, said the final decision and it ended in "no!" whatever, might be nice to have a night with my mom. I had had a night with my dad so...now it was my moms turn. Of course, I hadn’t eaten with my dad but, after all, he could not eat. It was Thursday night. Tomorrow, mom would be leaving and was going to get Emily and we were going to see my dad and my people from school and Emily’s 4people were coming from some other schools. Turned out, my mom would have to leave us a lot of supplies for 10 kids staying at her house. That was a lot. Maybe too many. They were all coming over around 6:00. That gave me 3 hours to visit my dad, get as much things unpacked and put down into the cellar as I could. Just enough time.

          "Mom, you know, there are 10 kids going to be here. is that too many?"

"Yeah, I already know. Brad and i have it figured out. He is buying you pizza for tonight. I am buying snacks and things like that for you. And we are both buying you guys dinner for the rest of the weekend."

"Okay, its late, I’m going to bed."

          "Goodnight."

"Oh, mail is on the table next to the couch. Grandmas letter came, I didn’t open it. Figured it might have something else in it I wasn’t supposed to lose." there was a smirk. "Goodnight." I knew that in the morning there would be a letter from grandma to me waiting on the table. I would just have to wait and see what she said. I knew she would be going on and on about how she missed us and how she wishes we would move back and then she would say, but i know that your mom moved you for financial purposes only and she would just have to cope with frequent visits and things like that. I woke up the next morning, smiling, I was very excited to have people over today.

 It was6:30 in the morning. Time for me to wake up. Good. I wasn’t wanting to sit awake for an hour with nothing to do.

Today could be a good day. Only 6 days until my dad’s birthday. Tons of people were coming over and I got some money from grandma. Most likely. She always sent me money whenever I was away from her and not within a 20 mile radius of her for more than a week, she would send me money. I wondered how much it would be this time. I was going to start saving up some money for awhile.im sure my mom would help me keep it somewhere safe. My grandma would like it also. She was a grandma that spoiled me. I was the only child so of course, I was highly spoiled by my grandma. My birthdays were always heaven in Miami.