Changes

Chapter One

Tulsa Oklahoma, what a small town. I didn't expect it to be so small compared to Oklahoma City. I guess I'd have to get used to it eventually. I looked around at my surroundings, bringing everything in. This was my new home.

I walked out of the train station and out to the parking lot where my aunt Denise was supposed to be waiting for me. I haven't seen her since I was 4 and now I'm 16 and I'm forced to go live with the old broad.

I scanned the almost empty parking lot for a familiar face or a wave from someone but there was nothing. "Shit!" I kicked the ground and sat down on a bench outside with my luggage beside me. I looked down and saw my exposed arm. All cut from my switchblade, my razor, anything I could find to numb all the other pain in this cruel world. I sighed and pulled my sleeve back down. I then started tapping and humming no particular song in boredom. A red, beat up looking Ford truck pulled frantically into the parking lot and right up to where I was sitting. An older woman got out and waved. Ain't Denise. "Jana! Oh my soul! Look, you're beautiful, you look just like your mother did at that age!" She smiled and hugged me. I hugged back but rolled my eyes when she said I looked like my mother. I hated that bitch. She killed my father and tried to kill me... That's kinda why I'm here in Tulsa.

Denise put my suitcase in the flatbed of her truck and smiled. "Get in, let's get going!" She looked at me like I was stupid. I got in the truck and slammed the door. She gave me a dirty look then smiled. "So, how was the train ride there?" Denise smiled as she pulled onto the main road. I shrugged. "It was long, the scenery was pretty to look at though." I replied while looking out the window. All these nice looking house and people wearing nice close out walking their well groomed poodles. The town looked like the kind of place I could get used to.

As we kept driving along, I noticed the houses kept getting more run down. Denise pulled onto a road and drove to the very end. She pulled into a driveway of a small blue house with a porch on the front. "Here we are, home sweet home!" She smiled and got out of the truck. I sat there for a second and then got out and grabbed my stuff. The neighbours houses weren't in as good condition, one of them across the street was brown and had siding falling off and the roof needed to get redone, but the hose right beside Denise's was white and everything looked fairly normal, there was a fence and a gate all around it and it looked kinda fishy if you asked me. "Jana, are you comin' in or what?" Denise laughed as I ran inside.

The front door lead right into the kitchen which was tiny, then there was a small doorway that took you to the living room and then there was a flight of stairs in the living room and then a small room  off the living room. I peeked my head in and there was a bed and a dresser with a mirror in it. "That's my bedroom, yours is upstairs in the loft." She smiled and walked up the stairs. I shook my head and followed. There was a tiny bathroom and then a hall closet upstairs. "Here is your room." Denise opened a door and I walked in. "Make yourself at home while I make dinner." She smiled and closed the door.

The room was a nice size, the window was facing the neighbours and the bed was right underneath it. There was a dresser and then a vanity table, closet and a chair in the corner with a bookshelf above it full of books. "It'll do." I smiled and but my suitcase on the bed. I put all my clothes in the dresser and closet and my makeup and hair things on the vanity table. I had my records just incase aunt Denise had a record player. I also had my teddy bear that dad had given me when I was 8, I placed it on my bed. After and hour I was convinced everything looked nice and I was ok with how it looked so I went downstairs for dinner.

It was around 8:30pm and I was up in my room trying to put everything together. There was a knock on the bedroom door. "Come in!" I said cheerfully and Denise strolled in and looked right at my records. "I was just about to ask you if you wanted to come and listen to some music with me, we can listen to your records!" She smiled. I picked up the new Beatles record. "You like The Beatles?" I smirked. She nodded and we practically ran downstairs. I put the record in and Love Me Do came on. "Love, love me do!" Me and Denise both sang. I started to giggle. "What is it?" She smiled. "I think it's dint how you know this song!" I smiled. "Of course! They play it at the dingo all the time!" She giggled and we started to dance.

After the record was over I looked at the clock, 11:25pm. I put my record away and looked at Denise. "I'm gonna call it a night, thank you so much for taking me in! I don't know where I'd be without you." I hugged her. "You're welcome sweetheart, sleep well!" She patted my back and I went upstairs. I took off my skirt and sweater. I normally wore jeans and t-shirts but I wanted to make a nice impression. I slipped on a t-shirt and crawled into bed, falling asleep almost instantly after my long day.

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A/N: hey all! What did you think of the first chapter? Comment please! But yea the picture of the girl is what Jana would look like except the tattoos, she wears flannels a lot and jeans and that handkerchief in her hair but yea!  I'll most likely update tomorrow.