Spike #Wattys2016

moving forward

Hi, my name is Avery Peters. My dad is a cheater and my mother is a pushover. I just moved here and don't plan on making friends so don't feel the need to waste my time or yours for that matter. I hate the woods, this town, and I really hate this house. It's old and creepy and all the boards in the floor make too much noise, not like it's going to matter because there would never be a need for me to sneak out anyway, not in this hell hole.

I had my own bathroom with one of those old deep claw tubs which I loved, but scrubbing the grime out will suck. I have my own living room and a mini kitchen. It's like this house had been separated for small apartments or something. Now on to this whole cleaning thing that needs to happen, like right now. I carefully walk down stairs to look through the kitchen boxes for some cleaner, rags, and a heavy duty scrub brush, and some gloves and get to work.

After finding everything I needed, I made my way back up the winding staircase and back to my "loft" room. I figured I would start with the bathroom first since it had been raining and I wanted to shower. I was going to have to scrub everything, and I do mean everything...including the walls. About three hours later I finally finished the bathroom and it was clean except for the slightly cracked mirror. I decided to take a break to talk with my mom and see what we were going to do about dinner. Walking up to the large cherry door, I found her in the extra large bathroom cleaning the tiles for the shower.

"Hey mom, what's for dinner?"

She threw the rag down and sunk back on the now clean floor as air pumped in and out of her chest. "I guess I'll just get something, we need a break anyway. What would you like to eat?"

I shrugged my shoulders and told her that whatever was fine, I just needed food.

"Okay. Well, I'll be back in a bit Avery."

Jumping up, "no way, you can't leave me in this huge house all by myself. I'll probably die!"

Laughing, she picked her self up off the floor and changed her shirt. "Fine chicken butt."

Getting into my moms SUV we drove the fifteen minute trip into town and decided on Chinese food since we don't have a refrigerator yet. Walking into Panda Wok and i ordered sweet and sour chicken because it is amazing and my mom got cashew chicken, gross! We made our drinks and got our food, and as we were walking out the door when the lady behind the register asked mom if we had moved into the old Miller house.

"Yes, we did why?"

The lady just turned around and walked off. "Bitch!"

 "Avery Peters!" Opening my door and putting the food in the floor board I put on my seat belt and faced off with my mom.

"What?! She was rude and why does it matter where we live, all of these people are crazy."

Tapping her fingers on the steering wheel my mom thinks before she answers. "Just because someone is rude it doesn't mean that you should retaliate, Avery. Sometimes you have to turn the other cheek." 

"Yeah well,  it's not that easy mom."

 "I know honey, what I just went through with your dad wasn't easy but I had to give him the divorce. Now...did I want to, no, I would've stayed married to him forever just to piss him off but, I couldn't. I just had to let him go Ave, sometimes you can't hold on to something that doesn't want to be kept."

With that depressing note we head back home through the dense fog of the forest and thankfully make it home in time before the rain made its second star appearance for the day. I really hate rain, like really hate it. I can't stand being wet so I run up to my room, put my food down on the table and open the window to sit down on the cushioned window seal blasting Beyonce's Pretty Hurts. I think about everything that happened before we left and that I may actually be grateful. What my mom didn't now is that I share her pain because my now ex boyfriend Arron cheated on me. I know it's too funny that me and my mom got cheated on, but I didn't tell her because she would want to talk about it to make sure I was okay even though it would be reminding her of her problems at the same time. I mean I still have my v-card, which is why he cheated, so it's pretty obvious that I wasn't head over heels.

I really think that my music being on random today was a good idea because it was really reflecting my mood . Taking my plate and throwing it in the thrash i re-sweep my floor. I pick up a box and see that it's a bunch of clothes so I open the closet and put my shirts, dresses, and pants in there. I set my shoe rack up, not that I would need heels here and the shoe rack got caught on something so I leaned down to see that it was an old red toy fire truck about the size of my palm. Where did that come from? I guess the people that lived here before had kids or something. I mean why else would they have toys in the closet? Katy Perry came on and I didn't feel like listening to it so I changed it to Lana Del Ray's Gods & Monsters. I love this song, it made me think for some reason, not anything in general, just helped sort out my thoughts I guess. Tomorrow was my first day of school and it was in the middle of my senior year...yay, just kidding!

As I look through my outfits, I have a hard time finding something to wear.This town was a lot different from Charlotte. I decide to wear my light wash jeans, white tank, a light teal long sleeve blouse and brown leather knee high flat boots with a floral scarf and layout my brown leather jacket in case I need it. After finally choosing what I think is a cute outfit I decide to take a rosemary bubble bath. Turning on the water, I was glad everything came out clear because the first time I turned it on, it was a murky rust color. I pull up my hair, pour in my bubbles, and jump in the tub letting Intro by The XX take me away while tuning out thoughts of school.

About half an hour later when my fingers were wrinkled I let the water out of the tub and wrapped up my body in a large and fluffy purple towel, my favorite. I run my toes over my fuzzy white rug and go to my room. Now I have to decide what I want to wear to bed, maybe a silk gown? No. I guess I'll just wear a stupid t-shirt. I get out a Five Finger Death Punch t-shirt and slip it over my head then make my way down the creepy stair case where mom's room is. Knocking on the door, yes we do this to each other. We both believe in privacy, i wait for her to answer. After a minute she doesn't answer and I turn to go back when the door opens and she lets me in.

"You okay Avery?"

I walk over smiling and scoop her up in a hug "Yeah mom I'm okay, I was just coming to tell you goodnight."

Hugging me back for a minute she she rubs her palm up and down on my back and realize that she needs the comfort to just hold someone so I just sit there letting her get it out of her system.

"You can go to bed now sweet girl, I got my fill."

Laughing, I pull away and make sure she really is as well as she is. "Yeah silly, go to bed. We have to get up early tomorrow and take you to school."

I grab the door handle and twist it open, blowing her a kiss as I go back up to my own room, get between the sheets and turn off my lamp. Tomorrow was going to be one hell of a day. Dear God help me. I fall into a dreamless sleep clutching my dads t-shirt. I hope mom didn't find out I did this every night, she would hate him even more than she did now. I wasn't really supposed to, but I missed him even though he was a cheating asshole.

Avery at the top !!