Love affair

Chapter One

"Are you ready?"

I jumped as my mom appeared in my doorway. I pulled out my headphones and looked up at her confused. "For graduation! It's this week you know!" she said with an easy smile, I couldn't help but smile back. "Oh yeah that" I joked as I turned off my music and scooted over so she could sit on my bed. She flopped on it with a loud sigh and looked over at me. Her spirit full brown eyes seemed to gleam with sadness and pride. " What am I going to do now that my little girl is all grown?" she said as her smile faded. I looked at her saddened eyes and gave her a soft smile. "You're going to be there for me as I traverse in life and use everything you taught me to my advantage" I replied and a smile lit her face. "I'm so proud of you. I don't know how you did it but you are the brightest and most beautiful daughter a mother could ask for" she said as she got up and kissed my forehead. I laughed as I playfully brushed her off, "love you to Mom, I'll meet you down stairs in just a few minutes". She nodded with tears in her eyes and left for down stairs.

This week has probably been the hardest of both of our lives. My last week of high school ever, the last week I would be considered a child. If it wasn't bad enough that my mother who I had always been at home with my whole life was watching her only child grow up and take an important step in her life, I was invited to visit D.C. to meet the president based on my accomplishments and brains. I was the notorious nerd of the school, the one people ignored unless they needed a tutor or help on their homework. I consistently took higher level classes since I was young and am the valedictorian for my school. All my work has paid off with this trip to D.C. to help discover where my brains could be the most useful to help the future society's of America.

I pulled myself together as I went down stairs to join her. She was sitting on the couch reminiscing through my baby photos. The ones of me covered in food, not paying attention or outside playing, pretending I was a pretty princess or a superhero of a sort. Her shoulders sagged as she went through them, remembering watching as I grew up too fast. I wrapped my arms around her, reassuring her. "It's going to be okay mom, I'll always be your little girl" I said and she sniffled. "How about this, let's order pizza and watch a movie?" I suggested and she smiled and moved to go call the pizza guy. I sat down to pick out a movie that we both could enjoy. our vast collection seemed so small considering how often we watched movies, being huge movie buffs, this is how our weekends were spent whenever I wasn't studying.

I looked over at my mom as she chatted happily on the phone and it hit my how hard leaving, if only for a little while, would truly be. I would miss her carefree spirit as she teased me for wearing my hair in a braid all the time or studying yet she would still have that pride in her voice. Her auburn hair cut short but now with a few more grey streaks than before, her appearance still surprisingly youthful for her forty years. Winkles from laughing surrounded her joyful eyes as well as accentuated her beaming smile. She was an unique spirit that people could sense when she walked in the room, brightening up everyone's day with a full smile that was displayed as clearly in her eyes as on her face.

I pulled myself out of those thoughts before I refused to leave, which was in much less than a week. It seemed like just yesterday the school year had started and the opportunity was presented to all the students the very first day of school. The student that showed the most potential for this country, would have an opportunity to head to D.C. to meet with the President and hold their own future right in their hands. Something that I had never even dreamed about, just continued doing as I had always done, keeping my grades high just to ensure I could get a scholarship for college, the only way I would ever be able to attend any other higher schooling. Just a few mere months ago, I had learned that this was a door open for my to take. One I was unsure about but with my mother's support, I had agreed to take.