Finding Me

Chapter Two

"What do you mean to go live with Aunt Tillia?" I ask.

"We mean if you want to go live with her. We know that you don't like it here and it is dangerous for you to be here because of your dad and we are sorry for that. We want you to be comfortable wherever you are so if you want you can go live with her, but you don't have to." My mom explains.

Do I want to get away from here? Yes! Do I love my Aunt? Definitely! So should I go and live with my aunt? I have no clue!

"Can I think about it?" I ask.

"Yes! We didn't want you to make this decision right away baby." My dad tells me.

"You have as much time as you want." My aunt reassures me.

"Okay, I am going to go to my room to think about this." I look at them.

I make my way up to my room and lay down on my bed. What should I do? I think to myself. I want to go somewhere where nobody knows who I am and are not scared to talk to me. I think that I will go with my aunt. But what about my parents? Will they miss me? Of course they will miss me!

After a couple of hours thinking over my decision I go back downstairs.

"Mom, dad, I think I am going to go live with Aunt Tillia." I tell them.

"Okay that's great Maddison!" Aunt Tillia says to me, "But are you sure you want to come. I'm not saying that I don't want you to come and live with me, but my life is the total opposite of this." She says.

"Yes I'm sure. I think it would be good for me." I say.

"Okay it's settled then." My aunt says, "When do you want to leave?" She asks.

"When were you planning to leave?"

"Well if you didn't want to come then I was going to leave tomorrow, but since you decided to come I was just planning to leave when you were ready." She tells me.

"Okay, well if you were planning to leave tomorrow we could just leave then."

"Are you sure? I don't want you to feel pressured to leave then because that was when I was planning to leave."

"No I am ready to leave."

"Okay we can leave tomorrow night so you can say goodbye to your friends." She tells me with a smile.

"Okay thanks." I say but I really don't plan on saying goodbye I just plan on saying my parents are sending me to a boarding school in France or something, but I don't tell anybody that.

My parents love me but they don't really see that my friends just use me because of my dad and his money.

"I am going to go start packing." I say but then I realize something, "Aunt Tillia, where exactly do you live? I just realize that I have never been to your house or where you live."

"Haha, that's a good question," She laughs, "I live in a small town in Wisconsin."

"Oh what is the towns name?"

"It's called Sleepy Hollow." She states.

"Like the movie?" I ask.

"Yes just like the movie." she says

"How many people live there?" I ask.

"Not a lot of people." she answers.

"Oh well that could be a good thing right." I ask her.

"Yep." She says popping the p.

"Well I am going to get packed so that we can leave tomorrow." I tell my parents.

"Okay sweet heart," My mom declares, "Are you going to come back down after you are done, or are you just going to go to sleep?"

"I might come back down if I am not that tired."

I go to my room and pack up all my clothes. My mom is a fashion designer so that means that I am sort of her model when we are at home. It also means that I don't have any of the brands that other kids my age have. I don't have any Abercrombie or Hollister, or even Aeropostale. I have some Victoria Secret but that isn't even clothes.

I start with my clothes. I go into my closet and start taking the clothes off the hangers and put them in suitcases and duffle bags. When I am all done with my clothes it is about midnight. I decide that I will just finish packing tomorrow before we leave.

I go downstairs and see my parents talking to Aunt Tillia. I know that eavesdropping is bad but I do it anyway.

"I don't know honey, what if she finds out?" I hear my mom ask my dad.

"Then we will just have to tell her that we didn't want her to worry about it. She is too young for that to happen to." My dad tells my mom.

"She will find out you know that right? Just because you don't tell her doesn't mean that she won't find out. She is a smart girl." Aunt Tillia states.

"You are right she will find out sooner or later but let's hope it is latter. We don't want her to worry about it right now." I hear him say.

What are they talking about? Are they talking about me?

"We need to talk to him as soon as possible because if we don't he'll think we are trying to hid her from him, and that will not be good. We need to tell him that we are sending her away to a boarding school or something because if we tell him that we are sending her to live with her aunt, he will just think that we are trying to get her away from him." My mom says sounding worried.

"If we tell him that we are sending her to a boarding school then he will want to know what school so that he can check up on her." My aunt says, "Just tell him that she is living with me, but say that she will-"

"Maddison! Are you done packing up yet we want to watch a movie with you!" My dad interrupts my aunt.

"What was that for?" Aunt Tillia asks.

"I don't want to talk about it with her in the house because she could over hear the conversation." He tells her.

I was so close to learn what I was going to do. Who is he?

I wait a couple seconds then walk out so that they don't know that I was listening in.

"Let's watch a movie!" I say as I walk over to the couch and sit down and wait for my mom or dad to chose a movie.

"Okay how about we watch... The Sound Of Music?" My mom asks me.

"Ya let's watch that." I tell them.

We all sit on the couch and snuggle and focus on the movie but all I could think about is who is He?