Things Happen For A Reason

Chapter 2

I walk to Carter's room picking him up, “Do you want to go outside and play?” He jumps out of my arms and heads to the door, I laugh. "Come here let me put some shoes on you!" When I was finally able to put shoes on him, because he was moving too fast, we went outside. He runs straight to the trampoline almost tripping three different times. I put him on the trampoline and he goes crazy. We sit outside and play for about 30 minutes until we see mom pulling into the driveway. Carter runs for her, finally I get time to myself as I walk into the house and to Aubrey’s room.

  “Aubrey I need to get Bentley’s phone number, so I need Sam’s number to get it,” I say.
“Okay” she says taking her phone out and putting in the password faster than I can process. “Here,” she says, showing me Sam’s number. I put his number into my phone. “Thank you Aubrey it means a lot,” I say.
“You’re welcome” she replies back. I bump into my mom as I am walking back to my room. She pulls something out of her pocket and hands me $30. “For watching your brother and sister,” she says sounding ill and upset. I look up at her “You never give me money to watch them, why are you starting now?” I say.
“I see you do a lot around the house and help me with them, and every now and then you do some errands for me and I want to help you out now,” she say. I wanted to cry, but I kept it inside and I gave her a hug. I walk over to my bed looking down at my phone blankly trying to figure out what to send Sam, so I can get Bentley’s number. “Hey Sam, it’s Brianna. I was wondering if you could send me Bentley’s number if that is okay with him.

I walk over to Anastasia’s house. I go to her room and she looks up from her phone “Hey bestfriend,” she says.
“Hey, I have something to tell you.” I say. She looks at me with the, “What happened this time look.” I go over and sit on the edge of her bed and look over at her. “My cousin Sam has a friend named Bentley and I asked for his number.” My phone went off and the message had Bentley’s number on it. “I got it,” I say I just have no clue what to say to him, but I know he was fine with me getting his number because, I asked Sam to ask him if it was okay. Anastasia is laughing at this point and I have no clue why, but I just laugh along with her. I send him a text saying who it was. I look over at Anastasia and tell her that he lives in Daytona Florida. She looks at me with her mouth slightly opened. “I know, I know, I feel like this is going to go down hill,” I say.  Then I feel my phone vibrate, I look at the text and it says “Hey I’m glad you decided to text me today,” I look blankly at my phone re-reading it over and over again. I show Anastasia the message “Well, it’s a start,” she says looking down at her phone.
“Ehh I guess,” I say back. We sit and talk for a little while longer until my mom calls me to come home for dinner. I say goodbye and that I will try to come over again soon. I walk into my house and I ask “What are we having?”
My mom replies “Steak and salad.” I get a plate from the cabinet and start to get my food from the pots. I walk to the kitchen table to sit with the rest of my the family. “Where is dad,” I ask as I sit down.
“He said that he was still at work when I talked to him a few hours back,” my mom says. My mom, sister, and I talk about how our day went and when we would be going for our back to school shopping. I go into my room and sit on the bed looking blankly at the wall. I un-lock my phone and open the text message icon. I go to Bentley’s name and start to type in the message “Hey, I’m glad that I meet you earlier today and I hope that we can become good friends sometime in the future,” I sent it. I laid back on my bed looking up at the ceiling and then my phone goes off. “Yeah I’m glad I was over at Sam’s when I was or I would have never meet you,” Bentley’s replies back. Before I could reply back I fell asleep.