Movement (M.E)

Chapter 17

I was sitting in my room at my aunts house waiting for everyone to come home. This happens a lot, it's just me at the house. Percy and Poppy are here a lot but that's when they're not at soccer.

Leo is always at practice. He was an amazing soccer player. He has already got a spot in the England professional team, and they're just waiting till he finishes high school for him to come play. Me on the other hand hasn't heard anything from the dance school. I auditioned and gave them my grades and test scores, I'm just waiting for a letter.

I have been here for three months already and I have done nothing but sit in my room. When the family goes out to eat, I stay here and eat in my room. It's not that they don't want me there. I just don't belong to this family so there is no point in me going to a family dinner if I'm not apart of the family.

After all this time I thought somebody from my hometown would text me, call me, or even FaceTime me. But nobody has. They've all been silent. It sucks. I just want one person to talk to me, one person who knows who I am.

I get up and go to the kitchen to get some food. Lately I haven't been eating just because I was nervous about the dance school. I really need to get in, if not I'll have nothing to do here. The light in the fridge turns on when the door opens, and I look for food. I grab out left over Chinese food from last night and put it in the fridge.

While that was heating up I go to the lobby to grab the mail. I was so anxious to find out if I made it into the school I would check every day.

"Good evening, Rylyn." Frank, the desk manager, says to me.

"Hi. Did any mail come in for me?" I ask him. He nods and goes into the back room. I was so nervous. When he comes back out he has a box and a few letters. I look at the box and wonder who it was from. Frank hands me the letters and I look through them and find the one that makes my heart jump.

Louis George Dance Academy

"Who's the box from?" I ask as I start to open the letter.

"It says Matthew Espinosa." He says. I look up at him and walk over to the box to look at the name of the return address. Sure thing it said Matthew Espinosa. Why did he send me a package?

I stop thinking about that and open the letter the rest of the way. I unfold the paper with my future and read it.

"I-I got in. I got in!" I say and smile. "I got in!" I say and start doing a little happy dance right in the middle of the lobby. Today has been pretty good.

"Congratulations." Frank says. I smile and thank him before I take everything upstairs. When I get back to the apartment I put my mail on my bed and grab my food. I need to open the package from Matthew and see what he sent me.

I take a knife from the kitchen and walk over to the box that sits on my bed. The contents were sitting inside this box and I just wanted to see what they were. I get the box and see what was inside.

There was a white sweatshirt that said 'Chanel Paris' on it. I place that on my bed and pick up the next thing. It was another sweatshirt that says 'boys & dogs', but this one was a grey color. The third sweatshirt was one of his. I knew it was because I loved this one. It said 'Obey' and it was grey with a hood. Under those there are a bunch of photos of the both of us and there were some of me, him and Burnie. Burnie was Matt's dog. He was the cutest thing ever. Just a sweetheart.

I look through the rest of the things and see a bunch of letters. One says 'open when you're sad' another says 'open when you want to give up'. I look through them and see one that says 'open this right now'. I do what it says and open it. There was a date at the top of it. July 18. This was a few months ago.