Switched

Chapter 1

OK. You have to relax, it's all good. You just have to moved out to somewhere else. A better place! I mean, what's gonna go wrong in LA?

"Ken! Come downstairs!" That's my cue. "Be right there, mum." I have been almost half an hour packing my things before we leave this place forever. Of course we are coming back because Grandma Paula lives around here. It's good.

I slide downstairs to see mum is hurrying and putting things front and back like a robot. "Why did you call me?" I asks, while watching her being busy. It's not something new. A successful businesswoman with two kids, could be hard keeping up. "Have you done packing?" She asks while dialing a number on her phone.

"Yeah, and I have one luggage left. It's going to be quick. Where's Rob?" Rob is my brother, my only sibling, not to mess with. He is really one shitty brother. For an example, he's not home to pack his own things. He'd rather go out partying with friends other than moving. I would do the same thing only mum is a priority, right?

Mum does not really acknowledge about him not being home so often because she's busy herself and that leaves me alone at home, with my precious, beautiful cat, Kobe. He knows every secret I have. He's good at keeping them.

"I called him, he will be back later. I asked him to buy us food so we can eat in the car later." She says, packing everything on the table in a box. We actually got half of our stuff in the moving van, but Mum, she seems to have so many things to bring with her though she already told us not to bring all of them. She said she'd left some in case Grandma Paula comes around, I don't know why she would come here for when we're not going to be here soon.

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I never knew it would take this long to move out. When I was 9, after my parents divorced, I did move here with Mum and Rob decided to come with us because he said he can't live without me (I lied, he loves Mum more than Dad because Dad cheated.) and I never knew it's going to be this hard. Maybe because I'm a grown up and I have a lot of stuff, like make ups. A lip balm and my eye contact. Not much of it, eh?

Nevertheless, it's not that I have to pack up the whole house and I don't have to worry so much about it. My whole closet is empty now and that only leaves me and Kobe to be in a car, and go away from here.

I'm gonna miss home.

After Mum and Rob say they are going out to the mart to buy something, and Rob wasn't happy about it, I decided to be upstairs and think about my house and the neighbourhood going to look like.

I take Kobe along to discuss with me. I sit on the bedside table because thats the only thing left in my bedroom and my luggages.

"So, Kobe. How do you think our house going to look like?"

Meow.

"Right. But don't you think it's gonna be good. I mean, we have lived here for such a long time now?"

Meow.

"Okay. Our neighbours must be nice right? They gonna welcome us with coke and hopefully one of them is a bakery owner and welcome us with delicious pastries, right?"

Meow, meow.

I knew it.

Ring! Ring! I know who's calling.

"Hello"

"Hey, how's everything?" It's Leila. She's a great friend of mine. She cares a lot about me and of course, I told her first that I'm moving out and she literally cried throughout our conversation.

"I'm good. I'm just waiting for Mum and Rob to come back home and then we will be going." Leila is silent on other line. I know she's sad about it.

"Call me when you arrived, okay? Oh, this is a big moment!" She cheers. That's the sound of happiness.

"Do you think it would be okay for me to move out there?" I asks, I have so many reasons not to leave. One, because I love where I'm staying now. Two, I'm going to miss the restaurant that serves delicious tacos ever and I only got them at their place. Three, I'm gonna miss my friends. Four, I'm gonna miss every memories I have had here. I've lived here for 8 years, I never even think of leaving. That's about it.

"Kendall, can you relax? It's not like your ex lives there."

"It's not about him! I just... I don't know. I'm still doubting."

"There's nothing to worry about, trust me. And you will be going to make good friends over there. Chill! Besides, you are starting college, it'll be good."

I gritted my teeth that it hurts after sometime. Not that I don't agree with what Leila just said, I'm way too nervous if things don't go exactly how I hoped.

"You know, if you don't have friends, you still have Kobe," Right, "And me. You can call me every night." She suggests.

"I guess you're right. Kobe said that everything will be fine too." Leila laughed so hard on the other line.

"Can you stop talking to your cat?" She doesn't stop.

"He understands me. Besides Rob,"

"I don't know why people still don't see this side of you. All they know is the rough Ken. I wish I could spread this," And she laughs again.

I'm glad I have finished high school. Like Leila said, I was behaving like a boy so much and to the point where people think I'm a lesbian because Leila and I are so close when I actually had a boyfriend at that time.

I punched a boy in school but it's just because he pissed me off so much and I'm glad he admitted he wronged me so my Mum didn't have to go to school and since then, nobody ever wants to be close to me. Also another reason why Alex, my ex boyfriend, broke up with me. I don't even care actually.

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I put Kobe in the cage and put him in the car behind and sit in the front. I would always fight with Rob who's gonna seat in front but he just doesn't care now. Me neither.

Rob takes too much time in his room because he haven't packed his musical instruments and of course Mum is super mad at him and I listen to music while they're bickering.

After a while, they both get in the car and Mum drives out from the neighbourhood. I texted Leila and she doesn't reply.

Here we come, LA.