My Darling Lover Girl

Moving

I live in Odessa, Texas but I had recently found out that my Father had a new Dodgers baseball career all the way down in San Fernando Vally. He got a job as the pitcher on the team and well he couldn't turn it down. The last time he turned down a job he couldn't pay for my Mother's cancer treatment, he wanted to be with her at all time, and I understood why it was because he loved her with all his heart. I was only three years old when she died, but he's never turned down another job after that. I'm ten now, I don't remember that much of my Mother, but I do know that she wanted me to be the best I could be no matter what.

It was the spring of 1962 when I got to our new house and there would have been about one week of school left, however, my Dad said I could miss it. I thanked him for skipping school a billion of times when I heard him say that, and he didn't stop laughing.

We drove to San Fernando Valley, It took about a day in a half to get there. We settled in a nice white house with a brown roof, a small backyard, but we were probably going to move next year anyway.

It was about noon when we finally got to the house and my Dad suggested going to get something to eat before we unpacked. So we got back in the car and went to a little place called Ruby's Diner.

We sat down until our waiter came around and asked us for our order,

"Go ahead y/n."

"Ok, well I'll have a chocolate shake with a Barbecue sandwich and fries."

Then my Dad spoke, "And I will have a coffee with a small steak."

Once our waiter left we talked about the move, what we would do this summer when I would go back to school, and my Dad's job, then our food came. We ate and talked some more, my Dad was anxious about me making friends, but I was going to have to go a summer without them for a while. 

After we ate we drove back home, we held off the unpacking until tomorrow because we got lazy when we finally got back home.

It was officially my summer, but little did I know that everyone else was already on summer vacation, and some boys with ambition...