Temporary Home

Chapter One

*fairly unedited, may have a few spelling errors, but bear with me*

Another year, another new school. My uncles like to move me around a lot. You're probably wondering, why do I live with my uncles and not my parents? Well, I'll spare you my sob story, but my parents ran off to Paris after having me. My uncles always told me they weren't ready for me, but that they said they may want to see me one day. I don't really mind, I never knew them, so I suppose their lose is my gain.

This year we moved to San Francisco for my junior year. My uncles don't like to stay in one place for long. "Lillian Riley Cooper, you get down here and eat your breakfast," one of my uncles shouted. I rolled my eyes and went down the tiny staircase of the loft. "Sorry uncle Pat, just putting some things together for tomorrow," I said casually.

He smiled and ran a hand through his greying hair, saying, "You'll be the death of me Lillian." I sighed and took milk from the fridge and poured a glass for him and myself. "Uncle Pat, you know I prefer Lily," I said frustrated, "Lillian is much too formal for me."

He laughed to himself and took the glass from me. I sat down beside him and saw the loft was empty. "Hey," I said, "where is uncles Bradley and Dan?" he looked into the empty glass and went to the liquor cabinet. "They went out looking for a job here," he said as he pulled a big bottle of caramel colored liquid from the cabinet.

I sighed and grabbed my bag from the rack by the door. "I'm going out to see the town!" I shouted to uncle Pat. I saw him nod and as I locked the door behind me, I thought I heard something like, "Stay out of trouble!" I rolled my eyes and pulled my phone out, seeing if I could see what was close to here.

It was a nice looking neighborhood. I walked down the street, seeing what looked like a mall in the distance. I smiled a bit to myself; I could be normal for just a little while. I continued to follow the directions my phone was spitting out at me. It took me about ten minutes until I reached the large cluster of buildings.

I sighed as I reached the middle of the mall and looked for a place to sit for a moment. I searched for a moment until I found an empty bench. I sat down and sighed. I looked around at all the people walking by me, looking so happy.

"Hey there," someone said to me. My eyes went wide and I turned my head to see a tall boy with sandy blonde hair and blue green eyes. "Umm, hi?" I said nervously, although it came out more like a question. He came around the bench and sat beside me.

"You must have just moved here," he said in a smooth voice, " because I would have remembered a face that beautiful." I looked up at him with my eyebrows raised. "So is this town full of cocky jerks like you? Or are you just something special?" I said with a sly grin.

He laughed to himself and looked back to me. "Not a fan of cheesy pick up lines?" he asked to me, "you're one of the few... I'm Milo by the way." I smiled at him, "I'm Lily, and I did just move here." He smiled back to me and scooted closer to me. I smiled nervously and scooted back.

"Well as nice as it was to meet you," I said nervous, "I have to get back to my loft so hopefully I won't be seeing you too often." I stood up and looked to my phone, I did have some time to kill before I had to go back to the loft. I looked up and saw Milo smiling at me, "I'm just going to look around and see what you guys have in this town," I said a bit nervous.

He stood up beside me and grinned, "I could show you around, it'll help out to have someone show you around a city like this," he said with a little smile. I rolled my eyes and started to walk away from him. I heard someone running behind me, but I ignored it.

I looked around the mall and decided to walk into a random store, trying to get away from that guy. I'm not the most social person on the planet, I've never been in one place long enough to make friends. When you move around a lot, you don't really want to make friends you'll just have to leave one day.