New Girl

5

Katherines pov

We boarded out flight and my heart broke. It all went to fast. I shouldn't have let this happen, mom should've never been offered a job.
This is was a super long flight, I can't remember what my mom said, but I know it's over ten hours. My phone would die if I listened to music the whole time so I decided to not play it until we're like halfway there.

I got the window seat with Andrew next to me and then next to my mom. I like window seats, I liked looking down at then ground far down under us. My Eyes grew heavy and I decide to take a little nap. I let my eyes close as I listened to various quiet conversations on the plane.

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I woke up hours later and felt a lot better, my stomach is a little off because I know I left my friends back home. But there was nothing I can do about it, my mom needs the money. I turn on my phone and go to my Spotify and click play on my 'sad' playlist and look out the window at the huge puffy clouds. I lean over my brother and ask my mom how much longer we have, my legs were feeling gross and my butt was going numb.

She responded with "only like 2 hours"

I nodded knowing it wasn't going to be too bad, it'll go quickly. My mind flows with thoughts about how our house is gonna look. What if it's all gross and broken? I can't bring anyone over if I actually make friends. Oh gosh what if I don't make any friends. I was alone up until freshman year and it was impossible to make friends. No one likes a sad girl who hates wearing colored clothes and has burgundy hair.

I actually like my hair a lot, none of my friends know my actual hair color. But it's blonde. I didn't like being blonde with green eyes, it made everything think I was a girly girly who loves boy bands. I never understood why because it's literally a hair color.  My mom didn't want me to dye my hair but I was tired of it by the end of 8th grade. I was 15 anyways so I decided I should just do it. I needed a change, I thought about black but since I only wear black it would be too much.

My mom is very understanding and approves of most of my decisions, but she's still a mother who wants the best for her kid and being the only parent to her 2 kids was difficult for her.

We actually left my father when my mom was pregnant with Andrew. I was only 7 and didn't want to leave him. But I knew we had to, he did horrible horrible things to this family and if I ever see him again I will probably kill him myself.

"Please fasten your seatbelts we will be landing soon"  a older sounding lady said on the intercom above us. My seatbelt was already fastened because I didn't need to get up for any reasons. I've been on a plane once and when I got up there was turbulence so I flew so that was a no no. I checked to make sure Andrew had his on and he did so I smiled and looked out the window. It looked as if we were landing because we were now in the clouds and not above them.

"Mom"

"Yes sweetie?"

"I'm still pissed that we had to move" I said just to remind her that I'm still irritated with her.
The plane was going down and were about to hit ground and I can already tell it's hotter than hell here, and humid.

Our plane hits the ground with a few bumps and within 10 minutes people start to exit the plane. We got our carry on luggage above our heads and started to walk off of the plane. We went through the long tunnel thing that is connected to the plane.
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We got to the luggage pick up station and waited until we saw ours. We grabbed the suitcases and then headed to the place to grab our boxes. It was like a little snack shack looking place. Like without the snacks, just boxes.

Our car was already here for us and we brought it to the front to load our stuff into. It took almost an hour to go through the mini security to make sure we didn't take any weapons off the plane. What weapons are on the plane? A plastic set of silverware?? I laughed at myself as I thought of that. Once the car was loaded I got into the front seat and Andrew in the back.

"Buckle your seatbelt kids, were going to our new home"

We bucked up and I shoved my earbuds back in to ignore everything, a usual thing I do.

"Oh and were gonna make one stop on the way"

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We drove for  20 minutes and then my mom pulled over at a little grocery market looking thing.

"Mom what in the hell is this what are we doing here?"

"I need you to go get me some tampons, were only 10 minutes away from home but I forgot some"

I rolled my eyes and grabbed the cash from her hand and walked inside the store. It was kind of cozy in here, it looked bad from the outside. I wandered the isles while humming a song from fall out boy.

"Fallout boy right??"

I turned around to see a man around my age and said a small "yeah"

"Oh wow you're not from here are you? What kind of accent is that?"

"I'm from cali, far away from here" I mentally slapped my self for saying that. He obviously could tell I wasn't from anywhere close.

"So how long have you been here if you don't mind me asking?"

"Umm like 2 hours. I was heading to my house and my mom needed me to Grab tampons for her" I said looking down scratching my head.

"Here follow me" he smiled, looking like it didn't effect him at all. We ended up in the isle with feminine products.

"Thank you so much" I smiled shyly at him.

"You're welcome.." He said, it took me a second to realize he wanted my name.

"Oh I'm Katherine" I said awkwardly

"I'm calum, it was nice to meet you Katherine. Maybe I'll see you around" he smiled nicely.
I picked up a box of tampons for my mom and paid for them and walked towards the door. 
"I like your hair by the way!!" I heard calum a voice ring from  the back of the store. I giggled and headed back to my car.

"Jeez Katherine what took you so long!?" My mom exclaimed as soon as I opened the car door

"I met someone" I said with a little smile.

My mom glanced at me and nodded with a smile.

"One last thing" my mom said grabbing something from the side pocket of the door.

"I'm blind folding you two until we get to the house." She said while laughing. The stuff my mom pulls lol.

"Andrew come here, you're next Katherine"

We both got blind folded and felt the car start moving.

"New home here we come!!!" My mom shouted with excitement and turned up maroon 5 on the radio.

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