Pandas In Love (Tao)

Chapter 1

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Do I really have to move with my parents? Do I really have to pack up my entire life? Do I really have to leave my friends? Do I really have to learn a new language?

I mean all of our belongings have already been shipped overseas, but I mean... Can't they reconsider? Why can't they just leave? I can live here at home. I'm already 22! I don't want to move to China.

I don't want to move somewhere where I have to learn a new language. Well, actually I shouldn't have to learn a new language since I am Chinese-American, but still. I never really learned. I never learned how to read. I barely know how to greet and introduce myself to people.

Well, I guess that's all my fault. I never listened to my parents when they spoke to me unless it was in English. I never learned anything because I was stubborn.

Man. I know school already ended for me & this would be the perfect time to move, but I don't want to move across the Pacific. I want to stay here, in LA, where I can stay with my friends and continue my studies and training.

Well, this is something I can't control now. My parents pay for my education & lessons. They said if I decided to stay that I would need to find a place to live, get a job, & do everything for myself.

I just can't do that yet. I'm not ready to do that yet.

"Tess?" My mom walks to where I'm sitting in the kitchen. "Are you alright?"

"Yeah," I sigh looking around the empty kitchen.

"Are you excited? We leave tomorrow. The house has already been set up all we need to do is go."

I nod at her words and try to come to terms with it. Tommorow we are leaving our lives in LA to move to... I don't even know where we're moving to! All I know is that we are moving because of my dad getting a job there.

My dad is a professor. So is my mom. My dad teaches strictly as a university Mathematics professor, where as my mom prefers to guest lecture, but likes to have a single semester science lab.

I guess my parents got amazing offers at the university we are going to be moving to. Apparently it's a prestige university.

I already informed my parents that I wouldn't take the loophole of being accepted because they will work at the university. I will take the route everyone else does and get in fair & square.

I just need to come to terms with this and go with the flow now.

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I look out of our new car as we drive onto the campus where we will be living. We slow as we approach a house with 3 people waiting in front.

We get out of the car and walk towards the family. This is where I start to get lost.

As much as I get out of the small conversation is that my dad introduced us and thanking him then for welcoming us. The other family introduced themselves. That's it. I didn't even catch their names.

We walk into our new home and I am still in shock. I eventually find the room that is for me and sit on the bed. I look out the window and can see the road that leads to the actual school part of the grounds.

"This is going to be torturous," I sigh and flop back