Aubrey Jones: The Drummers Daughter

7

After 16 hours of being in the car, we finally made it to San Diego. Mike insisted on driving the last 10 hours of the drive so I could sleep.

Mike took a left turn towards a small neighborhood, and pulled into a driveway. It was about 1:00 in the morning when we arrived, so it was dark out, but from what I could tell, the house looked really pretty.

He turned the car engine off, then looked at me, I looked back. Mike smirked, then gave me a 'welcome home'. I smirked back, and we both got out, grabbing our things and walking into the house.

When we walked in, there was a large staircase leading upstairs, tall ceilings, a ginormous fireplace in the living room, and a kitchen off to the side.

"Your room is going to be Jaimes old room when he was staying here. We can decorate it and get you settled tomorrow. Second door on the right." Mike said stretching and yawning

"Okay. Good night."

"Good night." He said walking to his room.

I heard the door close, so I walked around a bit, getting to know the place better. It looked very big on the outside, but was kinda small inside. The house was kind of modern, but not quite. I don't know exactly how to put it.

After my little tour, I went up to my new room with my bags, and settled in a bit. The room was quite larger than the one I had at moms. This one had white walls, dark hard wood floors, and a mattress on the ground with white bedding. There wasn't anything else in the room. It was kind of bland.

I realized that the door I thought was the closet, ended up being a bathroom. This is real nice. I checked the clock on my phone and it read 3:18 AM. With that, I fell asleep in seconds on my new mattress.
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I woke up and completely forgot the events of yesterday, then I remembered and calmed down a bit. I heard Mike in the phone downstairs, so I know he's up.

I grabbed everything that I needed for the day which includes clothes, purse, phone, and toiletries. I decided on wearing old skinny jeans, and a shirt that I stole from Mom because it was my favorite.

As I walked down the stairs, I realized that Mike wasn't on the phone, he was talking to a girl. She had dyed pink hair that showed her roots, short like me, and she had tattoos.

"Alysha, this is Aubrey. Aubrey this is my girlfriend, Alysha." Mike said proudly

"Hi!" She has a perky and happy personality. I like that.

"Hi it's nice to meet you."

"Okay so the plan today basically to set up your room. We're going to leave to go get decor and shit in an hour or so. After that, the guys and their girlfriends are gonna come over and hang out. Mama and papa Fuentes are gonna be over too. Don't worry, they'll love you." Mike smiled at the end

"I was worried when I first met them, but they are the nicest people on the face of the Earth. Nothing to be afraid of."

I was t scared or anything. It's family. If they hate me, they hate me. If they love me, they love me. Simple.

"Sweet." I said smiling and nodding

Life of definitely going to be different here in San Diego.