"Ashley, get up." I woke and found myself at a run down gas station in the middle of nowhere. "Where are we?" "About an hour from the house, get out and stretch." It smelled like mud and dirt, ugh I already hated my new life. "Well now you folks ain't from around here are ya?" The man sitting on the porch on the station asked. He wore dirty overalls and proudly a lip full of tobacco. "Just moved actually. We are from New York." The man spit and smiled a yellow grin. "Well, we got more here than there." I mentally laughed, like mud and sticks big deal. "Thank you." my dad said. We quickly left and made it to our new home. It was smaller than my old on, just a normal two story, brick home. Nothing like the beauty in New York. "Well, go ahead and find a room." Yay, I get to pick a room! None of them was what I wanted, not big enough. I settled for one with opening bay windows. I hated my closet, way to small. I'm a New York girl for Jesus sake! "Beautiful choice dear, unpack and then we will head into town to get some dinner." My mom had a smile as big as Texas. "Yeah, great." I muttered. About half of my stuff fit I left the rest in the boxes. The town was small, I mean really small. I found myself amazed about how these people lived without skyscrapers and hundreds of lights of stores. My dad took us to the local diner. This place had nothing that wasn't covered in gravy or drowned in grease. "How are you all? I'm Debby, my I take your order?" "Could I have a ice tea, No sugar?" The women laughed, "Baby your in West Virginia. If it don't have sugar we don't eat it." I rolled my eyes and stuck with a water and a salad. Mom and dad talked about his new job here and how great my new high school would be on Monday. Honestly, I just wanted to catch a bus back home. Today was Sunday so that meant my first day at school was tomorrow and I did not want to be the new girl. Marie texted me that night, "How's the view?" I smiled and took a picture of the trees outside my window. "Don't the city lights shine bright?" yeah, sarcasm intended.
