Just Your Average Teenage Girl

Chapter 1: When They Meet

"Mom, I love you so much!" I smile giving her a big hug
"I love you too sweetheart, it's the least I could do after all you've been through" she squeezes back
"Your making it seem like I've been through more then you mom, we've been in the same amount of pain" I whispered still hugging her "I'll pay you back someday, I promise, and when I promise, I'll never back down"
"It's okay, it wasn't too much trouble!" She smiles
"Your a single parent, only one working, you had to work you butt off!" I let go and look at her then I kiss her forehead, since I'm a bit taller then her, I had to lean over
"My baby girl is growing up so fast. I can remember when you were just a kid, and you were a complete flower child, you would always sneak out into a meadow and pick all the flowers you could, and you even sleep there with- your- sister and brother" She started to tear up at the end. Poor mama, she lost her kids. I'm her last kid alive. And she loves me dearly, and I love her more.
"Mom, please calm down, they wouldn't want to to cry, they would want us to move on" I feel a tear glide across my cheek, I instantly whip it away and force a smile
"That's my baby girl, being the strong one" she hugs me and I let her cry on my, even though I bet she's not wearing water proof makeup and I'm wearing a white crop top. She needs to let them out, and I'm going to be here to comfort her. No matter what.
"It's okay mama" I hug her back, letting a few tears escape
"Thank you, you the best daughter anyone could ever have" She let's go "I'm going to bed, would it bug you to make dinner?"
"No problem mama!" I walk into the kitchen and I pull out some vegan meat, carrots, potatoes, and green beans and the pots and pans and start cooking

A few hours later, I finished cooking dinner which is, vegan Swedish meatballs with mashed potatoes, green beans, and boiled carrots. I don't make much sense it was only my mom and I, so yeah. And if we have left overs, we can have it tomorrow.
"Mom!" I yell
"Hold on" I hear a tired voice yell back. I finish setting up the table when mom walks in, sits down, so I sit across from here. She starts to make her plate then I fake cough and hold out my hands and she grabs them
"Thank you for providing us with this meal, helping us by guiding our way to this path" I say. I'm not too good at prayers... oh well, at least I mean it, right?

Now we dish up, and start eating.
"So, you'll start college tomorrow, are you going to need a ride there?" My mom says out of the blue
"Why so early?" I ask
"They wanted you to start as soon as possible so you don't get lost, and when you get there, your going to have a tutor to help you sense you missed part of the month" She says "Wow, these meatballs are not to shabby! Oh yeah, speaking about you food, there's a cafe on the campus that you could work at!"
"Really? Sweet!" I smile eating my carrots and green beans.
For the rest of the meal, we just talk about my mom when she went to college, and how she met dad.... He was apparently her tutor sense she came in late like me, and they both loved space and science, and they both worked at a gym, and then they fell in love, and BAM! Out came Jayden, my brother.... No! Not in college! A few years after college!! Then my dad took a job at a museum, and my mom worded at a fashion line manager for a few years, but then she got pregnant with Lucy, my sister. She then had to quit because it was too much stress, and she stayed home for the time, until she came out, and at the time she was born, I was 5, I was excited, and then Jayden was 10. He was always depressed whenever he was home with dad.

"You should go to sleep, you don't want to be tired for tomorrow!" Mom smiles as she picks up the dishes
"I'll help you clean up first" I say standing up grabbing the rest of the dirty dishes, walk them over to the sink and start to wash them.

It's about twenty minutes later and we're all done. I walk down a hall, to my room and I go to my closet and change into pajamas and crawl into bed, falling asleep as fast as the speed of light.

*MORNING*

"RILEY!" I hear my mom yell "I packed all of your things! Time to go!" I jolt out of my bed looking at my closet seeing some of my clothes are missing, so I grab a pair of high waisted jeans with holes in the knees and a 'I Don't Care' crop top and get dressed and I put in a pair of white high top converse and I check to see if she packed my makeup. And she did... Great...  Oh well! I rush too the door and see my mom getting in the car. I can't believe it! I'm going to college! I squeal and run out to the car, and we go. A 2 hour drive will be nice. I have my phone, charger, purse, and my wallet. All of a sudden I feel my phone vibrate, I look at it and I got a text from Yuki, she's my best friend
'Omg!!! My sis is going to college!!! Be sure to invite me over sometime! Please don't hog all the hot college boys to yourself!!!' Yuki texts
'I'll try ;)' She's so fun. I remember the first day we met, she was crying on the playground, holding her knee. She was pushed off the top of the big toy... Then I got mad and slapped the jerk who pushed her, I don't remember his name, but he had the strangest eyes.... I've never seen eyes like those, they were so lifeless. And even after I slapped him, he just smiled, but then he threw me down, u didn't cry, I just laughed.
'Your only doing this to us because your lonely! Your scared' I yelled, he just stood there, frozen, wide eyed
'You don't know me' is all I heard him say
'Wow! Your so brave!' I heard a small voice
'Oh, it was nothing' I smiled
'You are awesome! You didn't even cry!' I heard another voice say
'Riley! You better share with me!!!!'
'Okay, fine...."
'Remember when we first met? You were soooo cool! I looked up to you, you were my role model, and now your going to college!! >_< I can't believe it!'
'I'll miss you when your not over!'
'Are you going to stay in a dorm?'
'Yeah'
'Okay, hey Riley, I have to go, my brother just got home, love you!!!'
'Love you too, bye!'
"Yuki?" Mom asks
"Yeah" I smile
"She's a nice girl" she smiles back
"Yeah" I whispered
"So, two hours of driving, when we stop at the next gas station, you want to drive?"
"Yeah!" I say, I love driving!
"Okay