Do You Know What Day It Is?

A Change Day

"My little boy" my mom trembled through her clenched teeth, "I'm going to miss you so damn much." She squeezed me tighter into her hug I could hardly breath. "You're going to kill the boy," my elder brother interrupted with his usual strict tone. After about 30 seconds more of her deadly bear hug she finally released me. My brother stopped in front me looking directly into my light hazel eyes. I knew what the stare meant; I'm not going to hug you, because we are both man. I understood perfectly. My brother always held this strict manly aura around him and always using his "manly" influence on me. Not growing up with a father mad him strict, some would say cold even, but he rarely showed his mean side to mother and I.

He reached in his pocket and brought out a The shiny golden chip with our initials on it. I was quit shocked when he handed it to me. We found the chip quit some time ago, when we were young and always on our little adventures around the forest of our neighborhood. It was past dinner time and we were on our way back home when we stopped at the sight of this beautiful gold chip. It was hard as rock which led us to believe it was real gold, turns out it wasn't. As we were walking back home we had to cross one street which was rarely busy. As we checked for cars there were none so we crossed, however as we were crossing a beam of flashing lights came racing down the street out of nowhere. My eldest brother being only 10 was too shocked to move and let his emotions swallow him. Most people immediate reaction would be to move but i knew we wouldn't have enough time. Instead I just started waving my hands back and forth with the shiny gold chip filling up almost my entire hand. I closed my eyes ready to endure my death, I wasn't all that scared. Till this day I'm still not sure why 8 year old me didn't fear death. Anyway, the car stopped inches from our bodies. The man got out of the car and that's when my brother came back to his sense. The man glared at us with disdain plastered on his face. My brother tighten his hold on my hand and was ready to start running until our attention was drawn by flashing lights and police sirens. The man began to run into the woods but eventually got caught by the police hours later. The next day we were questioned by the cops and called heroes for making a long-time street racer stop his vehicle. Turns out the cops have been chasing after him for about a half-a-year now. He wasn't a killer just love to illegally race cars and just couldn't bring himself to run over two innocent kids. The street was too narrow to go around us and the shiny gold chip which he noticed first made him stop immediately after he made out our figures. We were rewarded 100$ each and published on the newspapers. Since that day my brother has held that gold chip dear to his heart calling it a good luck charm and eventually got our initials engraved on it. 

"Wow, are you sure you want to give this to me?" I asked knowing damn well that that chip not only was his good luck charm, but was also proof that we brothers will always protect each other.

"Its about time I get rid of this damn thing dontcha think?" he asked grinning at me, "Honestly, with you moving hours away you're going to need it more than me."

"Thank you, I'll cherish it." Honestly, i didn't care much for the chip. It was a nice memory, like a picture that you don't get rid of because you would look back on it 20 years from now, reminisce over it, and then throw it back in the attic but that's about it. However, I wasn't going to tell that to my brother that saw it as the most precious thing in the world.

"Alright, I think its about time I get going, my Uber is outside." i said while grabbing my suitcase and putting my backpack around one of my shoulders. "Ill see you guys later, I love you guys. Don't miss me too much." I winked.

They both waved good bye my mom saying she loves me a million and offering a genuine smile and my brother snickered before patting my back and waving goodbye.

"I love you little bro stay safe!" he shouted.

"ill try" I said as I finished up putting my belongings in the trunk of the car, than opening the car door and hopped in.

"To the all International Boys Camp of Chicago?" The Uber driver reassured me.

"Yes, thank you." I sighed. This is happening a day of change. It sure is going to be a long ride.