The Unfortunate One

Chapter 5: Changes

My life appeared to be so sad to many, but to me I was pretty cool with it. I had a lot of advantages to it. I was (still am) the oldest, which meant I got a lot more freedom. I had some really great friends, and when they were around my mom was the best! I loved my neighborhood, even though it was missing Mady. I had mason who was getting bigger by the second. My family spoiled me a lot, and it was all pretty great. But you can never get to comfortable with a life like mine.

When they told me we were moving I couldn't believe it. I was really excited, but sad all at the same time. They said we weren't only moving, but we were going to build our own house just the way we want it. I was so excited! And it was my last year of elementary school so it wouldn't matter about switching schools. Wow... It all seemed so great.

Little by little I saw my new house go up. We started around my birthday, with noting but a piece of land and a drawing. But by July, there was my house. The in between was fun, different, but fun. I finished elementary school which I was pretty happy about. I was glad to just get all these big changes over with. We stayed with my grandparents, I had my own room. Downstairs is where mom and dad (jake) slept. Mason had a kind of room. It was my grandmas sewing/clothing/office room with a TV and a crib bed. Which for him was just fine. When the house was done we started doing things like painting and carpets and all the finishing touches, and then BAM there was my house. I loved it more than anything. And I had a whole forest with a creek as my backyard!

My mom had become really laid back, and I think that made me happiest of all. We only got in to some little arguments here and there, but nothing major. I think she hit me once in almost 5 months (and my goodness I'll take that any day). We were all one big happy family. We had fun. We loved it. We were all...happy.