Welcome to California

One

Saturday

Blake's POV

"Hey Mom" - " Hey Baby, are you okay? Has anything happend to you? Has your plane crashed? Baby? Are you here, can you hear me?" My mom hysterically screams into the phone. I'm away for around ten hours and my mom's alredy freaking out. Great. " Mom calm down" I say. " Everything's fine. I'm alright I just landed. Safely. Or else I wouldn't be calling you!" My mom laughs but it quickly turns into the hysterical screaming and crying from before. " Mom it's alright yo don't have to be s..." My mom cuts me off telling me that she has a right to be sad and that nothing is okay. " Blake?" She than asks. "Yes mom" - "Promise me that you'll come back, visit me and your brother and that you won't forget to call us. Promise!" I sigh, I already promised that. Over and over again.

Since the death of my dad she always needs people to promise that they'll call her so she can help them if something happend. She thinks it's her fault that my dad died. She always say that if she only called him like she promised she'll do, he wouldn't have went t the store to buy some food and he would been shoot. And even though I told her multiple times that it wasn't her fault she still thinks it is and blames it on herself, like she always does, when something goes wrong.

When dad was still alive he would always have bad days and let it out on my mom. Me and my brother would sit in our rooms and act like we didn't notice anything and when they were done fighting my mom would come to my room telling me that she was sorry and that it's her fauld dad went lout on her like that.

"Blake, please promise me!" My mom says making me flash back to reality. I promise my mom and tell her that I'm exhausted and need to go, she tells me goodbye snd that she loves me and I hang up the phone.

When I step outside the aurport a wave of happier over comes me. I can't believe that I'm here. I can't believe it. I jump up and down like a little girl but I don't care. Sone people walk passed me laughing and shaking their heads bit I don't care. I'm finally here and I can't wate to see all of California.

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I stand infrot if the building I'm going to live in from now on. It's tall and in the middle of the city which I personally like but my mom thinks it's to dangerous so I had to rent an appartment on the top floor. "I hope it has an elevator." I whisper while walking into the tall building.

I let out a breather of relief when I see the lift on the right side of the entrance. Before I look around the lobby looking out for a guy with a yellow hacket. In the enail it said that the guy with the yelliw jacket had the key to my appartmen, but there's noone wearing a yellow jacket or even pullover.

I walk towards a men next to the lift. "Hello..." I say looking at the name on his overall. "Mike, can you tell me were I find a guy that supposed to give me my keys?" He nodes and points at a small room on the dide if the elevator. "Thank you,Mike." I say and then walk into the bureau. "Sorry to interrupt whatever your doing. I was wondering if you might be the guy who should give me my keys. I'm Blake Westwood, I'm moving in today." The man looks at me confused but then quickly stands up. "Oh my god, I'm so sorry I totally forgot that you were comeing today I thought you were coming tomorrow so I wasn't prepeard. Wait, wait here's the key." He hands me out the keys and then walks out the bureau signaling me to follow him.

"Hey Mike." He says while we wait for the lift to come. "This is the girl that's gonva live in room 47 from now on her names Blake." Mike smiles at me but says nothing. "His name's Mike he's you neighbor." The other man says and I nod.

The elevator finally comes and we all get in. It's a big elevstor so there's enough space to not feel akward but still feel the silence getting heavier and heavier. "So were are you from?" Mike breaks the akward silence and I quickly reply. "I moved here from Seitzerland. What about you, what brought you here?" I ask back to not let the conversation die. Gosh this is a long elevator drive. "Me?" He asks and I nod. "Nothing brought me here. I was born here in this building." He says and my eyes widen. "Really you lived in Los Angeles your whole life?" He nodds and I stare at him amazed. "That's so cool I always wanted to come here but I never thought I'd actually make it and now I'm here and you. You were here your whole life. I'm so jealous!"