New Opportunities

chapter 2. Alone at home...

I walked the quiet side walk nearing my home when I suddenly saw my mom...

Packing?

“Mom? What's going on? ” I asked. She looked at me with a sad and happy face, That got me confused.

“ Son, I have some good news and some bad news” she said. “The good news is I found a job in the other side of the city that pays a good amount of money for me and you.” she said. “ How'd you get a job all the way to the side of the city? ” I asked.
“Its...   Complicated ” she said. “ The bad news?” I asked, worried of what it may be. She took a long pause before answering “ The bad news is... I'll be moving out.” she said. “what?” I replied. A bit speechless at the moment.

That means I'll be alone.
I'll have to cook for myself.
Keeping the house clean will be my responsibility. That'll only mean more work to do.

Im a bit lazy sure... But their are other times where I just feel like cleaning... Something's... But that's about it, Nothing more nothing less.

“Are you okay? ” My mom said. Snapping me off of my thoughts.
“ huh? Oh! Uh yeah.. It's just a lot to process... “Oh come on. Your 17, you can take care of yourself.”
I mean yeah, I can take care of myself. It's just that I'll be alone in my house, doing what ever I do having no one to interupt me.
I was snapped out again by my mom telling me instruction's on what to do to get money... She'll deliver it to me every week or so. And other stuff... I hadn't realized that she was done packing when she said her goodbyes to me.. Bringing me back to reality again. Dang, I keep dozing of. I waved her goodbye and she left along with her stuff. It took me a while to remember about the project! And knew I was screwd. It was due next week and I don't even have any of the material's I need.

I needed help for my project if I want to submit it in time.
I entered my house, looking around the place. It looked... So different without her stuff in it...

“An entire house... All to myself...
This'll get lonely soon.” I thought to myself as I approached the small dining table. I saw something, it was... 100 dollars? “Wow” I said to myself as I picked it up and went upstairs to my room. I sat down on my bed and observed the paper money.
“This is more than enough to buy what I need for the project, I think.” I thought as I put it on my night stand and headed for the bath room I decided to take a bath... I felt disgusting. After taking a bath I realized how much used clothes I piled up in one corner. “Great I half to do the laundry... ” I said, annoyed. I got change and decided to clean some of the used up clothes since im running out of stuff to wear.

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Time Skip 2 Hour's later

“Ugh.. ” I sighed in relief. I finally finished cleaning half of the pile... But... If only we had a washing machine, instead of doing it the old fashion way, this could of gone quicker. Not mention how much pain my hand's were in... I got in bed and started closing my eye's  trying to relax when I accidentally fell assleep

I woke up, one and a half hour later. I went downstairs having the loss of sleepiness trying to find something to do. I turnd the old “TOSHIBA” TV on and changed to different channel's trying to find something interesting. To my surprise, nothing interesting was on.
“I should of rented that book at school. The story was quite interesting. ” I said. Then I went to the kitchen, finding something  to cook atleast. I only manage to find a glass of ice tea and a red apple. “That'll do” I thought. As I placed the item's in the small dining table and after eating half of the apple and drinked half of the ice tea the feeling of sleep finally came... I returned the things I got out of the frige back and headed to my room. Were I softly laid down and fell asleep after.

I woke up early again in the morning like 5:14 AM in the morning... Annoyed again by the lack of sleep I tried going back to sleep but it was useless... I was up and I can't go back to sleep. I got up and started heading for the bathroom... After doing my business I got down stairs and toasted two pieces of bread while using the remaining ice tea to drink. After eating breakfast I brushed my teeth and fixed my stuff. I headed out my house, locking it obviously. And started my journey to school and some of its useless information's...

As I was speed walk to school I saw the same guy I bumped into yesterday. I tried to ignore him and walk a bit faster but he notice me and tried calling for me and started catching up...

The school was close, only 3 minutes of walking left but it was too late he had caught me.

“Hey, im sorry about yesterday. ” He said. I blushed a bit...
“WHY AM I BLUSHING!!??” I thought. “I-it's o-okay” I Stuttered.

“Hey, since you ran away from me yesterday, I didn't really catch your name?” He Questioned. Why is a person like him talking to a person like me. But what ever it is... Im kind of happy with it.

“ My name is Jay” I answered.
“And im Nathan.” Nathan said,
Giving me a hand shake.
We walked to school while having small chats with him...
He really wasn't like the other  popular people who would be a total b!t(h to people like me for being poor and all. I really respect that... But anyways we got to school and the whole time I was blushing. We parted our ways and started school.