Its complicated

Chapter 3

The drive to her house is bumpy and hot. I'm sweating just sitting here. Why? That's the question that just keeps repeating in my head. Why did they have to send me? It's not like I'm a drug addict or something. Why do they have to live in Nebraska? Why don't my parents have me live with family? Ph that's right. I don't have any family left. Well I do have my Aunt Pauly, Uncle Joe and my 3 cousins Marie, Anne, and Grace but their environmentalists. Aunt Pauly and Uncle Joe drag their kids around with them everywhere they go. They move about every 3 months for work. I think they've been to just about every country in South America. Believe me their lives are just way too hectic for me. Then I stop feeling bad for myself and start feeling bad for Christie, my moms best friend. Why does she have 9 kids? Why did she agree to take me in. Uggg! It's a little awkward sitting here and I do want her to think I'm rude. She already know I got expelled and probably thinks I'm some rebel without a cause. "Just so you know I'm not like a drug addict or anything" I tell her. She smiles and laughs a little. "I know Katie" she replies. "Good because I don't want you to think I'm a bad kid or something like that. To be honest I think my parents are being totally unfair. I mean just because I got expelled they are making me live with someone I've never met and live in boring old farm country." My eyes widened as soon as I said it. "Sorry I didn't mean that. I just ramble a lot and I've never live anywhere except the city, and I'm rambling again" I say. "It's ok Katie. I mean I would probably be a little nervous to" she says. Nervous? I'm not nervous I'm furious! The only reason I'm even willing to talk to her is because if I'm going to live with someone I've never met I should probably make a good first impression right? Uggg! I don't even respond I just take out my phone to text Raleigh. "I'm sorry I probably shouldn't have said you were nervous. It's just I have all boys so I'm walking on thin ice with you." She tells me. I put my phone away. "So Mrs.Mathews? Can I ask why so many kids?". "Oh not all of them are mine. Six are mine. Well they are all mine but three are my nephews. We had four and were not expecting twins when we said we wanted one more." She tells me. Then she gets a little more somber when she says " My sister and brother in-law died seven years ago in a car crash. I took there three boys in, being as I am there godmother and now legal guardian." "Oh I'm uh sorry for your loss" I say awkwardly. Then I see the house. It's pretty big but not glamorous like people think when they think big. It's typical farm house. A long porch, white shutters, tire swing in the front yard. There's a red barn to the side of it and fields and fields of grass. I roll down the windows and the smell of freshly cut grass mixed with the smell of animal fill my nose. What have I gotten myself into?

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Hey! so I've decided to keep writing this. It only has 5 reads so far but oh well right?