Rock Springs

My names Mia and I've been living in Utah most of my life. I met my boyfriend Allen six years ago in high school. We only just started dating at the beginning of this year, just celebrated our eight month anniversary.

Allen has been living in his car since we first started dating, he had just gotten out of a divorce. He needed a place to stay and finally a friend of his who lived in Wyoming told him he has a trailer house and is willing to give him a room. Since Wyoming is far from my home I decided to go with him.

Rock Springs isn't too different from Utah. It has mountains and pretty much the same weather. It just snows earlier in the year and is much smaller. I've always wanted to live in a small town and so does Allen, my only problem is no mall. Allen has been to Wyoming before but not in Rock Springs.

We had to wait about a week before moving there because my great grandma had just passed away and I wanted to go to her funeral but the day after we headed up.

My dad and my mom came with in my dads truck so we could get my furniture up there and Allen and I drove in our car which is a red 2006 Ford Mustang that we named Cheyenne after Wyomings capital. When I say Allen used to live in Wyoming it was actually the one place he considers home and because he loves Wyoming so do I.

We only had about $30 between the two of us when we moved but we were just happy to have a place to live and that Allen finally had an actual bed to sleep in since my parents wouldn't let him sleep in my bed at their house while we were dating.

The trailer home was a good size not great but Allen and I did have our own room and bathroom. Allens friend James had the master bedroom and bathroom which is fine. The only thing I couldn't fit in our room was my desk I needed for work, well, my hobbies which was put in the kitchen where a kitchen table would be.

I'm a youtuber, I don't make money yet but i'm working really hard.

Our room was able to fit my queen size bed, my dresser, and my laundry basket. There are two closets that are actually joined together but there's two doors on each side of the closet for two people to have their own side, me being a girl and love clothes I took up some of his half of the closet which he was fine with he doesn't have much.

I only took a few wall decorations cause we were limited on what we could fit in the truck and the car. I took a whiteboard that has youtube stuff on it, a magnetic board for notes and other things, and a board with a picture of my best friend and I at a concert and the board says, "Friends - A road to a friends house is never long". I was sad to leave my best friend Staci back home but my boyfriend is my boyfriend who I plan marrying someday and her and I were bound to move apart at some point. I am keeping in touch with her as much as I can. We text everyday and some days we skype.

When we got to the trailer home it was being worked on by James. All the cabinet doors were off and laying on the ground. There was no tv in the front room just a comfy chair and matching couch. The kitchen was kinda empty but there are really good quality appliances but hardly any food in the fridge and cupboards. My mom gave me some food like ramen and mac and cheese so I filled up the spaces a bit. I also brought cups and measuring cups. There's no washer and dryer so we have to do to laundry at a laundromat.

Right after getting there Allen and I looked for jobs and we applied everywhere, we couldn't be picky because whatever way we just needed to make money to live.

I got an interview right away at a gas station, not what I'd prefer but it's something.

After a few days living in Rock Springs I was really missing home cause being suddenly independent and out of state from everyone I knew except Allen was hard. The reality of having to grow up really hit me. I've been handling it pretty well so far but it just looks that way in my mind my whole world is falling apart. All I really have is Allen and I'm pretty happy to at least have him in my life. He knows a lot about grown up stuff he had to be on his own a few times and I'm the complete opposite. I've never moved away from my parents until now and I'm 21 but I did want to move out and be independent I guess I just never thought it'd be out of state.

About a week after being in Rock Springs Allen and I celebrated our nine month anniversary and all we had to celebrate was the cheapest pizza at Walmart for dinner, it was a good pizza though. And about a week after that it was Thanksgiving and we were too broke to go to my parents so James bought chicken and some other small Thanksgiving foods and on Thanksgiving him and Allen cooked dinner and it was really good. It was weird not having turkey but the chicken was my favorite part and was the best chicken I ever had no exaggerations. But I did cry cause I couldn't see my family. I called my mom twice that day and she had given her phone to my dad for a bit for me to talk to him as well.

We had no plates or bowls or cups so my mom so graciously sent us a whole cheap walmart kitchen set with utensils and knives and bowls and plates and small plates and cups and the set got to us just in time for Thanksgiving.

Right after Thanksgiving we lost service on our phones. Neither of us still had jobs and so we had no money for bills. We are getting help from the church but that's taking a bit so for a few days Allen and I have to live with no service and there's no internet at the house so it's like we have nothing but each other. James does have service and he lets us use his phone from time to time and we use his hotspot when we need internet on our own phones or on my laptop. Losing service will make it hard to get a job cause they need to call us for an interview, we had just enough time before we lost service to apply for jobs on my laptop. And I had that interview and Allen called on James' phone to call about an interview and has one set up but that's all we have now.

(Message from writer: This chapter is all true ,except some names, thats why I used the picture at the top that yes I am wearing a Doctor Who shirt and no the show does not exist in this story. Just wanted to share the picture. From now on some things in this story might be based on true events in my life but is not completely true.)