Back to rosewood. Back to the memories of the bullies and people always looking at you down.
"It feels weird being back here" Liam says looking out the window. We were driving to our new house. Liam is my older brother by a year. He's the only family I got besides my grandma. My mom died of cancer a year ago and my dad left us when I were ten.
"Why couldn't grandma live somewhere else" I say annoyed. Rosewood wasn't a place you can call 'safe'. It made me hate half the people in this town.
"Good thing she didn't make us go visit her" he says turning to her street. My grandma would come visit us instead of us. She would stay with us for months.
"Looks the same" I say looking at her house. It had two floor plus the basement. Liam parks the car and gets out. He hands me my bags and luggage. I walk to the front and the door opens wide.
"My two sweet cheeks" my grandma yells pulling me into a hug.
"Hi grandma" I say trying to breathe. She lets go of me and does the same to Liam.
"I thought you guys were coming tomorrow?" I drop my bag and sit on the couch.
"The movers came earlier yesterday packed everything in less then 5 hours."
"Plus we wanted to rest" I say finishing Liam's sentence. He jumps on the couch making grandma groan.
"Please the couch" she says messing his hair. I grab the control and turn on the tv.
"Dinner will be ready in 10 minutes. Can one of you go to the store and buy drinks" she yells from the kitchen.
I look at Liam and he had his finger on his nose.
"Not fair" I say taking his car keys away.
"I'll be back" I yell closing the door and get in the car.
I backup and drive to town. It was a block away. I remember walking through the rain whenever I would get bullied by Allison. I would cry and people just thought it was the rain.
Allison was this pretty blonde girl who thought she was everything. The queen bitch of rosewood high. Her and another people in school made my life miserable by taunting everything I did. My nickname was loser Alex. She bullied a lot of people and nobody did nothing. Her group of friends just watched as she made fun of me.
I park the car at the side and got out and went inside. This used to be my second house. My mom knew everybody in this town and everyone liked Liam and me.
"Mr.Wright how are you?" I smile at the owner of the store. He looked at weirdly like he didn't know who I was. Well of course I changed my whole look. I left my hair longer and had a little blue in between, instead of sweatpants and over size sweaters I was wearing skinny jeans,a blue plaid shirt and combat boots.
"Oh my gosh Alex?" He says with a smile forming. I nod smiling back.
"You look so older and beautiful!"
"Thanks. How is business?"
"Pretty good. Are you visiting your grandma? Where's your mom and brother?" He doesn't about my mom. Grandma has been having trouble accepting she's gone.
"We're staying in town for a while. My mom passed away" I say looking down.
"I didn't know. I'm so sorry." He walks to me and hugs me. He was the only one who knew about Allison.
"Do you need a job?" I grab two pop bottles.
"I'm firing some people who are lazy and you would be a great helper" He says giving me my change.
"Sure that would be great"
"Yes. two weeks from now you can start" I smile and nod.
"Thank you alot" I say my goodbyes and walk to my car.
I look across the street and see someone looking straight at me. I felt the need to look away.
Who is that? I know everybody who lives in this town but that person.
I get in my car and drive away as fast as I could
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It's funny how nervous I am for tomorrow. I never thought I would get this nervous since grade 9 and 10.
I was afraid to go to school because the torments with Allison.
"Time for bed hon" I look at the door. My grandma had a glass of milk in her hand.
"Yeah I know grandma.....I'm just nervous about tomorrow" I sigh to myself.
"You don't need to worry. You know everybody there." She walks to the bed and sits beside me. My mom and grandma don't know about me being bullied. Liam found out the last day of school. Allison was calling me names and he heard and yelled in her face. He almost got into a fight with her brother Jason.
"Drink this. Liam is sleeping like a rock" she smiles handing me the glass and kisses the side of my head.
"Night grandma" I place the cup on my nightstand. I take my clothes off and put on my basketball shorts and big T-shirt.
I drink the warm milk and get in bed. I cover myself and look outside. The moon was big and shiny.
Tomorrow will be fine Alex. I tell myself repeatedly. I close my eyes and try to sleep with thousand of thoughts racing in my mind.
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Sorry if it sucked but I wanted to post my story for a long time.
