my next door neighbor

one; intro

moving back home. to california. to west side high. after six years in the middle of nowhere.

maddie white. maddie white is my best friend. my only friend. we grew up together, and when i left cali when i was ten, we never stopped talking to each other. we are the definition of best friends. she always visited me in ohio, she could afford it. i say she's rich, but rich people use the term... comfortable. so yes, maddie, is 'comfortable' , but that's not the reason i'm friends with her. she's always been there for me. even hundreds of miles away in different time zones.

even after my father died, she was still there for me, even though she couldn't attend the funeral, she sent many gifts, and came to visit us a couple days after.

today is july first. me and my mom are flying to cali tomorrow morning, and we move in on the second. the white's are allowing us to stay the night before we move in.

we're moving because my mom got a new job.
although she's very sad we're not staying in ohio, she said the wage was much better. we're going to move into the neighborhood right behind maddie's. the thing about most california neighborhoods, is that the houses are so close to each other. so distance will never be a problem between us.

i'm mostly excited to move in for what me and my mom like to call, a fresh start. my mom's new job will help us live a better life, and i will be able to forget all the bad that happened back in ohio.

for example, joey. joey is my ex. our relationship ended after two years. he was toxic and pressured me into doing things i didn't want to, but i was too blind to see that until after we had broken up. we split after i found out he was cheating on me for over a year with one of my so-called friends.

so yes, moving back home to cali will, in fact, be a new, fresh start for me and my mom. just us two, living our unimportant lives. just two people, useless to society, but happy to be alive.