"Now are you sure you have everything packed and ready? You don't need to be forgetting anything now, you need everything for school so you'll be ready when it starts." A woman ecstatically states as she quickly moving around my car, rechecking my list for the hundredth time within the last thirty minutes.
"Have you called the place your staying to make sure someone will be there to greet you when you make it? Do you have enough money for gas and food?"
"Mom!" I catch her arm making her take a moment to look at me as I'm grinning at her.
"I'm just goin' to be gone for a lil while. I'll be back in November! I have everything and if I don't, I can buy another when I get to my new place. They already said they'll be at the house when I get there, they even decided to take me out for dinner for celebration. They're good people mom, don't worry." I reply chuckling at my worrywart mother.
I'm heading to college in another state, further extending my education in my major of Graphic Design and Animation. My goal is to be a video game artist or animator. I dream to make so many people smile and enjoy something that I'm able to part take in. I want America to be proud of me.
I know this is a long shot in a very unclear future but hey some girl's dream big. My motto was that everyone could do better. It wasn't something I necessarily picked up but more of something I've taken years to figure out about myself. I was always disappointed of something or someone when it didn't go as planed, but as I continued to keep goin the extra mile or notch, I learned that you can always do something better, no mater what.
"I know Adrianna, but you can't stop a mother from worrying about her baby, especially for a baby that's leaving home. I'm just worried you'll get hurt and I'm not all too keen on you living with strangers." She gently grabs my face and looks worriedly at me, proud happy tears in her warm brown eyes.
"I'll be fine mommy. If its not, you'll be the first to know." I could feel the waves of anxiety coming from her body.
Inwardly groaning I hug her smaller body. My five-foot-ten body slightly towering over her five-foot-three one. I hated seeing my mother cry; it was almost like a chain reaction with my family, if one cries, we all begin to squall. I lovingly kiss her cheek, interrupting her salty tears from running down her tan skin.
I was leaving the nest, my home of 20 years, moving to a whole new setting, a new state basically. Seeing that the college I wanted to attend was nowhere near my small town in North Carolina, I had to find housing close to the campus and my job. I worked at GameStop in a city over from my hometown and since there was a mall not far from both of my destinations I asked if I could be stationed there, I was accepted with open arms. My mom was very happy that I didn't have to lose my job that I needed, so was I.
"Mom, I'm just a call away. You have me on speed dial and you can text me anytime, I may not answer since I'm too lazy to wake up 3 in the morning," she chuckles," but you know what I mean." I kiss her forehead and hug her fairly tight, just enough to show I meant what I just said.
To be honest, leaving my mom and family is something that I can consider very heartbreaking. I was sheltered as a kid so I'm very family orientated and this was breaking it apart. I sigh in frustration with myself. I wanted to just forget about going to school, stay and continue on with my lil life. But my family forbade it saying that I'm not supposed to be stuck on the reservation just like another localized dependent native. In the end of my pleas I understood what they meant and started the process of leaving, slowly but excitedly shaking off the dust of my waiting wings of freedom ready to take me anywhere I wished to go.
Sighing I step back and take a look at the accumulated bodies for my departure. My two uncles, baby cousins, my baby sister, my mommy and daddy along with my momma and grandpa were all there in the yard looking at me, each with a sad smile of their own. I slightly straightened my poster as I return their gaze with my own smile upon my lips. I held back the hurt I felt.
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My RoomMates (LNC Story)
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