There are a lot of reasons why I love autumn. The way the leaves change their colours, the crispy air outside, Halloween, cozy clothing, and last but definitely not least the PSL's at Starbucks.
But there's one thing I hate about autumn: the shitty weather...
I'm on my bike on my way home and my dad would've said that the angels needed to pee really bad because, damn, it never rained this hard around here. I'm a block away from my house when hailstones are starting to fall out of the sky.
"Why can't it wait for about 10 minutes? Of course no, Anne has to be soaked, fucking hell." I swear quietly. I arrive at my house, totally soaked and I place my bike in our shed. I walk inside our living room where I find my brother in front of the tv. I give him a kiss on the cheek and hug him.
"Hey Calvin" I say. Since the accident happened, there's nothing what he can do, Calvin can't talk and barely move. The doctors said that he actually knows what's going on around him, but he can't answer his doctor. It's just quite hard to explain everything.
I settle down next to him as I change the channel to Comedy Central. South Park is on and every time I watch it, I can't stop laughing.
"Fuck y'all I'm going home" Cartman screams through the room and I try to mimic him as I hear someone walk down the stairs.
"Good imitation Anne." I hear my mom say under her laugh.
"I know right?" I say sarcastically as I'm putting up both my thumbs and put up a fake smile.
We laugh for a while until my mom's face straightened.
"Anne, I have a surprise. But I can't tell you until tomorrow. The only thing I can tell you is to pack your suitcase, we're going somewhere warm." She says with small smile on her face.
"Oh my god, are we going on a vacation?! The last vacation we had outside the country was with dad." I say enthusiastically.
But then I realise something. "But mom, do you even have the money? And what about Calvin, is that even going to work?" I ask her as the smile on my face disappears.
She pulls me into a hug and kisses my forehead. "Don't worry about that sweety." She says comforting. I smile. I couldn't've wished for another mother.
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"Anne, it's time to wake up." My mom singsongs.
"Ughkjgfoifrgj, it's only 6 o'clock?!" I say while I stretch myself.
"That's right, it's a 2 hour drive to the airport and we have to be there at 8:30." She explains.
"Okay, so can you tell me where we're going then." I ask with my best puppy eyes on.
"Nope." She says with a popping 'p'.
"Please please please." I beg her, praying on my knees in front of her.
"No, I can't tell you until we're on the airport, and btw..." She says literally spelling the letter. " ...it's a 16 hour flight so bring something to read, or what you guys do these days to entertain yourself." She says.
"Mom, you're not supposed to spell 'btw', you just say by the way." I explain to her while trying not to burst out in laughter.
"Okay, but don't blame me, for the weird things the youth these days come up with." She says shaking her head.
As soon as my mom walks out of the room, I grab my phone.
* BEEEEP BEEEEP BEEEEP*
"ANNE WHAT THE HELL, IT'S ONLY SIX O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING ARE YOU CRAZY?" Janneke yells as she picks up the phone.
" Calm down shithead, MY MOM, CALVIN AND I ARE GOING ON A VACATION AND WE'RE GOING ON A 16 HOUR FLIGHT AND I DON'T KNOW WHERE. And I just wanted to say goodbye before I leave Holland because I won't see you until our autumn holiday is over." I explain to her
( A/N: I don't know if you guys, where ever you may live, have autumn holiday, but in Holland we do. )
"Shit man, so I won't see you for a whole week..." She said with a sad tone in her voice. Janneke and I are best friends and the fact that we won't see each other for a whole week is just as bad as me not getting my KFC for a whole month. And believe me that's bad.
"It's going to be alright babe, when I come back we're going to have a sleepover and watch all Harry Potter movie series and find all the food in our shitty town..." and I go on for a while like that.
After a while we say our goodbye's and I'm getting myself ready. I put on some leggings and an oversized sweater and because I'm too lazy to do my regular make up routine, I just put on some mascara. I put my hair in a messy bun and I'm ready to go.
"ANNE GET YO INDONESIAN BUTT OVER HERE, BECAUSE WE'RE GOING TO THE AIRPORT." My mother screams through the house.
"YEAH I'M ALREADY COMING NAGGYPANTS." I scream back.
I role Calvin to the car and place myself in the front seat. As soon as my mom starts the car, I fall asleep.
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"Honey wake up." My mom says while she rubs my shoulder softly.
I open my eyes and see we've arrived on the airport in Amsterdam.
I get out of the car, grab my suitcase and walk inside. I turn around facing my mom and Calvin.
"Mom can you tell me where we're going now?" I ask her.
"We're going to Sydney!" She says enthusiastically .
"OMG MOM THAT'S AWESOME!" I scream throughout the airport as I hug her tightly.
"Flight KL045 to Sydney, Australia is now boarding." A voice says through airport.
"Oh that's us, are you a little excited?" My asked me with a smile on her face.
"Couldn't be more, you're the best mom." I smile back.
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"That really felt like forever, I can't wait until we've arrived at the hotel." I say exhausted.
My mom turns around and takes both of my hands.
"Honey, I have to tell you something, your great uncle John passed away recently and we've inherited a lot of money from him..." She says.
"Mom that's..." I start.
"No wait, I'm not done yet. With the money I bought us a house, but the house is not in Holland. Uh I don't know how to say this, but I bought a house here, in Sydney!"
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Hellooo,
So that was one hell of a cliffhanger wasn't it. So I probably won't post until next week because I have something called testweek this week. I have to make two tests a day and I don't have classes. It's but at least I don't have to see all the douchebags in my classes yaaaay.
Well that was all for this authors note :)
Ilysm,
Daphne
( ps, Janneke is actually one of my friends and she has a wattpad account too and you should check it out, it's janneke_irwin )
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FanfictionAnne, a 16 year old girl, was in a tragic accident when she was 6 years old. She lost her dad, and her older brother Calvin became mentally and physically disabled. Together with her mom she has to take care of her brother, while she also has to dea...
