Ode to Dusk

Chapter 1

"I'm moving?!!" I yelled. It was the summer before my Junior year. For some reason my parents wanted to move us halfway across the country. I can't believe this is happening. I mean in the middle of my high school experience I was going to be taken out and put in a new environment! A new high school! A new life! I was going to have to come out again! It was hard enough the first time.

"Jason, calm down honey. This is for the best, and you'll like it there, our new house is huge!" My mom said, obviously excited.

"I don't care about the size of our new house, I don't care how good the community is. I don't want to have to start over from scratch!" I yelled as I ran to my room.

"I expect you to have all of your bags packed by the end of today! We leave in 3 days!" She yelled.

Three days? Why am I leaving in three freaking days! Could you have at least given me some notice! Sometimes I hate my parents so much! I groaned, pulling out my phone. Time to let the news out, this honestly sucked too. Just as I was starting to become popular too. Why did this have to happen! I have no understanding of any of this. This was so random and unexpected.

I texted my friend Leila, she was honestly my best friend and I would probably miss her the most.

Hey

Hey Jason

Leila, I have some important news to tell you

Awe are you pregnant! That's great congrats!

Lol! Leila shut up this is actually important

Okay, spill

So I'm moving

What!!!! Where?

Nevada.....

That's way way way too far away! Why! And when will I be able to see you!

I don't know but I'm leaving in 3 days

I'm totally throwing you a going away party, I'm gonna contact some people. Ttyl and I love you!!!!! 

I love you Leila.

I shut my phone off. I seriously love that girl. I laid down in my bed for a moment and just thought about what my new life would be like. Maybe I'll meet a supernatural being and fall in love with it, leading to a tragic romance. Yea right, that's something that only happens in books. I chuckled a bit, which led to full on laughter, which led to me sobbing.

It was hard to think about starting over, having to rebuild my entire life somewhere else. I'm going to have to crawl my way up the social latter, which I was all but prepared to do. But I trusted myself, I'm the type of person who thrives in any environment, no matter how many obstacles are in my way I trust myself to rise above it.

Maybe I'm being negative, let me look at this from a positive standpoint. I'll get to e the new kid, meaning I can become anyone I want. If I wanted I could completely change myself. That would be pretty cool in all honesty.

My crying has ceased for now, and I got ready to pack. I felt calm about the situation, I found it kinda cool. I get the chance to rebuild myself, completely change my reputation. And for the first time in a long time I was actually nervous. But I think I could live with this. I still felt sad about the whole situation but I see the positives.

To be honest all though I am decently well liked in this area, our family has a bit of an unfavorable reputation. People are weary of our parents and me and my siblings have no idea why. My parents try to distance themselves from the people in this town because of it. I've always found it really weird, it hasn't made much sense to me in all honesty.