Unexpected Feelings

Chapter 1

"When are we gunna get there?" I ask my dad impatiently. Sitting in a car for over an hour, just staring out the window, can be boring.

"Not long now," my dad calls back. A sense of relief washes over me as I now relax comfortably in the back of the car.

So me and my family have recently moved to Studley, in Warwickshire, as it used to take ages for me to travel to school in Studley and back. Im also not the kind of person who likes to live in big cities. Big cities are the perfect definition of chaos. Smaller cities, to me, seem calm, with less crime and more freedom. I say more freedom because its a smaller area in which I can cope with: meaning having less problems with travelling alone in a larger distance. I can pretty much go wherever I want.

We just reached our house, in which we've been living in for a while. We gathered our remaining possessions before we left our old house. We've been living here though, for the past half year, give or take. It's peaceful around here. A good thing about this place is that my mum is good friends with the lady we live next door to. Although my dad doesn't get on with her husband. But time will change hopefully and they will get on. And lets be honest: they're a really sweet family. I get on quite well too.

Anyways, there's only a week left for the summer holidays to end. It feels like it's been ages since I haven't seen my friends. Oh, you may be wondering why I used to attend a school far from my home. Well my childhood friend went there and I couldn't live without her. We've been there for each other ever since. We'd spent the most remarkable times of our lives with each other. I know it sounds cliché but it's true. It also took a lot to convince my parents.

"Hey Stacy, Gemmas on the line!" Jennifer called from inside, while I was still unloading my pile of things from the car. Jennifer's my sister.

"Coming," I called out, rushing myself back into the building to attend the call.

"Hey! whats up," I asked as soon as I got to the phone.

"Hey Stace, it's been ages girl. Have you finally moved out?" she asked, sounding a little impatient.

"Yup, just moving in."

"Great. Wanna hang out soon?" she asked.

"Sure. Probably tomorrow, I'm gunna be exhausted after getting all my things in place."

"Alright, cool. we'll catch up then. See ya."

"See ya," I said hanging up.

I went back up to my room with a cardboard box, containing all my stationary and other sovereigns.

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Soon I was called down for dinner. I was starving anyways. It was the typical mothers cooked meal. A healthy one too. I'm usually the one to devour into the junk, fattening food. Going back to the meal, I really enjoyed the dessert: mince pie.

"So how you feeling about this?" dad suddenly asked.

"It feels great, " I told him, even though it felt a little strange to permanently stay in one house, whilst abandoning the old one where we all shared an important part of our lives.

"Shouldn't we visit it in the holidays, as it means alot to us?" I suggested.

He thought about it for a while. "Yeh I suppose we could," he said smiling.

I returned a smile at him. It felt good to know that we won't be locking away a part of us. I mean, it was genuinely a part of us as I still remember my sister and I having fun, chasing each other while our parents had a laugh about it, instead of telling us off. Those were the days I can't ever forget.

"I think I'm gunna lie down now. I'm tired," I told my parents bidding them a goodbye.

As soon as I got to my bedroom, I shut the door, drew the curtains and collapsed on top of my bed. It felt like a new start to something.

I slowly shut my eyes, looking forward to tomorrow.

However an hour later my eyes were forced open. My attention was drawn towards the ruckus outside.

I got up from my bed and turned towards the window, slowly lifting a slight edge of the curtain. Across from where we lived I saw a group of boys having a laugh about something and screaming their heads off. They'd probably come back from partying hard or something. They seemed hammered. Urgh, how disturbing. I'd thought it'd be more peaceful here but guess I was wrong. There's more to learn about this small town than what meets the eye.

I looked over to my desk where the digital clock was placed. It read 4:00am. Usually I can't go to sleep at that time.

I turned towards my bookshelf. I got out a book that I hadn't read before, titled 'spectacles'. I began reading it until my eyes couldn't support my actions. So then I decided to put the book aside and drift off once again.