"I hate you so much"
"You know you love me"
It's the start of summer in 1988 and Jamie Harris a 16-year-old girl who's also an only child, moves across the country to California for a "fresh start" or so her mom says. when Jamie moves, she meets a...
I throw my bike onto the side lawn and storm into the house I go into the kitchen and yell my mom's name but I get no response I look in the freezer to see if there's any ice to put on my now bruising side because of the stupid baseball but if course there isn't! I turn around and look at the counter to see a note
"went to the grocery store and be back in a few"
I sigh and go upstairs into my room. I put the baseball onto one of the selves and lay down on my bed and start to drift to sleep while trying to ignore the burning pain on my side.
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June 10, 1988 ~~~~~~~~~ Jamie's POV ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I woke up the next day still in my clothes I realized that I had fallen asleep and I haven't even had Dinner, or taken a shower I get up and I walk into my mom's room and see her in her scrubs
"hey honey I'm going to be going to work in a few minutes," she said
"oh I didn't know you had gotten a job yet" I reply
"yes, honey that's one of the reasons we moved I got a nursing offer down here" "Oh, and why are you still in your clothes from yesterday? I saw you asleep so I didn't want to wake you"
"yeah I was just super tired from all the exploring I did " I replied somewhat sarcastically
"Okay well honey I gotta go before I'm late!" my mom said before she ran downstairs grabbed her keys and left
"I guess I'm alone again," I say out loud
I feel somewhat relieved that she didn't notice the bruise on my side, but I was also slightly covering it. I turn around, and I look at myself in my mom's mirror and see that I look rough, and when I say rough I meant rough! I decided to take a shower I feel like that's all I've been doing recently
I took a very long shower. It was way longer than yesterday, I shaved, sang, danced, etc. I was just in there for sooo long
After I took my shower and I went to the suitcase again and picked out another outfit
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I decided to pair it with my very old baseball cap. It was rough on the edges, but I didn't care if it was for my favorite baseball team the La Dodgers. Once I have my outfit on and all the accessories I was looking at the suitcase and I decided that I should probably put all the clothes in my closet instead of just leaving them on the floor so that's what I started doing. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
After a few minutes, I finished putting all the clothes in my closet. I decided that I should probably go outside but I'm gonna stay in my yard and hopefully, I won't get hit with a baseball this time. Now I think of it I can use that baseball I decided to grab the baseball I had stolen my baseball glove and my boom box and head outside onto my front lawn. I switch my boombox to a random radio station playing classic rock as I started to throw the baseball in the air and catch it with my glove and I'm not going to lie to you guys started getting boring after a few minutes but what else can I do? I had no friends and I'm in this boring town and my mom wasn't even at home so I just kept throwing it in the air but then suddenly, I heard someone saying something I turned around, and the boy from yesterday was walking towards my house. I stood there, staring at him until he finally was right in front of me.
"Hey! You're the girl that stole my ball yesterday" the boy said to me
While he was speaking to me, I noticed he was also wearing an LA Dodgers hat but my eyes continued to dart from his head to his eyes
"yeah I am" I reply
"well can I have my ball back me and my friends wanna play baseball and we can't because you took the ball!"
"oh well! You shouldn't have hit me with it"
"It was an accident"
" I don't care if it was an accident. All of you guys started blaming me for hitting me with a baseball yesterday so no! You're not gonna get it back!"
"Okay look they were just being jerks I promise you it was an accident"
"yeah I bet"
" Look, can I just have my ball back me and my friends can't play baseball because of you"
" oh yeah, and I can barely lean into my side because of you hitting me with the baseball," I say, as I lift my shirt up a little bit showing the very dark bruise on my side
His eyes go wide as his jaw opens
"O-oh my gosh I'm so sorry I didn't even know it was that bad," he said, stuttering
" well yeah it is and it feels like shit"
" Look I feel bad I had hit a home run and I didn't even know I hit anyone with it until I saw you"
"mhm" I reply
" I swear I am sorry! look my names Benny and I hope that we could just be friends"
" I don't know you did hit me with the baseball"
" geez I am sorry about it and I'm serious we could be friends I see you're wearing a Dodgers cap just like me! you like that team??" he says, trying to get the conversation to go somewhere but I'm very I'm unamused with this
" yeah, I do like them and no I don't really want to be friends with you and no you're not getting your baseball back" I reply as I grab all my stuff, including the stolen baseball, and go inside, leaving him standing in my front yard. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (1070 words) hii I hope you guys like this chapter there were a lot of words in this chapter. this book is supposed to be an enemies, to lover type thing so that's why they're arguing and it's probably gonna be like this for the next two chapters I think I don't know yet. But yeah that's all!
