Dirty Laundry

New life in New York

I couldn't sleep that night, I kept tossing and turning thinking of what tomorrow might hold.

For now I was in a vacation with Adam, my brother.
In Italy, a heaven on earth. Too bad we have to leave and fly back to that hell hole that they call home to visit our relatives, when we arrived my mother, Nadia, was already there.

We stayed for about a week and now it's our last night here.

We moved to the U.S few years after my father passed away because we had no house and my mother got a job offer there, a good one. She's a lawyer but I don't really think that was the real reason. Anyways, for whatever was the reason i'm glad we moved.

The summer holiday is almost over and I have to fly back to the U.S with my mother and live with her, her fiancé and his family.        
She already moved in just after me and Adam left for the vacation. She moved my stuff too.

When school finished my mother gathered me and my brother to discuss with us moving in with John, but it was more of a statement because she already made her mind and I have to go with it.

I tried to make her change her mind and wait another year till im eighteen but as I said she already made her mind.

I rather live with Adam, he's a cool brother the coolest actually but i'm not a lucky person like himself, my luck sucks since I was born. Adam is lucky because he's in college, which means he doesn't have to live with us.

Mother has been seeing John since I was fourteen or maybe fifteen.

I don't really mind living with him and his family he makes my mom happy, he's a good guy and so is his family; he got two daughters the oldest is nice and married the young one is around my age but we only met once so im not sure.

The bad thing is that he lives in New York and we live in LA which means i'm going to have to change school too and since my brother is in college I can't stay and live with him but there's a good side for this situation too, now I got a good reason to break up with my boyfriend, Alan, he's a nice guy it makes me feel sorry knowing that he thinks i'm faithful to him, in fact I was at first but then I lost it, long story short I cheated, many times.

He deserves better and now that I have a reason to break up I feel less guilty.

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The morning came and it was time to wake up and get ready to go to the airport.

Everything happened fast then, the last thing I remember sitting on my chair then I lost track since I didn't sleep much last night, next thing I remember waking up in the U.S.

John was already at the airport waiting for us holding a sign, I thought it was cute, it says "Welcome back to NYC my love and her beautiful daughter"

We walked towards John, he met us halfway and hugged mother and then hugged me? alright that was unexpected and awkward.

"hey Dina, long time no seen" he said smiling then offered to hold my bag.

"hi john" I replied smiling back at him and handed him the bag.

"what about my other stuff?" I asked my mom as we made our way out.

"We discussed this, everything is on your room waiting for you" she said smiling. I nodded, so I got a room, interesting, I wondered to myself as we got into a black van which was waiting for us.

The ride wasn't very long, the van has stopped and the driver opened the door for us, I stepped out cracking my neck and knuckles then I saw someone running towards us..