My mom swung my door open in the middle of the night. "Gracie, pack your things. We're leaving. Be done in an hour."
"What, why?" I quickly asked.
"Please, no questions. Just hurry before your dad gets home. Okay?" My mom said wiping the tears from her eyes.
"Okay.." I say.
Eventually we end up throwing our stuff in the back of her vehicle, squeezing in as much as possible. We quickly drive away from our L.A home and leave for the extended amounts of highway.
"Mom, where are we going? Why are leaving?" My twin brother Matthew asks.
"We're going to stay with Taryn and her two sons, Ethan and Grayson. You remember them don't you?" Mom says.
"Wasn't that your bestfriend when we were younger? Where do they live now?" I say before Matthew has the chance to say anything.
"Yes, and she still is, and New Jersey." My mom replies.
"Why are we even leaving? Is it dad?" I ask.
My mom focuses on the highway, passing and dodging the vehicles. A tear falls down her cheek, and she wipes it away quickly. She doesn't say anything, and was clearly trying to avoid the question.
"Gracie please, no more questions. I will talk to you when we get there." She says.
"It's our fucking dad, we have a right to know. Were just leaving him there. What happened?" I grunt.
She never answered.
Throughout the last few years my mom and my dads relationship has been rough, actually, extremely rough. All the arguing, and never getting along. The emotional abuse, and sadly enough, even physical. The police ended up on our doorsteps a few times. Which made Matt and I the spot light in our schools, we were known as the 'fucked up kids' with the even more 'fucked up parents' so clearly our reputation wasn't good. We ended up changing schools multiple times due to this constant harassment. People everywhere are harsh, I believe we're all equal, no matter the race, the ethnicity, the religion, but the thing is, were not treated equally.
Days later we ended up at Taryns house in Jersey, as soon as we pulled into the driveway Taryn ran out of the house, and mom quickly got out of the truck flying into her arms. They both immediately started crying. Matthew and I got out of the truck and stood outside waiting for Taryn to hug us, of course that's how it always was when we were little. Eventually she came up to us and gave us hugs Grayson first, me second. She left a wet mark on my shirt from her drenched face, but it didn't bother me.
She wiped her eyes then her nose and invited us all inside. She lead us to the third floor of the massive house, showing us to our rooms. Grayson and my mom got the rooms beside eachother, and mine was on the other side of the open balcony.
"The boys aren't here right now, but they should be soon. Today is the last day of school until summer so you'll have lots of catching up time." Taryn smiled.
"Cool, thanks Taryn. Lets unpack our stuff Gracie." Matthew said while opening the trunk.
I set the last box on top of the large queen bed. I sat down and pulled out my phone, sadly it was dead, and I had no idea where my charger was. Quickly I began searching through my boxes in hope of finding it, but I didn't.
The room I was staying in was gorgeous. It had an open concept with lots of room, a walk in closet and a full bathroom. Im so thankful for everything Taryn is doing for us.
After hours of unboxing I take a long hot bath. I shaved my legs and then had a very fast shower to wash my hair. After my shower I wrapped myself in a large white towel and then brushed my teeth. I walked into the bedroom and danced along to the music that was faintly playing in the bathroom a few feet over. I throw on some leggings, a Tommy Hilfiger sweatshirt, and topped it off with some Old Skool Vans, of course it was fine to look homeless, I just moved and I wasn't trying to impress anybody. Im also not the type of girl to wear like, any makeup.
I walk downstairs and there stands my mom and Taryn holding wine glasses.
"Where matt?" I ask.
"He is outside with the twins. I put them all up to some work. You're lucky you were busy hun." Taryn says and winks. "Can you bring them all some water?"
"Yeah of course." I smile.
She hands me three ice cold water bottles from the little refrigerator and I walk to the back door, as I step outside my eye catches one of the twins, Ethan Dolan. The most gorgeous boy i'd ever seen. I'm not even trying to be cheesy but wow, he was fucking gorgeous. Everything about him.
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Hey hey, so this story will be extremely long. I will update as much as I can. Leave some comments if you enjoyed it so far! (:
