Chapter1
I sat on my bed in a silent fume. I was annoyed, let me tell you annoyed. The empty boxes on the floor taunting me. I looked at my taylor lautner poster on my wall,staring at it as if he would have all the answers. His chest gleamed as the sun from my window hit it. He was smiling at me as if to say, your life is over. I quickly looked away.
The bright turquoise walls of my room hurt my eyes this early but i was forced to wake up early and start packing. Yea right as if i would. Maybe if i didn't make my parent's wouldn't make me move. I set my feet on the cold hard wood floor.
I shuffled into the bathroom and striped out of my blue silk night gown. Into the hamper it went, it made a resounding thud as if an omen to how this year was going to go. I reached inside my shower curtain and turned the shower on. While it was heating up i brushed my teeth. I grabbed a green towel from under the sink and set it on the toilet seat and climbed into the shower. The hot water hit me and i felt better. I was still ticked off at my parent's.I opened my raspberry peach body wash and put some on a loffa and ran it over my skin. I washed the body wash off and ran my head under the water to wet it. I put some of my apple cranberry shampoo in and rinsed it out. Then i repeated with my conditioner. I sat on the side of the tub and shaved my legs. When i was all clean i got out and dried off.
I walked back into my room and opened my closet door. It always hit Chace crawford in the face. "Sorry Chase." I said as i did most mornings. I rummaged through my clothes and pulled out a blue spaghetti strap dress. It had navy straps and a blue line below my bust. Very cute. I put on some blue flip flops that matched and wrapped my towel around my hair so it could be drying.
The boxes still taunted me. They were so high in one point they almost covered up Chad Michael Murray which made me hate the boxes even more. Okay so you guessed it. We're moving. I guess i should explain. I grew up in sunny Florida. It was great. We went to the beach, i mean i learned to surf at the age of five! But last week it all came crashing down. Let me go back and tell you what happened.
I walked down stairs and found my parents sitting on the couch. "What are you guys doing?" I asked. "Oh Lexi! Come sit, we have some really great news!" My mom said. "Oh jeez you're not having another baby are you?" I asked, only because my parents had trouble having me.
"What? Oh no, what your mother and i wanted to talk to you about is...well our lives are fixing to change drastically." "So you're having twins?" I asked, shocked. I don't know how all that works but when you hit a certain age you shouldn't be allowed to have kids anymore and my parents are that old.
"No no." My mother said shaking the thought off. "We're moving." She said smiling and clasping her hands together. The huge smile on her face told me she was in fact not kidding. "What do you mean moving? What's wrong with were we live now?" I asked shocked. "Nothing dear it's just well, i'm not getting any younger." She said. I snorted. "Young lady." My dad gave me a look. "Sorry ok, so you want to move. Well that sounds fun. I mean you should." I said. "I'm sorry hon, but we're all moving." I laughed hard. My dad joined in. "Oh you thought we would leave you here? Oh man that's rich." I narrowed my eyes at him. "That's...what? Moving? But i...senior year...and well friends...but boyfriend." I couldn't even talk.
"Yes your father and have i have been talking and we have some big dreams cooked up, that we could never afford to pursue until now."My mom said clearly ignoring my protest. "Right...so go ahead tell me what the big dream is and how far were moving." I said throwing my hands up.
"Well your father and i have been scoping out real estate in Colorado." My mouth fell open. "Do you have any idea how far that is!?" I was getting upset. I couldn't help it i had a life here, and a life that i liked. Good friends and a boyfriend! "It won't be that bad." Said my father giving me a reassuring glance. "No you don't understand i will freeze i am used to sun, hello i've lived in Florida all my life and so have you guys what are you thinking moving us to a barren wasteland." "I'm sure it won't be that bad." My father said. "I'm sure it will, can you tell me why were moving that far?"
"Well ok, get ready for this...We are going to open our very own christmas town." I wanted to laugh did she not know that Christmas was only one month a year!? "Why are you doing this to me?" I groaned. "We want to do this, we think it will be a great investment into our future." "Ok fine i get that but what are you going to do the other 11 months out of the year?!" I asked.
"You don't understand this isn't just for December it's for all the months. See they get a great deal of snow there. In Colorado we found this great theme park that has been run down for years and then there was also land next to it with a ski lift and alot of mountain space." "Ok?" I needed more information.
"There is an old inn there as well and tons of shopping centers." "But why Colorado?" "It's where we want to move. Just hear us out. We are going to convert them into bakery's where we can sell hot chocolate, baked goods and christmas cookies and candy, a toy store, a store for christmas decorations. We'll have christmas lights up all year round, a huge train that goes around the whole entire perimeter and you can ride it. We'll fix up the theme park and make it all christmas themed. We'll have something for everybody's needs. Santa claus and a nativity scene. Hanuka, Kawanza. It's going to be great!"
I still could not believe my parents were this serous about this. "So you guys have already thought this through." "Well yes of course we put a down payment down two weeks ago." I jumped up from the couch outraged. "So why even bother talking to me at all it's not like i have a say in the matter if i say no then what? You're gonna cancel the whole thing? This is so not fair in three months i will be starting senior year!! You could have waited ONE YEAR You are being selfish!!!!" I screamed about to cry.
"We've checked into the schools there they are all highly rated." "So is the one i already go to." "Yes but.." "I'll move in with Jenna or Hanah." "No you will not, you are going to come with us. We'll find you a job. You can be an elf or something." My mom said cheerily." "I don't think so." "Well fine, but you're still coming with us." My dad said firmly. I was pacing the living room at this point. I could not believe my parents were actually going to go through with this cooky idea of theres. Why now, why when i was so close to finishing up senior year. I will have to make new friends.
"Did you ever think i'm going to stick out like a sore thumb. I look just like everybody else here. What do people there look like? White and all bundled up. I don't like to bundle up. I don't like being pasty white. I like the sun." "Well i assume you'll want to bundle up its cold there, and you can take up skiing or snowboarding." My dad said trying to cheer me up. "It's not working." I said grumpily.
"Look i know this is a lot to take in, i know this. So take all the time you need, but i need you to start packing up your room." My mom said. As soon as i heard the word paking i started to look around the room. Most everything was gone and already packed up. "Woah when are we moving!?" I asked falling back into the couch. "Oh a few days or so, we need to get down there and get all this under way before the season hits. This will be vacation central." Dad nodded enthusiastically.
"No dad THIS is vacation central who in their right minds would want to go to some stupid snow town to freeze their butts off when they could come here?!" I screamed. My mom gave me a look and stormed out of the living room. Great now i've hurt her feelings don't they care how i feel!? I got up to go find my mother so i could talk to her.
She was sitting on the steps outside crying. "Mom look i'm sorry if i hurt your feelings but this is kind of a shock to me." "I know and i'm sorry i didn't mean to ambush you, it's just we started making the plans as a dream and then they started to come true."She said. "Well i do know how much you love christmas." "I do, and i have so many different ideas you don't even know." "Well you've told me some what are the others." "Well i'm going to have a hands on store. One of my favorite things was to make gingerbread cookies with your grandmaw." "The same ones we make." I said smiling remembering my grandmother who had passed away a few years ago.
"Yea, and kids can do all kinds of crafts there. This will be a place for the whole family." "Fine if i have to go then you need something for people my age." I said. "Exactly what i was thinking and who would know what they enjoy better than you?" She asked. "I can help?" "Of course you can we are not doing this without you it is a family affair." "Good." I said. And trust me it wasn't because i meant it. I was hoping i could still get out of this. But if they were mad at me they wouldn't even listen to any ideas of me staying.
"I'm overwhelmed to tell you the truth there is just so much we have to do." "Like what, i'll do what i can to help you." I said hoping i was selling it. "Well the movers are coming in three days to take everything over there. Then were going to drive down in the car. We'll meet the movers there. They will unload it all. We are going to have some contractors come in the next day we have a lot of work to do on the house."
"House...we have a house there?" I asked although i knew that we would. I was just hoping i'd get to help pick one out. I mean it's the least they could've done. "Yes it's a nice house two stories victorian style it goes in well with the theme. Once all the workers get through with the house then the real work begins." "Ok well let's just start with that first." I said placing a hand on her arm. "Thank you Lexi i can't do this without you." She said giving me a hug.
"Well i guess i better start packing." I said standing up. I left my mom sitting on the front steps. My dad was gone from the couch when i came inside i figured he was getting started. I hated being nice sometimes, because now i'm moving to some run down town that my mom has decided she wants to turn into some christmas town. I didn't want to do this at all. But i suppose there was no getting out of it.
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