The Sun Rises In The East || Chapter 1

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(Note Before you start to read: Remember this is my first draft so I might change some events that happened and I still have to edit it, so if the grammar isn't the best that's why.) Chapter 1 I didn’t think this day would come already but it did and here I was packing my suitcase to visit my grandparents in a small town called Willow Wood Grove. I vowed to never go back there when I moved from Willow Wood to Houston Texas. But I guess I can’t keep every promise I make to myself. I was bullied a lot when I lived there. It could have been because of my braces or maybe it was because of my frizzy un-brushed hair but I never knew why they bullied me they just did. I never had friends living there. I always sat alone during lunch or school events. And the bullying got so bad that we had to move. That’s how I found myself in Houston Texas living in one of the tallest apartments in the city. My sister Estelle didn’t get bullied nearly as much so she was pretty devastated when we had to leave and blamed it on me when we did. She had all these friends and was part of this popular girls group. But she was only 10 so life was pretty easy for a 5th grader. I was 12 so I was in 7th grade or about to start 7th grade when we left. In only 2 years of living here in Houston I found true friends who are way nicer than what I found there. Going back will be reliving every bullying I had again. I hoped that the kids that bullied me would be anywhere but in Willow Wood for the summer. That hope helped me not to beg to stay here as much as I did yesterday. Yesterday I told my parents that I could just stay with my Aunt Mia who only lives 30 minutes away while the rest of the family went to our old town but they argued it was a family trip, which was true. 4 And both my mom and Aunt Mia believe it or not are sisters, they haven't been talking to each other for a little more than half a year. It was because of some family drama that no one will tell the kids about, something about us being too young but I think it has something to do with the fact that mom has 3 kids and Aunt Mia has none. Yes, I do have another sibling. She's older than me. She just turned 20 this year and her name is Adeline. Addie got engaged a few months ago so this summer she and her fiance Daniel decided to visit his parents here in Houston. When we moved here we found a church that my Aunt Mia recommended that’s where Addie met Daniel. The year we moved here they both got accepted into the same college in Dallas Texas. That’s probably why Aunt Mia is angry because she loves kids and she’s been so passionate about having kids. She’s wanted children since she was 8. Aunt Mia is even 3 years older than my mom but she and her husband Uncle Leo have not been able to have a child even after 15 years of being married. The idea of me staying with Aunt Mia was immediately shut down but I still tried to convince them even though I knew they would say no. “Aurora, I don’t see why it’s so hard to understand that you aren’t going to stay.” My mom said to me when I begged her to let me stay for the 100th time. My moms name is Gianna which means ‘Gift from God’. My mom says that all names have meanings and you have to be careful naming your children. Estelle, my little sister’s name means star and Adeline, my older sister’s name means noble. My name, Aurora means Dawn. 5 I have no idea why my parents named me that because aren't the meaning of your name is supposed to be special, and dawn isn’t really special. “But what if Ellie Hammond and Alexa Martin are around?” I whined. Ellie and Kate were some of the girls that bullied me. They were the girls that bullied me the most. “You don’t have to worry about that Aurora , those girls are older now so they know better.” My mom told me. “I don’t know, it's only been 2 years.” I argued “Then there’s only one way to find out if they’ve changed and that is to see for yourself.” She said. “Fine, it’s not like I even have a choice.” I decided. She hugged me and said “Don’t worry, you’ll be happy once you see your grandparents again.” My mom was right. It's been 2 years since I've seen them and under all of this dread of running into one of my bullies, was the happiness on my grandparents faces when they saw me and the happiness I'll feel when I see them.