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2020-10-12 15:58:17So I also closed my eyes and enjoyed the warmth of the sun, which after a while became clearly too warm.
My thoughts wandered back to my past. I thought of my mom, she died in a car accident three years ago, just like my brother Matt. He was just 14 years old at the time. Matt and I always got along pretty well. That seemed unusual among siblings, but our small age difference must have welded us together. After all, he was only ten months older than me and that was why we had done almost everything together.
After losing my mother and brother, neither my dad nor I wanted to stay in our old house. We had therefore decided to move from Seattle to California and were happy about the distance we had gained.
It was much warmer in California than in Seattle, which I personally really liked. The weather was much nicer here and you could also tell that it had rubbed off on the people in the area. They were much more fun and spontaneous than my old neighbors in Seattle.
My mind wandered back to Lacey, who was sort of the school diva and ordered everything and everyone around, except me, of course. I knew Lacey since I was a child, and we used to climb trees and conquer sandcastles together. That's probably why we were still so good friends, even if our interests diverged on many points and we were no longer as close as we used to be.
In the company of others she was a real beast and was as deep as a paddling pool. However, when you were alone with her, you could really have a lot of fun. Unfortunately, you couldn't tell her everything that was on your mind. Sometimes she was just too insensitive and talkative for that.
When someone, probably Lacey, tapped me on the head, I was forced to open my eyes and look at her.
"Wake up, honey," she purred.
"Hmm," I just grumbled.
"I'm going now. It's already six o'clock! I'm about to have dinner. You know how stinky my mother gets when I'm late."
"Yeah, just go," I muttered.
"Don't you want to accompany me to the door?" She asked, pouting. Any man would probably kneel for that pout. It's good that I wasn't a man, because something like that didn't work for me.
"You're right. After all, someone might come by on the way to the door who could kidnap you or someone who wants to exploit you," I joked with exaggerated sarcasm.
"That's exactly what I meant," she said and nodded affirmatively.
She seemed to have completely ignored my irony, or not even noticed. How did you say so beautiful? "Blond and blue-eyed"?
Since I didn't want to argue any further, I silently accompanied her to the door. Lacey scurried across the street and waved to me again before slamming her own apartment door behind her. I sighed annoyed. She really would never change.
It was just after six when the question arose of what else I could do today. But that took care of itself when my father came to me, along with his serious expression.
"Okay, now you have time. We really need to talk, it's important," my dad said. It seemed like he was waiting for this moment.
Behind his back I just rolled my eyes in annoyance and wondered what I'd done this time. Maybe I forgot something?
So I let myself fall into the big upholstered armchair so that I was now sitting across from my father, who had already made himself comfortable on the white philistine couch.
"All right. The summer vacation ends tomorrow and originally you wanted to go to the university in Phoenix, but it's just something ... well ..." ordinary "and in my opinion you deserve a little ..."
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