Category : Stories

Sub Category : Romance

June 17 2001

      Kelli
"Mom I am going to take a break." I say as I open the front door to the house I had called home for the last four years. I sit on the front steps and think this is the last sunset I will see here in Missouri tomorrow by this time we will back at Grandpa's in Nebraska as much I have missed him and the rest of the family I wish I could be selfish just once in my short 17 years well after tomorrow 18 years. I mean why do we have to move tomorrow on my 18th birthday and only 2 days after my high school graduation any way? I worked hard my entire high school career so that when the time came I would get scholarships so that i could go to college... which paid off in the end. I got accepted into Columbia university with enough scholarships that i wouldn't have to take the full Fasfa amount, but a month ago my Mom decided that she wanted to move back to Nebraska after my step Dad passed away. I tried to talk her into letting me still go to Columbia but she made me feel so guilt about it that i decided to move with her to help take care of my sister and my brother. I promised myself that i would just take the fall quarter off and apply to UNL.
  "Hey Kel," I look up to see Nick and Levi. " what are you thinking about you look sad?"
 What the hell I think to myself. Nick and I dated three years ago he was my first real boyfriend and first love but he broke my heart when he broke up with me two weeks before prom my freshman year. We hadn't talked since so why is he here?
I put a smile on my face and walk over to Levi's truck I lean on it, "Just taking a break from packing we leave for Nebraska tomorrow."
 "Oh well how long will you be gone this summer?" Nick asks as he brushes a piece of my hair out of my eye.
 So he hadn't heard that we were moving " Umm I'm not coming back Nick. Momma has decided that she needs the support from her family."
 Nick grabs my hand and looks at me, "Oh Kel I am so sorry to hear about Richard I meant to come over and give my condolences but didn't know if I was welcome after the way things ended between us. I had a lot of respect for that man. How is Kathy handling things?"
 " At first she shut completely down so I quit cheer and chior so I could help more with Millie and Ricky. Then one day she came to me and told me we were moving back to Nebraska. "
 "What about your scholarship to Columbia?" Levi asked I had forgotten he was in the truck too.
 I look down, "I told them thank you for accepting me but I wouldn't be able to attend."
 Nick turned up my chin so that we were looking at eachother..oh how i can loose myself in his sea green eyes. " Kelly Ann that was all you ever talked about. I mean you hardly ever went out because you were so focused on school and thats not a bad thing but to get it and then walk away.. ."
 i pull away, " Your right it was what I wanted but then life happened and now Momma needs me more then ever. I plan on taking the fall off and applying to UNL. But what is it to you Nick? Why are you here on my door step the night before I move? I mean we haven't talked in three years and here you come juding me because I have decided to wait to go to college for a semester." as soon as the words were out of my mouth I felt guilty and I could tell my the look in Nick's eyes that what i said had hurt him so I turn around and head for the house before he could see how it hurt me to say that to him or the tears that were threatening to fall. 
Before I even made it three steps Nick was out of the truck , he grabbed my arm to stop me