Novels by saltedpepper45

After spending a good few hours in the mall we had decided to head home. It was almost 5pm and they headed to the beach at 7. “I’ll see you guys soon”. As I entered the house my mouth watered at the smell of steak.In the kitchen my gran stood at the stove, a glass of wine in her hand. The kitchen was spotless and a new cooker had been fitted.“Something smells great”.“I’ll fix you a plate. Go get cleaned up”.“Do you mind if I go out for a little while tonight?”. My gran had never stopped me from doing anything but I always did ask for her permission. I wanted to go to the beach but I wasn’t big on the idea of leaving my gran on her own in a new place.“As long as you’re in by 2 and you’re not drinking then by all means go have some fun”.I wasn’t legally old enough to drink yet but that didn’t stop me from having a few. I’ve never got to the point where I’ve been wasted. I’ve always been careful when it came to that. I knew she knew that I drank sometimes but it was never something

I wasn’t tired yet. My mind wouldn’t turn off. Ever since we got here everything has been weird. From the moment we stopped at that gas station. Taking out my phone I added Alanna’s number to my contacts. Opening up a new message I began to type.‘Its Leah, sorry if I came across as a bitch. Didn’t mean to be. New town and all that. Thanks for being so welcoming :)’After hitting send I didn’t wait to long for a reply.‘Just a little bit of a bitch lol I’m joking!! Sorry about my brother. Told you he was a bit of an ass but he does have a good heart. Anyways do you want to go for coffee tomorrow? my treat’ A x’I didn’t know if I should mention what her brother did or just keep it to myself.‘Coffee sounds good 🙂 you can fill me in on what goes on around here and what you do for fun lol’Okay so I decided to keep it to myself.‘I’ll pick you up at 11. Night Leah, Ax’Switching my phone to silent I closed my eyes hoping I’d drift off to sleep.….I was crabbit.The couch wasn’t comfor

Then I heard the voices.My hands were bloody, my knee grazed but I’d be fine. A little embarrassed but at least it was dark and no one else saw.“Need a hand little one?”.Little one?“Jake”. Alanna warned.Glancing up a gasp fell from my lips. Who was he and where did he come from? Wait why didn’t he have a shirt on? Was I dreaming? I couldn’t look away, couldn’t break our stare.“You shouldn’t talk to your older brother like that Alanna”. He finally looked away and I felt like an idiot.4 guys were stood outside my house shirtless.It was freezing.Blinking a few times, I think I may have hit my head on the way down to. Why didn’t they have shirts on?Wiping my hands on my jeans I got to my feet. Everything that was inside the box was now scattered all over the driveway. Sighing I went around picking up all my things.“Jake, please just go away”. She begged.He didn’t. He stood staring and I was starting to feel a little uncomfortable. That soon disappeared when I noticed what he w

Closing the car door, I grinned. She knew how much I was addicted to sugar. Passing her coffee, I glanced back at the gas station as we drove away, 4 guys stood outside staring directly after our car.Yeah, because that wasn’t odd.“I like sugar”. I grinned sticking another twizzler in my mouth.“You won’t be saying that when your teeth fall out”. She turned onto the highway picking up speed. “How are you really feeling about all of this?”.“Ask me again in a month”. I couldn’t bring myself to tell her because I didn’t want to upset her. She thought this was the best thing for us and I was going to try and make it work.“I know you weren’t big on the idea of moving but I think you’ll love it here. All I’m asking is that you try and make it home. Texas is beautiful, the people are friendly and I think we’ll fit in perfectly”.I would give her the benefit of the doubt. I would try but that’s not to say it would be easy. Making new friends was, starting over again was hard.“I’ll try but

I would miss the sun, the long summer nights. The beach being right on my doorstep. I would miss a lot of things. Chewing the inside of my cheek I stood staring at the sold sign. I had lived in Florida my whole life.You see it was just my gran and I. My mom died during childbirth and I didn’t know my dad. He wasn’t really someone we talked about.“Still staring at that sign, I see”.Today was another day closer to leaving. She was uprooting us to Texas. Change was good apparently. I didn’t want to move, didn’t want to start all over in a new place.My friends were here, my boyfriend was here. For being eighteen my life was pretty good. I got good grades; I had a part time job. I liked where I was at right now. She knew how I felt about leaving but that didn’t matter. She had made up her mind.“Leah, you’ll make new friends, you’ll get a new boyfriend. We need to do this sweetheart. Change is good”.I didn’t want new friends and I didn’t want a new boyfriend. My gran wasn’t Tommy’s bi