I’m finally on my own, alone. I just turned eighteen a couple of months 이전 and I got a job offer in Los Angeles California. I’ve been 글쓰기 since I could write and when I reached junior high I joined the new paper and I did the same in high school and in my 초 년 of high school I was offered a job as a reported for the Salem New Hampshire news paper and I accepted. My job threw the years had grown and now that I’m done high school I can take the job offer.
    Ya my parents were pissed when the found out I wasn’t going to collage but if 당신 think about it I was only going to go because I wanted to be a reporter and I got that before I ended high school so if 당신 think about it I only have to go to collage if I get fired 또는 quit from my job now. It took a couple months to pack all my stuff but it happened and I’m on my way to California right now.

    Okay were am I, I know I’ve been to New York and Ohio and I was just 또는 am in Illinois… wait MISSOIRI. Okay I know were I am. Maybe I should start 읽기 the signs that are around me. I don’t have the best sense of directions; I get that from my mother. I was thinking to my self every thing like what it was going to be like living a walk away from the Pacific Ocean and the people there the heat was defiantly something I couldn’t wait for. Living in New Hampshire the only heat 당신 got was in the summer and some days it could be beautiful in the morning and when lunch hits there could be a huge thunder storm and then in the after noon it could be gorgeous but it would be soaking wet and the only thing my mother would let us do it go swimming. I was the only person in my family that could wear black pants and a black long sleeve 셔츠 out in the sun with the tempter of a hundred and be fine.
    Déjà vu was something I got very often and it was right… most of the time. But I was felling it again. Here only in Missouri, why? Did I know some one here? Have I been here? I was driving know were I wasn’t heading to the high way I was fallowing my senses. I stopped when I came to a little lake. There were little kids splashing in the water and laughing the parents were sitting in the shade watching them 또는 읽기 doing something. I took my shoes off and walked over to the sand. It was hot but to be it was just a nice 일 out no to cold 또는 to hot. I walked to the waters edge. The water lightly slid over the 상단, 맨 위로 of my feet and I was gone. Every one in the water was gone but for…me and a boy about the same age I was at the time. Great another flash back vision. I was watching not remembering what 또는 when this happened. I could feel something bad about to happen but yet we all looked happy. Every thing was fine minuets passed and nothing happened. I was about to snap myself out of it when I saw a figure in the trees. I’ve never seen him before, have I? No. I was just about to fallow him but I was snapped out of it and back on the 바닷가, 비치 just like before. I looked over to where I had seen the man and walked over to the forest end. Nothing.
    “Annabella?” I stopped froze. Maybe I did know some one that was here. “Yes?” I turned around to face a familiar face I hadn’t seen in years. I had a huge smile spreading across my face and I walked toward her. “Grandma.” I had my arms open for a hug. “I knew there was a reason I had to stop a while here.” my grand mother had a smile on her face and held my with her hands on my arms. “Another feeling?” she asked wrapping her arm around my shoulder to walk into the shade. “Ya and I just had one of those flash back visions like 당신 get.” We were sitting on two fold up chairs she had brought for her and grandpa and from what I could tell grandpa was busy playing with the little kids in the lake.
    Grandma was the only family member I could relate to, because she got the visions like me I apparently get it from my dad’s side of the family. But she was there when I first got them. In fact I lived here with my grandparents for a little bit when I first got this “gift”, and that’s why I had to stop because I remembered this place subconsciously. I remember when ever something happened 또는 if I was bored my grandma would take me here and we would just sit in the water and talk.
    “Grandma did I know any one ells here like a male adult?” No 당신 don’t remember 당신 only had a couple of 프렌즈 and they lived in the neighbor 후드 and the only male adult 당신 really knew was your grandfather. Why?” I was looking at the forest and then looked back at my grandmother to see that she was confused. “I was just wondering that’s all.”
    We talked for ever and it started to get dark and I was getting hungry. “I would 사랑 to stay and talk for ever but I have to get something to eat and start back to California.” I stood up was about to say good bye to my grandpa but I was cut off “Why don’t 당신 come back to are house and 당신 can eat there for free and get a comfortable night sleep and then leave tomorrow unless your on a deadline. I smiled at her and gave her a tight hug. “I would 사랑 to.” She smiled back at me and yelled out to Grandpa. “Wendell your granddaughter is staying over tonight.” He stood up and walked towards us “Great that gives me and excuse to make my Zucchini Salad.” He walked up to me and wrapped his arm around me and hugged my tight. “Yes I haven’t had that in years.” I said giving him a huge.
    I drove my car to there house and we cooked out in the night. “How old are 당신 know.” My grandfather asked over at the grill. I leaned my head back so I could see him “Eighteen two months ago.” They both looked at me in shock. “Wow I thought 당신 were turning sixteen two moths 이전 I was off 의해 a couple of years.” My grandma said. “So why 당신 to California?” I turned in my chair trying to get comfortable. “I got promoted and I have to go to California. Instead of doing stories for a small town I get to write for a city. It was good timing to because I got the offer a week before I turned eighteen, though mom and dad aren’t to happy about me not going to collage but I don’t see a point I would just be quitting my job to do the same thing I’m doing right know I told them that if I stop doing this job I will be going to collage but I’ve been doing this for a very long time so I think I’m good plus I never really liked school so this works out good for me.” “Wow so 당신 have every thing planed out don’t you?” I took a sip of 레몬 에이드, 레모네이드 and smiled and my grandpa. “Yep and I’m going to be living in a nice apartment a half a mile away from the 바닷가, 비치 so with me loving to swim and the heat every thing just seems to be perfect but it’s like it’s to perfect like something bad is going to happen and rune everything.” Grandpa shut the grill 상단, 맨 위로 and walked over to us with a bowl full of his famous Zucchini Salad. “Well luck seems to be on your side right know just enjoy it while it last.” “Ya I know I learned that from 당신 two.”
    We ate and talked for three 더 많이 hours after and went inside. We talked about what was going to happen when I got to Los Angeles and that when I go 집 to visit my family I would have to stop in Missouri to visit them.
    “Here 당신 go 당신 can sleep on the pull out 침상, 소파 tonight. We still have a couple of blankest 당신 use to sleep with when 당신 lived with us and two pillows. 당신 do still sleep with two pillows right?” I smiled and nodded my head as I walked to the fridge to get a cold drink. “Why don’t 당신 guys have the air conditioning on?” grandma raised one eyebrow and looked at my grandfather “He refuses to buy a new one he keeps saying he can fix it but it’s been a 월 and he can’t get it fixed.” I walked over to the 표, 테이블 and set my drink down and walked over to it. “Can I have a screwdriver?” My grandfather walked over to his tool box and walked it over to me. In a matter of 초 it was working and on. “Look at that 당신 granddaughter can fix it in 초 and 당신 can’t fix it in a month,” she said hitting with the back of her hand on his chest. “Well we all know that didn’t come from are side of the family.” I laughed and hugged them good night.
    I walked into the bathroom and took my clothes off and turned to water on to cold. The water felt good considering I was hot and sticky and I smelt. I got changed and headed back to the 침대 and pulled out my note book and wrote down every thing that I had done to 일 including my flash back vision from how delicious the my grandfathers Zucchini 샐러드 was and then stuffed it back into my little duffle bag.
    That night was the best night sleep I had ever had since I started this trip. Sleeping in my car wasn’t comfortable because it was small and most of the beds in the motels weren’t comfortable and I didn’t have enough money to sleep in a hotel every night. One night would be about half of my money I had for 음식 and gas and for motels.
    My eyes slid open slowly to face the blinding sun that was right on my face. I stretched and then I caught the smell. My grandmother was making her French toast. That was my 가장 좋아하는 thing to eat in the morning when I lived here. I still have it every other morning except for the last couple of weeks I’ve been eating at diners and fast 음식 places. It was good to smell 음식 that wasn’t made my sweaty old guys in the kitchen.
    “Good morning. Where’s grandpa?” Grandma was moving things around in the fridge to find something. “Oh he’s out in the 차고 playing with his car. Go take a 샤워 and then come back down to eat. Okay sweetie?” I nodded and started to walk to the stairs. I stopped remembering that when I lived here that he was working on a car too. I turned to face my grandma. “Wait is it the same car that he was working on when I lived here?” She put her hands on her hips and smiled at me. “Yes every morning before breakfast and ever night before and after 공식 만찬, 저녁 식사 he works on it.” I smiled amused at the fact that it had been 더 많이 then eighteen 년 and he was still working on the car.
    I took a cool 샤워 this morning to a little warming but still cold. I brushed my teeth and put my hair up in a 조랑말 tail and then twirled it into a bun to get my hair off my neck because of the heat it would just make me hotter. I slipped on my knee long brown shorts and a plane dark green tang-top. I walked down to the 부엌, 주방 and the 음식 wasn’t finished so I decide to go see how much work my grandpa had gotten done on the car.
    As I walked towards that car there was some one ells in there he was leaning right up agents the roof of the car. He was shirtless and had shorts on and had a cup of 주황색, 오렌지 주스 in his hands. I was half way to the 차고 and screamed out to my grandfather. “Still working on the car ha?” my grandfather slid from under the car and the shirtless guy turned around and I looked up and him and froze right there the 초 I saw him.
    “No way Mitch?” he recognized me and smiled. “Oh my gosh.” I ran right to him and jumped right into his arms “It’s so good to see 당신 again it’s been nine years since the last time I saw you. 당신 look great. What are 당신 doing here? How have 당신 been? Did 당신 go and see the world like 당신 said 당신 wanted to?” He just looked at me and softly laughed. Mitch was twelve when I was nine he was the 다음 door neighbor before we moved to the neighbor 후드 that my grandparents are currently living in.
    “Ya I know it’s been to long. I come here every morning and help your grandfather with the car since 당신 went back home, I’ve been great everything’s been good for me and unfortunately I never got the chance to see the world like I hoped. How about 당신 how have 당신 been?” I was still shocked to see him I was having a hard time focusing. “Great, umm actually I got a job down in LA and I just stopped here to say hi to my grandparents.”
    “Breakfast is ready.” I heard my grandma holler from the 부엌, 주방 window. “I can’t believe 당신 remembered him but yet 당신 can’t remember that 당신 lived here for five years.” “Well my life has been very busy plus I was young I don’t even remember where I was two days ago.” Breakfast was great and I told Mitch everything I had done since he last saw me and where I was heading he told me about how he was now engaged and has a baby girl on the way. I couldn’t believe everything I was hearing he did everything.
    I packed up my stuff that I used and threw it in my car. “I 사랑 당신 guys.” I said standing right in front of my car door. I hugged them all goodbye and promised to visit soon. I got in my car a drove out of the drive way and blew then a 키스 before I turned the corner.
    I plugged in my I-pod to my car and turned up the volume. I had All time low’s Poppin Champagne and McFly’s Lie some Jesse McCartney’s new stuff and all the Backstreet Boys 음악 a couple 더 많이 artist were blaring from my car. I decide to turn off my air conditioning and open the two front window’s. I was now on my way to Kansas and heading to California.