Chapter 4 - Arrived In NJ

2 hours later…
“Honey we are here” Mum says
“Mmmmahhh” I slur out.
“Hey Niecey” Kerrie says
“ OH MY GOD” I yelled as I ran out the car.

I hug her and she hugs back.“You will so love it here especially with me around till your mum gets a place,” she says.

I look over at the door and see a man.
“Umm Kerrie who’s that?” I question her.
“ Oh him he's a mate of mine” she replies.

“ Hey Jimmy come here and meet my sis and niece” she yells to him.

He walks over and greets me first.

“Heya umm…”
“Jacquie but you can call me Jac. Well anyway hey Jim I’m guessing,” I say.
“ Yeah but I prefer Jimmy it makes me sound fly” He says trying to be cool and ends up falling over. Me my Mum and Kerrie burst into laughter. I give him my hand to help him up.“ Nah I wouldn’t want you to strain your back” he says. I laugh and pull him up really easy. His jaw looks as if it’s almost unhinged. “ Whoa your really strong you could be like a boxer or a wrestler or a ...” He is cut off by my mum “ I really don’t want here to be violent she’s gotten herself in a lot of trouble with violence”. “ Oh what hit a kid once in kinder?” he says as if he knows everything. “ Umm actually Why don’t you tell him Jacquie?” Mum says to me. I Blush “ Umm I recently punched a girl in the face and I just got expelled from yet another school” I say kinda embarrassed. He looks at me with his jaw looking as if it’s unhinged again. I laugh nervously and blush yet again.

“ Oh well yeah ANYWAY I think we better start putting your stuff into the house before it gets really dark” i say trying to change the topic.

“Yep oh yeah I hope you guys like hamburgers cause that’s we are having” Kerrie says.
“Umm Kerrie I don’t feel like anything is that okay?” I say.
“Oh sure kiddo” She replies and gets a box and takes it in.

I decide I want to take my own stuff in but stupid ‘Mr Muscles’ Jimmy says he will do it for me. I look around the house.

There are some awesome swords and daggers around on the walls.

“Oh you like this sorta stuff?” Jimmy says. I jump I wasn’t expecting him.
“Oh sorry didn’t mean to startle ya” he apologises.
“ Its okay and yeah I do like this sorta stuff but I think its kinda dangerous to have like hanging on a wall” I say to him.
“ Nah not really well maybe a little but don’t worry they've got extra blu tack and nails to hold em up,” he says jokingly.
I laugh and he shows me the room I will be sleeping in.
“WOW” I say as I enter the room “ It’s huge”.
“ Yeah it’s the biggest room in the house we used it as storage now we use the garage” He says.
“Wait you live with Kerrie?” I ask him.
“Oh yeah BUT we are only friends I sleep in a different room well actually now I sleep on the sofa since ya mums taken my room but don’t worry I prefer the sofa” He replies.

He walks out the room. I start to unpack and put stuff around the room.

30 minutes later…
“Dinner” Kerrie yells.
“Okay” I hear my mum reply and then Jimmy “ Yeah one minute I’m getting my sofa ready jokes I’m taking a piss”. I decide to yell out “ too much info”. And I hear everyone laugh. I love to hear people laugh it makes me feel a bit better.

“Are you sure you don’t want anything?” Kerrie yells out to me.“ No Thanks maybe just a drink of water I’ll come get it” I reply. I walk into the kitchen. It’s really quite small it’s smaller than the room I’m in at the moment. I go and look for a glass and finally find one and filled it with water. I started to drink it when I realised in the kitchen there was a skull on the counter I was like what the hell. I looked at it and then quickly put my glass of water down and ran and got one of my drawing pads and a pencil and ran back and started to draw it.

18 minutes later…
I had just finished my drawing and as I did Jimmy came in and looked at. “Whoa that’s amazing it looks just like it,” He said. “ Oh I just saw it and you know felt it might be something good to draw” I said kinda embarrassed. “Well you are very talented” he said “ more then just a pretty face as they say” He laughed. “I’m not pretty,” I said. “Oh you are don’t be so harsh on yourself” he said trying to comfort me. “Yeah that’s what my mum says well I’m gonna go finish unpacking” I replied. “Umm sure” he replied and continued looking at my drawing till I took it away.

Man he is a freak I thought to myself. I went into my room and put my drawing pad on the desk in there. I went to my box of all my drawing supplies and started packing them into the draws except my drawing pads which I put on the desk in a neat pile.

I continued unpacking for a while till I heard a knock at the door.
“ Um yeah come in,” I quickly said putting some clothes into a drawer.
Mum walked in. “So what do you think Jac?” she said with a smile.
“Oh yeah the house is great” I replied putting more clothes into another drawer.
“ No I meant New Jersey,” she said laughing.
“Well I don’t know I’ve only just got here and I haven’t looked around” I replied.
“ Well okay by the way we have already set you up for a school around here you start in 2 days time isn’t that great?” she said trying to make it sound fun.
“ Mum I don’t want to go to school its gonna be the same as always I’m gonna get teased and left out in other words be the fucken outcast can’t I get a tutor or something?” I replied angrily.
“Well maybe this school will be different you never know. Well anyway Hun you need to get some sleep please go to bed real soon okay cause you look really tired,” She said with a smile. She walked out of my room closing the door after her.

Why is she so fucken perky and happy I mean you just got bashed and your daughter has been expelled for the second time and she can’t make friends? Oh well I better get some sleep anyway mums right about something for once.

I look though another box and find my awesome skull pj’s. I put them on and slip under the covers and started to think of what school might be like here. I continued to think until I got into the bully side of things and I felt upset and decided just to try to fall asleep.