Opposite Attracts - Lynn Loud Jr

Chapter 6 - Something is missing

Estella's POV :

It had been about a week since we moved to Royal Woods . We arrived last Friday , and it was currently Sunday .

Everything was going well , the classes were so much easier than before at my old school and I had made a few friends . The teachers were fine with me and no one seemed to dislike me .

Although Ms Tyte didin't seem to stop fussing over the fact that I moved from Sydney . What kind of stereotypical bitch was she ?

I know I had to give myself a little bit of time to adapt and adjust to my new life , especially because we moved very far from home but I couldn't help myself from feeling like something was missing from my life .

There I was , on a Sunday night , trying to figure out what was missing - why I felt so empty after moving . I think I might have killed a few brain cells in the process . I blamed the time difference between Sydney and Michigan and my fucked up sleep schedule - which was more of a sleep freestyle by now .

After about an hour or so , give or take a little , I narrowed it down to four options . Maybe it was my mom , maybe it was my friends,  maybe it was my home . Or maybe it was my sports .

First of all , missing my mom was obvious but it was a feeling that I had gotten so used to , even while living under the same roof , that it didin't bother me at all anymore . If you told 11 year old me that I don't care about my mom anymore , I would've laughed in your face - or questioned my whole entire life choices .

Second of all , I was shocked to feel like I don't miss my friends as much as I probably should . They weren't exactly the most amazing and wholesome people I ever met , but I had to settle for them at the time .

Back at my old school , there wasn't a single healthy friend group where everyone liked each other . There was always some sort of drama or beef going on with atleast two of the group's members . I'm glad that I don't have to be apart of that mess anymore .

Third of all , my home was never that important to me . If you had asked me to run away with you and never come back to it , I would've probably accepted .

The environment was toxic and my parents were always arguing . I basically kept our house from falling apart . I did the chores , ran the errands , fixed the furniture , watered our plants ... Basically everything you did to keep a home , well , homey .

Fourth of all , sports . Yes , that was it . I missed dance , gymnastics and figure skating . Nothing less , nothing more , nothing else . I wanted my teammates back , the feeling of celebrating after a win and gossiping in the classes . It was as simple as that .

I let out a sigh of relief when I finally figured out what was bothering me and I was even more relieved when I realized that it was the easiest option to fix out of the four .

I had to admit , going from training for several sports , several hours a week to doing none of that did leave me feeling a bit more done with life than I expected .

I heard that the tryouts don't open till the second week of school - that was tomorrow . All I needed to do was go find a dance team , or a gymnastics team , or a figure skating team . There had to be atleast one of the three options available at my new school , right ?

My eyes were getting heavy and my thoughts started disappearing . Before I knew it , I was asleep .

At 7 AM , my alarm rang , I wasn't complaining tho . I love it - although I love sleep too .

"Welcome back queen Serena , you can consider us your humbled servants . Because if looks could kill , we wouldn't wanna be Dan Humphrey"

The ring tone I had put on as a dare but kept after it lowkey grew on me .