After a lot of postponing, I'm finally getting to Part Two of my Ashlee story, continuing from Aubrey's point of view. I have a lot more to do with life lately, so the chapters probably will not be posted as fast as the last story, so thanks for having patience with me.
Warning! This story contains:
-Mild Language
-Teen parenting
-Drama!
-Homosexuality
Don't like these things? Please avoid reading this story.
Rating: PG-13 of course!
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INTRODUCTION:
Things have changed in the past year. Last time you heard from Ashlee, she was a senior in high school. She has since then headed off to college, so I decided to continue her story for her. Ashlee and Ayah are still together, both attending school at Berkley University in California. We all miss them, and we talk to Ash everyday. She has been doing well in school, but since it’s her freshman year, her old school nickname of “Smashedly Dawson” has come out of retirement. I’m sure things will chill out when she gets her freedom out of her system a bit. She and Ayah are both getting good grades and Ashlee has decided to get her Bachelor’s degree in psychology. Ayah is still sticking with dental assistant, but she may turn it into an actual dentist career.
After Ashlee moved away, my mom started to have no reason to want to stay in RiverBlossom Hills. So after she spent time looking for places close to California, she decided on a small town in southern Nevada called Dusk Valley. I asked her why we didn’t actually move to California itself, and Mom said that:
a) it was too expensive to live there
b) she wanted to still give Ashlee and Ayah their space, but be close enough for frequent visits.
It made sense. Ashlee was probably happy to be out on her own, and didn’t want her family taking up all of her time and space. With where she decided to move us, we were only about an 8 hour drive away from where Ashlee lived. The house that Mom found was a relatively cute little place. The outside of the home was weathered, but the inside was in good condition, and the rent was pretty cheap. Mom made sure to talk with the owners and make sure that the house couldn’t possibly be haunted, and when everything was okayed, we moved. This is our new home:
Things were going sour in RiverBlossom Hills. People were getting to be either very phony or very cruel to our family. Between me being a teen mother, Carrie having a mental handicap, my mom expecting her 6th child from a different father, and Ashlee being a lesbian, we hardly heard the end of it, through the grapevine usually. The town just got to the point of being a poisonous environment and it was really time to go.
So, we moved four months after Ashlee did, last December. We celebrated Christmas in our new house, and the girls came home for a visit. It was a good way to make the new house feel like a home. About a week later, Mom took me and Adam to get us signed up for school. I am continuing my freshman year of high school at Sunrise Valley High School, as the new kid, and I have to say, I am really nervous. But I’m ready!
Everyone seems to be adjusting well, though. Mom’s advice column is still raking in money, and she is feeling like she has more significance in her life. She is able to stay home with the kids, and do her work at the same time. And since she is new in town, she hasn’t met any new people to have to decide where they stand in her life. She says that she wants things to be calm and quiet for a while, before she goes out and makes friends with anyone. She enjoys the peace for now. She has even made up with Grandma, and they are talking frequently over the phone.
Adam is happy with this new town. He has already made friends with a couple of neighbor kids, so he is finding his place. He’s doing well in school. He has always been a smart boy. He is just kind of a hyper-active brat at times. But he’s Mom’s little man, and she pretty much lets him get away with the little things. It’s been so good for him, this move. He has changed and started to blossom. Before, he was kind of a geeky shut-in. Now he has become athletic, and fun, and he is always going to the park to play soccer with the neighbor kids. I also have to say, he has become happier and much more helpful at home.
As for me, I am now 15 years old, and my little angel Carrie just turned a year old. She is getting along normally for her condition. She can roll over, crawl, sit up, and eat certain foods with her hands. She loves to smile and laugh with my little brother and sister. She plays well and she can say “mama” now. She’s starting to look more and more like me as she gets older, so says my mom.
Mom tells me I looked almost identical to how Carrie looks now when I was her age. She’s my precious little one, and I love her so very much. She is reaching her milestones very well, and the way I see it, she is a smart little girl.
By the way, she plays hard and crashes out like any little girl her age.
See?
When it comes to me being in school, I was still at the top of my class. This year, I am on a fast program so I can graduate quicker than my regular class. But I don’t do any extra curricular activities anymore because I just don’t have the time. I have had to grow up a lot after having Carrie. I go to school, and I come home. That’s it. I don’t go hang out with friends. But then again, I have not made many friends here. Nobody here even knows that I have a kid. It isn’t that I’m ashamed of Carrie, because I’m not. I just don’t want the nonsense from people. It really isn’t any of their business. I’m not in school to make friends or let people look into my personal life. School is school, just to learn for now, and keep going on after I get my diploma.
I haven’t figured out what I want to do for college, and what I want to be in my life. But I have time. I am going to be in high school until I’m 16 or 17. Either 2 or 3 years, depending on how many extra classes I can take. I need 23 credits to finish high school. And this is my first year. I’m already taking 6 classes, each semester is .5 of a credit. Two semesters of each class gives me 6 credits by the end of the year. By that rate, it will take me over 3 years to get my diploma. So I am taking extra classes. I only have 1 extra class this semester (which is dual credit for college), but each of the semesters is 1 credit so by the end of the year with just that one class (part 1 and 2) I will have 8 credits. So I’m looking at 2.5 years of school.
Hope you all liked the intro, I will post the first chapter soon!! Comments welcomed/craved!
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