Family heartbreak acceptance and freedom

Chapter 2

My family was against my mum being with her boyfriend Craig. They could tell that there was something not quite right about him from the start, but me and my mum thought he was a nice guy at first. He would take us out, we would go on holidays, and just do stuff like a family should do. I was still young then, though, when my mum first met him. I was 14, going on 15 at the time, but all that changed when we left my hometown in Yorkshire, England, and we then had to uproot our life to Chicago, America. To be honest, I didn't mind the flying; I quite liked it, even if it was my first time on an airplane. But for me, it was just the distance away from my family and friends. I will miss them, but I thought that me and my mum would have had a lovely new life and family, but how wrong we were. If we had known what the move entailed, then I would have asked my mum if we could have stayed back home.

We were so isolated back at Craig's house that it felt like there were no life signs around the place, not even a bird or an ant; that is how quiet it was here. His house is a very nice house, though. It had very large bedrooms and a nice big kitchen that me and Mum could cook our homemade meals in, which I loved to do with Mum. She always made the best homemade cakes and pastries, and I got them from her; she taught me everything she could to do with cooking. Craig's house also had a swimming pool out back, which we weren't allowed to use much, though, as he said that it was his area and his area only. The only time we could really use the pool was when he had his friends over to make his friends believe that we were always a perfect and loving family.