Make Her See

Chapter 2

Chapter 2

Monica's POV

Today is a Saturday, I am moving into my student apartment. My parents are so excited on my behalf and I am happy I've made them proud and I will continue to do so. My mom isn't a fancy and dressing up type of mom and the same goes for my dad, that's where I got my style. My mom keeps her hair in an afro all the time and my dad has always kept his hair short and simple. They are a very good-looking couple. I forgot to tell you their names my mom and dad's names are Grace Davis and John Davis.

I left my packing for the last minute because I, Monica Davis is a procrastinator so I'm currently in my room packing up my last box when my mom calls me, "Monica sweetheart hurry up and finish we need to get going". I roll my eyes, "I'm coming mamabear, I'm almost done". My dad walks into my room and looks around and I just sit on the floor, watching him hold back tears, "Daddy, Are you okay?" I ask while standing up to face him, he looks down at me, "My babygirl is all grown up and leaving the house already, I can't help but be sad" he says while looking at me. I'm holding back my tears now urgh I hate crying and I've been crying a lot lately because I don't want to leave home either. "Daddy I'm going to be 2 hours away from you, so you can always come to see me and we have technology these days, so we'll video call," I said giving him a teary smile. He pulls me to him, and we sit on the bed and hug each other, my mom finds us like that and joins our hug, we stayed that way for almost 20 minutes.

My mom pulls away from the hug because she's the organizer in our little family and says, "Okay my babies its time to get going".

I picked up the box I was packing and hand it over to dad and I watch them leave my room. I turn around and take one last look at my empty room and I experience so many different emotions at the same time. I turn and close the door behind me and walk to the car that's waiting for me outside.

2 hours late we pull up the building where I'll be staying, and I see a lot more students with their parents helping them move in. Even though I won't be staying in a frat house I'm still close to campus and the different frat houses.

Dad gets out of the car, "Come on sweetheart time to help you unpack" I groaned hoping I was placed on one of the first three floors because with the chaos that's happening around me we might need to use the stairs. "I'm going to go get my keys and sign some paperwork," I tell my parents and they just nod at me.

I walk into the receiving area of the building and I see a big table in the middle of the area, and it's surrounded by comfortable-looking couches. I walk up to the lady sitting in the middle of the table who's busy with something on her computer. "Good morning," I say with a smile, she looks up from her computer with a smile on her face "Good morning, how may I help you?" she asks "I here to move into my apartment and want to know where do I get my keys" I answer with a nervous smile "Your name please?" she asks "Monica Davis", she types it into her computer "Okay you're on the second floor, Here are your keys and please sign here, So this building has 6 floors excluding this floor we call this floor the ground floor. On each floor, they are 12 apartments and 3 floors are for the girls and the other 3 is for the guys. Any questions?" she explains all this while I'm reading through what she gave me to sign and I sign my initials on the dotted line. "Can anyone enter this building?" I ask, she looks up at me "No, anyone can approach this desk, yes but they are biometric fingerprint scanning that happens before you can enter the elevator, so no one can just go up to the apartments. At the moment the elevator can be used by anyone because of the moving in but at the end of the day the elevator will be restored to the biometrics finger scan"

I hand her back the paper "Thank you" I say giving her a small smile. "You're welcome and welcome to your new home.".

I walk back to my parents and find them standing outside talking to people. When I get to them I turn to the new people " Hello" My parents turn to me and my mom says "Oh she's back, this is our daughter Monica and Monica this is Jenna and David Williams and their daughter Skylar." I turn to them and greet them, then I look at Skylar whose is the same height as me 1.65m "Hi, Nice to meet you" I say "Hello, Nice to meet you too" she says while hugging me which is weird for me because I've never hugged anyone besides my parents. Skylar's mom turns to my parents, "Well Skylar is done unpacking and we can help you unpack too Monica then we can all get something to eat before leaving you both here." She says the last part with tears in her eyes. "Which floor are you on Skylar?" I ask her "I'm on the second floor, you?" she replies "I'm on the second floor as well" I reply with a smile on my face. Both parents are happy about us being on the same floor.

They help us carry all my stuff to my apartment which is the same as Skylar's apartment and we're around the hall from each other which is great and I tell them I'll unpack when we're done eating because I was starving.

We decide to go look for the nearest McDonald's which we could have walked to by the way. I'm just glad that I can just walk there when my craving for chicken nuggets and their Jalapeno sauce hits which is every month when I'm on my periods.

I and Skylar were talking as if we've known each other for years. I found out that Skylar grew right here in Boston and her parents have a lot of money. She's also here to do an accounting course so she can take up the accounting department in her parents' company. Skylar is white with jet black hair that matches her mom, she has makeup on with pink lipstick. "Do you have a car?" Skylar asked me, I turned to her "No, and I'm okay with not having one." I smile at her "Well that means you'll be riding with me every day my parents got me an Audi for my 18th birthday." She tells me, I nod my head at her "Okay".

I turn to look at my parents and Skylar's' still having the time of their lives. "Do your parents act like these with everyone?" I ask Skylar "Like what?" she asks "Like they've known my parents since high school," I tell her. She laughs "Your parents are going to be my parents' first friends"," Don't they already have friends?" I ask her," My parents have associates, not friends and I'm glad they're getting to know each other because you're my new best friend" I turn to her "I am?" I turn to her confused "I've never had a friend before." I tell her. "I've never had a friend either" She smiles at me.

My mom turns to us "Girls lets get going, you still need to unpack Monica." "I'll help her since I'm done" replied Skylar.

When we get back to the student accommodation building, we have to say our goodbyes to our parents. My mama starts tearing up again and pulls me into a hug and my dad joins. I hold on to my mom and dad and start crying. "I'm going to miss you guys a lot," I tell them. "We'll miss you too baby," they say.

I watch as my parents drive away. I turn to someone tapping my shoulder and see Skylar. "You'll be okay, you have me to keep you company. Let's go get you unpacked."

We walk into the ground floor and head straight for the elevator, Skylar scans her finger and it opens and we press two on the floor buttons. We get to my room and start packing my stuff away, hours later everything is unpacked, and everything is to my taste and liking. We decide to walk to McDonald's again to get dinner because neither of us had groceries.

Since I haven't seen Skylar's room, we decide to eat dinner and watch Netflix in her room. Whereas my room is grey and black hers is white and baby pink which looks great. "Do you have a boyfriend back at your hometown?" she asks with a grin on a face. Thank God my skin tone is chocolate, or I would look like a tomato right now "No" I reply blushing so hard "Do you?", "Yes, I do. His name is Ryan Peterson, he's family is also super-rich. My parents are millionaires but his parents are like billionaires. Our parents are associates and do business together that's how we met. We've been together for two years now." She says. She talks about him with so much love in her eyes. "You'll meet him on Monday after class," she tells me.

We talk and get to know each other more at midnight I decide to go and sleep, we exchange numbers she uses an iPhone 11 while I'm using a 7plus. I tell her goodnight and leave. After entering my apartment, I lock the door, climb the small staircase to get to bed, I text my parents goodnight and I switch off the lights.