- Oh come on Mr Rico next week I will pay you two months. I said desperate
- You owe me already two months rent miss Lawson. He said angry
- You have until tomorrow to get out of here.
- What? Seriously. I said shocked
He says nothing then he leaves slamming the door behind him. Yep , he's not joking.
Now what?! i'm 23 years old, no job, no money and apparently no apartment. Great, so fucking great my life right now. I'm going to start packing and heading to Pittsburgh at my parents' house at this point, I have no choice. My parents are great but i left when i was 18 from home not to go to college but to go to New York and start a career as a designer. It was always a big dream for me, but not for my parents, who wanted their only child to go to college. Well, we don't always have what we want. Who would have thought that without experience and without a name in the industry nobody hires you. Who would have believe it?!
Well I finished packing, fortunately the apartment was furnished so I don't have to take the furniture with me. Its still weird , I lived here for 5 years and now I have to leave. I'm one of the people who thinks that everything happens for a reason, maybe it's bad for a good who knows?
My alarm rings the next day at 8 am, I better get up, I have a 6 hours to drive and I want to be there before nightfall, especially since I did not warn my parents of my arrival or my situation in general. I don't want hear on the phone "I told you so" or "without a degree you can't go far" no thank you not on the phone anyway.
6 hours later, I am sitting in my car in front of my parents' house. Here we go , Ugh... come on Harlyn you can do it . I ring and wait, it's still weird to ring when I grew up here.
- Harlyn ? my mom said
- Hi mom. I said
- Wh.. What are you doing here? mom said shocked to see me
- Good to see you too mom. I said
-That's not what i meant. You haven't come here for 5 years. Something happened ?
- No , mom everything is fine , i just took some time off and i wanted to come to see you.
- Alright honey ,come in.
- Where is dad?
- in the garden. You can go say hello , i will go make dinner.
- Yeah , okay.
I went to say hello to my father who was just as shocked as my mother to see me. I went up to my teenage bedroom, which stayed the same. My parents didn't want to change it into something else, I know my mother cleans it from time to time. I haven't been back here for 5 years, everything in here reminds me of him and it hurt too much. My parents came to New York for the holidays every year . Now i'm back, hopefully not definitively i'm not giving up my dream of becoming a designer, but in New York without a roof over my head it was a bit difficult. I lie on my bed and close my eyes for a few minutes.
when I wake up, I see it's 1 am on my nightstand clock... WHAT? I had to fall asleep, driving 6 hours is clearly tiring. My stomach rumble, YEP, I'm hungry I go down to the kitchen and open the fridge, a plate with my name on it, ugh... thanks mom. After eating i'm still tired, i'm going to go back to sleep, there is not much to do at this time anyway.
- Morning . I said
-Morning honey. mom said
- Morning sweetheart , how do you sleep? dad said
- Good , are these pancakes i see there?
- Yes , you favorite breakfast. dad said
- ugh.. i missed pancakes. i say with my mouth full
- Well , i can see that. dad said with a big smile
- Your mom said that you took some time off.
Right it's true that yesterday I said that, I wanted to save a little time.
- Yeah .. uh ..well about that i didn't really took some time off, it's rather I got fired from my job. i said nervous
- What ? Why? dad said
- You know ''DressbyDonna'' was a small business, they had money problems so they had to close and fire the employees. it's been 4 months since it closed and I couldn't find anything else, I was running out of money so I had to leave
- Oh my god .. What are you going to do now? mom said
- To start... take my boxes from the car and unpack. Is it okay if i stay here for a while?
- Of course sweetheart ,it will always be your home here. dad said
- I love you so much both of you. I tell them then hugging my mom and dad
After unpacking , I went to town looking for work, its been a long time since I haven't come here, a can see a lot of things has changed.
"Wakeuphere" well that's new I see that people come out of the store with cups, well they must sell coffee. I go in for a coffee myself, I order my cappuccino as usual and it will never change addict to cappuccino for life. I pay my coffee and ...
- Harlyn? Harlyn Lawson? OMG what a surprise.