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It was the second day of the New Year, 1986. I held my mom’s hand as we were walking down the hall from the plane; that brought us to England, towards the luggage claim section. I kept walking in silence and looking at the ground.
“You okay there, sweetie?” My mom asked making me look up to her and I nodded my head. “It’s quite a long hallway, isn’t it?” I nodded my head again as we continued walking down the hall and the stairs until we reached the luggage claim section.
People around were just doing the same thing as us; wait for their luggage. Soon enough our bags arrived and I helped my mom grab the two of them. One had my clothes and the other had hers. We proceeded to leave the airport and grab a cab. My mom gave the ‘cabbie’ the address and the man started talking and just trying to make conversation with my mom.
I just looked outside the window or at least try to. The windows were covered in steam and I could barely see but it was raining since we had arrived to the airport. It seemed so different from my old home. But now we were living in London and it was probably better or so my mom said.
About forty five minutes later we arrived at the address and the cabbie offered us help to get the luggage to the door, my mother thanked him and paid him after.
She opened the door to our new house, it wasn’t empty; it already had sofas, a TV basically stuff my mom had sent before we actually moved here. I already missed home and my aunts and uncles back in the United States. My mom took notice of the expression on my face and kneeled down in front of me with her hands over my shoulders.
“I know you miss home, sweetie,” She started, “but I know you’ll love it here, we’ll get used to this, okay?” She kissed my forehead.
“Okay.” I said almost in a whisper.
My mom grabbed the bags one by one and placed them upstairs. I followed her closely, the house wasn’t too big but it wasn’t too small.
“What if we start unpacking? You like the idea, honey?” She asked and placed my bag on the floor unzipping it and opening it. I had my own room; I was a 6 year old with my own room. I nodded my head to her question.
“You unpack your things and place shirts in one drawer, pants in other one and so on, alright sweetheart.” She got up. “I’m going to unpack my things; I’ll be in the room just next to yours.” My mom smiled and left to her room; leaving me there with a big bag to unpack.
A couple of hours later I finished and ran to my mom’s bedroom and sat in the corner of her bed.
“Mommy, I’m hungry.” I said and she turned around as she finished placing her shirts on a drawer.
“Well, let’s get some pizza.” I nodded enthusiastically and followed my mom walking downstairs. I looked out the window and it wasn’t raining anymore but cloudy still.
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Half hour later we were sitting on the floor, watching TV as we ate the pizza. There was a knock on the door and my mom got up, I followed her and stood behind her leg as she opened the door and there was a lady.
“Hello, good afternoon,” She said with a really sweet voice. “I’m Diana, your neighbor across the street; and I heard we were having new people here.”
“Oh yes, that would be us,” My mom replied happily. “I’m Rose Rogers and this is my daughter (Y/N),” She said making me go front slightly, “she doesn’t talk a lot.”
“I baked you a pie, I didn’t know how many people were moving in but I hope it’s enough.” Mrs. Diana said as my mom grabbed the pie from her hands and thanked her. After she gave us the pie, I saw someone behind the woman’s leg; standing just like me, behind their mother. “Oh, this is Thomas. Tom please, where are your manners?” The kid took one
step to the front and smiled shyly.
“Hi, my name’s Thomas.” He said and held his hand out, my mom gave him her hand and he placed a kiss on her knuckles.
“Aww, you’re such a gentleman Thomas.” My mom said, making Thomas blush, he then held his hand out for me to shake.
“Hi, I’m Tom.” He said as he looked at me, his hand still on the air and I took it.
“I’m (Y/N)” I replied and he did with my hand the same he had done with my mother’s, he made me giggle.
“You can come in, if you like.” My mom said as she moved to a side.
“Oh, that would be lovely sweetheart but probably another day, I have to take Tom to get a haircut, those curly blond locks are hiding his eyes.” She said making my mom laugh.
“Well then, another day it will be,” my mom replied and Mrs. Diana nodded her head.
“See you around, Rose.” She said and looked at me. “Maybe I’ll see you at the local playground, (Y/N),” she smiled and booped my nose; making me giggle.
“Yeah, we’ll probably go there.” My mom replied and Mrs. Diana smiled and took Tom’s hand.
“Let’s go sweetie.” Tom jumped the small step in front of the door before turning around and waving goodbye.
“Bye, Ms. Rose, bye (Y/N)” He said and continued walking next to his mom.
My mom ruffled my hair. “See, you just made a friend.”
I just smiled at her words and followed her into the kitchen.