Personal Narrative: Moving To Vancouver

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I’ve been moving for almost ten years now and today’s the day I leave again for a city named Vancouver. My parents have been divorced ever since my dad found out my mom was pregnant with me, that was ten years ago, I’m fourteen now. Living in a one bedroom bungalow and sharing a room with your not-at-home mom is pretty depressing, we have cable, wifi and a working stove but that's all. I know I should be thankful for what I have, my mom who works three jobs at the moment, a caregiver in the morning, cook for lunch, and a waitress for a twenty-four hour diner can get pretty lonely at times. We’ve been living in Toronto for five months now and the client that my mom works for is moving so they offered to pay for the house rent when we move. Summer…show more content…
My room’s bare, no posters of celebrities or favourite bands, I like it that way just incase we move again and look I don’t have much packing to do everything is still in its boxes. Vancouver has been on my mind since my mom came home and told me the news, on the internet there's pictures of a big wondrous city, with its high rise apartments and the mountains that you can see from the distance. My thoughts are banished with a hard knock on the…show more content…
I pinch myself and feel the pain, if this was a dream I wouldn’t feel the pain but I do. “What are you doing here?”, I ask barely above a whisper “I’m moving with you guys to Vancouver”, he exclaims The room sways side to side, it's too much to handle, out of the ten years he hasn't been there for us, for me he decides to come now back into our lives and pretend that nothing has happened? All those father’s day parties at school, me all by myself sitting while all the other kids get piggyback rides or kisses, there father’s getting cards about how much they love them. I’ve made one every year I don’t know why but I felt the need to, was it because of this very moment? “Oh, that's great”, I hear myself say My parents look at each other, that look I know that look, that's the look they had when they were at there high school graduation when both of them were called up when they were announced king and queen. So they are getting back together, but why

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