Kathy

Days after my talk with Mr. McGregor, I was still torn about whether I should take the chance and leave my home town of Blanch to move to Carmine City to play hockey. It was the chance of a lifetime, but I would be leaving everything I had ever known behind. Over a week had passed, and I still wasn’t sure what I wanted to do. Don’t get me wrong, I wanted to go, this would be the only chance I would have, and I needed to take it to make my dreams come true, but…. Everything I had ever known was here. This was getting me nowhere, my head was taking me around in circles.

“Kathy, you have to do this,” my boyfriend told me for probably the twentieth time.

I looked at him and couldn’t help the pleading look that entered my eyes, “Alex, I know I should, but what about you? My friends? My family? My entire life is here.”

Alex took my hands and said, “Don’t worry about me Kathy. I already told you, we will make it work. This is the chance of a lifetime; you will literally never have another chance like this. I don’t want you to throw away your dreams because of me.”

“I know,” I said biting my lip, “but I just… don’t know.”

Alex grabbed my face and kissed me sweetly, “Promise me you’ll do this Kathy, this is your one shot. Do it for me, please.”

Breathless, I promised him that I would take this chance. I plunged forward without thought, without a plan and without a real purpose. All I knew was that my life was about to change. Drastically.

Later that night, I was talking to my best friend, who lived somewhere in the to the south of me, I honestly couldn’t remember where. You could say we were the modern day pen pals, talking to each other over the internet instead of writing each other letters.

Jake: Kathy, whats wrong?

Kathy: im moving… im leaving everything i have behind

Jake: everything? even your bf?

Kathy: yeah, he even told me that i have to take this chance

Jake: wow… im so sorry… i wish i could do something to help

Kathy: yeah i know

Kathy: i appreciate the thought, but im sure ill live

We talked for another hour or so, and as the day grew old, my heart grew heavy. I had two more days, after that I would be starting over from scratch…. I wasn’t quite sure if I should be excited or not.