Chasing the Stars Chapter 1

“Trinity, darling, come on, we’re about to leave!” Trinity’s mom had shouted. 

“Today is the day,” Trinity quietly whispered to herself, holding back many, many tears. She walked around her room that was decorated with everything she liked; stars, planets, meteors, anything that had to do with space. 

Her bed was shaped like a huge circle, nothing really special on the outside, but what’s under it is Trinity’s secret hideout. There’s a ladder and a tunnel leading to a small cave that Trinity had decorated and made into her little hideout. It was so hard for her to leave the special little place because of all the memories, memories of Trinity running home after a bad day at school into her little hideaway. She just couldn’t let it go. It was her home.

“Trinity!” her mom called again. 

“Coming!” Trinity shouted and began to gather her bags. “If it’s going to happen, it might as well be now,” Trinity said out loud to herself.

She began to walk down the steps onto the second floor until something stopped her. 

“Oh, I’m going to miss this place so much,” she quietly said. Trinity ran to her little cave and hugged it until tears flooded down her face.

Wet, wet tears. She took a paper and wrote neatly on it.

Good luck future person who lives here. You’ll need it.

From, the person who’s leaving it.

Trinity set it down in her hideaway and stood up. She wiped her tears as

she ran down the steps and met up with her older brother, mom, and dad. They all got into the car and began to leave.

“If I had friends, I’d probably be messaging them throughout the car ride. But I have none, so there’ll be none of that,” she said quietly. 

Her brother Tom normally doesn’t pay attention to Trinity, but he was bored out of his mind, so he was listening to stuff going on around him.

“You're saying you have no friends?” he whispered back to Trinity. 

“Um, have you not noticed till now? I never invite anyone over, I don’t talk about anyone, and you still don’t know?” Trinity asked angrily. She was mainly grumpy because they were moving, but this? This just added additional annoyance that her own brother doesn’t know about her own so-called life.

“Sorry, Miss Grumpy, but I didn’t know. It’s not like I want to pay attention to you anyway,” Tom said and began to stare out the window. Trinity sighed as she swept away a tear and looked out the window so he wouldn’t see.

He didn’t. No one should really have to know about my feelings anyway.

But then she felt something; a hand holding hers.

Trinity turned and was surprised to see Tom staring out but holding onto her. Bundled up in that annoying, older brother of hers is someone who surely still looks out for her.

Tom turned his head, smiled at her, then said, “We’ll survive whatever New York has to bring us.” Trinity felt her brother was speaking the truth, so she silently nodded. Trinity continued to stare out her window, looking at all the cars. Soon, she began to feel sleepy. She closed her eyes and set her head down onto the window. 

We’ll be there soon, so I can sleep a bit for now.

She slowly drifted into a nice, calm sleep. 

Moving could be hard and all, but I’ll adapt. I’ll be alright. 

Unfortunately, things don’t always go your way.