Preface| Waxing
I hate them. Who? My parents. Why? Oh I don’t know because they were moving me away from my suburban home of fifteen years to some little village on the west coast. Why? Oh just because Daddy was being transferred to yet another base. Why because he’s a god damn Colonel and they want him there. Because he’s got a PhD, in what I still don’t know, but I’m betting on nuclear physics or something like that. And an expert on some -ology or something. I stopped paying attention when I was about five.
So my parents are moving all of us to some base in Northern California. And I mean the people in the so called town just outside the base aren’t bad. I was there once before when I was little. Dad was out there and had left Mom and me in Boston not wanting us to be around because I was too small. What did he know, he’s never home. Was never around even when he should have been teaching me how to ride a bike and play softball.
Did I mention that they’re taking me away from my friends and putting me into this small close knit environment of teenagers that have been friends since diapers. I don’t do that. I never have. I have one friend here, Marie, and I like that way. And when I move into Somnus I’ll probably end up pulling out my hair. I grew up in suburbia. I’m not going to fit in at the public high school. Can you even see me, Jayd Sage, even beginning to fit in among these people who’ve known each other forever?
Granted I’m not going to fit in among a bunch of cadets either, but it might be a little better than dealing with kids who live a two and half hour drive away from the nearest mall. And that’s just if you’re heading north. Yes that’s right you have to drive into the next state for the nearest mall and you can’t even consider it more than a building with a bunch of stores selling ripped off versions of last years fashions.
