The Big Move: A Short Story

In the story ¨ Your Move” by Eve Bunting James is the main character and has a little brother Isaac.James wants to be in the ¨ K-bones club¨, but it’s a risky thing because he is responsible for his six year old brother.His mom is at work and his dad is gone, so he is the only one that can watch Isaac. James starts off trying to be cool with the K-bones, but then starts to understand he did something wrong and is nicer to Isaac, towards the end.

It’s the day I have to move to the army's campsite. I grab my bag and swing them on my shoulder, it weighs a ton it feels like my shoulder’s gonna break. Sophie was peeking through my room door, as I was about to stand up she ran to the living room curled up into a ball making loud thud and sobbing noises. Outside of the house, I hug my mom as tight as I could, I don’t want to move any single inch of my bone. I want to stay like this forever. I felt a drop of water behind my shoulder and I know that it was her tears. I don’t want to leave them but I have to. It was time to let go but she didn’t want to, I grab her arm and slightly push them back.

“Mandy, your dad and I have something we need to talk to you about.” Being the bright-eyed eight year old I was, I would have never suspected what was going to escape my mom’s lips next.

Because of this, she started to miss her friends and teachers at the Moss,’ especially her best friend Mandy, even though she was treated badly. She also started to worry about the new place that she was going because of her past experiences. Being with a better family was so new to her that it was hard to face reality that she actually had people who cared for her. Going

Moving across the country is an enormous change to someone’s life. I my personal experience moving across the country is hard. Especially, when you go from the country to the city as I did. I had to go to a new school, get new friends, and here about things that I really didn’t know how to deal with. It was like hitting rock bottom after you just got to the top. This shows how moving to one place can make you feel horrible for no reason what so ever. I had to reinvent myself from country girl to city girl it was exhausting. This proves how hard it was to change because you are so used to being completely different. Moving across the country is a big change and it can be hard.

“I can’t do it without you there, I have no friends, I haven’t been going to school much. I feel no motivation to go on time, and no reason to stay till the end, I don’t have anyone to sit with at lunch so I normally go home and just don’t go back. You were the only reason I went to school. School scares me Chantel, there’s too many people for me to be there alone. You’re the only person I have to really talk to. Now my dad is working nights and I barely see him or talk to him, and you are going away. I’ll have no one and that’s why I’m dropping out of school and coming with you on your trip.” Keerin said then took a deep breath.

“Casey is leaving.” She blankly stated. Now to most people when their sister breaks up with her boyfriend it’s no big deal, but my sister is not most people. Casey was her rock and he helped her when her

She speaks about the death of her father and how it helped her to finally leave.

“Do you honestly think that I don’t know about the conversations that go on in this family?”.

“But I-” Caylee was cut off, “I said we’ll talk about it later.” Caylee’s mom got up and went to do the dishes. Caylee’s father got up and gave Caylee a quick smile followed by an eyeroll. Caylee chuckled.

“Without their mothers being on the island, they couldn’t be comforted and no one could take away the

“We're home Coco. I guess we're going to have too start having a great wonderful exciting life together for what you have left.” This really worried me. I didn't feel like doing anything all I wanted to do was sleep. This was so depressing. But Max insisted on having us go to the park and through a ball but I just felt so down. I decided to go anyway for Max because I wanted to spend as much time as I could with him.

The guilt washed over me like a tidal wave obliterating everything in its wake; my mind racing as my 15-year-old brain replayed every interaction looking for the signs that Skylar must have left, the hints she wanted me to catch on to. The more I thought about it the more I felt as if I had let her down. I had kept her secret and in the end in trying to save her I lost her. I felt alone, but this time I couldn’t seek refuge with her, how could she save me when she couldn’t help herself.

“My dad died of cancer, and I guess I blamed myself for not being there enough. So, I decided getting away would fix everything, but even though I’m gone, everything reminds me of him.” She wipes a tear from her eyes and sniffles, “I’m sorry, but I should go home.”

It was time to leave. She was ecstatic she had been waiting for so long and today was the day. Today is the day Becky Newman leaves for college. She had decided to stay close to home in Malibu, and chose to attend University of Southern