Chapter Forty

"Dad, can you come and help me move out?" I called to ask my dad.
"Of course, how much stuff do you have?"
"I have a lot.. I'm going to ask some other guys to help. It shouldn't take that long."
"Jacob is coming home then too."
"Oh.. well Dad I can just have some of the guys help, its fine."
"Josephine, stop. I'm your father I will help you."
"Thanks Dad."
"Are you okay?" He asked me.
"Yeah, I'm fine. Just glad to be done. Just call me when you are here." I said and hung up the phone.

"What was up with that?" Connor asked.
"You know.."
"I don't." Simon said.
"I'm the oldest of 6 kids.. they kind of forget about me and Jacob. Well not Jacob because he's Jacob.. but it should be interesting to go home. I will just be working at the cafe and babysitting all the time."
"Its not that bad." Connor said.
"I love my family, but everyone is worried about the younger kids. My mom has no idea whats going on with me and Sidney and she really doesn't care, at all. Do you know how many times they have come here? I live a half hour away and I think the only time they were ever here was when they moved me in and then when I got hurt. they were here for my games but nothing more."
"Well we will still work out, so that will be good." Simon said.
"Yeah.. you can come to the cafe and hang out with me.. I could probably use it." I said.
"Okay well I'll take these boxes out to your car." Simon said.
"Jo, what is really up?" Connor asked once Simon left.
"I love my family, Connor.. you know that. Its just a whole different world going back there. I love the kids but its all about them all the time."
"you know you can come hang at my place anytime.. you can go to the soccer house with Simon, or you can be with Sidney, I'm sure."
"Sidney is focusing on hockey. I mean its the first round of the playoffs, I'm not getting in the way of that."
"Well, Jo. You know I'm here, always."
"I know, Connor. Thanks for this year." I said and then my dad called.

"Hey." Sidney called during the packing progress.
"Hey.. I'm packing up all my shit. Can I call you back?" I asked him.
"Yeah.. Call me whenever." He said and then hung up.
"Was that Sidney?" My dad asked.
"Yeah."
"What is up with you two?" He asked.
"Lets not talk about it now. I just want to get home." I said.

"Hey, sorry it took so long for me to call you back." I said laying on my bed at home.
"Oh its okay. Are you all home now?" He asked.
"Yeah.. finally. It was interesting."
"why?"
"Well my dad came to help so that was fun and then we tried to have a family dinner you know to like celebrate Jake and me being home, but Jordan and Jason weren't really feeling it so they started like throwing a tantrum in the middle of the restaurant so my mom left with them and then it was just 5 us there."
"Oh gosh."
"Yeah.. so how good did it feel win there?" I asked.
"So good. Just got to win another tomorrow and everything is good."
"Yeah.. I'll def be watching."
"So tell me about the test or something.. just talk."
"Haha Sidney!"
"What? I just want to talk." He said.
"Shouldn't you be going to sleep or something?"
"Jo, its like 9. Can we just talk, please?"
"Okay.. so I'm working at the cafe like forever."
"What do you mean?"
"I'm working there to help out the family like everyday but I'm not getting that money. I'm not getting very much money from it so I don't know. I don't know how this summer is going to go. I'm going to work and work out with Simon. We are going to Disney World though, that should be funny because Jordan and Jason have never been there."
"When are you going there?"
"as soon as everyone is done with school, not til like the middle of June. Then I think I'm going to go to the Hamptons for a week or so to live with my grandparents."
"I didn't know your Grandparents lived in the Hamptons."
"Yeah, they have lived there for ever. Like once they moved away from NYC they just moved out there."
"So your mom is from New York?"
"She is from like outside of New York, but my mom left to come to school in Pittsburgh she met my dad and the rest is history. So my grandparents moved from New York like once my mom came to Pittsburgh."
"Oh thats cool."
"Yeah.. it will be nice to not have the rest of the family."
"So do you still want 6 kids?" He asked me.
"I always wanted them but as I get older i'm starting to realize whats its like. I feel like my parents hardly have time for me but I think I could do better. I still want them."
We just kept talking for an hour or so about anything and everything. Sidney and I got back the dynamic that made us us. It was nice to talk to him and I'm ready to see him in a few days. I know that he won't have alot of time for me, but he will be down the block so it will be nice. I definitely am not going out in public with him with that stupid mustache. It always feels like once one thing is good the other sucks. Like soccer sucks, family might suck, but Sidney is good. Everything can't be awesome all the time, I know this. But it would be nice to have it be okay all at once.