Savannah M...
Yokota Middle School
This story takes place in Phoenix Arizona mid-2022. I was a normal 12-year-old girl living a normal life. Yes, I am a military child, so I tend to move around every 2-3 years. I have had to move about 6 times in the past 13 years. It is really hard having to move around so much and having to leave my friends. Around April my mom called me over because she said “we need to have a talk.” Obviously, I got scared because I thought I was in trouble. At this time, I had only lived in Arizona for about a year and a half. When i went to her she said, “I got offered a spot to work in Japan, would you want to go?” It was a complete shock because I wasn't expecting due to the fact we had barely been in Arizona. I had just gotten used to Arizona and had made so many new friends including my bestest of them all, Hope. Me and hope were always together like a school of fish. When my mom told me this news, I told her I had to think, so that very same day I ran to Hope's house and told her the shocking news. She was just as surprised as I was when I told her. At first, she thought I was lying, to be honest i wish my mom was lying about moving too. Yes, my dream has been to go to Japan in fact i had tried convincing my mom to go to Japan for my 12th birthday but obviously she said no. Finally, I asked Hope her thoughts about me moving because my mom had stated it was a choice. Hope said I should go and chase my dreams and do what makes me feel happiest, under one condition that I had to come visit her on breaks. I said ok to these plans, then the next day i told my mom we could move to Japan. 6 months later I moved to a foreign country for the first time ever. Sometimes I wish I made a different choice because I miss hope so much and I feel as lonely as a butterfly in a cocoon.