All packed

Harmony POV

I was packed and ready to go. I just had a few boxes and my suitcase with my clothes. I was going in and out of the apartment that is no longer mine to get my stuff downstairs and packed into the rental car.

I used the rest of my savings to rent a car because I didn't have one of my own and hiring a mover was expensive plus it wasn't alot of stuff anyway. I had money left for food and gas and maybe a stay at a motel on my journey home.

I didn't wanted to go back home but I had to under the circumstances. I wasn't going to stay here unemployed and on the street. I know how it is going to look when I turn up at their door step. They will probably laugh at me when they see me running back home with my tail under me with no job and no money.

I am going to be the least successful person in my family. I am a complete failure. I don't have anyone to blame for that but myself. I had high hopes and it had been my down fall.

Next time I will think small. Going back to my hometown to live and work was something I never wanted to do but here I am driving the miles to get there. To let everyone know that I am a total failure and I justed wasted years at University, when I could be on the farm looking after the animals and help in the harvest. Instead I left home to purse this dumb career and now it isn't working out.

All because of some shit head who think he holds the world in his hands. At least I will be miles away from him and his obnoxious present.

I left my hometown a loser and now I am going back as a loser. Nothing never changed only my age as gone up a few years and my looks. I went from that nerdy country girl look to average and more of a city girl look.

I still have my country lifestyle embedded in my soul so it will not be difficult to just fit right in again.

The car was too silent so I turned on the radio and tuned it to my favorite channel. I started singing along to the next song that came on, trying to forget why I am driving in this direction.

I relaxed and forget all about trouble for now and just enjoy the journey. My first stop was at gas station. I needed to use the ladies room and some snack for the journey. I parked the car, locked it and walked to entrance of the gas station.

I find the bathroom first and when I did my business I came back out front. I picked up a few snacks and drinks and I was on the road again.

The second day was the worst. I had to sleep in the car the night before and I woke up with a cramp neck and a sore back.

It was hard to drive with such discomfort. Long journeys like these you need a friend, someone to keep you company so the silence don't put you to sleep.

This is why I have the radio on a little louder than I would listen to it. I still can't believe I am going home like this.

There were some unfinished business that I haven't thought about since I left. Things I left unsaid. People I never wanted to see again.

I will have to avoid them as much as I can but for how long will I be able to do that in a little town.

I need to get a job as soon as possible. I love my parents and my entire family but I am not looking forward to living in a house with 12 people.

I am going to need my privacy, quietness, long showers and I don't think these will be possible with so many people under the same roof.

But let's not worry about that now. I need to get there first. The rest of the trip went by in a fly. Night by day and day by night and I am finally entering the small town that is my hometown.

I drive pass familiar buildings, places I use to hang out when I was younger and then I was driving pass houses until I reach my childhood home. I parked in the driveway and I got slowly taking a deep breath in preparing for what is going to happen.

I walked up to the front door ready to knock but suddenly the door was throw opened and I was enveloped in hands hugging me. I didn't have to break the hug to know who was hugging me. I could tell that it is my mother who was hugging me and never want to let me go.

"It's good to see you too Mom but I can't breath." I told her hugging her back.

"I'm sorry. You just surprised me. Why didn't you call and tell us that you're coming to visit? I would have prepared something for you to eat." She said frowning at me in a disappointing way.

"I'm not here for a visit mom." I told her vaguely.

"Oh..." She said disappointed that I'm not staying for the day.

"Because I'm here to live with you guys until I find somewhere else for myself." I watch as her face bright up like a kid on christmas.

She smiled and hugged me in a bone crushing grip. "I'm so happy you're staying because I really missed my little girl." She said in my hair.

"Me too but if you keep holding me like this I think I will die of lack of oxygen." I forced out.

She lets me go and laughed. She grabbed ahold of my hands and pulled me towards my childhood home where I'll be staying at for a while.

"Mom I need to get my bags out of the car and..." I said trying to tell her to slow down.

"Don't worry one of you brother will get it for you but for now that can wait." She said overjoyed.

I didn't protest anymore not even when I almost fall on my face. Her joy and smile was contagious and I couldn't stop smiling myself to see that me being home makes her happy.

It's a relief because I thought they weren't going to welcome home, well she is welcoming I don't know about the rest of the family. I have been gone for years and the last thing I told them was that I wasn't going to come back to live here again.

Now look at me with my mother dragging me inside the house with the rental car outside with all my belongings.

"Hey everyone look who just got here!" My mother shouted excitedly closing the door behind us and walking towards the living room.

I follow her hesitantly to the living room where I think everyone is.

"Hey everyone you would guess who I found outside." She said excitement dripping with each word.

There were murmurs in the room. "Please don't tell me it's the Johnson again we already told them we are not interested." Someone shouted over all the murmuring.

"No aunty it's not the Johnson. It's someone we all miss." She said.

I decided that that was my cue so I walked into the living room where almost everyone was gathered like they knew that I was coming.

"Harmony!" There was a chorus of my name and bright smiles and people getting up to welcome me home. "We miss you so much."

"Especially your cooking." Someone else shouts and everyone started to laugh.

Their smile was contagious and i was smiling and laughing until my jaw hurts. I haven't smile and laugh like this since I left home. It was like a breath of fresh air.

"Everyone I have an announcement to make..." My mother said standing up still wearing that smile from when I had just arrived. The room went silent and she smiled at me. "Harmony is hear to stay."

"We know that she is hear isn't she where else would she go at this hours and after that ling drive hear." One of my auntie said.

"I mean that she isn't going back to the city she is going to make a home here and hopefully a family. So she is staying here permanently." She said.

First the room was silent then I was met by more warm welcome smile and congrats.