~ The Summer Of Changes ~ Part 71

That's clever from Pete evil, but clever

Yep!
Is it just me or does it really feel like this story isn't going to end EVER?

Geh, I know the feeling

Yeah it does feel like that way but I like reading this story.

Great bet

Hahah, I would happily end the story but no can do... xD

Oooooooooh You got me curious now

Oh.. Well, that really wasn't my intention..

68

Mom started to plan my graduation party really early. It couldn't have interested me less. I was satisfied if there were coffee and something to eat for the quests. Mom, on the other hand had decided to create a perfect menu for my party. She was all the time showing different kind of recipes and cake options to me. She baked various pastries and pies wanting to know the honest opinion of everyone about the baking. And she wanted to do everything by herself right from the start. I wasn't worrying about the menu, it was really enough that one of the family was stressing because of it.

I had managed to get a job from a cleaning company and besides that I still had my trainings during the spring. After that I would quit the floor ball and the self defence. I wouldn't be here next winter anymore.

I really had had to practice driving with the motorcycle with the skirt and high heels. I couldn't do it with a mini skirt but still it was too short, at least in my opinion.

Mom had the same opinion when she saw my clothes in the morning of my graduation day. Her face was worth seeing. It was even better when she heard that I would drive to school with my bike.
- But you shouldn't have anything to complain now that I'm for once wearing feminine clothes, I said while looking at my clothes from the mirror.
It was fancy enough, I was sure I would attract attention at least among my friends who knew I really didn't like these kind of clothes.

Mom's complaining didn't affect me at all but I left to school wearing the clothes I had planned. A few boys were just about to choke on something when they saw me on the motorcycle. Although I got more looks at school, I was much longer than others with my heels. Some girls were glancing at me furiously... Were their boyfriends been staring at me too long or were they just envying me and the attention I got? Otherwise the whole ceremony at school was boring and a long one. I was only happy when I could put the cap to my head and receive congratulations from my friends and my family when I finally found them in that hustle. And I also found something else... Pete was there too.
- Congratulations, he said smiling and gave a pink rose to me and hugged me. - A perfect dress, he mumbled to my ear so that others couldn't hear it.
- Thanks, I smiled back to him.
A pink rose ...shit... I would revenge that some way. Then Pete's parents came to congratulate me so I had to control myself.

There were already many people outside the school building, some had already left and some were leaving.
- Wouldn't you mind of taking my cycle and bringing it here? I asked from Pete and smiled him. - It's over there, in the parking area just next to the school.
Pete understood the hint and took the keys from my hand. I gave the flowers I had got, the certificate and my cap from my head to mom and told her to take them safely back home. I couldn't bring them home on my cycle. Then Pete drove next to me and gave the helmet to me blinking his eye. He was really enjoying this show! I started the engine of the cycle and waved my hand as a goodbye. At the same time I saw Vili's disbelieved face before I drove out from the school yard with my high heels.

The party at home was boring as hell, that was what I thought. All my relatives wanted to know what I was going to do in the future. Like it was their business at all where and how I was going to spend my next years. I had repeated to my mom that I would tell everything when I would be totally sure about my plans. Well, I had got the answers already, but mom still thought I meant the universities. Finally I yelled not precisely to anyone that I would have a gap year now that everybody was interested in it. At least it made everybody silent for a while, including mom.

- You seem to be ready to leave, Pete said once during the evening.
- Yes, I am. I don't have anything against leaving to the centre, rather I would be there than here, I said.
- I can give you a lift over there if you can wait that I'll change my clothes at home, Pete suggested.
- Deal! I'll say goodbye to the quests and then we can go, I grinned satisfied.
Mom wasn't able to say anything about my leaving, she was still shocked that I wouldn't go to study yet.

Pete drove by his home and changed his suit into something not so official and then we continued our way to the city. Actually Pete's company was very welcome. Drunken men were a bit too interested in my bare legs and what the short skirt covered.
- This is exactly the reason why I don't like to wear this kind of clothes! I yelled over the loud music to Pete. - I have to kick drunked people away from me all the time.
Pete just grinned to me as an answer.
- Shit, you knew it! I shouted when I counted one plus one and got two. - It's easy for you to play the saving prince when you have got me into this situation! I glared at Pete badly.
- Just forget it. Let's go to dance, Pete said and pulled me to the dance floor.
I sighed. Alright, I would give the lecture for him later...if I remembered.

Heli wrote:

Oh.. Well, that really wasn't my intention..

Yeah right!

Heh, Pete's funny

Amazing part

Thanks you ^__^

69

I was sitting on a bench in a park looking at the river and scenes around it. I had got a weird message from Pete. He said he wanted to meet me. Obviously he didn't bother to be any Mister Punctuality. I hadn't seen him much during June. I had been working and Pete had been doing his job in the theatre. And it wasn't normal for Pete to suggest not to mention about asking a meeting. Usually he just came to see and talk with me and didn't care what my situation was.

Finally I saw Pete coming towards where I was sitting.
- I'm sorry that I'm late, Pete said when he sat down next to me. - I had some things to do.
- It's okay, I said. - I'm not in a rush anymore now that I'm not working anymore.
Pete stayed silent which made me even more confused.
- I guess you had something to tell me because you wanted me here...? I asked carefully.
- Yeah...I had...
- Just don't say that you are deeply in love with me, I joked.
When I saw Pete's face I got really scared. It couldn't be true! It was just a joke, it couldn't be totally right!
- You can't be serious! I cried out.
- Well, I wouldn't have said it with exactly those words but you got the idea, Pete said and seemed he had got his self-confidence back.
- You...I...I'm not...I can't...I just can't... I couldn't form any single phrase.
For once Pete got me speechless.
- It couldn't be so big surprise, Pete laughed shortly.
Well, I had thought something like this before. I had rejected to believe it. What kind of clown I had been all these months...maybe even years?
- I... I need to be alone for a while... I need to think about this, I mumbled and stood up.
- Is there something to think about? Pete asked.
- Well, there is for me! You have had a lot of time to think about it, I snapped.
- So, this is the way how you solve all difficult situations? Running away? Pete snapped back.
- I'm not running! I just want to be alone now, I said and left angrily back home.

At home I went to lie on the hammock and began to think. What did Pete want me to do now? To jump to his arms and swear neverending love? To start a relationship with him? Yuck, horrible. The idea started to annoy me even more. I knew that Pete would contact me again after couple of days in minimum. I was extremely sure that he would want to know the results of my thinking process. Even Pete had accused me of escaping and I denied it totally, the idea of running away began to feel the better the longer I stayed in the hammock. The plan started to get its shape slowly in my head. With some phone calls I would ensure if it was possible. And it was.

In the middle of my planning Liisa appeared to my house. She brought the photos of the Midsummer. I had spent it with Liisa and with her French friend. I tried to get rid of her but she noticed immediately that something was going on. I was considering the choices and decided to trust her.
- Let's go to your place and I tell everything. Here even the walls have ears, I admitted.

- But you can't tell this to anyone, not in any circumstances, I told strictly to Liisa before I started my story about Pete.
- Well, that wasn't a big piece of news anymore. Even an idiot sees that he has been interested in you long time ago, Liisa said.
- I denied the whole thing even I guess I somehow knew that it could be possible... I admitted.
- What are you going to now? Liisa asked.
- I'm leaving, I said simply.
- You leave? Liisa asked surprised. - Where?
After hearing the answer she almost choke on her coffee.

You meanie! Ö I hate cliff-hangers and open endings, I despise them!

I wanna know that answer soon as possible...

Sie et voi lopettaa osaa tolleen

Mwehehe
You'll know it in the next part.

Minähän voin lopettaa osan ihan silleen niin kuin minusta tuntuu.. Se on se kirjoittajan vapaus...

Juu niinhän se on se kirjoittajan vapaus...

Btw, 69 is a funny number

Hahah
Well, I'll post a new part so that you don't see the number and don't need to think all the double meanings it has. xD

70

- To army? To the Air Force? Liisa groaned. - Are you crazy or what?
- I've always wanted to fly. And doing the military service felt a right option at the moment. So, I put my papers in and got in also, I smiled triumphant.
- What your mom thinks about it?
- She doesn't know and she won't know about it, I stared at Liisa demanding.
- So, you're leaving just like that? When? Liisa continued questioning.
- If mom knows, then Pete will know where I am too. And I don't want to see him for a while. Oh, and I leave the day after tomorrow, I answered.
- But that doesn't make any sense. Your mom will be sick of worrying where you are, Liisa argued.
- I'll leave some kind of letter for them where I tell something about my plans. I haven't thought it yet, I explained.
- But when are yo coming back? Or when the thing over there starts where ever you are going? Liisa continued asking.
- I'm doing my service in Tampere and I'll be able to fly a hornet, I explained eyes shining for an excitement. - And I'll start my service in 12.7 but I thought about travelling in Finland a bit beforehand... I guess I'll come back next summer, I explained my plans to Liisa.
- I don't really understand why you want to leave so quickly, Liisa muttered to her coffee mug.
- I don't want to see Pete and if I stay here more than a few days, I'm sure he'll find me, I explained.
- You should understand that these things don't disappear just by escaping, Liisa sighed.
- I'm not even hoping that, but I need some distance. And I can't have it if I stay here, I said.
- Well, it's your decision. And I'm not going to reveal your plans even I don't really like them, Liisa said.
- Good. That I was hoping to hear, I smiled.
- That's what the friends are for.
Yeah, friends. Some very weird reason Liisa had become my friend who now shared vital secret with me.

At home I continued solving all kind of practical things and tried to decide where I could spend my time before going to Tampere. Luckily I managed to start in the earlier group, originally I was supposed to leave in October. And that would have been a total pain for me. Finally I manage to made some kind of travelling plan. I had called some friends who lived in Middle Finland. I could live in both one's houses for a few days so I could easily made a little circle over there and then come back south and go straight to Tampere. I would go away for a while but I would be back.


Edit. O.o Oops, it was shorter than I thought...

"I'll be back"
Oooh.. a pilot Me likes

It still says 69 over here Ah, damn all those naughty girls messing with my head

Sh*t! Forgot to change the title... Now it should be ok. This is what you get when you first spend 24 hours awake and don't sleep enough after that...

Oh army...Nice plan she have

71

“Hi dad and mom, Timo also. When you'll be reading this, I've already gone. I felt that changing the place would be good for me, so I decided to leave to spend the year-off like I told. I don't want to reveal where I'm now because I want to be alone for a while in a place where nobody knows me and doesn't except me to behave in a certain way. I'll come back, I know it. I just have to clear my head before I can solve things over there. I'll contact you some way that you know I'm alive. This was my own decision and I hope that you'll respect it and won't try to search for me. I need this break... Eve”

A postcard, from Jyväskylä
“Hello! Everything is fine, I hope you aren't worried over there. I'll go soon to a place where I can have my Internet connection back so I'll change into e-mails' wonderful world, let's say in a week. Then I can write more often. Greetings to everyone! Eve”

From: evemi@hotmail.com
To: pekka.miettinen@mok.fi
Hi! I'm over here now, you know where. So you haven't told mom anything since nobody hasn't been asking after me. Great. Days here are tough and discipline is tight but I'm fine. I already beat some guys who were thinking too much of themselves on the obstacle course. I showed them that they really shouldn't underestimate women. There are five women, the rest are men. But I don't really care, we all are friends here. Tell mom that I'm fine. I have a roof above my head and enough food also. Eve

From: evemi@hotmail.com
To: timom@hotmail.com
Hi, how are you? How are the things over there? I guess mom must have been angry as hell when I left like that. Or? But I'm fine, I have a bed and food, that's all I need. I'll tell everything when I'm back home. Eve-sister

From: timom@hotmail.com
To: evemi@hotmail.com
Where the hell you are?! Mom really got mad when she realized that you had really left. She tried to convince the police that you had run away but they still didn't do anything. The letter and that you're adult affected on it. But guess how shitty my life is now? Mom is watching me all the time. She thinks I'll leave too if I get the chance. Where are you? I'll promise that I won't tell mom. And it's boring here without you.

From: evemi@hotmail.com
To: ailamiet@suomi24.fi
I'm fine so you don't need to worry. And Timo won't escape, not even to my place because he doesn't know where I am. So stop watching after him.

From: ppp@hotmail.com
To: evemi@hotmail.com
Eve, what we talked about escaping? You can't solve things like this.

From: liisama@hotmail.com
To: evemi@hotmail.com
I'm surprised that you have the courage to keep contact to the world around you. I guess you might be interested in a rumour, or then not. But they are talking that Vili and Paula are engaged. They both moved to Helsinki to study and they have an apartment together. I've heard that the reason for the engagement was that Paula was pregnant. But this is only a gossip! I don't have any sure information! But how are the things over there? Enough men for every finger and toe?

From: evemi@hotmail.com
To: liisama@hotmail.com
Have they heard a word prevention? Crazy people! I wouldn't have believed this about Vili, but Paula is totally different, I could believe everything about her. Yeah, there's enough men. Three has asked to marry them, two proposed and five asked to date with them. And these were only the straightly said suggestions. I hear all kind of hints every day. These men are really desperate to have any woman they can get. I'll be back home in two months I think... if mom still lets me in after this.

From: evemi@hotmail.com
To: pekka.miettinen@mok.fi
Dad, I have a little problem. Do you think that you can tell mom where I am? I'll be out of here in two weeks... A television program wants to make a program of Air Force... and they want to interview precisely me. I'm sure mom will know about it sooner or later if you don't tell her beforehand...

From: ene.he@hotmail.com
To: evemi@hotmail.com
Eve! Are you totally crazy?!? Mom is talking something that you are in the Air Force! Didn't you get any better idea to explain your absence?

From: evemi@hotmail.com
To: ene.he@hotmail.com
Watch the program which starts on Thusrday at 21.30 on canal two.

From: timom@hotmail.com
To: evemi@hotmail.com
Did you really fly that hornet?! How cool! I want to go to the Air Force when I can do the military service!

I think her mum will kill him for doing so!

Great part

Great part