days remembered "chapter 6"

Living with Kym's parents wasn't terrible but it wasn't home either. It was kym, me, Dakota, Kym's parents and one of my uncles (that my grandmother had after her second marriage, he was still in high school). I always felt awkward there like I didn't belong,  and I think it was because I really didn't, I belonged with grams and pop, I cried myself to sleep every night I was there. I was so close to home (only a few miles) but still so far away. I would count down the days till my visits with grams and pop and I would cry to terribly that I made myself sick when I had to leave.

About a year after we were at Kym's parents house Randy got out of prison. He moved back in with grams and pop, but this time he was a different person,  he was withdrawn and didn't want to leave the house, didn't want to be around people. He wouldn't hardly acknowledge Dakota or I when we were there.

Shortly after Randy got home Kym started seeing the neighbors brother Tom. He was a nice guy and payed Dakota and I alot of attention,  it was nice, he also treated Kym like a queen. After a few months of them dating we moved in with Tom, thats when things changed again. He wasnt mean but we just wernt as important as we were before the move, I would hear Kym and Tom arguing in there room and Kym would tell him he was being just like Randy, hearing that put me into a panic, I didnt want to go through that again.

 Trying to "get the spark back" Kym and Tom would go on weekend trips together (on grams and pops weekends and on kyms weekends) instead of Kym taking us to grams and pops she took us to Tom's mothers house in Compton Los Angeles to be baby sat. I remember one night when we were there she let us outfront to play before it got too dark and there was a drive by shooting. I saw a man get shot and die just feet infront of me. I know now how lucky my brother and I were that we were not shot but then, I had no idea, Tom's mom called Kym and told her what had happened and she said let them watch cartoons for a while and then send them to bed I will be there Sunday night like we planned. 

Tom had apparently been in some trouble with the law that finally caught up with him and he has to go to jail for a month, after he got out Kym and he decided to move to Tennessee. They packed up the apartment when my brother and I were at our Gram and pops house. Kym told us we were just moving to a different appartment. Three days later she packed up me and my brother (8 and 4 by this time) and dropped us off on the door step of gram and pops house. They weren't home, so we sat there on the pourch with our bags and one large box till they got home from square dancing. That same night my Kym and Tom hit the road to Tennessee.