Miranda Yoissen said it every single time.
Johnny Yoissen, her son, believed it at least the first three times she said it:
You’ll make new friends.
It’s not that she was wrong. Johnny did make friends the first few times Lucas Yoissen dragged his family to a new town. But he stopped trying when he realized he’d just have to say goodbye again.
By fourteen, Johnny was over it. Nine different towns.
This new one was Reyes Grove. Reyes Grove was supposed to be quiet, clean,family oriented. Boring, like most of these towns they moved to.
A few hours after Miranda Yoissen hugged her son and promised him he’d make new friends, (friends he didn’t want anymore), she handed Johnny a full length mirror, a piece of construction paper and a marker.
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