Roaming Around

Remi had been looking forward to the trip for a while. Her time in South Florida a few years prior left her wanting to live in Miami Beach. She’d lived in South Florida for a while. She’d roamed around most of the time. Unable to find a job. Unable to have any kind of life other than being reliant on Max. She hadn’t been able to do so because of her inability to have any kind of life for herself. Life hadn’t been easy for her for a while. Max had made some decisions he shouldn’t have. Bad decisions Remi never agreed with. Decisions that led her to find herself while in South Florida. 

She reflected on her time in South Florida. She’d reflected on doing odd jobs for random people. Drawings she’d sold while watching the Drag Shows at a Bar she sat across from. She reflected on everything she’d seen during her time roaming around Miami Beach. She wanted nothing more than to move there. She didn’t care if she was homeless again. She had more job experience this time. There wasn’t any shortage of jobs in the area. She reflected on what she wanted for her life.

She’d found beauty in the several trips down in the last three years. Trips her dad was already making that she’d tagged along for. She’d gone to Miami Beach the entire time. She’d taken the time off work to do so. She’d saved everything she could to spend time in Miami Beach each time. She yearned to move there. She’d begun saving to move there. She vowed to roam around until then. She loved the Shops on 17th street. She’d eaten her way from one end to the other of 17th Street. One part each trip. She saw herself living there at some point. 

She’d taken a leap of faith when she decided to move. She’d kept it to herself until she’d compiled a list of places to apply to. A decent amount of places she knew she had a good chance of getting a job at. She didn’t care what the job was. She was going to apply anyway. She just wanted to make a life for herself there. She wanted out of the toxic area she was living in. She wanted nothing more than to be happy for once in her life. An area that never once loved her. 

It felt like a short trip. Even though it was a four day trip. It felt too short for Remi. She began planning to move to Miami Beach. She’d written every place she wanted to apply to when she roamed around. She knew she could save the money to move there by the end of the year. The Holidays were a busy time in Retail. It meant more hours than usual. It wasn’t anything unusual in Retail. She planned on getting all the bare essentials for the time she got back until she moved. She was more than willing to take a short term financial hit to save money later. Money that would go toward Rent above the other expenses. She didn’t plan on telling anyone until two weeks before she moved. She knew there wouldn’t be too many people that would reach out to her to see her one last time before she left. They’d put it off until after she was gone. She knew what she was going to say though. She also knew she wasn’t going to have any remorse in leaving without goodbyes from people that’d not bothered to see her.