CHAPTER ONE: MN

It was the second day of what felt like non-stop driving from Las Vegas, Nevada to somewhere in Minnesota, and I could feel the homesickness in my heart growing with every passing second. I leaned the back of my head on the cold glass of the car window behind me. I laid horizontally in the back seat of the family van with my bare feet resting my skull-n-crossbones suitcase as I tried to sleep, but to no avail. My older brothers had started arguing over who got which room in our new house. I had already called dibs on the basement bedroom, and my parent’s had the master bedroom so all that was left was the medium sized bedroom and the small bedroom.

Since sleep was apparently not going to happen I decided to try and call my friend, Belle Hartt, from high school. We hadn’t talked since she moved to Montana last year, and I was starting to worry about her not because she’s accident prone, but because she was my best, and only, friend. I say only because it’s true. Other then Belle and her older brother, Josh, I have no one else from school. I was the outcast, the person that got picked last in Gym class for a team, well second to last because of her accidents Belle was picked after me. I typed in Belle’s number and hit call, but it went straight to her voice mail. I left a message telling her to call me back on my cell when she got the chance, and I might have said something along the lines of, “I’m your new state neighbor.” Even though the Dakotas are in between Montana and Minnesota. After that I put my headphones on full blast to drown out to sounds of the people I call family, and tried to sleep.

“Lacy…?” I heard a soft voice call me as someone shook me gently.

Then, “LAWRENCE!!!!” was yelled directly into my ear. I shot up; my eyes opened wide. I turned to my right only to see my older brother Erin glaring at me.

“Get your ass up. We’re here.” He turned pulling his bright-green suitcase behind him as he walked hastily to the house. As Erin was walking away his twin brother, Edward, childishly stuck out his pierced tongue at his back. I laughed slightly, out of the two of them Edward was my favorite because of his lack of, what my family called, ‘Stick Up Ass Syndrome’ which Erin seemed to suffer greatly from.

Edward turned to me and smiled, “Come on Lace. We have to start bringing stuff inside.”

“Okay, Eddy.” I smiled back. I was the only one that could get away with calling him Eddy.

It took about an hour or so to and from the van to get everything into the house.

“Thank God this place already furnished or else we’d still be heaving stuff in.” I could hear my Dad complain to my Mom as I headed past them to my room.

Down a flight of spiral stairs and two landings while holding boxes bigger then my head wasn’t the safest idea, but I made it down okay. For once I had my own room, even if it was the basement that only had one window, it was as far from human life as possible. Since there was already a bathroom in it the only time I’d need to leave would be for school and to get food.

“Shit!” I murmured aloud to myself, “I start school tomorrow.”

The one thing I had forgotten about was the new school that was a few miles away from where I now resided. From what my mother had told me it was a coed school so there’d be boys there, which was good because my last school was a Catholic school for all girls and I had hated it. Though just because there were going to be boys there didn’t make any difference.

“WHY GOD? WHY?” I felt like yelling to the heavens, but settled for falling face first onto my bed instead. I laid there for a good five or twenty minutes before Edward came down to check my unpacking progress, which at this point was at zero.

“Lace, you should at least unpack your school supplies and clothes.” He said as he gently pushed a box of my clothes over to my Asian style dresser with his foot.

“I’m not going tomorrow.” I said into my Deidara plush pillow.

My words fell on deaf ears because he started unpacking my clothes, and putting them into my dresser and into my closet.

I turned slightly to face him. His pale blonde hair was to his shoulders with a piece of bang covering his left eye. He kind of looked like my plushie.

He could feel my stare on his back; I knew he could because he turned around and threw my favorite black pleather vest at me.

“Ouch! WHAT THE FUCK!!!” I yelped as one of its many zippers hit me in the face.

Edward just laughed, “Wear that tomorrow…with…this.” He threw my black and red horizontal-stripped shirt at me.

“Pants or skirt?” I asked rolling my eyes. If he was going to pick out my outfit for tomorrow he might as well pick out the whole thing.

After Edward rummaged through my boxes he finally found what he was looking for, a neon pink skirt and a pair of pleather pants.

I raised an eyebrow at the skirt, “That?” I asked

Edward smiled, “Yep. I haven’t seen you where it since you where in the seventh grade.”

“Because it hasn’t fit since seventh grade.”

“Oh. Then just the pants than.” He said throwing the pink fabric into my trashcan.

I rolled my eyes, “I’ll finish unpacking my stuff Eddy.” He smiled, noticing my irritancy, and left to the world upstairs.

It was about eleven at night when I finally finished unpacking all my stuff. All my clothes were either in my dresser or closet. My millions of manga and other books were in some sort of order on my bookcases, and my three favorite anime plushies were on my bed next to me. I decided that I wasn’t in the mood for human interaction or food so I just decided to lie on my bed and wait for sleep’s embrace to take me over, but when it took longer than five minutes I got bored. So to ease my boredom I decided to set up my new Apple laptop computer. It was a gift I got from my godfather back in Vegas, but I had never gotten a chance to hook it up back there.

It took a while, but after I typed in the information that the computer needed it was smooth sailing. My user name was XxBROKENxX, and my password was BoyGirl. When I was satisfied with my computer, and getting tired, I turned it back off and went to bed.