Author's Note:
Hello all! This is my Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants spin-off, featuring my own characters Blake Vincent, Livia Kapuletti, Tristan Tyler-Rowling, and Cassidy Landon. (Yes, the new characters are the 'equivalent' of the original character that has the same initials, if that makes sense.)
The basic plot is similar to the original sisterhood, but there will be a lot of main differences in my story. I hope you enjoy! Please, please, please review! It really helps to inspire me and keep me writing.
I do not own the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants! The characters, however, are my own.
*One line from the SotTP movie, though slightly tweaked, is used.
*The title is based off the French to English translation of Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.
*The settting is the fictional town of Yorkshire, USA, and the scenery is similar to northern Michigan. But fictional towns are the best, since I can create exactly what I want. :) Hope you don't mind.
Read and review, thanks! I hope you enjoy.
Four Girls and a Jean: The Next Sisterhood
Chapter One
"Blue jeans are the most beautiful things since the gondola." -Diana Vreeland
It was hard to believe that four girls who were so insanely different could even stand to be around each other for more than a few hours, let alone be friends. Best friends, at that. It just didn't make sense, but yet here they were. Perhaps they owed their contrasting personalities to the success of their friendship. It was as if together, they formed one complete person. Wild, unstoppable Blake, shy and beautiful Livia, Tristan the rebel, and Cassidy, the brains of the operation. Seeing them walking down the street, you could have swore that they had known each other for ages. Of course they hadn't; it wasn't always like this. Quite the opposite, really.
The quartet grew up in the town of Yorkshire, and had known each other since kindergarten days. Well, they hadn't technically "known" each other, more like "known of". But that wasn't surprising; in such a small village there were only three schools, elementary, middle, and high, so they were bound to run into each other eventually. It just took longer than anyone would have expected.
For the most part, they stayed in their separate circles. Their very separate circles. Blake was popular and athletic, Livia was quiet and artistic, Tristan was more of a loner, and Cassidy had her friends from the newspaper and was known as being dependable. They were nothing more than acquaintances, at best. There had even been a mutual dislike for a few of the girls. Tristan had always hated Blake's bubbly demeanor and vice versa, Blake had thought Tristan was a smart-alec jerk. Cassidy disliked how shy Livia was, but the brunette girl didn't care for Cassie's controlling personality. But that was all going to change.
Almost by fate, the four of them were to meet through something as strange as a school play. Outgoing Blake auditioned for the lead, Livia was using her artistic talents to help build sets, Tristan had gotten sucked in to playing in the pit orchestra, and the super organized and logical Cassidy had been a stage manager. The department lacking volunteers in the production was costume, and… you guessed it: the director selected the four girls to fill in the gaps, and they were thrust together. Working with each other was difficult at first; getting past their starkly different personalities, interests, and tastes proved to be a challenge, and caused for much annoyance and many an argument. But soon, the girls began to see through their first impressions and stereotypical beliefs, and got to know one another. After a late night staying up finishing costumes, the four had really connected and could now truly be called friends, and their bond only strengthened as the years went on.
That was over three years ago in the eighth grade, and though it didn't seem like long, it proved to be enough time for Blake, Livia, Tristan, and Cassidy to become inseparable, despite all of their differences. It felt like they had been friends forever, they were just that close. So when they found that they would be separated the summer going into their Junior year, their spirits were crushed. Even Tristan, who usually had an 'I-don't-care" attitude was disappointed.
Blake had taken a once in a life-time opportunity to attend an elite soccer summer camp in Baja California, Mexico after a recommendation from her high school coach. Livia was visiting her paternal grandparents in Italy, and after a fight with her mother, Cassie was living with her dad in Arizona for the summer. Tristan, being rejected from music camp, was stuck at home in Yorkshire with her troubled family, slaving away for minimum wage at a book store seeing her friends off on their summer adventures. They were going their separate ways for the first time since they had formed the friendship.
Hundreds of miles apart, was there anything that could keep them close?