I DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES OWN ANYTHING RELATING TO DRAGON BALL Z! I am but a simple writer, owning only my OC's...
++++++The wonderful perspective of Jamie Sparks++++++
All I heard in every direction was rain. I loved the sound of the rolling thunder and the splash the raindrops made when they hit a surface. It felt as if the air was pooling with energy. Everything was so relaxed, and I was getting sleepy just watching the down pour. Suddenly the car I was in hit a bump and I was jerked out of my thoughts.
"Oh, sorry about that, didn't mean to wake you up." I glanced over to the owner of the voice that had disrupted my daydreaming to find my best friend Kimiko Nelson (She prefers Kimi) with a trademark grin plastered on her face. I smiled back, poking her in the side.
"No worries, you just shook me out of la-la land." Kimi shook her head at me sarcastically.
"You always have your head stuck up in the clouds my ever-dozing friend." This time I jabbed at her.
"Shut up!" We both started laughing as we continued our drive. Where was our destination you may ask? Well that would be none other than the prestigious Orange Star High. Both Kimi and I were fortunately or unfortunately enrolled there and were currently in our last few months of sophomore year. I guess I should kind of introduce myself first before I go any further with my story. My name is Jamie Sparks and I am an orphan so to speak with a little bit of a Cinderella story as background.
I am an only child and my parents died when I was pretty young, I would say around when I was 3 almost 4. We all got in a car crash and my mom and dad used themselves as shields for me to protect from flying shrapnel and hopefully lessen the impact. They saved my life that day but lost theirs. After that, I went to go live with my uncle who was basically my only family left. I spent four years with him together before he decided to get married. I was eight or nine at the time. Up until this point, even though I loved and remembered my father, my uncle was more of a father figure for me; it was like I had two. The point to me telling you that is so that you would understand that when a father figure gets married, you get a mother figure… sort of. In my case, my uncle fell in love with a she-monster who was sugar coated on the outside but pure evil on the inside. That and she came with the oh so cliché, two evil step daughters. When I first heard the setup of how our family was going to be, I nearly face palmed in front of everyone. It was my very own Cinderella story, minus the prince. If it weren't for Kimi and my uncle, I don't know how I would have managed. But everyone knows that in any sort of Cinderella story, whenever there's a step monster, the father usually disappears.
Thanks to fate wanting to make sure my horrid fairy tale life was perfect to the point, that's exactly what happened. My uncle came down with cancer a few months later, and was in the process of recovering when he had a heart attack. I was ten. Kimi then became the only shoulder I had to cry on, and once again my dad had been taken away. This left me a bit of a loner for a while, trying to heal up a scar too deep for me to fix on my own. Once more, if Kimi and her family hadn't been there, I would have been an absolute devastated mess. You can imagine using your story logic what happened next: Step monster Ella, and her clones Bridget and lunacy, oh sorry I mean Lucy, became queens of the house. Happy to say I wasn't necessarily reduced to their personal maid all the time, but I had my chores, and I cooked dinner and I had to pay for my own things. Not to mention the terrible duo made my life as miserable as possible wherever I went. Kimi still stuck by my side through it all though, and now we are stuck at the hip. We're more like sisters than best friends. And today we continue as sisters into our high school jungle.
"We're here!" Kimi said in a very sing song voice. I glared at her and she just smiled.
"It's too early to be happy." I said with a sigh. I reached over to the handle of my door to let myself out when suddenly a car pulled up rather quickly beside us. I retracted my hand out of surprise and looked to the window to see none other than the two most esteemed boys in our high school. Trunks Briefs and Goten Son. Not that I had a particular bone to pick with either of them, it was just the reputation and the stuck up snobs that always seemed to follow them around. They were both amazingly popular since the end of freshman year and had stayed such for all of sophomore year. I watched as both boys got out of their car and walked up to meet a few cheerleaders standing up on the sidewalk. Growling I pushed the door open and jumped out, shoving my hands in my pockets and trudging over to Kimi who was standing under a cover to avoid the rain. I made my way over to my fellow weirdo while trying to ignore the fact that I was getting soaked without an umbrella.
"Those people get on my nerves sometimes." I said through gritted teeth as I came up under the shelter my best friend had spotted. Kimi just smirked.
"I don't think the boys are actually that bad," she stopped for a moment as one of the girls swarming the famous pair glared us down with a failing smirk that was just screaming 'I'M SO MUCH BETTER THAN YOU!' I wanted to punch the girls face in, but I guess that was because I had a bit of a short fuse/anger problem. "But the girls that follow them like sheep are another story."
"Ha, and why do you say that?" I asked, annoyed just as much by the boys attracting all of these vicious she-witches as the she-witches themselves.
"Well, the boys seem to have reasonable heads on their shoulders, even if they do have their heads up in the clouds, but we've never really met them, and you can't judge what you don't know." I growled again, stupid Kimi and her logical nonviolent ways. Again Kimi grinned at me, probably because she found my annoyance towards all of them a bit amusing. It wasn't that I necessarily disliked that type of scenario and the people in them, it was just that those girls are all friends with my, ugh, stepsisters. I do not get along with my step sisters or their friends. Also, both Bridget and Lucy are obsessed with Goten and Trunks.
"Oh right, did you text me last night, 'cause Ella took my phone away after dinner for calling the girls something, and I heard it go off on your ring tone." Kimi blinked at me as if she was trying to think back. "Search the depths of your mind young padawan."
"Shut your Jedi trap, and I needed some help with history. I'm totally stumped on the homework we were supposed to do." I nodded and put my hand up to my chin, stroking an imaginary beard.
"I see, well I guess that's what we'll be doing during lunch then! Now come on, if we keep standing here, we'll be late to class." Kimi paled. We both knew that neither of us could handle another detention and so we both booked it into the school and to our classroom.