A/N: Well, here goes! My first Sound of Music fic! I hope you enjoy it and leave me nice comments :) constructive criticism is also good so feel free to point things out!!

I have to say I'm not too good with dates, so I've just ad-libbed. It shouldn't (hopefully) take anything away from the story.

Disclaimer: I own two copies of TSOM on DVD but not the real thing...

Edit: I have just re-read this chapter and was appalled at all my spelling mistakes! I have hopefully changed them all. Sorry!

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The von Trapps had stayed in Switzerland for four years before they decided to travel to America. They had come to terms with the fact they could never go back to the villa in Austria, and so had made the choice to travel across the globe, as many others were doing.

They had carefully created a detailed plan, how they were to get to England from Switzerland, what to do if they got separated, the details of the place they should contact if anyone got left behind, they had even spent an hour an evening learning English. Everything and anything was prepared for.

One day in March they set off for England, and having reached their destination a month later, they boarded the ship which would take them to a new life.

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"How long is it now?" Gretl asked Liesl, sitting up on her bed.

"I'm not too sure, but I think we must be almost there!" Liesl replied, smiling at her younger sister.

Gretl nodded, apparently satisfied with the answer she had been given, or at least accepting that she would get no further information. The room in which the sisters were sat housed 6 beds, one for Liesl, one for Louisa, one for Brigitta, one for Marta, one for Gretl and one for Anna, the youngest member of the family. They were pushed close together as the room was only small, but they obviously weren't expecting 6 people in one bedroom. Whoever 'they' were.

Louisa burst into the room and both girls sat up, "Come quickly!" Louisa said, and with that short outburst promptly disappeared again.

Liesl and Gretl ran out into the corridor, only to be greeted by five other members of the family.

"What is it?" Liesl asked, not particularly directing the question to anyone.

"Let's find out!" Maria said, cheerfully and strode off, leaving Brigitta, Marta, Liesl , Gretl , Georg and Anna, who laid in her father's arms, to follow behind.

They reached the hull off the ship to find the other three people in their party jumping and shouting. The other's did not realise what the commotion was about until it was pointed out to them by Kurt.

"Look! Can you see it? That statue there! The lady with her arm raised in the air!"

They squinted into the distance, and sure enough, slowly getting bigger, was the Statue of Liberty.

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Everyone had gone back to their rooms to pack up their things, ready to depart from the ship. People raced across corridors, crying out to each other, holding books and odd socks as they packed.

"Where's my hairbrush?" Brigitta cried, uncharacteristically, "Marta! You had it last!"

"I don't know!" Marta replied, "Go and ask Mother!"

Brigitta ran out of the girls bedroom, into her parent's room. They too were hurriedly packing.

"What is it Brigitta?" her Father asked, tearing his attention away from the pile of books he was putting into a bag.

"I've lost my hairbrush! Marta took it yesterday and now she doesn't know where it is and I was bought..."

She was cut of by Maria, who handed her the brush. "It was left in here! Stop panicking, darling! It doesn't suit you!" Brigitta was instantly calmed by her mother's smile. She sighed and went back to her room.

After a while the chaos had subsided, and people were starting to leave their rooms after checking under the beds and in every drawer to make sure nothing had been left behind.

The von Trapps, filed out into the corridor from the girls room (the biggest of the three) after going over the plan yet again. They lined up in the predetermined order, Georg at the front, followed by the children in ascending age order, Gretl to Liesl, with Maria at the back holding Anna. After a final check to make sure they had everything, they headed toward the exit.

Nothing was to break the line, the plan said. However, the throngs of people rushing forward made keeping the order harder than anyone had planned. Georg glanced back occasionally, making sure everyone was there, and Maria kept counting the children, only to panic that there were seven in front of her instead of eight, then realising she was holding the eighth.

After a few minutes of pushing and shoving, Anna cried out.

"What's the matter, little one?" Maria asked soothingly,

"Cuppy!" the three year-old shouted. Cuppy was Anna's toy rabbit. The one thing she couldn't live without. And she'd dropped it.

"Sorry, darling," Maria consoled, "We'll get you a new Cuppy in America. Your father won't be happy if the line gets broken!"

"Cuppy!" Anna screamed, "CUPPY!" she started to yell, wriggling in her mothers arms, throwing herself as far as she could toward the fallen stuffed animal.

"Stop it! Anna!" Maria cried, the little girl had succeeded in breaking away from her mothers grasp, and started toward he toy on her unsteady feet. "Anna! Come back!" Maria was loosing sight of her daughter, she dashed towards where the rabbit had fallen, and sure enough there was Anna, sat on the floor cradling and singing to Cuppy.

Maria stooped down to pick her back up, and as she did so someone's heavy suitcase collided with the back of her head. She fell and blacked out, and as she drifted into unconsciousness she could hear Anna crying to her.

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I feel evil! Please review! One who can guess where I got the name Cuppy gets 20 points!!