Chapter 1

February 6th 2000

The cold air had filled up and down the state as the weather was said to drop 5 below 0 that day. The dark late night road was lit up by a set of lights winding down a black desolate road, which belonged to a grey GMC Safari, the truck pulled into the cul-de-sac into a driveway of its new resting place.

Three figures emerged out from the Safari, one adult, two teenagers, one male and one female. The two men started moving boxes through the main entrance of the house which was had a khaki coloured door to it, "It's what mother would have wanted, to live here." said the female to the two males who were carrying about 6 boxes between them in various shapes and "Mother would have loved to live out here in the quiet town away from the big cities like Olympia." said the younger male.
""She sure would love the tranquility here and to see you two in a better school, speaking of which how was the visit back in October?
"It was alright Dad." grumbled both teenagers. "Great!" said the father with a lot of sarcasm in it, The two men had came from the boot and went in around 20 times before the front door was finally shut over, inside the house laid enough space for a family of 5 rather than 3, the lounge had most of it's furniture in it from it being moved before hand, The kitchen was directly opposite, it was state of the art. Clean crisp but also had a very 60s vibe to it with assortments of plain cupboard that were empty for a while, accompanied with a modern fridge installed in by the door entrance, the kitchen had a wooden dinner table with 6 seats around it tucked perfectly in the corner, the kitchen was the biggest room down stairs after the lounge. The house had a small bathroom that nested under the stairs, a grand staircase that ascended to the 4 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms. One for each member of the family and a spare for a sort of storage room fitted with Guitars ranging from Gibson's to acoustics from Romania, hanging on the wall complete with band posters from the likes of Nirvana to The Clash to even a framed album cover of "There is Nothing left to lose" by Foo Fighters. As for the rest of the house it fell silent as the 3 occupants fell asleep very quickly after a long day of moving and unpacking at the new house.

The dark sky had changed to a sunrise with the sound of an alarm clock going off, the young male had vacated his room with a pair of shorts and a green t-shirt on and proceeded to make his way down stairs to the kitchen. He then poured a bowl of Chunky Puffs and filled it with milk. He then changed course to the lounge and slumped on the brown faux leather sofa with the TV on the MTV channel on. Halfway through munching he heard footsteps of his older sister barge in and slumped next to him nearly knocking him over
"Watch it asshole you nearly made me spill my Puffs, god damn it woman how many times do you do that?!" he shouted as he attended to fix his hair which was in neck length and really messy, the colour was chestnut and he had light brown eyes that glared at his sister who had the same coloured eyes but was accompanied with longer blonde hair, she rolled her eyes and added "Damn it Tom, you've been like this for 3 weeks now get over thinking of her."
"I can't help it Emily, Alice was the only girl who I cared for 5 months then she left me 3 weeks ago." Tom replied followed by a sigh. Once finishing his bowl of Chunky puffs he decided to put his bowl in the dishwasher and rejoined his sister back in the lounge watching the tv, these actions made Emily getting ticked off at her brother

"Go make some friends outside, all your others are back home, I'm going in the mall later." she said "Don't follow me goddamn it." she added gritting her teeth "I'm gonna meet some friends that will come back here so be nice or else..." Tom sat there and just mumbled to him self to which his sister stomped back up into her bedroom and the sound of a door slamming was echoed, he ended up doing the same and walked into the bathroom cleaning himself with warm water and he slipped on some clothes, A dark grey hoodie with blue jeans and a pair of black boots as he walked outside in the freezing weather shutting the door behind him.

"Sure I'll make some friends, you can't tell me what I can and can't do." he mumbled loudly, He decided with his new friend or friends to ruin his sisters fun but in doing so he decided to keep his posture cool and relaxed when talking to people. Trudging in the snow ended up leading Tom to a bus stop which managed to pull into the Business district, The snow was to get worse so he thought "I'll get a couple albums and a drink then come home."