As the plane landed I stared out the window gazing at the clear blue skies and the gorgeous beaches. This was so different from my life back in England. My names Skittle. That's it. No real first name or last name! I refused to answer to any other name than Skittle. My Mum had left my Dad for another Man when I was just a baby leaving my Dad to look after me and my older brother alone. My Dad was a useless parent. He had no idea how to handle a teenage daughter let alone how to look after one. My brother was the only person I could rely on. He is five years older than me. He's twenty-one and I'm sixteen. About a month he decided enough was enough. He was fed up with the lousy way our Dad looked after us and he was ready to leave. He packed his bag and came to me
"I want you to come with me" he said
"What? But what about dad?" I was desperate to leave but concerned on how my Dad would manage on his own
"Look, he's not going to look after you properly! But I will! So pack your bags and I'll talk to Dad about it" And with that my brother was out the door and debating with my Dad
He was right. My dad wouldn't look after me but my brother always did! So I packed up my bags
"Dad, I'm so sorry! I just have to go with Leo! He looks after me better then you ever have! There's no way I can stay here whilst he jets off to a new start"
"It's ok skittle. I know your right! I've never known how to look like a proper Dad. You deserve a better life and I'm not going to stop you" My Dad stood up from the couch and gave me a huge hug
"Thank you so much Dad. I'll stay in contact and you can visit whenever you want"
"Sure thing Hun. I know I've never looked after you properly but I'll always love you"
"I'll always love you too" I said pulling away from the hug
"Bye skittle"
"Bye Dad"
I rushed out the door and met Leo in the car. I loved my Dad but I was definitely happy to be flying off to a new life with Leo. It was so exciting
"So where are we going?" I asked slinging my bags in the boot
"A place called Ocean Shores" Leo said turning on the engine
"Oh and where's that?"
"CALIFORNIA!"
"What? No way! I can't believe I'm going to live in California" My heart flew as I thought about the fact I was moving from dull England to sunny California! In just a few hours my life had gone from dull and boring to completely amazing!
"Come on, let's go start our new life" Leo smiled handing me my hand luggage
"I can't believe we're doing this" I couldn't help but smile
"I've been planning this for a while! But I have to admit I never thought I'd ever actually go through with it" We left the plane and were immediately struck back by the blistering heat
"Our new place is in some where called 'Cul De Sac' Leo led us in to the baggage collect
"Is it nice?"
"Of course! I wouldn't have us moving in to somewhere that was awful! The previous owners, the Stimpletons I think they were called, looked after the house very well and were only moving because the wife's Mum passed away and left them a house in her Will"
"Oh right. Good neighbours?"
"Very good apparently! All pretty much the same age as you and very friendly" Leo grabbed one of my cases and placed it next to me "Great, one down four to go"
"Well we were moving house and I needed all of my stuff! Please tell me the house is already furnished"
"Yep, it's quite modern apparently"
"You haven't seen it yourself?"
"No, why?"
"You should always see a house yourself before you buy it! You could be buying anything"
"Well the Stimpletons seemed like really nice people so I didn't think they'd turn out to be mugger or anything like that"
"Well I hope for your sake you right!" Images of what the house might look like ran through my head making me feel quite conscious and nervous.
"Oh, here are my Cases" Leo grabbed his cases through the crowd and waited for the rest of mine
"So how are we getting there?"
I hired a big taxi to take us there and I'm going to start looking for a car sometime in the week" Leo said as he reached for another one of my cases
"Ok, What about a job?"
"What?"
"Have you got any jobs lined up?"
"Oh, well there's a surf shop by the beach that I thought I'd check out"
"Cool, you could get me discount surf stuff" I smirked
"Hmm, maybe not" Leo laughed.
After about another twenty minutes we had all our cases and we headed out to the Taxi rank.
"Are you Mr Leo?" a man came from a huge Taxi
"Yes, that's me"
"Good good. May I be the first to say welcome to Ocean Shores" He took our bags one by one and stacked them in the back of his car
"Thank you" Leo hopped in the car#
"Mr Leo?" I sniggered as I got in next to Leo
"Shut up" Leo turned a little red
We drove for a while until we finally pulled up in Cul De Sac. It was amazing. Giant houses stood tall all round us. They were so modern and funky. I couldn't see any one around but I was kind of glad to be able to move in piece!
"What do you think?" Leo asked with a proud smile on his face
"It's… it's just incredible!"
"I knew you'd like it. Now come on! I can't carry all those cases by myself" Leo got out the car and wondered round to the boot where the driver was struggling with cases.
"Thanks for the lift sir, here" Leo causally handed the driver a tip
"Oh thank you Mr Leo! I hope you and your daughter have a great new life here" He smiled
"Daughter? No way! I am not his daughter!"
"Oh, sorry Miss! Well I might be seeing you around then." The driver hung his head and quickly hurried back in to the car before driving away.
"So which one's ours?" I looked around
"That one" Leo pointed to the biggest house on the block
"No way" I was astonished "It has a pool and everything"
"Yep. I think we're going to be very happy here"
"I'll second that! Come one let's see what insides like" I ran to the door pulling two of my cases behind me leaving Leo with three of mine and two of his own to handle. When he had finally clambered over I couldn't wait to see my new room
"Ready?" He teased
"Yes, please hurry! I'm dying of excitement!" I pleaded
"Ok" He slid the key in to the door and turned it then he pulled on the door handle and swung open the door
"Whoa" We both said. It was better than I had ever imagined! The walls were a beautiful white and creamy blue with delicate toffee wooden floors. The furniture was simple but effective creating a gorgeous modern house
"Thank you so much for this, Leo" I smiled
"My pleasure, skittle!"
Ok, so not much happened in this chapter. Just introducing you to the story! But its going to start getting very exciting and amazing in the next chapters! THE ROCKET GANG are in it soon :D so keep reading
But please review and a new chapter will be up very soon!