Just trying something new, this is my first first-person story or however you want to call it and it's all in Kari's POV

And it's also an AU and some of the characters are going to be OOC so yeah, uhm tell me what you think.

If you are some of my old readers that read this before well just wanted to say that I was rereading this story last night with my BETA Gretel and we found sooooo many mistakes and I decided to restart this story, we edited all of them and they are all done! And I'm serious! I finishin all of the chapters! And I added more stuff, so it's going to be a little different and a little more funnier!

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I Sat there in the corner of my bed staring out of my window, my eyes full of tears, I don't know why I feel this much pain, why does my heart hurt so much? He was just a crush… someone I could get over quickly; I mean c'mon I'm the type of girl that doesn't fall in love… how did I fall in love with him?

I rested my head on the headboard of the bed, and closed my eyes as I remember how it all happened.

Back A Few Months ago

It all started a few months ago, I just moved into this quiet neighborhood.

My Dad got a new job here in America; I had to leave everything behind,

I had to leave my friends, my life, my dreams, and my heart.

I Clutched my camera very tight as I stared out of my car window, My mother was already at the new house unpacking boxes, My Father was at his new job trying to get settled and I was in the car with my older Brother Tai, he's now officially 18 and out of high school, ready to start his first year of college and to top it off he was only staying here in America for a week just to help us get settled! It got me so mad that I would have to get to use to this place all on my own.

We were driving around town trying to get to know our new surroundings,

This new neighborhood we moved into seems quite pleasant, everything is close to our house, there's a food market only 3 blocks away and the school is only 10 blocks making it easy for me to walk to.

Everything here seemed so normal… like nothing interesting will ever happen in this small town… not that I expected a big change.

"Hey cheer up Kari, it's not so bad" Tai said making a turn and headed straight for what looked like a Store.

"Ha! How can you say cheer up! There's nothing here for me! I want to go back to Japan with you!" I said turning on my digital Camera and staring at the pictures I took right before we moved.

"Aye you cant, mom and dad need you here, plus you only have one more year of high school left then you can come back to Japan and start college there with me" Tai said pulling up to the store called "Paint Your Home" I guess it some sort of place to buy paint or objects to fix your house at least that's what the little sign underneath it said "and other appliances for your home"

"Puh whatever" I said still not taking my eyes off of the camera, I was staring at the picture of me and my best friend Yolei, she had long purple hair, she was wearing the "My Chemical Romance" Shirt I bought her for her birthday, she had her arm around me, I was wearing the "The Ataris" Shirt she bought me for my birthday that same year and we were both doing the peace sign. Oh how I'm really going to miss her, she had been my best friend since I was 13.

"Aye, look I'm going to go in here to pick up some paint so we can get started on painting house, wants to come in with me? So you can pick out a color you want for your room?" Tai said getting out of his car

I finally turned off my camera and nodded my head.

"Sure" I slowly got out of the car and place the pocket size camera in my pocket and walked with Tai into the store.

"Okay so what color do you want to paint the house?" Tai asked as we walked into the Light color section of the store.

I guess they separated everything into colors.

"Well what color did mom say to paint it?" I asked as I walked down the pink section.

"I guess she wanted it a Yellowish type color with a Green boarder… what do you think?" Tai said to me

"Okay How about a sunny yellow and instead of green get a midnight blue for the boarder" I said as I continued searching for a certain pink color.

"Hmm I think that's a good idea!" Tia Said grabbing the paint and placing it in the shopping cart.

I finally found the pink I wanted, it was a nice dark pink but not to dark, it was just right.

I grabbed the paint and walked over to where Tia was and placed in it in the shopping cart.

"All set?" Tai asked as he moved the cart and headed straight towards the register.

I just smiled and walked with him.

I took out my paint can and gave it to the lady at the register, she seemed really nice, she had short red hair with hazel eyes, and the bottom part of her apron was full of black and pink strips that looked as if she colored them there. I looked up to read her name tag it read "Sora" with little hearts everywhere.

"Hey I haven't seen you two around here before, are you two new to town?" Sora asked as she ran the paint cans on the scanner.

"Wow I guess this is a small town after all since everyone must know everyone" Tai leaning on the counter, stupid Tai cant take him anywhere without flirting with someone.

I just smiled "Yeah we just moved in three days ago, we just came here to buy some paint" I said nicely

Sora looked at me with a happy face

"You live around here?" She asked

"Yeah a few blocks away, we came in car because we were planning on looking around this town so I can get use to it."

"Really? That's awesome me and my boyfriend live a few blocks away from here too, we live in the neighborhood called "Star's Dreams: A neighborhood full of friendly neighbors" She said as she packed up the paints in paper bags.

"Wow what a coincidence we moved into that same neighborhood!" I said in a surprised voice.

Sora smiled sweetly

"Well at least now you know one nice face in this place" Sora said as she rip out the receipt and handed to Tai.

"What's your name?" Sora asked me

"Kari and this my older brother Tai"

Tai smiled and shooked her hand.

"What a pretty name Kari, Well hopefully we'll meet up later so we can hang out or something" Sora said with a smile as we left.

I placed the bags in the car and took a seat in the front; I took out my camera as I waited patiently for Tai to start the car.

The Drive back home went by quiet quick, none of us talked, I just continued looking through the photos that I took, and wishing that by some miracle I would just magically appear home again.

I Stepped out of the car carrying the bags of paint inside the house, I already noticed that my mother had step up the whole dinning area and kitchen as well.

This house was big… a little too big for only three people, it was a two story high very roomy, I mean if someone where to get lost in here no one would notice…

"Mom We're Back" I said setting the paint cans next to the door and headed up to my room.

I entered my room and noticed that they already had my bed made and my desk was there with my computer already set up and everything.

"Good old' Dad, Very nice of him setting up my room" I said to myself.

My bed was nicely centered and already had the pink and black sheets spread on it; all that was left was 4 boxes of clothes and junk next to it.

"I'll get to it eventually" I said tossing my camera onto the bed and walked over to my windowsill.

I opened the window and stepped out to balcony.

I had such a beautiful View I could see the whole neighborhood and it looked very calm and the sky was very clear no sign of rain.

I move my vision from the beautiful blue sky to the house across from mine.

There were three boys out there skateboarding.

Well there was actually one skateboarding, the other two boys were sitting down on the porch, one had semi long jet black hair and was holding a video camera, and the boy next to him had bluish purple hair and was wearing big glasses and looked like he was taking notes on the boy that was skateboarding.

He has semi long blonde hair and was wearing an AC/DC shirt, major points there AC/DC is the best classic rock band ever! Well anyway,

I use to watch the guys back in Japan skateboard all the time so I knew a few things about skateboards; I just never tried skateboarding before, well I have but that didn't turn out so good.

So I just watched him skateboard, he wasn't bad at all, he did the turns smoothly and the jumps were so awesome, expect when he tried to spin the board while in the air, he fell down and I gasp hopefully no one noticed, but sadly the boy with the black hair and the video camera looked up at me and pointed the video camera at me.

"Hey TK! Looks like you got yourself another fan"

Then the boy with the blonde hair looked at me, and waved.

I jumped! I couldn't help it I was so embarrassed! So I did what any normal girl would do, I hurried back into the window and closed it shut it.

I walked downstairs to find my brother and mother already in their painting outfits.

"Kari dear are you ready to paint the house?" My mother said grabbing a paint can and heading outside.

"What now? Aren't we going to wait for Dad to get home?" I asked as I picked up my semi long honey brown hair and tied it up in a pony tail.

"Yeah but he's under a bit of stress dear, you know he has to get settled in his new job then he has to help me pain the bedroom, we just have a lot to do and it would be nice for you to help" My mother said in her sweet voice.

"Okay mom lets get to it" I said as I headed outside.

After of what seem to be exactly 1 hour, of painting the whole back side of the house we were finally done!

At least to me the sunny yellow I picked came out rather nicely.

"I Guess that's enough for today dear, feel free to take walk around the neighbor, you know try to make some new friends" My mother said sweetly as she walked back into the house and straight to the kitchen.

"Nah its okay mom I'll just stay here and help you cook dinner" I said walking inside the house.

"Nonsense! That's why I have Tai here, he'll help me clean up the kitchen, and set the table and whatnot, you deserve sometime for yourself! So go get cleaned up!"

I stood there in shock, my mom was never this pushy for me to have actual fun, and she would usually make me go up to my room and finish unpacking or study for some class I'm not taking, yup this was odd so I guess I might as well take advantage of this moment.

It was already 6 o clock I have exactly one hours to explore this place.

I just finished taking a long hot shower and changed my clothes to the usual, blue jeans, with a black studded belt and a pink tank top, along with a couple of pink, black and green jelly bracelets, put back my hair in a clip and walked out holding on to my hot pink music player.

There was already a nice breeze, and the leaves from the trees already falling unto the ground, I'll admit this neighborhood is beautiful.

I walked up to the entrance of the neighborhood.

The Sign read "Star's Dreams: A neighborhood full of friendly neighbors"

"Pshh yeah friendly neighbors my butt" I said to myself as I turned on my music player.

"I have yet to find anyone with friendly quality" I said to myself as I kept walking.

I started to walk on the opposite side of the sign, until I noticed that there was a small entrance to what looked likes a park in the middle of these two rather large trees,

So I walked into the middle of the two trees to find that there was a big lake and right across it was another big neighborhood like mine, to the left of the lake was the large park which had swings and a playground, the park on the right was just a smooth ground with a few ramps that I'm guessing a few kids around here made so that they can skateboard, and on the sides it had a few tables and benches for reading or studying or maybe for more crazy stunts?.

I decided to walk to the park on my left, as I kept walking I took out my music player and skipped all the way to track number 11 and raised the volume to full blast. No was around so I don't think it would be much trouble… or so I though.

As I got close to the park on the left I felt as someone was behind me, so as soon I turned around I found myself on the floor.

My music player turned off and wasn't near my sight, I looked up at the person that was untop of me.

"Dude what the hell! Didn't you hear me yelling at you to move! Are you deft or something?"

He looked familiar, he did continue to yell at me but I didn't pay much attention to him, I started looking around for my music player which I found hiding in the grass.

"Hello! Are you even listening to me?" the blonde boy said to me getting up.

I sat up straight as I examined my music player… it was scratched.

"You scratched my music player!" I said in a normal yet agitated voice.

"Well you broke my skateboard" He said calmly

"Now how did I break your skateboard?" I said looking up at him

"By…"

"By what? I was just walking towards the park which by the way says no skateboarders allowed! So I have every right to be mad at you" I said looking up at him and noticing his blue eyes.

'Wow he has really nice blue eyes' I thought to myself.

"Your right I'm sorry" He said getting up and offering a hand to me.

I smiled and accepted.

"What are you doing skating by here anyway?" I asked as I wiped the dirt of the grass off of my clothes.

"Obviously you must be new to this neighborhood to not know about that big bump in the road over there" He pointed to this semi hill looking bump in the middle of the sidewalk.

I turned around to see it then I turned back to him only to give him a confused look.

"Yup that answers my question, well that's like the only hill in these parts that is actually worth jumping with a skateboard or just regular roller skates"

I just smiled and nodded pretending I had a clue which I didnt.

"Yeah you have no idea what I'm talking about do you?" the boy said as he picked up his skateboard which was missing a wheel.

"Damn, now I have to work the nightshift to be able to buy new wheels"

"What do you mean?" I asked

"These wheels were really expensive; they help skate on really bumpy roads"

"Oh they don't happen to be called "smooth as glass wheels" would they?" I asked as we walked towards the entrance of the two trees.

"Actually they are called that" the boy said sounding rather impressed.

"Oh good then I have a couple of those in my house"

"You skate?" he asked

"Uh… kind of, I use to work at a skate shop back in Japan"

He stopped, so I turned to look at him and he just stood there looking like he was tying to remember something.

"You wouldn't happen to be Kari would you?"

"Yeah why?" I asked rather confused

"oh okay! Sora called and told me about a new girl moving in, in our block"

I thought back to the paint store, Sora was that nice lady that tried to start up conversation, wait I also remember she said she had a boyfriend that lived here, oh god I hope this guy isn't her boyfriend! He seems so young! Okay not so young but! Ah! Hey wait why should I care anyway?

"Are you Sora's boyfriend she mentioned?"

Great nice going! Whatever happen to not caring? I said to myself.

"HAHAHAHA your funny! Sora is practically my sister in law! She's dating my older brother Matt"

So we continued to walk towards my house until I realized that I didn't know his name yet.

"Well now that I know that you know who I am, I would like to know who you are" I said plainly.

"Well for starters my name is TK, and there's nothing and I mean nothing that I can't do"

"Well don't you sound a little too confident?"

"No it's actually the truth, I'm the type of person that sets their mind on something and succeeds, and most importantly I love challenges" he said looking up at me with a sly smile as we stood in front of my house.

"What do you mean by challenges?" I asked

"I like things that are hard to get, makes life for me more fun and exciting because you never know what will happen" he said as he turned to look up at my house

"So this is your house?"

I nodded.

"Wow what a small world because my house is right across the street" TK said with a smile.

"Now that I think about it aren't you the girl that was staring at me and my friends today?" TK said with a smug look on his face.

"Ha yeah right you wish! I was just checking to see if my father came back with more boxes"

Ha we all know that's a lie! My dad is at work and all the boxes are already here, we're actually almost done moving!

"Haha its okay we like having fans, they make us feel more important and more attractive." TK said with a wink.

"I'm not a fan! And don't look at me like that! ahh Whatever I'll just go get you the wheels so you can leave me alone" I said as I walked into the house and straight up to my room.

I had a special box filled with my own special memories and oddly enough when I worked at that skate shop I happened to have saved a couple of the wheels they gave me.

I found the ones he wanted and rushed back downstairs and outside to find him sitting down on one of the steps.

"Well here you go" I said tossing it to him.

He looked up at me and smiled.

"Thanks a lot really" TK said getting up with a smile on his face, he has such a nice smile.

"No problem really" I said as I was about to turn around and enter my house.

"You never got to tell me more about you"

"Huh?" I said as I turned around to face him.

"Well you know something about me; I want to know something about you"

"Okay well you know my name… I like to take pictures and I never leave home without my camera" and with that I turned back around and entered my house but just before I closed the door I stuck my head out.

"Well see you tomorrow superman" and with that I closed the door.

I walked into the kitchen to see that my mother and brother were already seated.

"So Kari how was your little walk? Did you enjoy it?" My mother asked

"Yeah it was kind of peaceful" I said as I took a seat and stared at my plate,

She made mash potatoes and Fish, it looked good so I started eating.

"Meet anyone?" My mother said as she took a bite out of her fish.

"Actually I met our neighbor from across the street." I said not sounding to interested in the conversation, I mean I was really in no mood to disgust it, I mean its nothing bad because nothing bad happen, I don't know.

"Kari is something wrong?" Tai asked

"No I'm fine, I'm just not hungry, uhm can we save this?" I said lifting up my plate

"Uh… sure dear just place it in the microwave and you can eat it when your hungry." My mother said in a wry voice.

I took the plate and placed it in the microwave and ran up to my room.

As soon as I reached my room I headed straight for my computer,

I got online and decided to check my email, and as expect I have 2 in my inbox.

The first one was from Yolei telling me how horrible things were going without me and how much she missed me and how she was planning on getting on an airplane over here just to kidnap me back to Japan haha

That silly Yolei.

And the second one was from my boyfriend… yeah I forgot to mention that part didn't I?

Well I didn't think it was important, we only dated for 4 months and his name was Kijuro, and he was a painter.

And when I mention that I left heart back in Japan I didn't mean him because I'm not in love with him… actually I don't believe in falling in love not all, but I do believe in liking someone a lot… and I do admit I do like him a lot I just don't know why but not as much as I should I mean from his emails that he sends he sounds that he's really in love with me and how hard he's going to try to make this long distant relationship work… but lets face it does he even know what love is?

Oh well his email seemed plain he said the usual

"Hey babe miss you like crazy, my paintings aren't coming out like they should, I guess since you went away so did my inspiration well write back

Love your boyfriend Kijuro"

Ha love… whatever…

I closed out the emails and turn off my computer; I got up and headed to my stereo and popped in my new CD

I skipped all the way to Track number 4.

The song was called "Still Framed" By this band called Trapt.

I laid down on my bed and stared up at the ceiling as I drifted off to sleep.

Only 4 weeks left till school starts… I have a long summer ahead of me.

And I slowly drifted off to sleep.

Please help me 'cause I'm breaking down

Theses pictures are frozen and I can't get out of here

I hope you like it!

The song of course isn't mine and it's by Trapt.

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