Alright so… this is my first fanfic. Its taking a lot out of me so I hope its worth it. Enjoy. And please please please review! It would make me mucho excited (:
Oh yeah and here's a tidbit- almost anything in italics is a thought, but it will constantly be obvious who's thinking it, so you wont be confused.
"When you look me in the eyes. And tell me that you love me, everythings alri-" Susie slapped the snooze button on the alarm clock.
"Perfect. Morning," she said to herself sarcastically. It was 9:30. Time to get up and say goodbye to the life she knew. Her plane for California was leaving at 2 p.m., and she had to spend her last day in boring New Jersey packing her carry on stuff. She'd already said goodbye to the few friends she managed to keep. Susie wasn't one for long, sad goodbyes. She was already an emotional wreck most of the time, anyway.
She got up and took a long, hot shower then straightened her long, dark brown hair. After deciding that her appearance today really was trivial, she went downstairs to greet her parents good morning, and ate her last breakfast in the New Jersey home she'd lived in since birth. In all honesty, she was ready to get the hell outta there. She and her parents had to move to L.A. to get away from the Jersey shore for good. None of them ever really liked it there anyway. It was always dirty and boring, and brought back painful memories that the family felt the need to get away from. Plus, the hospitals were better in Los Angeles.
Susie and her parents spent some time getting the last of their things ready and loaded into the car. The big stuff and the other 2 cars had already been shipped to California. By 1 p.m., they had arrived at the airport.
"California, here we come!" her dad nearly yelled. Her mom giggled and Susie kept walking. She was too tired to care. Oh, insomnia. They boarded the plane and sat there impatiently for about 30 minutes. Then the engines finally started up and they raced down the runway.
"Oh God…" she whispered to herself, realizing what was actually happening to her life. She closed her eyes and let her thoughts go crazy, never fully in a deep sleep.
She woke up with a jolt, due to turbulence. "Only an hour to go" she thought to herself. She pulled out her iPod from her purse and put on "You Just Don't Know It", setting her head back in a relazed position. Ah, an old favorite. She had been a huge Jonas Brothers fan since the start of their brotherly career. Time flew and she finally arrived at LAX airport. She and her parents picked up their bags from the baggage claim and got in a taxi, heading towards their new home. When Susie saw the first few houses of her southern Los Angeles neighborhood, her mouth dropped. Her mother was a stay-at-home mom, and her father had just recently become a partner in a huge law firm. Six months ago they could have never afforded this. They pulled up to a beautiful beige beach house-style mansion, and Susie couldn't believe that this was her new home. She hugged her mom and ran inside. She took time to explore the gigantic house and found the perfect bedroom for her. She dropped all of her stuff on the floor, made the bed, and slept. Jet-lag gets to you. She woke up at 6 p.m., California time, which she still wasn't used to. She unpacked some of her personal items, then went downstairs to eat dinner with her parents.
After they had cleaned up their take-out Chinese cuisine container mess, Susie's parents asked her if she wanted to explore downtown L.A. with them.
"No thanks, Mom. I'm not feeling too hot right now. I think I'll just go read or something."
"Okay, hon." Her mother was a Baltimore native, and it was constantly evident in her heavy dialect. "Don't forget to take your medicine. Daddy and I will have our cells with us. Just call if you get worse."
"I will mom. I know the routine," she said, irritated and impatient.
"See ya later, Suebee."
"Bye, Daddy," she replied.
And with that, she was alone. Oh, stress. Oh, fatigue. What to do? She sighed and let a big fat "UGH!" escape from her mouth. "I needed that" she thought to herself. She walked into the living and plopped down on the big wrap-around couch, such that her body was taking up almost all of the horizontal side, with her head resting on the "wrap". She grabbed the remote and flipped through the digital cable channels which, thank God, the cable guy actually got to setting up while she was asleep. She got lost in the childish world of a Hannah Montana marathon and quickly fell asleep. Here come the dreams. At least this time it involved her, Joe Jonas, a big bed, and handcuffs. She hated the nightmares. Susie woke with a jerk in a cold sweat.
"Oh, Lord! I finally dream something good and the night sweats come anyway," she whispered harshly, pissed off at her own mind. She looked at the wall clock. 10:30. "At night?!" She'd only been asleep for a few hours. "Shit. Medicine." She jumped off the couch and started towards the kitchen. On her way there she tripped over a box of kitchen fragiles and banged her foot…hard.
"FUCK!" she exclaimed. She wasn't one for intense pain. Which sucked, considering her precarious situation. She took her pills and went upstairs back to bed.
"Tomorrow will be a new day. The start of a new life. Dear God, please let it be a good one," she spoke softly to herself before drifting to sleep.
Okay so I know that was ridiculously boring and pointless and had little dialogue, but a background is always necessary. I already have the first few chapters written out and I can guarantee you they're better and more exciting. So bare with me please! Thanks.