My best friend and I have been working on this...It must've been sophomore year when we started it. We've been posting on Deviantart via our joint account: girls-who-luv-Ghibli, but I feel like this is definitely a better community for word-art. We have eight chapters currently completed, so please read and enjoy. I'd love some feedback if you can spare the time (which you should if you're actually taking the time to read fan-fiction in the first place). I'll post more chapters based off the general response. Thank you for your time! ~AJ
Sheeeee's BAAAACK! – DC
iPit. Pit pat pit/i.
About time, I thought, tearing my gaze from the glow of the street lamps and choosing instead to look at the ground for evidence of rain. "Wait a minute…" I muttered when, instead of pavement, I saw only darkness. I mentally groaned, slapping my forehead. For the first time since I had set out at midday, I glanced down at the hands of my Mickey Mouse watch. (Don't ask, it was a gift.) I couldn't do anything but stare, it couldn't be that late, could it? "SHOOT!"
As I ran home, the rain soaked through the thin fabric of my blue/blacktank top and jean shorts, lightly chilling my skin. Despite my rush, I couldn't help but smile widely at the feeling. I probably would've passed right past my house if it weren't for my cousin. "DONNA!"
I skidded to a stop and looked in disbelief at my cousin where she stood with her hands on her hips on my front porch. iWait a minute…Wasn't I supposed to jack Matt's car and pick her up at the airport? Crap…/i
"Donna, are you gunna come up here and give me a hug or not? I just got back from my Spanish trip, did I not?" Then she ran up and glomped me, cursing in Spanish, laughing the whole time. AJ has always loved showing off what she learns… I personally don't think Señorita Mccutcheon should have let them go to that "young peoples'" club. (She was gone for a month. Obviously she made me actually write her letters, as she was writing everyone and wanted someone to actually write her back.)
"Anna!" Mom yelled from inside the house. "WATCH YOUR MOUTH!"
iMom? Did you take Spanish in the army?/i
"Aunt Kelli," my cousin shouted back "You say worse on a daily basis! And that's in English where Lex can actually understand. She wouldn't have thought anything about what I said just now if you hadn't brought attention to it!"
My mother paused. I half hoped that for once she'd been rendered speechless. But inooo/i! "Don't you sass me, young lady!"
"I love you, too, Auntie! And by the way, I wasn't actually cussing!"
iThat's my cousin for you./i
Sneakily, I slipped from her hug. "Soooooo…. How was the flight?"
"How do you think it was? It was isuperb/i! Crappy airline food, cheesy movies translated poorly into Spanish, the pillows were NASTY! I ended up next to Spankey the beer gut! And he'd eaten ififteen/i freakin' burritos ibefore/i we got on the plane! I kept telling Professora Mccutcheon that we should have gone to Mexico last, as it was closer…but she wouldn't listen." She sighed, now done with her mini-rant. "Why couldn't you have at least been there when I got off the plane?"
"I—I…um. Well, you see…IT WAS RAINING, OKAY?"
AJ sighed. Thank God, she understood how I felt about the rain…except when she's still airsick. iDang it./i
"I'm still mad." Then my cousin turned to go inside.
"Hey, Dav cousin turned to go how I felt about the rain...Y! I ended up next to Bart! And hd fabric softener bottles.e? Have y'all heard from my parents?"
Uncle Gee and Aunt Tricia were out of town, too, on probably their twentieth honeymoon. AJ's brother Mike off at college, working a summer job and studying independently for the semi-mester. Smo (don't ask, they were drunk, one off of morphine and the other on booze) was with a friend and the friend's grandparents, taking an extended camping trip in Kodak, Alaska.
"Yeah," my stepdad answered. "Got a letter yesterday. They said they'd be back in a couple of weeks."
iYet again./i I saw something flash across my cousin's eyes. Ever since we'd hit sixteen, her parents had started going off an awful lot…or maybe it'd be more accurate to say they'd been going off a lot since they won the lottery. (It makes no sense, as Alabama does not even have a lottery… Yet again, don't ask.) I'd tried to tell them before that it wasn't fair to any of their kids…but they hadn't listened to me. It made my heart ache to see Anna like this.
That's the thing about adults, as they grow and they "learn" they start to forget so much that was once important to them. They look down upon us for our naivety. But maybe i we/i should be the ones looking down on ithem/i for their "maturity". Anyway, Bottom line is, her parents were gone and I had to help cheer her up. iAgain./i
"Lets go outside," I suggested, quietly. "we can itry/i to star gaze."
Anna smiled sadly. "Sure." She grabbed a cup of unnaturally red Kool-Aid and a candy bar and led the way. I grabbed a caffeine-loaded soda and followed her, laughing at my own, non-verbal joke.
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~AJ (Hopefully DC will be able to comment with me sometime. ^.^)