Chapter 1

I'm Rosalinda Rose, and my little sister, Amy and I are moving to the city. We were living down in the country with our grandparents for educational reasons, and now we're old enough to go live with our parents. Amy is going to college here and I'm getting my masters degree in teaching. I've been to the city before, but Amy, she's never been off my grandparents' property. I bet she is gonna be so homesick, and when she gets homesick, it freaking hell.

Amy stared out the window as I pulled up to my parents' house, and sighed an exaggerated sigh.

"Look man, it's not that bad. It might smell like piss 80% of the time, but you know it is beautiful here and they have better colleges here." I persuaded

"Rosy, I'm not homesick. I just don't wanna see Mom."

Yeah my mom is a bitch. I don't know how my dad tolerates her constant hollering and yelling and shit. She's a very bossy person and will tell you that you're ugly if you wear black, gray, light gray, dark blue, forest green, any of the dark colors.

"Don't worry Ames. I got your back."

She finally got out the car and walked up to our big house. She knocked on the door, and a light brown tall kid with maroon colored hair and gold eyes opened it and poked his head out.

"Well, well, well. Isn't Miss Rosy and Little Amy all grown up, looking all cute and shit." He said.

He pulled the both of us into a big, bone crushing hug, and kissed us foreheads.

"Come on Aaron! It's good to see you too."

"Don't fight the love Rosalinda, you know you still love me!"

He pulled us into the door, and called two more names to come get our bags.

A brown boy with dark pink hair and jade green eyes walked down first, and he put a big smile on his face. So did I.

"RICKY!" I yelled jumping in his arms. I'm shorter than him so he can easily pick me up.

"Hey Rosy. Hey Amy, welcome back. Your rooms are already set up."

Amy hugged him too, and thanked him.

Amy hasn't seen most of our family since she was 9 years old and hardly remembers our mom. My dad used to come visit us a lot, until work got in the way and he stopped coming.

Another boy with salmon colored hair and gold eyes came running down the stairs, and he had brace which made him even cuter.

"Hey Rosy and Amy."

"Hey Andre. When did you get braces?" Amy asked.

"Last week. Mom made me get them because my fangs look like actual fangs and it's not the "million dollar smile" she wants for me."

My mom hates imperfections such as pimples, gaps in people's teeth, facial hair, and shit like that. We were brought up to be perfect, smart, and better than everyone. I remember all the boys were put in soccer, basketball, football, rugby, flag football, baseball, every sport you can think of. The girls were put in dance, girls' basketball, soccer, field hockey, and art. We were always put in honors classes and we HAD to get all A's. B's were an absolute hell no. It was so tiring and I didn't have time for friends because my mom recommended us to have extra homework.

The boys came back in with our bags and put them in our rooms, then came back down to keep us company.

"So where's Raleigh, Alicia, and Junior?" Amy asked.

"With Mom and Dad. They went to the mall to get a couple things." Aaron answered.

"So how was Grandma and Grandpa's for the last 9 years?" Andre teased.

"Better than here." Amy said.

Everyone burst out laughing, coming close to tears almost.

"That's funny and true! Mom is making all of us stay here until we get married. I'm 23, still living here." Aaron joked.

That's when Mom and Dad came in with Junior, Alicia, and Raleigh behind them. My dad is a coffee color, red hair, a goatee, and jade green eyes. His name is Avondré.

Mom is Caucasian with pink hair and gold eyes. Her name is Rhonda, but I call her Evilene. Alicia and Raleigh are twins, both have red hair, Alicia has gold eyes and Raleigh has green eyes.

Junior, or AJ, looks exactly like my dad, that's why I named him Junior.

"Daddy!" Amy and I yelled in unison

"Hey girls. Welcome back, Alicia, Raleigh, Junior, you guys remember your sisters right?" Dad asked.

"Yeah!" Junior yelled excitedly. In order, its Aaron, he's 23, then Alicia and Raleigh, 22, Ricky, 21 ½, Me, 21, Amy, 18, Andre, 14, and then Junior, 12.

Alicia ad Raleigh hugged the both of us, and told us how beautiful we were and how much we've grown since the last time we've seen them.

"We have to go party tonight Rosy, you know for old times." Raleigh said.

"Oh no Raleigh, we don't have time for that. Rosalinda needs to start early on her education." Mom piped in.

"Rhonda, let the girls have a little bit of fun. Girls, if you get drunk and come into the house. Just do one thing for your daddy." Dad started. "Stay yo ass off my grass."

What the fuck? He getting mad over some fucking grass? Is it expensive grass, then I'll understand if it's that. My dad hates grass anyway so, what kind of grass is it?

"Come on girl, lets go to the mall and get you hooked up, you too Amy."

I guess we're going to spend a lot of time and money at the mall because if it takes me 30 minutes to get ready, then imagine at the mall.