Characters:

Penelope Cunningham- age: 17 height: 5'6" hair: long, wavy, light blond eyes: grey blue body: petite nickname: Nelle, Pennie (Main Character/I)

Gwendalynn Cunningham- age: 18 height: 5'4" hair: short, light blond eyes: light blue body: skinny nickname: Gwen, Gwenny, Lynn

Willow Cunningham- age: 20 height: 5'7" hair: short, wavy, light brown eyes: brown body: muscular/athletic nickname: Will

Charles Cunningham- age: 11 height: 5'2" hair: short, messy, blond eyes: blue body: active/athletic nicknames: Charlie, Char

Lilith Cunningham- age: 42 height: 5'8" hair: long, wavy, strawberry blond eyes: brown body: average nicknames: Lil, Lilly

Victor Cunningham- age: 45 height: 6'0" hair: short, brown eyes: blue body: active/muscular nicknames: Vic

Chapter 1: The Move.

"Mom, why did we have to move here?" Gwen whined as we pulled out of our driveway in Wisconsin.

"Oh Gwenny, be open to this. I hear that this town has an Indian Reservation. Wouldn't that be cool to check out?" answered Lilly optimistically.

"Mom! They're not "Indians", they're Native Americans. Be respectful." Willow interjected.

"Sorry, Will. I didn't mean to offend anyone…" apologized Lilly.

"How long is this drive gonna be ma?" asked Charlie.

"Um well when I looked on the internet, it said about a day and a half." Lilly answered.

Everyone groaned and whined.

"Oh shush now. We'll get there in no time, I promise. We'll get a nice hotel and take lots of breaks." Lilly said, trying to cheer us up.

"Can we stay at a hotel with a swimming pool?" Charlie asked eagerly.

"Char, hunny, we're only staying one night, and we'll be getting there awfully late. You won't have any time to go swimming." Lilly said sympathetically.

"I'm gonna put my headphones in now…" I said as I got my ipod touch out.

"Alright darling." Lilly said as I turned up my music.

"Really Nelle? Can you have that any louder?" Gwen yelled at me.

"What?" I asked as I pulled out my headphones.

"Exactly. You should keep that down cause one, I don't wanna listen to that crap and two, you'll hurt your ears." Gwen said.

"Dude, Gwen, chill out. I'll turn it down…" I said.

Lilith was driving, Will had shotgun, Gwen and Charlie had the middle seats so that left the bench seat in the back for me. I was really tired, so I just sprawled out on the seat and tried to take a nap. I ended up falling asleep and had a really weird dream. However, when I woke up, we were already in Billings, MT.

"You were sleepy." Lilly teased.

"Yeah, yeah." I dismissed.

"I'm hungry!" whined Charlie.

"I'm pretty hungry too." I agreed.

"I think we're all hungry." Lilly said as she pulled into the parking lot of a fast food restaurant, I didn't catch the name.

"Eww mother, fast food?" Willow asked.

"Oh Willow, you're such a pain sometimes." Lilly said with a sigh.

"Can't we go to like Red Lobster or something?" She asked.

"Um, no thanks. Red Lobster is nasty." Gwen said.

"We're just ordering something small anyway. Get a salad if you don't like what else is on the menu, Will." Lilly said firmly.

Turned out we went to McDonalds. I just got a Big Mac and a small soda. Gwen got a Chicken McNugget with a soda and some fries. Will got a salad with ranch dressing and water. Charlie got a McChicken meal. Lilith got a Big Mac meal. The whole time Willow kept complaining. We've learned to tune her out though. We finally got to the hotel and all shared one room. Char got the pull out bed, Lilith and Will shared a bed and that left Gwen and me to share a bed. She's a kicker, so everyone tries to avoid sharing a bed with her whenever we go somewhere. We all got ready for bed, and I couldn't fall asleep. I finally fell asleep at 3am, 5 hours before we had to be gone. I watched youtube videos on my ipod until I fell asleep. When we got up to get ready, Gwen was already in the shower.

"MOM! Why didn't you wake me up earlier!" I shouted at Lilly. Gwen takes an abnormally long time in the shower, and we had to leave in 45 minutes.

"I'm sorry baby. I was busy getting everyone else together. I'll go holler at her to hurry up." Lilly said apologetically.

"Gwenny, you need to make this a quick shower. We have to leave in 45 minutes and Nelle still has to get in the shower too." Lilly said to Gwen.

"Fine mom!" she shouted back. Gwen is a very high maintenance girl. On average, she spends 2 hours getting ready, so there's no way we're getting out of here on time. Me on the other hand, very low maintenance. I take 30 minutes to get ready and that includes a shower. If I had to categorize Gwen, it'd be scene if anything. She likes hardcore music, lots of eyeliner and all that stuff. I'm bohemian so i just take a shower and let my hair air dry and wear very little makeup. Will, now she would be a hippy, but well groomed. She likes to be earth friendly but not when it comes to hygiene, which honestly, I'm glad. Charlie is just a little kid but he's got the skater thing going on. Lilly tries too hard to be a hip mom. She buys her cloths in the junior's section. She is lucky she's skinny. Well I got in the shower, got out, brushed my hair and got dressed quick. We actually got of there on time. I quick did my make up once we got in the car. I fell back asleep and as we pulled up the driveway of our new house, Lilith woke everyone up.

"Rise and shine everyone!" she said cheerfully.

Our new house was a large log cabin. It had 3 stories and the 3rd was a loft. There were 6 bedrooms, that was enough for everyone to have their own room and an extra for a guestroom, 4 bathrooms, a kitchen, dining room, living room, 2 offices and a finished basement. Now I don't want to sound snobby or anything, but we're pretty well off. Lilith is a cardiologist, and Victor is a pilot for a big name air company. That's why Lilith left him. She couldn't handle him being away all the time. Even though they're divorced, Victor sends us money all the time. He still loves Lilly, and she still loves him, but they decided to go their separate ways. Lilly got a really good job offer out in Forks, WA, so we had to move.

"Wow! This house sure looks nice. I can't wait to start a garden!" Lilly said.

"Dang this house is big!" Charlie said.

"Well let's get movin!" Lilly said trying to get us excited.

After we got all the boxes in, it was just a matter of arranging everything and making it pretty. It was 12am and I was still arranging stuff in my room. It was pretty big. I had a walk in closet and I could fit my bed, desk, makeup shelf, fish tank and my T.V. in my room. I got everything the way I wanted it by 2am. As soon as I fell on my bed, I was out.