New York Brunette
Chapter 1
This Fall, I'll be going to Pacific Coast Academy. Wonder who I am? Wonder no more, I'm the daughter of Zoey and Chase Matthews. We've lived in New York for as long as I can remember, so I'm more than excited to be going to California for the summer, finally a warm place. Usually, my older brother, Dietrich, is the only one who gets to go to the boarding school, but this year, my mom got a job that involves traveling, so all her little babies are off to PCA.
"DREA!" Luna squealed, rushing into my room, and hugging me, even though I was still packing.
"Hey Luna! What're you doing here?" I asked, smiling, and dropping the clothes that I had previously been folding into suitcases.
Luna Brooks, my cousin, has been my best friend for as long as I can remember. Most people believe we're sisters, because we really do look alike, with our blonde hair, mine curlier than hers, and our light sky blue eyes. Her little sister, Lorelei, looks almost exactly like us. My brothers, however, are nothing like any of us girls, my younger, Dean, has our blonde hair, but brown eyes, whereas Dietrich, has brown hair and brown eyes.
"I can not believe you're going to be going to PCA with all of us this year!" Luna screeched, holding onto my forearms and jumping around a little, all the while smiling her head off.
By 'all of us', she means everyone we practically grew up with. Jason and Alexandra Barrett, Taylor, Tyler and Leah Reese, and Madelyn, Matthew and Amanda Garrett, plus both of our siblings. Dietrich is the oldest of all of us, then comes Madelyn, Then Taylor and Tyler, then the bunch of us, Jason, Luna, Me, Matthew, and Amanda, and finally, Alexandra, Dean, Leah, and Lorelei.
"I know! Me either! I'm so glad that mom got this job, she's been holding onto me and Dean for forever. We're 'her little babies'." I muttered out, before going back to packing my clothes.
"Yeah, that's how mom is about Lorelei." Luna stated, beginning to put clothes into my suitcases.
"It freaking sucks." I answered, plopping down, happy that I'd finally gotten all my summer clothes packed into suitcases.
"We leave tomorrow, can you believe that? You're so gonna love it." Luna smiled out, flopping down on the bed beside me.
"Are you staying here?" I asked, pulling blankets from the closet, already knowing her answer.
"You know it!" She replied, standing up and pulling out the mattress that we kept underneath my bed, for just these kinds of occasions.
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"Taylor…will you tell me all about PCA?" I asked my older sister for the tenth time, her ignoring me as usual.
"Why do you wanna know so much?" She asked, pulling her earphones to the back of her neck so she could her me better.
"because…I'm scared." I answered truthfully, looking down to the carpet.
"Why? Most of your childhood friends are going to the same school anyway." She answered, laughing slightly.
"Yeah…but they're the only people I know." I answered, looking back to the floor.
"Leah, it'll all be fine." My elder sister replied, lifting her tanned hand to raise my chin.
We looked so different, I looked like I was basically adopted. Taylor and Tyler looked almost exactly the same except that he was boy and she was girl and her hair was curlier. My pale skin, and light brown hair didn't fit in quite right.
"But-" I started to say before Taylor shushed me with her finger.
"No buts. Go to your room." Taylor said, with a slight smile on her face.
I trudged back to the room that hadn't changed in the twelve years I'd been here. When I noticed something odd…my closet door was open…and I never left it open.
"BOO!" Two voices suddenly shouted while two bodies popped out of the closet.
Alexandra Barrett, and Lorelei Brooks to my rescue.
"You guys!" I shouted, happily running over to hug them.
"We got you! You jumped so high." Alexandra laughed out, closing her beautiful green eyes to laugh harder.
"Hey Lee." Lorelei replied, hugging me tightly as Alexandra continues laughing.
Lorelei looked like an almost identical replica of her elder sister, only more pint sized and tiny. She'd been doing ballet for most of her life, and by now she looked like one of those porcelain ballerinas that people sell. Whereas, Alexandra was more sporty and therefore thicker in the thighs and arms because she had muscles coming out of the yin yang.
If you feel so empty, so used, so let down, so ripped off, so stepped on, you're not the only one!" suddenly began blaring out from the room beside mine, my brothers where most of the guys were gathered.
"TYLER!" I screeched, banging on the wall.
"What, you freak?" He yelled back, turning the music a notch down.
"turn it down!" I yelled back as he let the music go up even higher, "I'll be right back." I stated to my two friends before walking to the hallway.
"TYLER!" I yelled as I began banging on the door.
"What?" He asked as he opened the door allowing me to view the whole entire mess, clothes strewn everywhere, body parts coming from nowhere. The room was way beyond cramped with five boys inside.
Dietrich was sitting farthest away from his little brother whom he'd probably had to bring here, Jason was on the bed, banging his head to the beat of the stereo, where Matthew was strewn across the floor half under the bed.
"Turn it down. I have friends over." I answered, refusing to take my eyes off of Matthew, the boy was strange, yet intriguing.
"Then go someplace else." He stated, before shutting the door in my face.
"Hey Leah Bea, I'm going to Madelyn's. much quieter over there. Luna's over at Andrea's, you guys could probably go over there." Taylor said as she walked out of her room, hugging me slightly before walking down the hall to probably get into Madelyn's car.
I walked back into my room and asked Lorelei to call and ask if we could go over there. Soon, we were on our way to the Brooks' house, laughing all the way.
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"I don't see why you can't just take me to Andrea's!" Amanda shouted form the backseat, whining once again as we stopped to pick up Taylor.
"Because, I only let you come because grandma made me. I'm not wasting gas money on you too." I shouted back to her.
As usual, my little sister was annoying the crap out of me, not only was she freaking gorgeous but just about everyone liked her and she always wanted me to take her to her new best friends house or her boy friend of the week's house. My little sister was of course littler than me, but I mean that in every sense of the word, her dark brown hair fell in light curls around her face and her blue eyes pierced through anyone and everyone that she looked at, whereas I had the freakiest hair that never stayed in place, and boring brown eyes.
"MAD!" Taylor screeched, flopping into the passengers seat.
"Hey Taylor." I answered smiling at her before driving off to our grandmothers house.
"So how is everything?" She asked.
"Pretty good, I'm more than happy to be going off to California tomorrow. Grandma's driving me crazy." I answered, while stopping at a red light.
"Driving you crazy? At least she doesn't watch your every move!" Amanda screeched bending her head beneath the front seats to glare at me, as if I'd said something wrong.
"So Matthew told me all the guys were joining up at your house tonight…is he with them too?" I asked, knowing that Taylor knew who I meant.
"Oh yeah, he had to bring the munchkin. But yeah…he's there…we can turn around and go back. I'm sure the little girls have left by now…" Taylor answered, trying to comfort me.
"Oh, no, it's okay. I just…I was wondering." I answered, refusing to turn and look at her even though the car was stopped and I had nothing else to look at.
"What are you guys talking about?" Amanda screeched, obviously trying to figure out who I cared so much about, "Do you have a secret boyfriend, Mad?"
"No, she doesn't. just shut up Amanda." Taylor answered before I had the chance, immediately making the entire car silent, and that's exactly the way it stayed for the rest of the way home.
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"Dude, do you always have to be such a jerk to your little sister?" Jason asked, looking at me angry for a moment.
"Dude, you're little sisters normal, Leah's a freak." I replied, glaring at him for having such a normal little sister.
Leah had always been smart, and different. She'd always been paler than us, with lighter hair, and darker blue eyes than Taylor and I. Plus the chick was like a freaking genius. It scared me sometimes. Plus, she was always writing and reading, doing things that were meant for one person. She'd rather be alone than with her best friends.
"Still, she's not half bad." Matthew answered, pulling himself out from under the bed.
"Why the hell were you under there?" Dietrich asked, laughing slightly at him before throwing surfing wax at his forehead.
"Man, you have no idea what it's like to have a little sister." I replied, glaring at Matt for taking Leah's side on this.
"No, I only have a twin sister." He answered, rolling his eyes before crawling back under the bed, what a freak.
"She's really not that bad…" Dean whispered, just barely audible before everyone glared at him, shutting him up.