A.N. Don't worry I haven't abandoned Lurking Secrets, I just came home from my aunt's house and I haven't had time to update that story at the moment. This idea came to me I wanted to type it before I forgot it, AGAIN! This story is set half a year before the show starts. Jude, Jamie, and Kat are finishing up their freshmen year of high school.Stay tuned for more Lurking Secrets, and feel free to review on this story too!
Chapter One Welcome to My Life
It was another boring school day. I was running late as usual, and Sadie was impatiently waiting for me downstairs. In the last ten minutes she had already walked into my room twice to remind me to move it. So I have a tendency to over sleep, big deal. Sadie should be use to that. Ever since I started kindergarten, Sadie always had to wait on me. You'd think after 11 years she'd be more patient, but not my dear sister.
I frowned at my appearance. I must have fallen asleep with my hair wet again, because it was dried in wavy clumps and pieces were sticking up all over. This would be a mess to tackle. I plugged in my hair straightener and brushed my teeth while I waited for it to heat up.
I walked back into my bedroom and picked at the clothes on my floor. I found a pair of discarded torn jeans, and I slipped into those. I threw on an old Ramones tee and headed back into the bathroom.
Ten minutes later I came back out of the bathroom, my bright red hair straight and manageable, and my eyes lined with black eyeliner and black eye shadow. I grabbed my socks and chucks and headed downstairs for breakfast. Sadie was perched on a stool by the island, impatiently tapping her fingers.
"About time you came down, I've only been waiting for twenty minutes." I rolled my eyes, heading for the cabinet.
"Would you chill out? School doesn't even start for another twenty minutes. Besides, I had to fix my hair." I grabbed a box of Poptarts and headed for the fridge. I heard Sadie scoff behind me.
"Since when do you care what your hair looks like? You usually go to school without even brushing it." I pulled a Sprite out of the fridge before turning to face my annoying sister.
"I happen to care! The last time I left without brushing my hair I was 10!" Sadie scoffed again as our parents came into the kitchen.
"More like 14." I popped open the soda. My dad leaned over and gave me a kiss on the cheek.
"Good morning, girls." He said. We both grumbled a good morning to him. My mom fixed me with one of her parental looks.
"Jude, Sprite is not a good drink to have for breakfast. Couldn't you just drink milk or orange juice?" Me and Sadie both rolled our eyes. That was one thing we agreed on, our mom could be slightly overbearing.
"I think we're late for school." I said, grabbing my bag. My dad set down his paper.
"Jude, don't forget, you have lessons today." I rolled my eyes and turned to stare at him.
"Dad! I told you I didn't want to take lessons anymore." He looked at me in surprise.
"When did you decide this?" Sadie smirked at me, adjusting her purse.
"Probably when she fell off the horse on the first day." I turned to glare at her.
"I did not fall off! That thing was a speed demon!" I shouted. My dad chuckled.
"Okay, if you don't want to, you don't have to." I smiled in relief. I hated horseback riding. My mom put her coffee cup on the island, her mouth in a straight line. Uh oh.
"Stuart, you can't just let Jude quit every time she wants." My dad eyed her carefully.
"Well, honey, she hates it. Why make her do something she hates?"
"So you shelled out over 400 hundred dollars for lessons and you're going to let her quit!" Sadie and I ran out of the house.
"Way to go, genius. Mom and Dad are fighting again." Sadie unlocked her car. I slipped into the passenger side.
"It was an accident." Sadie rolled her eyes. I shook my head and turned to face out the window. I really hated mornings at my house.
"You're going to have to find another way home, because I have practice." Sadie said. I looked at her in disbelief. She was kidding right?
"Thanks Sadie you couldn't have told me a little sooner? How am I supposed to get home?" Sadie shrugged. She pulled into the school parking lot.
"Why don't you ask Jamie?" I unbuckled my seatbelt hurriedly.
"Jamie doesn't have his license yet." Sadie put down her shields and opened the mirror to glance at her reflection. She tousled her already wavy blonde hair, and applied some more lip gloss. I smirked.
"I really hope no one tries to kiss you. With all that gloss their lips would just glide right off." I grabbed my bag and opened the door. Sadie huffed and slammed her door shut, locking it.
"Don't talk to me, okay?" With that she marched off, her tan legs glowing in the morning sun. She was such a prep.
I entered the building and headed for my locker. My best friend Jamie Andrews was leaning against the locker next to mine. I opened my locker without saying a word to him.
"Good morning, Jude." He grinned. I glared at him, throwing my stupid bag in my stupid locker. I hated this school.
Just then, Sadie and her flock of people walked by. Sadie gave me a quick glance before laughing loudly at something some stupid blonde hair jock had said. I slammed my locker shut.
"I think I sense the problem here Jude." I turned towards him.
"Why do people even like her? She's so… fake! If they even knew the real Sadie Harrison then they would think twice about talking to her." Jamie gave me a small smile. I so didn't want his sympathy. I saw my best girl friend, Kat walking over, her nose buried in some stupid teen magazine.
"Hey Kat!" I called. Jamie gave her a slight wave. Kat bounced over to us.
"Jude, how's it going?" I laughed.
"It would be going better if I were an only child." Kat nodded.
"Sister troubles?" I shrugged. What else was new. In my life, anyway.
"So what are you reading?" I asked, curious. As much as I loved Jamie, it was great to have a female companion. Opposed to what some people, for example my mom, Sadie and her posse, think, I actually do enjoy being a girl.
"Horoscopes." Jamie coughed.
"That is my cue to leave. I'll see you guys at lunch." Jamie hurried away. We stared after him laughing.
"Why is he such a dork?" Kat asked. I shrugged.
"Because he's Jamie. So what does my horoscope say?" I waited for Kat to flip through the pages.
"Are you satisfied with your career and where it's going? It might be time to take it to another level. A new direction could be just the thing to put a little zing in your step. Take the initiative." I shrugged. That didn't sound bad. Not like the time when I was 5 and Sadie told me that I should beware of the monsters that hide under my bed. I couldn't sleep for days!
"I'd be more satisfied if I had a career." Kat chuckled.
"Can't say I argue with ya there." I looped my arms with hers.
"We should probably get to history before Mrs. Johnson hounds us for being late again."
After school that day I met up with Jamie at my locker.
"You ready to go?" He asked. Since Sadie wasn't going home, Jamie had offered to walk with me. Not like it mattered, since Jamie lived right next door. I grabbed by bag.
"Are you sure that nana couldn't come pick us up?" I asked. Our houses weren't too far from the school, but it was still a long walk.
"She had a meeting with her chiropractor. Her hips been misplaced again." I let out a sigh, happy to be out of school for the day.
"When are you going to get your license?" I asked. Jamie shrugged.
"Hopefully this summer." I sighed. I still had awhile until my 16 birthday. A long while.
"I can't wait until school is out!" I was so tired of being a freshman. All the upper classmen were cruel.
"Me either. Next year, when we're sophomores no one will pick on us." I thought back to a few months ago when Jamie had cut in front of a jock in the lunch line. That hadn't been pretty.
"Just don't cut anymore jocks, okay?" Jamie looked away, the memory still a little painful for him. He subconsciously rubbed his jaw.
"Do you have to bring that up?" I laughed.
"Hey, you wanna come over and hang out? I'm in the process of writing a new song." I grinned at the thought of getting home and playing my guitar. Jamie shrugged.
"Maybe. It depends on how nana's therapy goes today." I laughed. We approached our houses.
"Well, I guess I'll see ya later. If you can't come over, call." I waved and headed inside.
Dad was at the computer typing away. I dropped my bag on the couch and walked over.
"I'm home!" He turned around.
"Where's your sister?" I shrugged.
"Cheerleading, debate, I don't know anymore. I started to lose track of all the things Sadie does." Dad laughed.
"So what are you working on?" I asked, heading in the kitchen for my daily Sprite.
"Just some figures for work. How was school?" I groaned.
"You had to bring up the S word didn't you?" He shrugged.
"That's what Dads are for." I smiled up at him. My dad was one of my best friends in the world.
"I've got something to show you." I set my can down and followed him out to the garage.
"What is it?" I asked, excitement flooding through me. I can be such a little kid! He ushered me back into the house, a long box in his arms. I ran into the living room.
"What is it?" I repeated. My dad set the box on the floor.
"Open it!" Without wasting a second, I pried the box open. Inside was a beautiful Fender Classic Series 69 Thinline Tele Hollow Body electric guitar. I pulled it out, examining it.
"Dad it's beautiful? Where did you get it?" I knew that it must have cost a fortune.
"Well, it was actually mine from college. I left it with Grandma and Grandpa. I thought that you would probably enjoy it." I got up and hugged him.
"Thanks, Dad." He rubbed my back.
"Hey, every rocker needs an electric guitar." I smiled. I grabbed the guitar and headed up for my room. I was going to have to buy another guitar case and a few other accessories. I placed it in my hard acoustic case for the time being.
I gingerly picked up my acoustic guitar, playing with the strings a bit. I closed my eyes, letting my fingers glide over the familiar strings. I could feel the music pulsating through me, awakening me. This is what I lived for. Maybe Kat was right. It was time to take initiative.
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