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Chapter One
"Miss Toni Leanne Crosswaite." Called the teacher Mrs Stones.
Toni stood up dressed in her red graduation cap an robe at only sixteen years old, ready to accept her graduation scroll. The people who loved her thought of her as an icon, somebody who her sisters should aspire to be like and who others should follow her example. People clapped and cheered as she walked up the stairs to the stage and accepted her scollership. She thanked the teacher and shook her hand, then decended down the other stairs as Mrs Stones called out another students name from Eastleigh High.
Toni's parents, Anthony Crosswaite and Samantha Smith had come together today, despite been split up for almost three years now, after a long and agonising relationship, the two got on for the sake of their four children, Toni, Chloe and their twins, Sky and Georgia.
Toni was the eldest, intelligent and a mild loner who was strong will and stubborn. She enjoyed reading, writing, painting and singing. She was imaginitive and quick witted with brilliant grey blue eyes that changed shades she had inherrited from her mother. Though she was rather small, she had never been awkwardly skinney like most teenagers her age. She had seemed to miss the stage where you shoot up and go too gangly and look like spagetti, she had the full curves of woman hood.
Chloe was the middle child of Anthony and Samantha, she was a bit of a tom boy with her dark blondeish brown hair always screwed up in a messy pony tail and her bad language, but she was intelligent and knew right from wrong. She also seemed to miss the stage where you get tall, so she was rather petite with a shape only slightly rounder and more youthful than her older sisters.
Sky was rather quiet, but very intelligent for her age, much like her big sister Toni she enjoyed to read, write and sing. She was patient and quiet pretty with her short, dark curley hair and the same eyes as her mother. She was a girly girl, but always follows the lead of her sister, Georgia.
Georgia was confident, cheeky and radient with bundles of energy and her big warm smile that melted people hearts. She had her fathers eyes and the same mucky blonde hair as Chloe, that was inherrited from her father when he was younger. She loved playing pranks, and though she wasn't as intelligent as her twin, she made up for that in wits.
As Toni returned to her family, she was bombarded with congratulations!
"Well done!" Cried a thirteen year old Chloe.
"I can't believe my baby is ready to go to collage!" Said Anthony with tears pricking the corners of his eyes.
"You've grown so fast, it's just unbelieveable." Samantha said to her daughter, pulling Toni into a big hug. Toni smiled up at her mother, she loved it now that she had gotten her head sorted out and was getting help for her schitsophrenia.
"Congratulations!" Cried the twins together, looking cute in their matching clothes at just six years old.
With all the family together, it was almost like old times, the fun unawkward times when we were younger that seemed just a distant memory now. They all finished congratulating Toni, and then they all set off into the car to go for a meal.
Later that night the 'family' were sat in the diner. The diner they were at was 'Sally's' which was owned by Anthony's and Samantha's old friend. Sally's was the perfect place as it served many different vegeterian meals that Toni could eat. With the familiar hot pink walls, designer leather seats, white marble tables, spotlessly clean slate floors and the aged juke box by the counter, 'Sally's' was very familiar to the 'family'.
"What would you like to order?" The young waitress on rollerskates asked Anthony with a bright smile on her face holding up her notepad and pen in anticipation.
"I'll have a stake with fries please," Then he looked at his girls mouthed, 'the usual?' and when they all nodded he said, "And a vegeterian bolognaise, two fish finger meals with extra beans and a fishermans pie with wedges and carrots. What do you want, Sam?"
"I'll have liver and onions, please Trish." Sam smiled at the waitress as Toni cringed at her.
"That's discusting. I hate liver, its the inside of an animal. I don't know how you can eat it. Really mom." Toni said shivering at the thought of eating liver or any organ of an animal. Even when she had eaten meat, she could never bring herself to eat the organs.
"Each to their own." Samantha laughed at her children's faces as they looked discusted. Anthony rolled his eyes.
Sky and Georgia looked at each other, complete opposites, one with dark curley hair and the other with limp, straight blonde hair, cringed and shook their heads in their silent communication.
Chloe grinned at Toni knowingly, shook her head and then all four sisters began to laugh hysterically. Samantha giggled at this and Anthony couldn't help a little chuckle.
The Karaoke came on much earlier than planned in the diner, The four sisters had just finished eating their Ice Cream.
"I need to set off soon, Donna needs help with Caleb, he's a little under the weather." Anthony said to his girls, besides his four daughters to Samantha, he had another daughter, Keelie from a previous relationship who was now 23 years old and a son from his relationship he was in now called Caleb who was only a year and a half old.
"I want a go of the Karaoke first! Will you film it for me? Please dad?" Toni asked her dad then turned to her sister Chloe, "Sing with me?"
"Why don't we all sing! We can get somebody else to film it for us, it will be a right laugh!" Samantha suggested.
"Yeh, it will be like old times!" Sky smiled as she dark curley hair bobbed up and down as she nodded.
The large family all got on stage as it was their turn, the center singer was Toni as she was the best singer out of all of the family. She stepped foward with the microphone and stared at the small screen with words that flashed up for people to read the words of the song.
The music started and lyrics came on screen, it was Cherry Bomb by the Runaways. Exellent.
All eyes were on her as she began belting down the lyrics that none of her family knew, so they just mumbled like backing singers as She belted down the microphone.
"Hello daddy, hello mom, I'm you ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-cherry bomb!" Toni winked to all of the people in the diner, trying to look flirty and confident. Chloe joined her for the last chorus, belting it out with all her lungs could offer.
As the song finished, people cheered and the diner erupted into applause at the girls sexy, almost seductive preformance.
As Anthony drove the girls home in his large seven seater car, the twins were laughing as they played clapping games in the very back, Toni sat next to Chloe gossiping about boys, celebrities and other irational teenage subjects, and Samantha and Anthony both sat in the front awkwardly silent in eachothers company.
It was dark on the highway, the weather was also terribal as thunder rolled in the sky and rain crashed down from the black clouds above. The sound of the raid smashing violently against the window drowned out most of the sound, especially the noise from the radio and unfortunately, the sound of the oncoming wagon.
The first sign that the wagon was nearing was the clear sound of metal been torn as it ripped its way through the front of the car, narrowly missing the children, and mangling the bodies of Samantha and Anthony so badly they were unrecognisable as human beings.
Two Years Later:
"Come on! We need to unpack and chose your rooms!" I called to Chloe, Sky and Georgia. Chloe was now fifteen and the twins were eight years old. For the first two years after my parents deaths, I had raised them in the old house, but it was too hard, there were too many memories, both good and bad trapped within the walls of our old home. So, I sold my moms house and with the large inheritence from both of our parents had left us, I had bought a large house in a quiet corner of Raleigh, North Carolina.
It was a world away from the hussle and bussle of regular city life, but it was alot closer to the Zoo I would be working at. I had accepted after the zoo had quite happily offered me a job.
It had been hard after the funeral, going to collage and raising my sisters. But I had come out on top. Chloe was now a poliet young girl and the twins were both rather outgoing and independant.
I hoped that I had made my mother and father proud.
The house I had bought was large with six bedrooms. One for each of us who would be living here, one as a spare room for guests and the other would serve as my studio for my painting and drawing I did a lot of. As well as been a zoo keeper I was an amature artist, several of my pieces were in galaries around America and in a few art books. I wasn't amazingly big yet, but I had big hopes for some of my pieces.
The outside of the house was made of gray cobble stone, it had ivy growing up the porch and around the windows with a large gray cobble stone wall surrounding the premises. At the front of the house were huge iorn gates and a pond with a water feather in which Carp and Strogen lived.
At the back of the house was a pool with a jacoozie and a decked area near the house with a barbaque and tables and chairs and a mini bar.
Fairy lights were hung on the trees at the back of the garden making the miniture grove look rather magical.
The few houses on the street were similar to mine, all large with pools and large walls. I only hoped my next door neighbours were nice people.
I unlocked the door for the first time, loving the feel of the brass nob on the door of my house. Over the past couple of weeks work had been done on the house, decorating and furnishing as I wanted to completely start a fresh, only bringing personal objects over to the new house.
I didn't have many personal objects, just my paintings and small trinkets and photos I had collected throughout my child hood.
My room was the attic room, it was large and comfortable with its own private onsuite so I could have alone time.
"I want this room!" Cried Chloe, claiming the largest room right at the end of the long hall.
The twins both walked into rooms with doors opposite eachother, spend a few seconds in them and then walked out back into the corridoor. They looked at eachother, smiled, cocked their heads to the left and then nodded to eachother. They then swapped the rooms that each had just walked into and stayed in them. Those two were crackers sometimes.
As it was only a saturday, the girls were not at school yet. They started monday at their new schools, Medowhall High and Carter Primary School.
I decided to go back up to my bedroom and examine the walls, the fact of the matter was that these walls were very bare, and I didn't like them one bit. While the girls were at school next week, I knew that I would be painting my room and jazzing it up a bit.
Once I had established my bedroom was a boring shit hole, I decided to let my dogs out of the cages. The removals men had just brought them in to the new house, and being cramped up in cages made them bark like mad.
I had alot of animals that had been brought over, the basement was substituting as my own personal zoo, apart from the wash room of course. I had reptiles, birds, mammals and fish. But my dogs were my pride and joy, they were like my babies. I had a dalmatian female called Missie, a beautiful Shar pei called Millie and an enormous Akita called Hachi.
I let the dogs out into the garden, and Hachi been the adventerous type jumped into the swimming pool and went for a slight swim. He them climbed out and shook the water all over me, which made me smell of wet dog. Absolutely brilliant.
Millie and Missie were barking loudly, running around the large plot of land like puppies.
I then heard another dog barking, and then a man yelled, "Jack! Be Quiet!" And to my supprise the voice sounded very familiar, like I had heard it before somewhere... I didn't give much thought to the idea as I realised my dogs were making the mans dog bark.
"Millie! Missie! Hachi! Shut it!" I told them, they all quieted instantly and I heard the man next door chuckle. I rolled my eyes to myself and walked inside, leaving the dogs out as I shut the patio doors that lead into the kitchen.
I had to admit, the kitchen was beautiful, it was open plan onto the dining room, fully fitted with a grey slate floor, granet work tops and a giant eight hobbed oven with a large american style fridge freezer. It also had lots of modern appliances such as a coffee maker and a blender.
"Come on girls! I'm not letting the animals miss their evening walk!" I called to Chloe, Sky and Georgia. Chloe always walked Missie. Sky and Georgia walked their ferrets Dean and Markus. I was always stuck with Millie and Hachi, the two biggest animals. Not that I minded. I loved them too much not to want to be stuck with them.
As we all stood outside the new house, I heard the dog next door bark. I felt kind of sorry for the little critter, and thought about going to ask the owner if they wanted me to walk his dog with ours, but been a new neighbour and never having actually seen the person next door in my life, I gathered it would be slightly strange to go and ask if I could walk their dog.
We walked the dogs in silence until Chloe decided to mention something to me, "You know, it's two years today since mom and dad died."
"How could I have forgotten?!" I exclaimed and then I felt tears roll down my eyes.
"Hey, you've had alot on your mind, with the new job, the new house and trying to keep an eye on me and the twins. It's not easy trying to take on a motherly roll at 16 for children that have just lost their parents and when you lost them too. Don't be so harsh on your self." Chloe sighed and smiled at me.
"You two go ahead, I need to talk to Chloe." I said to the twins, Georgia and Sky nodded and ran ahead. "What should we do for them this year?"
"What about planting another tree?" Chloe said. Last year we had planted them a tree, but this year we had to do something different.
"What about lanterns? I have some of them at home." I suggested.
"That's a great idea! We can write messages on them like a letter to heaven or something." Chloe smiled as tears filled her eyes like mine.
"Yeh, a letter to heaven." I held back the sob that threatened to ruin the moment. A memory came to me of the funeral.
We stood their in black, I was an unemotional wreck, having not cried about our parents death, thinking that if I did, the pain and grief would be too much to bare. The coffins that held both our parents bodies had to be nailed shut to keep the contents of them inside and to stop us looking at the mangled bodies of our parents.
I wanted to remember my parents how they were, my mother happy and laughing, a party girl at heart. Out mother one last time before her death. And my father, firecly protective and stubborn, but a real soft heart when it came to anything we needed.
Their had not been a dry eye in the room, exept mine when Sky had walked up to the podium to say her speech. Chloe couldn't bare to do it, Georgia refused and I had already said my piece, so Sky had stepped in to say something.
"Even though my daddy and momma hated eachother, they gave us life. Something good came out of their relationship and not all the times were bad. I remember when my daddy used to tell us he was peter pan. Momma and him sprinkled sugar all over us and told us it was fairy dust and picked us up on our bellies to make us fly with happy thoughts. When daddy left and momma started to be mean, I didn't like it... but she got better. She went to the doctors and got her crazy brain better with her loopy pills and injections. She got to be our momma one last time before she went to heaven." She smiled as she said this, at only six years old she was been very brave to say this. I even had to hold back a sob when she had said her piece.
The memory hit me and I had to wipe my eyes as the tears fell down my cheek. The true was, though our lives had never really been amazing with the things we had seen our mother and father do, Sky had been right. Mom did get to be our mother one last time before she died, and for that short time where she was a real mom again, I was greatful. But she would never get to be my mother again, and it was all my fault. If I hadn't been so selfish to want both of my parents at the stupid graduation, we could still have one or maybe both our parents now. It was all my fault they were dead and I could never do nothing about that for as long as I lived.
That is why I had to give up my dreams of travel, love, jobs, relationships, a family and children to raise my sisters. It was my responsibility to do that, and for causing my parents death, I didn't really deserve any of my dreams. I didn't deserve happiness.
Suddenly Georgia ran up to me chanting "Toni! Toni! Toni!" With Sky squeeling behind her.
""What?" I frowned, wiping my eyes and smiling at them.
"Jeff Hardy!" Squeeled Sky.
"What do you mean, girls?" I asked sceptically.
"We saw Jeff Hardy! He's around there walking his dog!" Sky cherped, skipping and jumping on her feet as she pointed to the street corner.
"Jeff Hardy? Are you sure?" I snorted in disbelief.
"Yes! He had the rainbow hair and everything!" Georgia cried.
"Are you sure it wasn't just somebody who looked like him?" I laughed at their excitement.
"Come look if you don't believe us! He was trying to get his little dog to have a poop!" yelled Sky, grabbing my forarm and tugging my to the corner.
"Fine." I sighed. Me and my sisters had discovered wrestling about three years back, and by far all of our favourite wrestlers were Jeff Hardy. Matt Hardy was a close second for me, Chloe's second was AJ Styles, Sky liked the Undertaker and Georgia was a Cena fan. (Sigh).
I walked around the cornor and in the dim light, I struggled to see the man, but supprisingly, he did look alot like Jeff Hardy from the back. I could see his bright purple hair, tied up in a neat bun. His well tattooed arm with its aray of roots starting from his neck, trailing down to his fingertips clung to a dog lead. He was wearing typical Jeff Hardy pants, Cargo pants and a grey tank top that showed off his muscular back.
I froze in my examination as the guy said to his dog, "Come on Jack, have a shit for fuck sake."
That was fucking Jeff Hardy's voice. I recognised it from the wrestling Promos he had cut. I had heard it so many times that I was almost sure I would have recognised his voice anywhere if I had heard it... and then I realised that he was the man calling his dog earlier... Oh My GOD! Jeff Hardy lived next to me!
"Hey! Are you Jeff Hardy?!" Called Georgia. Mouthy twat she was sometimes.
"Yes I am." Jeff said turning to look at the lot of us. Sky and Georgia began to scream and Chloe froze, looking shocked. I felt my heart begin to beat a mile a second as I realised how beautiful Jeff actually was in real life. He was seriously the living version of Adonis.
"Sorry about my sisters, they are big fans. Well, actually we all are." I smiled feeling my cheeks go red as I spoke shyly.
"Are you those new kids who have moved in next to me?" He asked casually. Chloe managed to blink and twitch, and the twins began to scream more at the mention of him living next to us.
"Yes, I think we are. But I'm not a kid, I'm eighteen with a job and living on my own raising three children. I'm pretty sure that makes me an adult." I sighed sadly at the infomation I had just given him.
"I stand corrected, Where are your parents?" Jeff asked me.
"They died. Two years ago." Chloe answered him, finally coming out of her freak out stage.
"Oh. My mom died when I was nine, I know what it's like to lose a parent. She died so slowly, it was awful. How did your parents die?" Jeff asked understandingly.
"It was a car and truck crash." Sky stuttered as she tried to push words out, stopping her squeeling.
"That's terrible." He commented, looking sad at the news. "What are your names anyway?"
"I'm Toni, this is Hachi, Missie and Millie." I said pointing to my dogs, and looked to Chloe to say her name.
"I'm Chloe." She nodded to Jeff.
"I'm Georgia!" She cried, "And this is Markus!" She pointed to her ferrett.
"I'm Sky, and this is Dean." Sky smiled shyly at Jeff.
"Big family then." Jeff chuckled.
"If you think this is big, you should see all my other animals I have. I sware I own a miniture zoo in my basement and garden." I grinned slightly to Jeff.
"So you like animals then? Me too." He asked me.
"Well, I better like animals or been a zoo keeper is the wrong Job for me!" I stated and giggled.
"Your a zoo keeper?" Jeff wondered.
"Yes, and an artist. I paint and draw for money." I told him.
"I thought that, your sneekers are covered in paint." Jeff motioned to my converse.
"They are converse, not sneekers." I cringed at the thought of actually wearing sneekers. I hated them. Period.
"I paint too, but it's more of a hobby for me rather than a way to earn a living." He blinked one, ran a hand through his hair and then he said, "I'll have to show you sometime."
"Yeh, that sounds cool." I smiled, "I'll have to show you my work as well." I grinned.
"Hey, my brother, Matt is having a party tonight, any chance you want to come? Your sisters can come too. Everybody on the street comes along, Matt, me, Amy, Shannon and Shane. It could be fun and I'm sure Amy would appriciate the addition of a female into our group." Jeff offered.
"Umm... sure. I can make room for that. What time is the party?" I asked him, nervously.
"8:00pm. Bring booze or food. Which ever you have." He winked at me and I had to hold back a shiver.
"Okay, I'll be there, but we're gonna go now so I can get ready." I said, pulling my dogs away, "bye." I mumbled.
"Bye!" Jeff called to us all.
"Bye bye!" Georgia called, waving to him.
"See you later!" Chloe grinned.
"Tata!" Sky chirped and skipped to my side with Dean, her ferrett.
We all walked to Matt's house, the party already seemed to be in full swing, music blasted out and I could here laughing and talking.
The girls had all dressed in casual clothes, exept Georgia and Sky had decided to wear Jeff Hardy arm bands and look like complete idiots, that did not go unoticed by Chloe, as she put it bluntly, "You look like crazy fan girl twats."
I reached out and pressed the buzzer of the gate, not knowing what to really do, I stood there with my freshly baked buns waiting for somebody to open the gate.
Matt Hardy came to the gate, and opened it. "You must be the new neighbours! Jeff said he invited you. I didn't think you would turn up. Are those buns for the party?" Matt asked, licking his lips.
"Yes, I was told to bring food." I chuckled at him.
"Jeff said that huh? He was only joking. But now you have them and your here, you may as well put them on the table and share them!" Matt explained as he let us all in. I heard more shoutng and laughing, and I was scared at what I might find happening with these people. After all, I had seen the Hardy show.