"This is it. This is the end of the line."

Well, this is it, the day of the 'Big Move' me, my mom and twin brother Daniel are moving from Newark, New Jersey to Reseda, a neighborhood in Los Angeles, California.

Daniel and I are seniors in high school, and our mom is trying for a new job in some computer thing.

"you're telling me" Daniel muttered to himself as he sat still in his seat not wanting to get out.

I glanced out of the window of my mom's 1969 Chevy station wagon, which was so beyond repair, I saw nothing but palm trees and coconuts which means eternal summer.

I love summer; the warm breeze, never being cold even at night and the long days but being half Italian its nothing unusual to enjoy the summer unless your Daniel who likes the winter.

"Come on all hands on deck" mom encouraged us as we got out off the car to start unpacking, Daniel struggling with his bike and me grabbing the luggage.

"We gotta get this thing unloaded before it sinks" Ma joked as she looked up at the sky smiling softly making me smile a bit to myself; she's finally happy with her life no looking back now.

"Look at those palm trees! Damn, do you know what that means?" she called out to us excitedly, but some of us aren't as excited as she is, Daniel looks bored and unenthusiastic as he struggles with his bike but still looks up at the palm trees at the instance of our mother.

"Yeah, watch out for falling coconuts" he replied sarcastically making me roll my eyes.

"Wiseguy, No more Newark winters!" I could help but smile at the thought, but I knew my twin would have something to say about that.

"I like winters ma" he replied to her like a petulant child "I don't" I replied bluntly giving him a challenging look.

"Oh, you like sore throats? You like frozen toes?" Mom asked rhetorically winking at me as she knew she was always right "I don't like smog" Daniel replied in the same reprimanding tone.

Mom picked up one of the smaller boxes with the laundry stuff in it and gave us both a look "Did I tell you about the pool here?" she asked trying to bait us into being happy with uprooting our lives.

"Just about 100 times ma," I told her rolling my eyes, nothing could get my mom down from this happy high she really thinks this is the best day of her life, but nothing ever goes to plan for the LaRusso family.

"Okay, so make it 101" She laughed walking towards the worn looking apartment complex "Open your eyes, my darling twins. This is the Garden of Eden".

"Come on" she instructed backing into the gate to open it "Listen, we're in apartment 20 okay? One flight up" she shouted to us walking towards our new 'home.'

Daniel and I didn't speak much less look at each other as we grabbed our luggage, I saw him struggling to carry his bike and suitcase, but I didn't offer to help.

Although we were twins we hadn't been the best of siblings for a long time, neither one of us putting in the effort to be civil with each other anymore, so we pretty much pretend the other doesn't exist.

Daniel thought I was too much like our runaway father who was a horrible and abusive man whose emotions we often kept bottled up until he exploded on us, and I thought Daniel was too weak, often cared about people too much and is always sticking his nose into other peoples business.

I shut the car doors while Daniel pushed his ratty bike into the apartment complex I heard him yell and then a big bang, I turned to see he had kicked the wooden door open but not only that he had kicked it into someone's face.

I snorted to myself but still ran over to see what was happening "Are you okay?" Daniel began to stutter and apologize to the stranger who was now sprawled out on the floor holding his nose which wasn't bleeding. Unfortunately.

"Don't worry about it" the guy laughed sounding much kinder than I would have been if a total stranger knocked me on my ass.

"Let me help you up," my twin said stumbling trying to hold his bike and help the stranger off the floor where he had unintentionally kicked him.

"Thanks," the guy replied smiling at Daniel who was looking embarrassed "I shouldn't have done that. It was stupid" my brother responded trying to justify his actions.

"You must be the new people in 20 right?" the guy asked his rubbing his head "Yeah, I guess so" Daniel answered looking up at our apartment.

"Freddy Fernandez, apartment 17," he told us shaking Daniels hand, smiling which showed his dimples.

"Daniel LaRusso," he told Freddy who in turn looked at me as if just noticing I was here "This is my twin sister, Katherine," Daniel told him with a small huff.

"It's Kat" I butted in looking Freddy up and down causing my new neighbor to blush slightly under my gaze.

"How you doing? Let me help" he said grabbing the suitcase from Daniel's bike and the heavier one from me which I gladly gave him making my brother give me an annoyed look.

"No, it's fine. It's heavy, man" Daniel said embarrassed at the help, but Freddy still took the suitcase with a helpful smile, was this some weird Californian hospitality.

Daniel gave me a glare at my willingness of letting Freddy help to which I shrugged my shoulders with a smirk "I got it," Freddy told him still looking at me smiling widely.

"So twins, that must be cool," he prompted glancing at the two of us "not really," I answered seriously shaking my head noticing Daniel scowl at me again.

Freddy started to look uncomfortable with my short answers and unwillingness to talk to him, so he turned to my brother instead for conversation which is definitely okay with me.

"Where are you from?" He asked as we started walking to our new apartment.

"New Jersey" Daniel replied nonchalantly, Freddy chucked a bit, and I didn't know whether I should take offense or not that he was laughing about where we were from.

"What are you doing out here?" he inquired again, making me realize I really don't like small talk. You would think that all my negativity would depress me but it doesn't, I like being a lone wolf. Or so I tell myself.

"Our mom got a job with some company out here. Rocket Computers. Flight of the Future. I don't know" my twin told him not knowing the actual details of our mom's new job; actually, that's all we knew before she shipped us out here.

"I never heard of it" Freddy chuckled again as we passed the pool which wasn't a pool as much as it was a puddle. I snorted unladylike at him and said: "I'm not surprised."

Daniel had just noticed the pool at the same time as I did and didn't look impressed, funny it the only thing we've agreed on in months other than this move "Is this the only pool you've got?"

Freddy nodded his head but looked disinterested "That's it. What was that, karate?" he asked my brother eagerly.

"Yeah." I looked at Daniel with a raised eyebrow, but he promptly ignored my look "Have you been doing it long?" Freddy started to look excited now Daniel said he knew karate.

"Yeah, a while" my brother lied making me splutter in surprise as Daniel peered at me with begging eyes as if to ask me not to tell Freddy the truth which was that he had gone to a few classes at the Y.

"Did you ever use it?" Freddy questioned making me wondering why he was so interested in Daniel's assumed 'Karate' skills.

"A couple of times," Daniel told him modestly still not knowing if I was going to rat him out, but I wasn't he can learn the hard way of his lies.

"I bet you could kick some ass" I snorted to myself Daniel was usually on the other end of the ass-kicking, I knew this first hand. We do get into physical fights with each other, but I'm usually the one winning, or our Ma splits us up.

"I'd like to learn that. Maybe you could teach me" Freddy just wanted Daniel to teach him karate was this the reason for his interest in my twin.

"Sure. That's cool. Any time" Daniel tells him enthusiastic forgetting he didn't actually know karate and was just saying this to impress his new friend.

Just as we reached the stairs to get to the apartment, a voice stopped us in our tracks.

"This place is a dump. You should go back to New Jersey" an old gypsy looking woman told us, she didn't look up while talking to us as she read her paper.

I raised my eyebrow in suspicion and questioned her "How did you know where we're from?" she still didn't look at me, and I'm not sure if she's rude or just doesn't give a damn.

"'Cause I'm from New Jersey. I got a nose for my own" she explained to us like it was common knowledge that she lived in the same place as us.

"Well, what part?" Daniel questioned her; I looked at Freddy to see him laughing a bit to himself and smiled at me when he noticed I was looking.

"Parsippany" I heard the gypsy woman telling Daniel "I never should've left."

"Our Uncle Louie's from Parsippany," My twin, told her sounding excited, I've never noticed before how much Daniel is like a puppy dog and get excited about everything.

"Louie Martini?" she urged us looking up for the first time since we started talking to her as I shook my head "Louie LaRusso."

"Louie LaRusso? Don't know him" she waved us off, Daniel had a weird smile on his face which I couldn't place. "Hey pup," he said leaning down and petting the little dog that was sat under the gypsy woman's chair "How you doing? You thirsty?"

Freddy tapped Daniel on the shoulder and make a sign that the woman was crazy; he whispered something that we couldn't hear.

"What?" we asked not quite hearing what he said.

"She's not playing with a full deck" Freddy explained to us in what seemed to be the nicest way he could.

"She's nice" I defended, I could be like that old lady one day talking a load of crap and not even giving a shit about what people think of her.

Actually thinking about it she kind of reminds me of my aunt, Tessy. I shivered at the thought. Freddy laughed as if I was joking and Daniel just

shook his head.

"What are you two doing tomorrow?" Freddy asked us while helping Daniel up the stairs with his bike.

"I don't know. I guess nothing" Daniel replied as Freddy looking at me for confirmation to which I shrugged my shoulders and muttered, "Guess so."

"We're having a beach party. Want to come?" He explained excitedly which is starting to freak me out, I don't know what the boys are like in California, but I'm not sure I like it.

"Yeah I'll be there," Daniel told him quickly obviously not wanted to go with me, I ruin most of his friendships, and I'm proud of that. I'm like the disease that you just can't get rid of, and I'll make you sick.

"Sure, that's cool" I replied with a smug smile on my face as I see Daniel frowning at me, Freddy grinned widely thinking I was smiling at him.

"I'll come get you in the morning" he smiled at me and then turned to Daniel quickly "Both of you" he stuttered a little.

"Here's apartment 20" we all looked at the apartment we had stopped outside, mine and Daniel's looks were a bit different to Freddy's. We really didn't want to be here, but we love our ma, so we're trying for her.

"Should I leave this here?" Freddy gestured to our very heavy suitcases, we both nodded our heads "Yeah, thanks for the help." My brother stated to our neighbor who just nodded.

"Nice meeting you. Take care" Freddy said shaking our hands "See you tomorrow morning," he said before running back down the stairs obviously going to where he was supposed to be before my brother knocked him over.

Grinning at my brother evilly knowing he hated that he had to share his first friend here with me "Well doesn't he seem lovely."