It was finally the day. The day the lives of six young women would change forever.
Finally, they were discovered for their abilities and would be sent to the prestigious Palm Woods, the best hotel in Hollywood history to house superstar teens.
It was a beautiful, bright day. The clouds were perfectly white and puffy, not a single hint of gray in the sky as it shown a darling baby blue with the sun radiating pure happiness from every ray.
Sounds like a pretty perfect day.
"Can we hurry this process up? I can't wait any longer!" An annoyed voice rang from outside, yelling into the house where five girls bustled around inside, trying to finish their tasks. The annoyed person looked herself in the side mirror, examining her perfect chocolate brown hair that loosely curled to the middle of her back as her dazzling pale-blue eyes popped from her face. She ran a hand through her precious hair and gently applied light pink lip gloss that sparkled in the rays of the sun.
"Ah!" Screaming came from in the house. The chocolate haired girl ran inside, expecting something horrific. To her surprise, she found her friend, Saige, having a meltdown in the middle of the kitchen.
"Ugh, Saige! What's wrong?" She asked in disgust, galloping to her friend and aggressively pulling her off the floor.
"I-I" Saige stammered as her hair, dyed a shocking white with one hot pink streak in the front that lain on her shoulders, continuously fell in her aqua colored eyes.
"Well?" The girl's voice rose, her usual impatience shining brightly.
"Oh Rose!" Saige yelped, as if she was going to burst into tears. "I lost Albert!" She wept, her lip puckering out and her eyes growing ginormous.
Rose felt her anger burst out of her. "You're freaking out because you can't find your stupid teddy bear!?" She erupted, setting her hands firmly on her hips as if she were scolding a small child.
The two burst into an argument, Rose yelling at the child-like behavior of Saige as she retaliated with Rose being a 'meanie-face'.
"Um, guys…" A gentle voice spoke from the entrance of the kitchen.
Both heads of the fighting girls turned towards the girl that stood with a book pressed to her chest, practically holding on for dear life.
"What?" Rose snapped, not realizing she was speaking to the timid Karina who had done nothing involving this argument.
Saige stared at her auburn haired friend with stick straight hair going to her chest and emerald colored eyes, pleading for an escape route to this petty fight.
"What Karina was going to say, if you hadn't shocked her into silence, was that we found Albert" An orange haired girl with bangs running across her forehead and ocean blue eyes with freckles covering her pale cheeks spoke.
"Good golly gumdrops! Albert where have you been?" Saige burst into excitement, stampeding towards the aged, rough haired bear. She swiped it and squeezed it to her stomach with all her might. "Oh thank you, thank you, thank you May!" Saige belted.
May let out a hearty laugh. "My pleasure" The friendly girl pat Saige's back and headed towards the fridge to begin making snacks for their long trip ahead.
Rose, fed up with the idiocy of Saige, disappeared into the living room to calm down before they left.
Karina situated herself at the bar; flipping her book to the last page she scanned and continued to process each word in her head as if a movie played while the words danced around her brain. Saige seated herself beside Karina and fascinated over Albert, playing with the raggedy stuffed animal. May looked back at her friends and smiled at their differential behaviors.
As she was about to turn back around to continue making the numerous sandwiches, her little sister Ai came skipping in the room. Ai wasn't really 'little' so to speak. She was only two years younger than her sister, but May looked at her like she was ten practically every day.
Ai had waves of golden-blonde hair reaching her chest and bright hazel eyes, and was the tannest of the girls. "Hello everybody!" She sang happily as she skipped beside her sister.
The two looked nothing alike, the only thing they bared similar was their kindness.
Karina acknowledged her friend by peering over the cover of her book while Saige said 'hello' while waving Albert's hand frantically towards her. Rose finally chilled and walked into the bustling kitchen, greeting Ai with a quick wave as she grabbed an orange soda from the fridge and leaned against the counter, sipping on it ever so quietly.
"Hey Ai, where have you been?" May asked, looking up from her sandwich making.
"Oh nothing, I was just walking the dog across the street for Mrs. Howard and talking to Glenda about her garden, oh and John wanted to tell me about his new rims while I helped his mom with the groceries" A sweet smile appeared on her splendidly happy face. That girl never broke a smile on her lovely demeanor.
"You're way too nice, Ai" Rose rolled her eyes. How could Ai trust so many people and be so willing to help them? Rose would never understand that girl's motives.
"What's the world without some sunshine in everyone's life?" Ai giggled, intertwining her hands behind her back as she gleamed towards Rose.
"A world without Ai" Karina commented with a chuckle, escaping her world for a second then immediately being sucked back into it.
A few moments of silence passed when May spoke up.
"Alright, all the sandwiches are done! Let's get our luggage and pack the car. We've got a road trip!" May said excitedly as she stuffed the food into a large cooler full of other delicious necessities.
Rose and Ai walked up the stairs together, quietly chatting and then separating to their rooms for their items. Saige galloped up the steps with Albert tightly wounded in her hands. Karina slowly approached each step with precaution as her book devoured her mind.
May wiped her hands and pranced up the steps to her room.
Not two minutes later, each girl struggled down the steps with their huge suitcases and other carryon's.
They packed the large van to the brim.
"Looks like there is just enough room to fit Lexie's stuff" May shook her head, laughing. She thought the girls were taking an extreme amount, but they would be there for quite some time so she supposed it was reasonable. After all, everything they left in the house was being sold and so was the house itself.
The girls looked around for their friend and found her nowhere in sight.
"I swear - If she's asleep!" Rose scoffed, crossing her arms over her chest.
"I'll get her!" Ai said, skipping back inside the house. "Oh Lexie!" She ran to Lexie's room and slowly opened the door to find the brunette fast asleep, a snore escaping her.
Ai laughed which jolted Lexie and made her fly off her bed onto the hard wood floor. "Oh…" She sighed and slowly stood up, straightening out her clothes as a yawn flew from her mouth, a stretch following afterwards.
"We're leaving, silly! Hurry up and get your stuff!" Ai laughed and walked out.
"Shit…" Lexie sighed.
"Language!" She heard Ai yell from downstairs.
"Yes, mother!" Lexie yelled back snidely as she stood in front of her tall mirror. She cracked her back and rolled her neck, adjusting to not being in slumber land.
She stared at her jagged, light-brown hair right below her ears and her dark brown eyes. Her nose scrunched up, making sure her face was awake enough to function.
Grabbing her bag, she flew down the steps and out the door, closing it behind her. She threw her bag into the back and stepped in the very back with Saige.
Saige looked at her questioningly. "Where are your instruments?"
Another yawn escaped Lexie as she flung her head back to catch some more sleep. "There were too many of them to fit in the car so I hired some people to bring them to the Palm in a little bit" She answered nonchalantly as her eyes closed.
"Wow. Lexie is letting other people touch her instruments. That's a shocker" Rose said, smirking as she gazed out the window.
Hours flew by as the girls sat in the car, passing time in their own way.
May drove along, quietly humming to the radio as her eyes glued themselves to the road. Ai sat in the passenger seat and jotted down a new story that popped in her head, quietly whispering to herself as she contemplated multiple ideas. Rose was behind May, flipping through a hair magazine seeing if her hair cut was outdated while Karina sat beside her, sucked into a brand new book she brought with her since she had successfully finished the other. Saige and Lexie sat in the very back together, sharing Lexie's iPod. She pretended to drum and guitar through the whole song while Saige mouthed the words, doing weird dances with her fingers. They were quite a bunch.
After hours of endless driving with peace and quiet, May came to a halt in front of a huge building with palm trees surrounding it and beautiful, tanned people walking around.
That grabbed the girls' attention and they each stopped what they were doing to look out the windows.
"Holy crap" Lexie said, astonished. Saige's mouth practically dropped to the floor. Karina and Rose were silent as their eyes grew bigger and bigger from staring at the monstrosity. Ai grinned from ear to ear and squealed with excitement.
"This is it" May chuckled.