Chapter one: A TWIN SISTER
"Dean your phones ringing, Fulton's on it." Dean's mom yelled up to her son. He came running down stairs, grabbed the phone, and talked to Fulton. "Hey dude what's up?" he asked as he leaned on the couch watching his twin sister play a video game, and it was apparent that she was failing.
"Nothing, being bored the norm you know. Trying out new moves for hockey with the team. Too bad you're in Chicago then we could be the bash brothers against the team." Dean nodded. "Yeah its weird being with the team for so long then being away from them." his sister just died in her game she was playing.
"NO I DIED, HOW COULD YOU DO THAT TO ME. I HAVE DIED NO LONGER TO LIVE AGAIN, NOOOOOOOOOO!" Dean laughed at his sister obvious overly dramatic self; she is not like that very much just overly sarcastic.
"Who the hell was that?" Fulton asked, he obviously heard the scream of despair, not surprised really seeing, as she was very loud. "My sister Natalie, she's playing a video game and died. Speaking of which," he glanced at his sister's form on the floor who was banging the floor with her fists. "You can just restart the game like it says on the screen." he said to his sister.
Fulton then yelled into the phone at him. "YOU HAVE A SISTER!" Dean laughed. "Yeah, and you and my sister seem to be more alike then I thought. She's my twin too if you wanted to know." He yelled again. "Hey what can I say I'm a secretive person at times?" Fulton grumbled at him.
"So Portman when are you gonna come to Minnesota and visit us this summer." Portman loved this part, where his friend is completely blown away by what he says. "I'm not, I already am in Minnesota with my mom and sister's." he said he waited for it, and waited and finally it came. "WHAT! STOP DOING THIS TO ME!" Fulton yelled at him. "But it's so fun to surprise you." Fulton didn't seem to agree.
"Ha ha very funny. Not." Natalie fell off the couch after she restarted the game because she was leaning in too close when she was trying to do something and thus making a very loud thud noise.
"Owww" she said from lying flat of her back. "What was that?" Fulton asked. Dean smirked at his sister and stuck his tongue out at her. "Natalie falling of the couch, from being too in to the game." he replied.
"Hey Fulton I got an idea, why don't you and the team come down here to Plainview to stay for the rest of the stay until we go back to Eden Hall. My mom and older sister if she's willing will pick you people up. If she can convince Jannah to let her borrow her car." he said, Fulton didn't reply for a bit but eventually he did.
"I knew I was best friends with you for some reason Portman you have great ideas. I'll tell the team and call you back with who can and can't go. See ya man."
"See ya" Dean replied. Dean flopped down onto his twin sister and sighed. Natalie used to this from him all the time didn't push him off. She did though look at him oddly. "You did ask mom before you made that decision right?" she asked him suspiciously. He gave her a 'what-do-you-take-me-for' look. "Yes she said it was fine, I asked her two days ago when you went to the woods with your swords." Natalie sighed and leaned back against the couch armrest.
They both stayed live that for about fifteen minutes when Natalie pushed Dean off her. He landed with a loud 'thump' besides the couch. He looked up at her and glared. "What was that for?" he questioned her, she shrugged. "I'm hungry." she said as if it explained everything in the world.
He watched as she made herself a mayonnaise sandwich, with bread and that was it. "You do realize that I room with Fulton in a dorm and that he did eat even stranger food then me, and yours still grosses me out." Natalie looked at him and shrugged. "So as long as I like it that's all that matters."
A few hours later Dean's cell phone went off, but he was nowhere to be found. So being the nice considerate sister that she is Natalie decided to answer it for him.
"Hello Dean's automatic answering machine how may we hang up on you today?" she asked in a nice overly sweet voice. The person on the other end obviously was not expecting to hear that sort of greeting and sputtered.
"Umm… hello who is this?" Fulton obviously. "Hi you must be Fulton. I'm Natalie Dean's twin sister." she said to him. He was quiet for a moment. "Ah, hi Natalie. I was wondering if Portman was around there anywhere." she smiled to herself.
"Yeah he is do you want to talk to him or are you just saying that because you wish to talk to me?" she asked in a joking way. "Umm… Okay." she laughed at that. "Here he is." she stepped into her brothers room and handed him the phone.
"Hello" Dean replied obviously just getting up from sleeping for a few hours. Fulton laughed at his obvious tiredness. "Well I called them and Connie, Julie, Adam, Charlie, Goldberg and I can come the others are a bit busy. I say they just want to pick up girlfriends." Fulton told him.
Dean looked up and was going to say something to his sister but she was gone already. "Did you get the info on when they want to come or can." he asked as he put on some Disturbed.
"Yeah we all agreed on coming in three days, that is if it suits you and your people." Dean walked to the kitchen where he saw his mom and twin talking or rather arguing. Once they saw him, they stopped immediately.
"When can you and Niki pick up my friends there are six that can come?" he directed the question to his mother. His mother thought a moment and finally replied. "Yeah we will do it, when can they come?" she asked him. "Three days Fulton said." His mom nodded and he returned to his conversation with Fulton going back to his room.
"The parental unit said yes for that day." Fulton did a victory yell. "Dude once you get here we got to take you guys to Pucks, it is awesome." Dean said remembering when he first went there this summer and saw his sister perform. "What's Pucks sound like some type of Hockey store to me?" Fulton said to him.
"It's a club where they have local bands around the area come in and play for anyone who wants to listen to them, it's about two dollars to get in and listen to them. They have mostly alternative music so it's the type of place for us." he told him.
About twenty minutes later he hung up and went down stairs and saw his sister glaring at their mother and head up to her room. Dean followed her and sat on her bed next to her. "So are you okay?" Natalie looked up at him sarcastic. "Other than the feeling that I am worthless because my mother won't let me do something I enjoy. Yeah I'm doing fanfuckingtastic."
Natalie loved to play hockey but her mom doesn't like her playing such a contact sport, and she wanted to get away from her school where everyone hate's her so much but she wont let her and she also doesn't have the money to have her go to some other school.
"Well hopefully we can get coach Bombay down here before school starts and see what he says and can do. Will you please let me do that, I really want you with me at school Natalie. I miss you a lot you know even if I don't say it a lot." Dean hugged Natalie and stayed in her room with her just talking about whatever came to their minds really.
Three days later, it was time for Dean, their mother and sister Niki to go up to Minneapolis, pick up their friends, and bring them down there. Natalie wasn't going along because there wasn't enough room and she promised her friends she would hang out with them that day or at least until five or six.
"Natalie come on were deciding teams for street hockey not the president pick one already." Ashley yelled at her. Natalie smiled; Ashley always picked Breanna to be on her team so she always picked her cousins and old friend from when she was knee high. "Nate"
"Crystal" Ash team
"Nolan"
Rebecca" Ash
"Noah"
"Stokley" Ash
"Zeke"
"Holly" Ash
"Hope"
"Okay now that we have the teams, get into position and decide who goes where are we clear." Ashley yelled. Hope was Goalie; Nate was defense as was Natalie and Nolan. Noah and the others went into the other positions.
The puck mainly stayed near the front not coming towards the area in which Natalie wanted it at so she didn't exactly go near it. Finally, it was in the spot she wanted it at but Bre and Stokley were after it, which means hard to get to. Natalie looked at Zeke and nodded towards Stokley. Natalie and he went in towards them two Natalie rammed Ashley as Zeke rammed Stokley. Natalie got the puck and it went sailing into the goal. Unfortunately, it didn't hit Holly like some would have hoped to happen.
They played for about two hours took a break of an hour in a half and then went back to playing for three more hours and by that time it was around six at night and time for most of them to go home and eat dinner or sleep of the soreness.
When Natalie skated in front of her house, she saw her sister's car and her mom's which meant that her brother with his friends are with. She opened the door, skated, and was immediately yelled at for it by her mom. "Take off your blades at least. You'll mark the carpet up." Natalie rolled her eyes and sat down on the ground to do so.
She noticed her brother talking animatedly with who she assumed to be Fulton, he had a black bandanna on and a band t-shirt and black hair. Yep he is definitely Fulton. "Hey Dean you know me your sister who is your twin introduce me to your friends would ya." he looked at her and smirked. "Don't you just look lovely tonight." Natalie glared at her brother and then she smirked. "Don't tempt me to jump on you in all my icky sweatiness from practice." Natalie threatened her brother. Dean smiled at her nonetheless.
"This is Fulton, my best bud, over there is the captain of the team Charlie, that's Adam, Goldberg, Julie and Connie." he pointed to each as he said t heir name. "Guys." Julie shot him a look. "And Girls this is my sister Natalie." Natalie blew a kiss to the group, Portman shook his head at her.
Natalie looked at Fulton and smirked, but returned her gaze to her brother. "Where's mom and Nic at, I need to ask 'em something." he gestured to the kitchen. "I'll be back." Natalie walked into the kitchen and there they were sitting talking about something or another. "Hey mom, I was hoping that I could take them out a bit. Probably to Pucks to see me perform and the other local bands of course." Natalie asked her mom, her mom glared at her for asking this.
Her mother doesn't exactly want her into the music business because if she doesn't pick up and she keeps on doing the garage band and just playing small things and not charging enough money she isn't going to go that far. What she doesn't realize is that Natalie does it for the enjoyment of others and it isn't something she wants to get into seriously. What she wants to do is play Hockey, it's what she enjoys doing but for obvious things, her mother doesn't want her to play.
"I don't think that they would like to go to something like that Nat, I mean they mostly play what Grunge, Ska and Alternative." Niki said to her younger sister. Natalie threw her hand out in an 'I don't believe you' gesture. Niki was the all-party girl when she was younger even up to twenty-one she was like that. "How many times have you ever done something like that. Niki you used to do the same thing every night that you could even when you were with Pete."
Natalie sighed and looked at her sister in a sad way, since she has changed so much. "So don't you go saying this is a bad idea, they would enjoy it. Anyways when you went a long time ago you loved the music so I wouldn't be talking." she said to her sister her anger heating up already from just seeing both of their response to her request.
Her mom gave her a look. "Don't bring your sister into this, this music business that you are doing is not something that you should be going into, it wont take you far, not many get into it and the one's that do have been going on for years." Natalie shook her head. "Mom try to comprehend this, I don't want to go into the music business I'm doing it for the enjoyment of the other people who don't' get to go to concerts of their favorite bands." Natalie crossed her arms and stood her ground not daring to back up on this argument.
"It's a useless thing and no one ever goes to them Natalie why do you do it." she said with anger in her eyes. She always assumes things that she shouldn't. "Look mom how would you know you have never been to one single performance of mine there. You don't like that I am not getting money for something you think I should charge more and get more so I can pay for college. Well guess what I don't care, I'm not going to do that. We do that when we are in Rochester but we put the money towards a good cause. So don't even think about presuming something unless you know all the facts about this." She was about to go out of the kitchen but she turned and looked at her mom.
"Anyways Dean probably is going to take them there and experience the new wave of music in a small town like ours. Just so ya know." Natalie marched out op the kitchen to the living room and ran her fingers through her hair, looking quite frustrated at the situation she just went through.
"Is it against the law to seriously injure people?" she asked rhetorically , Fulton smirked at that comment. "Unfortunately so, or else Goldberg would be in the hospital for weeks every time we got annoyed with him." Fulton said, Natalie smiled at him for that comment and then addressed the others that were there. "So who would want to go to Pucks tonight with me?" she asked.
"Yeah we'll go, we gotta introduce them to the small town bands ya know. Anyways they might just learn new things from these bands. You know re-educate them and all." Natalie nodded and cracked her knuckles. Someone knocked on the door soon after she went to the door and let the person in.
It was Stokley. "Hey Stoke what's up?" she asked him. Stokley has neon green hair put up in spikes and he has the darkest blue eyes you would ever see. "You forgot your hockey things at the park so I decided to bring it over, normally you never forget to bring it home. You must have really wanted to ask your mom something if you forgot them." he glanced up at the clock on the wall and grimaced. "Well I'll see you at Pucks around seven-thirty right." she nodded and they said good-bye.
"So how come we never knew about your sister Portman, wanted to keep your sister secret." Goldberg asked him. Portman shrugged. "Don't know, it just didn't come up and anyways she was always far away from me and I hated that." he replied the others understood that. Natalie looked at the others and sighed. "Well I am going to take a shower and get ready for going out; you all should start getting ready forgoing out I you take a while." She headed towards the bathroom.
"I like her she seems interesting, you should have had her come and visit you so we could have met her sooner." Connie said to Portman. Julie nodded in agreement. "You two are different in looks though. You have black curly hair she has straight brown hair, she seems more argument than you from what I heard in the kitchen." Charlie said to him. Portman laughed at him, full out laughter. "We look more a like than you think, both have brown eyes, both have the same attitude towards the world, don't give a shit and don't care what you think. And her hair isn't straight its curly she just makes it straight, she's the one that got me into hockey." he said, well they are just going to have to wait to see what she really looks like until tonight then.
Some of them began to get ready, which means the girls mainly, the others played some video games before they got ready. Natalie got out of the shower, dried her hair, and left it curly.
She left a two chunk of her hair, or rather her bangs, which all were different lengths; she did most of the curly hair up in a messy do. Her hair was red, dyed of course and she had chunks of black in it.
She put thick black eye liner on, so it looks punkish, her eye shadow, red of course to go with her skin tone and hair color, she put a set of dangling guitar pick earrings in her ears and ones with small guitars in the second holes, her upper right ear had a spike in it.
For a necklace, she had a coin that had a hole in the middle, a Chinese or Japanese one probably with writing on it, and she had another necklace that had the faces of drama and tragedy on them, only looking a bit sadistic.
For her shirt she put on a red top that tied at the top and showed a bit of cleavage but not too much to make her brother want to kill every male that looks or even glances at her; she put a skirt on a tan color, it went a inch or two above her knees, and her shoes she put Etnies on or as mostly everyone classifies them as Skater shoes.
She walked out and went to the room she heard Julie and Connie in. Natalie knocked on the door and waited for either one of them to answer it. Connie answered. "Wow Natalie you look awesome, umm can you help us find something to wear?" she asked hesitantly.
Natalie closed the door and smiled at them. "Of course, let me look through here." She looked through Connie's clothes and smiled, she took out a pair of tight, baggy jeans, a tan tank top that showed a bit of cleavage as well, and a burgundy long sleeve button up shirt to put over it. Then she went over to Julies and picked out a red t-shirt that had a v-neck, but not too much of one and a pair of baggy jeans; with a light blue long sleeve shirt to put over her red one.
She smiled at them. "Well what do you think of those? I hope you like them, I think they would look wicked on you two." Natalie asked them waiting for their reply. Julie and Connie smiled brightly and hugged Natalie. "It's great, thank you so much." they said or at least something along those lines.
"I'll be right back, I have two things that will look wonderful with those jeans." She went back to her room as they changed, she found the belts that would go with them and went back. She handed Connie the belt with the Japanese writing on it and Julie the one with the studs on it and loved what it added to the out fits.
The three of them became fast friends and went to the living room and found the guys there waiting for them. When the boys did see them their eyes widened an inch at least when they saw how wonderful they looked. The guys were wearing dressy/casual clothes to just casual. Charlie, Adam and Goldberg were wearing a mix between them. T-shirts with nice pants or baggy, button up shirt with a shirt under it.
Fulton was wearing his ritual shoes with his pants tucked into them, but he did have a nice shirt on, a band one that said AC/DC but nonetheless a nice one, not raggy like some of Natalie's are. Portman was wearing some black pants with a band shirt on, it was Metallica. So the rag tag group was ready to go. Natalie smiled at them and cocked her head to the side. "Well lets go." She put on her brown leather coat and they stepped out and headed towards Pucks.
