Hey, Guys! (: So sorry I've been kind of M.I.A recently, but I've been working on a really exciting project! I'm not going to go into what I've been working on, but in time, I promise I'll tell. (: Anyway, if you've been reading my fanfictions for a while now, you'll know I had a fic that I never actually finished called, "Boy Meets Girl". Also if you've been paying attention, I said I was rewriting "Boy Meets Girl" and another fanfiction called, "A Blast From The Past". Well, I'm very proud to say that this is one of the rewrites! (:
Everyone please give a warm welcome to "Sing For The Moments"- "Boy Meets Girl"'s rewrite!
I really hope you enjoy this! I think it's about 10x better than the original.
xoxo
Sing For The Moments
Chapter One
Max
"Ari! Give them back!" I screamed, jumping up to try and retrieve my pictures from my brother, who'd stolen them.
"Gonna have to jump a little higher, Max!" Ari taunted, holding them high above his head.
"Ari! I'm serious! You wouldn't like it if I took pictures of your mom!" I yelled, trying with all my might to get my pictures back.
Like I mentioned, the pictures were of my mom, who died when I was born. Ari knew those pictures meant more to me than anything and he was only taking them to make me want to rip his head off. Well, guess what? Mission accomplished.
Ari was twenty-four and had just graduated college, so he was back living with our dad. Ari wasn't my only sibling though. I also had another brother and a sister.
The brother was Jeffery, or Iggy as the family calls him. Iggy was four years older than me, which made him twenty-one. He had graduated high school a few years ago and wasn't going to college because he didn't want to leave town- or more likely, his girlfriend. (Insert eye roll here)
My sister was Hannah, and she was three years old. She was pretty much my pride and joy. Her mom had never been around. In fact, I don't even remember who she was, to be honest. I was fourteen when Hannah was born and I've taken care of her like a mother since.
Speaking of Iggy, he decided to pop up just then.
Since both he and Ari were about six inches taller than me, Iggy was easily able to pluck the pictures from Ari's hand and proceed to run down the hallway behind the kitchen to his room and slam the door.
"Fuck you, Ari." I cussed, shoving him away from me.
"Oh, come on, Maxi, we're just playin'." Ari tried to defend himself.
Tried and failed, might I add.
Ari never got a reply from me. Not that I'm sure it would have been a nice one anyway.
Hannah, who was sitting on the floor in the kitchen, where Ari, Iggy and I had been, playing with a doll began to cry because Iggy slammed his door.
I narrowed my eyes at Ari before going over to Hannah and picking her up.
"Shh, baby, shh. It's okay." I whispered, bouncing/rocking her and stroking her dark brown hair.
She had hair like Ari, dark and really curly, but they didn't have the same mom. None of us kids did. Just the same asshole father, Jeb.
Jeb had a tendency to not care what his kids thought of his many, many girlfriends. Ari and Iggy thought that my mom, Valencia, would have been the one to make Jeb stop dating so much. But when she died, Jeb got back to his old habits... And just hasn't stopped.
"Maxiiii." Hannah groaned, rubbing her eye and resting her head on my chest.
"Tired, baby?" I asked.
She nodded.
I adjusted her on my hip and turned back to look at Ari.
"I'm going to go put her down for a nap, then take a shower. When I get back down here, I expect my pictures to be sitting on the counter with an apology from the both of you. I'm not kidding." I said through gritted teeth to Ari as I passed him.
I took Hannah upstairs and put her down in her crib for a nap, kissing her forehead before turning out the light and heading to the bathroom to shower.
I took out a towel from the linen closet and started the water as I stripped out of my clothes.
"Ouch!" I hissed when the hot water burned my hand.
I glanced back at myself in the bathroom mirror before I got into the shower.
My medium length blonde hair fell to the middle of my upper arm. My hair was streaked with mud colored chunks that I had my best friend dye back in freshman year. I also had chocolate brown eyes that I hated. My mom was Hispanic though, so that's where that came from.
I sighed and looked away from my reflection and back to the shower.
I jumped in and washed quickly, running my fingers through the mess of tangles in my hair.
When I was completely done showering, I turned the water off and wrapped myself in a towel.
"Shit! Max is gonna kill me!" I heard Iggy scream just as I was leaving the bathroom.
I groaned and bolted downstairs in my towel with my hair sopping wet and hanging on my shoulders.
"Iggy, I swear if you broke anything, I'll rip your-" I cut myself off, just in time too.
Let me paint you a picture: I came down the stairs in a towel to kill my brother, but stopped short when I noticed someone here that wasn't here before.
That someone would be our next door neighbor's son, and Iggy's best friend, Fang.
Fang gawked at me, raising an eyebrow when I looked down to make sure my towel wasn't going to come off any time soon.
"What. Did. You. Break." I muttered, trying to ignore Fang's looks.
"Uh. Well, you see..." Iggy began, stepping to the side to show me what happened.
Holding my towel with one hand, I covered my mouth with the other, trying not to yell.
Today was totally not my day. First, Iggy and Ari steal my pictures of my mom, then I come downstairs in a towel where Iggy's best friend saw me, and then I see that my brother broke a vase that my mom left me before she died.
"Fix it. I don't care how you do it, but you're going to fix it. You're also going to give me back my pictures, because if you don't, I will not only get you grounded for life, but when you're not grounded, I will make sure to make plans with Nudge before you can so you never see her. Do I make myself clear?" I asked, a rhetorical question.
Nudge was Iggy's girlfriend, and also my best friend. Kind of awkward, yes, but oh well. It works out in times like this where I can threaten him.
After I saw Iggy nod, I bolted back upstairs and got dressed.
I quickly threw on a pair of ripped skinny jeans that I'd had since about sixth grade, a three-quarter length plain white shirt, a pair of faux-diamond stud earrings and a charm bracelet that my Uncle Grey got me when I was fifteen. I also quickly did my makeup and spraying myself with some perfume before going back downstairs.
Iggy was knelt down on the floor picking up the glass shards of my vase and sticking them into a box, I assumed, to fix it. Fang was sitting at the kitchen table with his feet kicked up on the table as he munched on a chocolate chip cookie. And Ari was standing by the fridge, looking for something inside.
"Back with some clothes, Max?" Fang asked as he tipped back in the chair he was sitting in.
"Stuff it, Fang." I replied, smacking the back of his head as I passed him.
Fang had long black hair that went to the middle of his ears and covered part of his left eye and really dark eyes. Even after knowing him for most of my life, I still never figured out what color they were exactly. He was twenty-one years old, just like Iggy.
"Where?" Fang replied, cockily. Okay, bad choice of words.
Moving on.
I rolled my eyes at him and took the cookie he had from his hand, sticking the last of it into my mouth.
"Fang, cool it with the sexual jokes with my sister. That's so not right." Iggy groaned as he picked up the last glass shard.
"Sorry, bro. Just comes naturally." Fang laughed, looking over at Iggy.
Iggy lifted the box up and carried it back behind the kitchen to his bedroom.
While Iggy was gone, Ari high-fived Fang for his jokes. Leave it to Ari to encourage sexual jokes. Toward his sister no less!
"Ari, toss me a water, would ya?" I asked, turning away from Fang.
Without saying anything Ari did as he was asked.
"You never answered my question, by the way, Max." Fang winked.
I rolled my eyes.
"Clever, Fang, but if I have anything to say about it, you won't be getting it in with my sister any time soon. Or ever." Ari assured him, taking a swig of my water.
I hope you all enjoyed reading this and will review, as always!
Please give me your feedback on what you think of this rewrite! (:
xoxo,
K.J
