Chapter One
My name is Savannah Copeland. My brother is Adam Copeland. Now many of you might not know that name but I know one that many of you might know…Edge. That's right, Adam Copeland is Edge…which would make Edge my brother. I have a wonderful life with the man I love. But my life wasn't always this great. My life was full or treachery and turmoil before my brother came in and took me away from everything bad in my life. I'll tell you this story if you want to take the time and read it…
When I was 22 years old I had already been in jail 3 times, had done every drug known to man and had 4 abortions. Needless to say that my life was less then stellar, so I decided to end my life. I had come to the decision to take my life after I had an argument with my mother.
"Savannah!! Get down here and help me clean this house, your brother and his friends will be here in a little while!"
"Mom I really don't see the point in cleaning the house, it's only Adam. What the hell does he care what the house looks like?" I said wiping the sleep from my eyes.
"Savannah, are you just waking up?" My mom, Tabitha, asked
"Yes mom, I am just waking up" I said sarcastically
"Savannah it's almost 2:30 in the afternoon why were you still sleeping?"
"Well mom I had a hard night at work last night" I said getting tired of her interrogation.
The truth was that I had in fact gone to work that night, but they said that my performance had been increasingly worse so they fired me. So instead of going home to face Tabitha's wrath…I decided to go out and have some fun. I went to the infamous Viper's pit in downtown Manhattan. Now the viper's pit is known for it's lustrous drug history. I went there with full intentions of getting blasted and having a few one nightstands. Of course I never tell Tabitha about any of this, because I don't fell like hearing her mouth running: "go to school, get good grades, keep a job more than 2 weeks, meet a nice man, get married, have kids" yadda-yadda-yadda you know the normal stuff a mom would say.
"Oh poor Savannah, you had a rough night?" Tabitha asked sarcastically
"Yes mom, it was rough, people suck and the managers are all asshole like usual" I said trying to make a pot of coffee
"Really…because I went by there last night" Tabita said
I froze up "Really? What time? Maybe I just missed you" I said
"Oh I went by there about 8:30 at night"
'SHIT' I thought to myself 'They told me to leave at 7…right after I poured a pitcher of beer over some asshole's head because he pinched my ass.
"Oh yea mom you must have just missed me I was out on my break smoking a cigarette in the back"
"Really because I talked to Tom, your manager, and he told me that he let you go because you assaulted a customer"
"Well mom what was I supposed to do? He pinched my ass"
"Well Savannah, it was your choice to work at that strip club. I think that you should be going to school, like I want you to"
"Well mom I can't always do what you want me to. You want me to go to school, but you also want me to pay rent and pay bills. If I'm going to go back to school I told you that I'm gonna go full time which will leave me no time to work. So if you want me to go to school then stop charging me to live!" I screamed at her
"Don't you take that tone with me!!" Tabitha yelled back "I am your mother and even though you are 22 years old, I will have no hesitation to put you in your place…do you understand me?!"
Not wanting to hear her yell anymore, because of the throbbing pain left over from last night's cocaine and whiskey binge I just agreed with her, hoping that it would shut her up.
"Yes mom, I understand." I said
"Good, now go and vacuum the living room, while I finish cooking this ham. Your brother and his friends will be here in an hour." Tabitha said
"Who else is coming?" I screamed over the vacuum
"Well it's going to be your brother and some of his friends from work." Tabitha said
"Well like who?"
"Well their names are Jay, Chris, Matt and Jeff"
"Which Chris?" I asked turning off the vacuum
"Umm the one with the long blonde hair like Adam's"
"Oh, ok" I said "is there anything else you want me to do?"
"Well why don't you go and dust the living room, clean the downstairs bathroom and then I think that's it." Tabitha said pre-occupied with the ham in the oven.
"Ok well after that I'm gonna take a shower because I feel like death runneth over" I said
"Yea, sure no problem Savannah"
And with that I went about the house doing what Tabitha had asked me to do and went up to my bathroom to retreat into a steaming hot shower.