Hey guys, sorry for the really really long wait, but it was stressful, tests over tests in college and my hard drive broke, so I had to get a new hard drive for my Laptop, but I'm back :)
January 19, 2014
Apartment 22, Venice, Los Angeles
Cat sat on her bed staring intently at the message text she just wrote, but she didn't seem to have the guts to just tap send on the phone screen. She didn't exactly get even with Sam if she tried to flirt with Freddie, did she? I'm over thinking things again, aren't I? She thought to herself. "What did Sam always say? Just do before you think? Okay, just this one time I'm following your advice", the redheaded teen mumbled to herself and then pressed send.
Click. Message sent.
Now all she had to do was wait. Well, that was the hard task. Unfortunately she didn't have anything to do, it was a Sunday morning, she has already done all her homework and Sam was nowhere to be seen. So she just sat there on her bed, bored out of her mind, thinking what would happen now.
Airport Munich, Germany
"You alright little bro?" the 18-year-old asked his little brother. He just nodded, just like he always did. It has been only the two of the for the past four years. A very unfortunate accident took away their dad, Jake, the smaller brother became silent because of a shrapnel, which hit his throat and John, the big brother lost his right foot. John got a prosthetic shortly after the accident, but both were still scarred from the incident.
This was it for the two. They went away, for good. The older one had a very good education. He graduated from the College in Salzburg, Austria, while the 15-year-old just finished high-school. Money wasn't a problem for them, their dad was rich and they inherited the money. John also had a driving and even a pilot license. They bought a small plane and wanted to follow the trace to their mother. Which lead them to where they are now,the airport. Both of them knew that she was living in Los Angeles, California, but didn't know an exact location. So they planned their trip, both of them got themselves an American citizenship and looked around for a house or an apartment to settle themselves in. After they had found a house they worried about getting there. The obvious choice was to just get a plane ticket and fly over there comfortably, but because they left for good and didn't want to leave anything behind, they decided that flying over there by themselves would be the best choice. Sure it would take longer, but it would be worth it, they hoped.
The two brothers were a well-coordinated team, so both knew what they had to do. Which meant that they finished the preparations earlier and were up in the air earlier. But John had to lay the flight plan carefully, because it was not a usual thing to fly over the Atlantic with just an single-piston plane. But both, the pilot and co-pilot, were both seasoned enough to deal with it. They sectioned the whole flight into small flights, so that John and Jake wouldn't be overburdened with flying all the way at once. So it will be taking them some days maybe even a week to get to California, but they were determined.
After all the preparations and pre-flight checks they got the O.K. from the tower, and the brothers went towards their plane. On the way to the plane one thing came into John's mind and he asked his little brother:"Hey, you've got your passport with you, don't you?" "Yeah sure, here, look", Jake answered. John opened the passport and then told his sibling,"Well Jake Valentine, I hope we get there in one piece." He got a silent laugh as answer, they then fist-bumped and boarded the aircraft.
So in this Chapter you met Cat's two long-lost brothers. They will be united in some chapters, not really sure when exactly. I think you noticed by now, that this story is kind of AU.
Okay, so I'm really sorry that I didn't update in such a long time, but I was really busy, my Laptop broke down, well, the HDD crashed, so all of my work was gone, also we have like, way too many tests and quizzes, but that's what you get for going to an elite college.
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