Chapter 2

Behind the Scenes of Life

Courtney

Stupid Stevie. Why did she have to get involved all the time?

Stupid Shayne. Why did he have to get involved all the time?

Stupid family. Why did they have to get involved all the time?

It was my life, my choices, my decisions on what path to take. My family just likes to piss me off, period! All they ever do is annoy the hell out of me. They all want to get involved in my life because they can't keep on with their own.

I wish I had a normal family. A family with a sensible amount of kids, not twelve! That is a bit extensive in my eyes, and everyone else's for that matter. Who in their right mind would have twelve kids? My parents, of course.

I was still pissed off about dinner as I laid on my bed, hugging on of my pillows close to my chest. Why did Stevie and Shayne have to open their big mouths? They just both had to go and start talking about that stupid rumor.

Rumors don't scare me, they're just lies, but they do scare my dad. So what? We're a big family, that just means we're more protective over each other. If someone tried to hurt any of us, they would have Shayne and Charlie to deal with. Both quarter backs for the High school football teams and both black belts in karate. Why would you want to mess with them?

It's Heather's fault. I know she's the one who started the rumors about me and Duncan. I was friendly to him and she wants him. Heather is a slut. Such a slut. Heather's the queen bee at school. Head cheerleader, on student council. She makes me sick.

Heather goes round sleepig with every guy she see's. I won't be surprised if she's got an STD. She must have slept with every guy in our year at least twice. And now she wants Duncan. Duncan looks like the sort of person who'd give it to her too. So here I am, being friendly to the new kid, and it gets the school whore ticked. Oh well, it's not like she didn't hate me before anyway.

I can't wait for the weekend to come. No school for two days and then summer vacation isn't far off either. Too bad the weekend is still a whole day away though.

I love school. I'm an A+ student and all the teachers love me, why wouldn't I love school? I have big plans for the future too. After graduation in a years' time, I am going onto Harvard Law School to become a lawyer. It's been a dream of mine since I was a kid. I am only eight years off of achieving it.

After I've been a lawyer for two years I planned to get married. My husband will also have the perfect job, I'm not picky but it has to be good enough to support us, whilst my money can go towards luxuries.

I don't want children. I've had to cope with my younger sibling's for too long to want children of my own. If my husband does then he'll have to change it to suit me. No kids. Period.

Dani wants kids. She is closest in the family to having them too; though I'm pretty sure my parents would freak out if she came home one day and told them they were going to be grandparents.

I've never understood why Dani wants her own kids though. She's the oldest, she's had to put up with more younger siblings than I have, but it hasn't put her off.

She plans on marrying her current boyfriend also. And apparently he's going to propose soon, though no one's sure where that rumor started in the family.

I tossed and turned on my bed for a moment or two. It was quite uncomfortable, but my parents couldn't afford to buy me a new one as all money goes towards feeding and clothing us all first.

My mind was still on Dani and Luke, her boyfriend. They had already agreed that they won't have kids until after their married. That was the most sensible idea ever. Though I wasn't too sure that three years of dating was good enough to even get engaged, Dani did have other plans.

I don't believe in sex before marriage, I never have. It's not right in my eyes. I believe you have to be fully committed to a person before you give yourself to them, but I'm sure I was the only teenager in my school who did believe in such things.

I stopped my thoughts for a moment. My dad's voice was very clear to hear from my bedroom, it was on top of the family room after all. I could hear everything if the people below were talking loud enough.

My father was ranting on about rumors, what a shock there. I bet Shayne was wishing he had kept his mouth shut now. Everyone was downstairs, well; no one had come running up the staircase like usual, so I assumed they all had to listen in to it.

I think my parents have a hard time believing how we're all growing up now; we're not all little children anymore. Okay, Robin is five and Drake and Kyle are still seven, they are pretty young, but Dani is twenty-two, Charlie is twenty! Some of us have grown up, me myself being seventeen years of age.

One thing I hate is being 'daddy's Golden Girl'. All my siblings keep picking on me because of it. I don't know why it's me pacifically, but I've always been dad's favorite. I mean, beside Robin of course. Robin's the baby girl, she's also dad's favorite.

By morning, the entire house was in its usual hectic state again. People were rushing from one place to another, trying to gather all of their school belongings before they were late.

I stayed quietly in my bedroom as usual; I had all the things I needed in there rather than scattered around the house. That was one of the ways I liked to keep it; organized. Not a thing was out of place in my room, though there wasn't enough space for something to be out of place anyway.

The first thing I did was check to see if anyone was hanging around in the hallway, but they weren't. Everyone had long gone down for breakfast now, but I never stuck around for that part of the day either.

I sprinted down the staircase and straight out of the door. I know that getting to school faster will not mean the day will end faster, but a girl can hope, can't she?

I was seventeen years of age, almost done with my junior year of High school and was soon going to be a senior. I should have been having the time of my life, but I wasn't. The number one reason was Heather. Heather was always on my case. The second reason was Duncan.

Duncan Lewis was the reason my whole junior year had been nothing but misery. Well, his and Heather's, but Heather would have been on my case no matter what I did. But ever since this new kid showed up, everything has gotten worse.

I came to a halt, turning around and reopening the door, "ROBIN, STEVIE, DRAKE AND KYLE!" I screamed, but they all came rushing towards me anyway. I had almost forgotten about them.

It was duty to take the four of them to school. Stevie was a freshman, one of the youngest as her birthday wasn't until the end of very end of July. Robin was in kindergarten and the twins were in second grade, so I offered to give them a ride to school because they were too young to take the bus.

"Stop acting up, Kyle!" I scolded one of the twins because he kept squirming whilst I tried to buckle him up. The twins may have been seven, but their minds were a lot younger, I could have sworn. Robin was five, but she had a maturity level higher than the twins combined!

"Hurry up!" Stevie whined, getting fed up with me and the endless waiting she was doing in the passenger seat.

I ignored her comment though. I tried my best to always ignore my siblings because they were so frustrating. It was as if they all depended on me all of the time, but I only ever wanted to be left alone.

The whole morning run was chaos. People were everywhere in the house, all pushing and shoving to get a bowl or to the toaster first. Then the garden was a mess and what-not as everyone had just thrown their under-aged vehicles all over the place.

Things had taken a step up when Dani had moved out, one less person to worry about in my eyes. Then there was Charlie and Shayne-SHIT! I had forgotten to wake-up Shayne.

The lug used me as an alarm clock because his 'broke'. It was more along the lines of he didn't like it so he threw it out the window. I only knew because Robin had handed me the remains that she had found whilst she had been watering her plant beds.

I made a very quick dive up the staircase again, banging my fist on Shayne's bedroom door, the bedroom opposite mine belonged to him. Stupid brother! Why couldn't he have had a bedroom closer to the staircase?

"GET YOUR LAZY ASS OUTTA BED!" I screamed loud enough to wake Charlie up also, so that was a double bonus. But I had no time to think about that. I was going to be late if I didn't get my act together.

Running back down the staircase, I did a quick checklist in my head. I thought I had remembered everything that time and I had. Now there was just one stop along the way before I could get to school.

The moment I stopped the car, I opened the door and then the back one for Robin to climb out also. Stevie got the twins, but I was already dragging my baby sister across the road by her wrist to make sure we were all still on time.

I watched her hang up her coat and bag before sitting on the carpet with a few other children. I nodded my head to myself, that was one more thing off my list.

Stevie was already at the car, which I had not locked up behind me. That was something dad would have scolded me for. He knew that when I rushed, I always forgot something important and one of these days my car will get stolen because I never locked it. I was always too busy to take notice or to even care.

I came to a skidding halt in the school parking lot, but no one seemed to notice me in my tiny, white 1992 Renault Clio. I loved my car, personally, but it was an old thing now. Most of the teens at my school had all these posh convertibles and BMW's. It wasn't my fault if I couldn't afford one, but I liked my car anyway.

Stevie was long gone by the time I had stopped fiddling with my hair. I thought I was alone when I stopped out of my car, but I was wrong.

"Where's lover boy today, Court?" I tried to ignore Heather like I tried to ignore my siblings, but it was always a failed attempt on both accounts.

"How should I know?" I simply replied, locking up the car, making dad proud of me once again. Though I did always lock the car when I was at school, you never knew what sort of thieves and drug dealers were lurking in the shadows

I walked off to homeroom, but Heather was more than likely right behind me. We did have the same homeroom, after all, but I didn't take any notice of her if she was.

I walked into the class and took my assigned seat, but I knew that was a mistake as soon as I touched down in the chair.

"Hey gorgeous, where were you this morning?" His husky voice send shivers down my spine and his hot breath was making the hair on the back of my neck stand at end. He always did it.

I turned around in my seat and came face-to-face with beautiful icy blue eyes. They had to be unique; they were the color of lake water. Clear but still misty and mysterious.

"I don't think it's any of your business where I was." I snapped at him, knowing I didn't have to explain myself or my life to him. Duncan probably already knew as I was sure he stalked me, but he never did own up to it.

"Ouch. That hurt, babe." He said, placing a hand over his chest.

"Couldn't have hurt that much." I replied, "Your heart's on the other side." I turned back to face the front of the class again, ignoring whatever the punk-wannabe mumbled. Since I didn't have many, okay, any friends in school, I just had to wait for the day to pass me by.

I thought I was finally in the clear when Duncan didn't talk to me for about four minutes, a personal record for him. But then I had to open my big-mind-mouth.

"What Duncan?" I asked, about to scream as he tapped his fingers on my shoulder.

"What you up to this weekend?" He inquired. I narrowed my eyes down a bit, my mouth dying to yell 'What?' at him. It wasn't any of his business and he probably didn't give a damn anyway.

"Probably babysitting." I replied, my answer being honest.

"Aww, again?" I rolled my eyes. "I thought me and you could do something." He informed, but what would he want to do with me and why would he want to do it with me?

"Yes, again." I turned to face him once more. "And I wouldn't want to do anything with you." I hissed in his direction. Before he could respond the bell rang and our teacher walked into class. I had never been so grateful.

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