Cat Valentine sat on her bed, tapping away on her pink computer. She was running a light pink brush through her bright red hair. Blow by Ke$ha was blaring from her computer and she hummed along, smiling as she tried to figure out her next update for .
I feel so happy! I wonder if they make happy pills. Mood: Happy. She typed down onto her computer. She thought for a second, then she giggled. It was perfect! She clicked post and watched her update pop up on the screen.
Caterina Hannah Valentine was born on March 21, 1995 at 9:55 PM in Los Angeles, California. She's 15 years old and she's in tenth grade at Hollywood Arts High School. She was named after her grandmother, and only she calls her Caterina. But her grandmother hated her and she always made her homemade fudge with nuts in it. Cat was allergic to nuts, so she was forced to watch her whole family eat the world's best fudge. She tended to live in her own little fantasy land with rainbows and red velvet cupcakes. (her favorite food.) She was also a ditz, and she wasn't the brightest person in the tenth grade, heck, the whole school. She was bipolar and always a level 10 emotionally. She has a brother, Cameron, who was completely insane. He does the most random things that could be life threatening, and Cat always wonders why her parents always stress about her. She has dark brown eyes, a beaming smile, and her best feature, her red velvet cupcake hair. It was a red as a red velvet cupcake and it came down to just above the bottom of her rib cage. She was small, only about five feet, but she could be pretty strong when she needs to be. She once punched a girl in the face and she bruised her nose. Cat was such an eccentric girl.
She switched over to her IM to see if anyone was available to chat. No one was online yet, and she sighed. Where were all her friends at? It was only dinner time and...oh wait, it's dinner time, everyone was probably eating dinner now. Cat giggled.
Just then, there was a knock on her door.
"Cat? It's mom, can I come in?"
"Sure mom!" Cat squealed. She shut the music off and her mom walked in. She sat down on her bed, teary eyed and pale.
"Mom? What's wrong?" Cat asked nervously.
"Cat, do you remember Aunt Donna and Uncle Chris?"
She thought for a second, then a light bulb went off in her head. Oh yeah! Aunt Donna and Uncle Chris lived all the way down in Miami. She hasn't seen them since the big family reunion when she was eight.
"Yeah, I remember them."
"Well, I've got good news, and I've got bad news."
Cat's heart sank. She hated bad news. If only every news were good news...
"The bad news, the terrible, horrible bad news, is they were murdered last night."
Cat's heart shattered into a million pieces. Dead? No! That couldn't be! Cat hated death, she thought it was just horrible to see the one you loved lying there in a hard casket, motionless and cold. Tears were falling down her face.
"Cat? Are you ok?"
"No!" She bawled.
"My aunt and uncle are dead and I never got to see them in my whole life! Well, I have seen them before, but it was a long time ago. Well, not too long ago, but I was eight and I'm fifteen now so it's been seven years now, but it feels like it's been forever and-"
"Cat! Just relax! You haven't even heard the good news yet!"
"Oh yeah." Cat giggled. She loved good news more than she loves bad news. Who doesn't?
"The good news is, their daughter, your cousin Sage is coming to live with us!"
Sage. Sage. Who was Sage? She doesn't remember having a cousin named Sage. Was she a newborn? Was she an old lady? Man, she has NEVER heard of her before!
"Sage? Who's Sage? I don't remember having a cousin named Sage."
Cat's mom got up and grabbed a picture from the hallway, came back, and sat down on her bed. The picture was of two tiny brunettes giving each other a big hug. Cat squinted.
"Wait, that's Sage? I thought that was a friend!"
"Well, she just recently came up with the name Sage, her real name is Sagittarius."
Suddenly, Cat's face lit up. She remembered Sagittarius! She hadn't seen her in years! They shared the same birthday and they both had brown hair and brown eyes...well, now Cat has red hair and Sage probably has brown hair...but who cares? She loved Sage!
"Sagittarius is coming to live with us!" She squealed.
"I can't believe it! I can't wait to see her! Maybe she's really tall, or what if she's tiny? We could go to the movies together! And the mall! And maybe-"
"Cat, calm down! Sage is also transferring to Hollywood Arts with you, so you'll see her every day."
Another loud squeal from Cat caused her mom to get up and leave her room.
"Dinner will be ready in five minutes." She said, but Cat couldn't hear, she was still squealing over her cousin.
"I can't believe it! I'm going to see Sagittarius again! It's been so long! Well, it's only been seven years, but it feels like forever!" She pulled out her phone and went to text her friends, but she paused when she saw a new message flash across her screen. No name, no number. Confused, she opened the message.
Just got back from MIA. Now im in LA. Better prepare 4 some bloody battles!
Who was this? What do they mean by 'bloody battles?' Where's MIA? Cat immediately deleted the message.
"He probably had the wrong number." She giggled. She looked out towards the setting sky and hugged her owl pillow.
"I can't wait to meet you again Sagittarius."