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It's raining (Oh how I love the rain ^-^) at night
Spike: Bloody He-
ECEM: Hay!
Spike: You beat me again!
Courtney and Spike are both sitting at a table made out of bamboo playing a game. A game of chess is set up on with most of the white pawns on the bored as most of the black are on Courtney's side of the table. The rest of the Scooby's are getting shade under some palm trees making conversion as Angel quietly yet annoyingly broods by himself
ECEM: Hey what is Angel during here? And where is Bryan, Chester, Mike, and Rob?
Angel: Er…sorry wrong show!
Angel quickly stands up and disappears as Rob, Mike, Chester, and Bryan quickly run under a palm soaked with water.
ECEM: Where were you guys!?!
Rob: We were in the bus. We got bored so we went there then all of a sudden wham hit with ton of rain! Where are we anyway?
ECEM: *Imitating the Crocodile Hunter* Lady's and gentle man welcome to the topical rain forest!
Dawn: Really I've never been to a rain forest before! Which one are we at?
Courtney looks thoughtful then shrugged and gets a curious look on her face.
ECEM: There's more then one? And that's because Joss own you all and some of you are to darn lazy to save money and take a vacation. Now if I owned you any of you we'd have sooo much fun! But I don't own anything in this story so your reality sucks!
Bryan coughed as the rest of them groaned or snorted at her commentECEM: Er…Thanks to my beta Seravy! Now! Let's get the story started!
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Moving Day (Hehe kinda like "Training Day" which I don't own)
"Last day of the rest of my life…" The sound of "P.O.D.'s Youth Of The Nation" blared from Courtney's newly equipped alarm clock as it stuck 7:30.
"Damn it!" She screeched jumping out of bed and running to the window. She groaned as she saw her mother carrying a large brown box to their van. Five days had gone so fast. She thought to herself sadly.
And now she was going to move to California leaving all her friends behind. A tear fell from her eye but she quickly wiped it and scattered around the room pulling a suitcase from under her bed and begun to toss her clothes into it.
She quickly ran down the stairs and grabbed a large brown box before running back up and stuffing other important but small thing into such as her teddy bears, a small pillow and some of her other favorite things.
After she finished packing a groan escaped her mouth as her hand smacked her forehead looking down at her pajamas. "Dummy." She muttered to he self as she unpacked a pair of stonewash jeans and long sleeve shirt with pink selves and a white middle. Courtney quickly looked out the window to see her father taking a small box to the car .
Still time. She thought heading for the shower.
A few minutes later she exited the bathroom grabbing her suitcase running down the stairs into her older brother Mike
"Hey." He said sadly as she rose an eyebrow at him
"How come you don't have a suitcase?" She asked walking out the door as he followed her
"Ever wonder why we weren't taking any furniture?" He asked her stuffing his hands into his pockets
"Yeah but what does that have to do with anything?"
"Well I'm going with you guys but I'm not staying I'm gonna come back to Chicago and go to college." He replied as Courtney but her suitcase in the vans trunk next to Jack's.
"MOM!" She hissed running up to her mother "Why does Mike get to stay!"
"Because Mike has started college here"
"But I've started school and I don't get to stay." Courtney barked hurt
"Yes that's true but college cost money school doesn't. Now into the car." Her mother replied asked Jack her box down.
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Bryan stopped panting along with Ti and Chester as they stopped a few feet away from Courtney's house
"Why does Mike get to stay!" They heard her yell.
"Good their still there!" Ti yelled as she begun to run towards her house once again with Bryan and Chester trailing closely behind her.
"Hey Mai!" Ti yelled as they stopped in front of their car.
"Ti! You guys came!" Courtney yelled getting out the car and hugged Ti and Chester tightly.
"Hey don't I get a hug?" Bryan asked as her face flushed
"Yes you do." She said quietly before hugging him and kissing him on the cheek. "I promise to write you and tell you everything happening here." Ti said smiling as she watched them still hugging.
"I will too!" Chester yelled grinning.
"I'll miss you." Courtney whispered inhaling his scent. Courtney's mother sighed swallowing hard. God she wished they didn't have to do this to her daughter.
"Me too." Bryan replied squeezing her hips as he kissed her on the nose making her turn beat red. He chuckled as she found the cracks in the ground very interesting
"That's cute." He said, as they pulled apart.
She blinked confused "What?"
"You." He said nervously. "You look sweet when you blush." She swallowed he had never been nervous before and she really didn't like where this was going.
"Don't do this." She whimpered as Ti and Chester quickly said goodbye seeing this was getting kind of private.
"I want to." He said with a short shrug
"Well I don't want you to. If you do it'll hurt us both. So let's just say goodbye." She said before quickly kissing him on the lips and running to the car.
"Bye Baby! I'll Miss You B!" She screamed out the window grinning giving him a small wave as the car drove off. Shit! He cursed to himself. What a great fucking time to fall in love! But…did she just call me baby?
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The hours passed slowly for them as they made their way to Sunnydale, California. The only sound made was from the radio since her little bothers had long since fallen asleep.
Sunnydale. She mused to herself. Where the hell was that? She totally hadn't heard of it before. "Are we there yet?" She asked as her brothers raised their eyebrow in question and her parents let out a relieved sigh. ~Oh great!~ She yelled to herself ~they thought you weren't speaking to them!~ "Only a few more hours." Her father said as she begun to sing the remix to "High Voltage". "So that boy?" Her mother said as she automatically stopped singing and snorted, "You know his name." She replied as a small blush creped into her cheeks. Her brother Jack grinned noticing how she blushed every time someone mentioned him lately. "Someone's in love." He taunted in a singsong voice as her parents and brother turned to look at her.
Her face turned as red as Willow's hair which they could barely see because her hair was in front of her face. "JACK!!!" She screamed waking her little brothers up and making her baby sister Tina-Marie-Margaret (I like long names) cry. Her mother quickly reached into the back seat pulling her out of her car seat and careful brought her to the front beginning to rock her back to sleep. David and Daniel rubbed their eyes simultaneously then leaned against each other quickly falling back to sleep. "We are sooo going to talk about this when we get to California." Her father said mocking her. Courtney blushed again and curled up against her bother Mike sleepily following in her little brother foot steps.
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"We're here!" She heard head her father yell as she turned around. It was night. The air was cool. She thought as she looked around. She blinked. Where was the house? And the van? She asked her self as a wrinkly-faced man came up behind her and grabbed her around the neck. He growled, "We're out there." He said while he grinned at her. She grasped quickly looking up to see her father pull out a wooden stake and aimed for his heart but before he could stake him the vampire twisted his neck and greedily began drink to his blood. Her head whipped around then her eyes widen as she saw her mother Olivia slumped against the wall with blue liquid trailing down her neck and a tear fell from her eye. She turned around as her brother Jack screamed a vampire had grabbed him from behind and was now chopping him in half. She tried to cry out scream do anything but couldn't all she could do was turn around and she screeched with agony at what she saw. Mike laid in front of her with a purple liquid oozing from his chest as the guy who had come up behind her was standing over him. She gasped her eyes darting around looking for her little bothers and sister but she couldn't find them. ~Maybe their safe~ She told her self before turning to her mother. She wasn't actually scared and that really made her fell uneasy. "Revello Drive" Her mother whispered before her eyes shut. Courtney screamed trying to blink away the tears coming down her face as her world became fuzzy. "Emmy! Emmy!" A voice called causing her to wake up.
"Emmy? Have a nice sleep?" A man with platinum blonde hair and blue eyes asked handing her a bowl of "Lucky Charms" "No. I had a nightmare again." She answered startled "That's good" He smiled at her "because it's telling you their out there " He whispered.
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Courtney gasped as she jumped up her eyes darting around to see her mother sleeping along with her sister and brothers while her father hummed an old song. ~Some dream!~ She said to herself. "We're here!" Gene her father yelled getting out the car. Mike's body jerked as he sat up his eyes quickly scanning the car scared for a second like the rest of her sleeping family did. She shuddered. ~Weird~ She thought as her brothers and father begun to unload the car.
She quickly hopped out the car as her mother took her sister inside the house. She smiled. ~Pretty.~ She thought tucking a strand of hair behind her ear. And that it was…I guess. It was a small little house that was made out of a pale pinkish peach stone with the door and porch painted a hot pink color while the edges were painted the exact same color. She quickly ran up the hot pink steps and went to the upper part of the house looking for her room.
Courtney gasped grinning as she saw Jack sit down her box "Like it?" He asked, "Yes!" She screeched jump on her huge canopy bed that was decorated in stars, moons, and clouds. Her wall was painted sky blue and was covered in clouds. Half of her room seemed to be light and peaceful filled with faeries, clouds, and cartoon characters while the other half was darker and spacey so everything including her bed was filled with stars, moons, "neopets", and aliens. "This is so cool!" She said running down stairs.
She squealed wrapping her arms around her mother repeating "I LOVE YOU!" over and over again. "I'm glad you like." Her mom said smiling as she sat down. Courtney also sat down as her father and older brother joined them her mother pulled out a silver chain and wrapped it tightly around a piece a paper. "Now about your friend. Bryan?" Her father said as she felt he cheeks turn red. ~Damn it!~ She cursed herself. ~I hate the affect he has on me~ "Yes." She whispered "Do you like him?" Her father asked as her mother Olivia shoved the paper in her pocket. "Uh-huh" Courtney whimpered embarrassed "Are ya in love with him?" "Daddy…" She growled biting the inside of her cheek. "Alright, alright lets go." Her father said remorsefully getting up as her older brothers and mother followed suit. "Where are we going?" She asked "Out." Olivia said as Courtney took her brothers David and Daniel's hand. "Okay." She said looking at her family oddly as they walked out the door and got into the car.
"But what about-" Courtney begun but was cut off by her brother Jack's hand clamping over her mouth. "Don't worry about it. It's fine" Olivia said smiling sadly "and Emma…I love you," She continued as Courtney gasped, "I love you…Emma" Gene said as her older brother also said the same. Courtney looked at them bizarrely not knowing what to say as they drove around finally stopping at an empty park.
"We're here!" Gene said as Courtney and the rest of the family exited the car. The air was cool. She thought as she looked around. ~Oh shit!~ "No!" Courtney squeaked as a wrinkly-faced guy grabbed the back of her neck roughly. Courtney squeaked as she wrapped her arms around the back of his neck flipping him over her shoulder not even taking the time to wonder about how she was able to do that. Her eyes widen as she rushed over to David and Daniel grabbing their hands and running over to her mother who was slumped against the wall a blue liquid running down her neck. "Courtney run. You know where." Olivia whispered weakly handing her a piece of paper wrapped in a chain. "Mooommmyy…" David screeched as Courtney picked of both of her brother up while shoving the paper in her pocket. She turned around to see her father and her brother Mike fighting eight of those wrinkly-faced guys each before she took off running towards the direction they came from.
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"Lizabeth slow down." Daniel muttered sleepily as they ran past another street. Courtney panted as she turned around to see if one of those guys where following her. ~Shit, shit, shit, shit, shit!~ She cursed as she saw a black dot in the distance. ~Gotta lose 'em, gotta lose 'em, come think!~ Her head quickly turned from left to right before she landed on Revello's corner. ~BINGO!~ Her brain shouted as she hid in someone's back yard. "Listen to me" Courtney whispered "some bad people are after us so don't speak." She continued as they nodded "Good. Now take a deep breath and relax." She told them as she did the same thing. It was to slow their heartbeat. Her mom taught her how to do it if they ever need to hide from one of those guys. Her father told her they had good hearing and they'd find you if your heart was beating fast so she was relived they taught her this. She thought as she saw the wrinkly-faced man passed them.
She waited a few minutes until she was sure they were gone and then begun running down the street. "Lizabeth? Can I talk now?" Daniel whispered frightened "Mm-hum" "Where's mommy and daddy?" He murmured again. Tears stung her eyes as she thought about her family, God she hoped Mike and her dad were all right. She thought to herself "Mommy had to go to sleep." Courtney lied to him "Like David?" Daniel asked quietly tugging on her earrings. "Nope" she said glancing from side to side ~345, 326, 236…which one is it~ "For much longer." She continued swallowing. "What about daddy?" He whispered even quieter then before "I don't know what happened to daddy!" She cried out as she ran in to something making her fall back on her butt. "Oh bloody he-" He shouted before she cut him off "Oh thank God! I need help-" she bawled before quietly shutting up as her eyes widen. She couldn't believe who this guy was! It was that exact same guy from her nightmare.
TBC
