Hi all! This chapter is packed with info so you're going to have to remember some of it cause it will be important later and I'm going to explain it best can. Why I'm doing this? I spent a WHOLE lot of time writing it over vacation so you're going to have to deal ok?
P.S. I don't own Everywhere or I knew I loved you just like I don't own Harry Potter. Got that? NOT MINE!
Oh, thanks for telling me about Kwanza, as I said, we have VERY few people of African decent in my area so I'm ignorant. 'To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malory (sp) of the ignorant.'
1/3/97
It's a new year, so exciting right? Hope so. The day itself wasn't really exciting. We stayed up late and set off some fireworks. At midnight we all gave each other hugs and such. Nothing really to talk about.
I'm decided I will meet this guy, as one of the twins said, if I don't like him I don't have to go on a second date but I might as well humor him since he went through all this trouble. I sent him a letter.
Dear whoever,
I have to say I'm flattered, though a little confused. Why do you fancy me? I'm really not pretty or anything, just kind of plain. I wonder who you are. Do I know you? Thank you for the necklace, how did you know I wanted it. I'm wearing it everyday. It's beautiful.
Just tell me how I got this far
Just tell me why you're here and who you are
'Cause every time I look
You're never there
And every time I sleep
You're always there
'Cause you're everywhere to me
And when I close my eyes it's you I see
You're everything I know
That makes me believe
I'm not alone
I'm not alone
You're in everyone I see
So tell me
Do you see me?
Some lyrics from a song I heard. Please write back, I'll meet you on Valentine's Day. Do I have to dress up?
Katie
Do you know what? He wrote back!
Dear Katie,
The necklace doesn't make you beautiful; you make the necklace beautiful. (Feel the sappiness. Can you feel the sappiness tonight?) You look beautiful in anything, but it is a nice restaurant. It's called the Owl at Twilight and it has a view of the river.
Maybe it's intuition
But some things you just don't question
Like in your eyes,
I see my future in an instant
And there it goes,
I think I found my best friend
I know that it might sound
More than a little crazy
But I believe........
I knew I loved you before I met you
I think I dreamed you into life
I knew I loved you before I met you
I have been waiting all my life
There's just no rhyme or reason
Only the sense of completion
And in your eyes,
I see The missing pieces
I'm searching for
I think I've found my way home
A thousand angels dance around you
I am complete now that I've found you
A song I keep hearing.
I'm keeping his letter in my journal, this probably won't turn into anything, but it would be nice to look back one day and feel as special as I did when I got the letter.
Something's wrong. Angelina and I are the only ones home and last time I checked she was cleaning the kitchen. That makes noise, but everything is quiet. I'm going to check on her.
I found her in the kitchen sitting at the table just staring at the wall. There were two letters sitting in front of her. The one closest to me was a wedding invitation, I guess her dad is getting married again. It's addressed to Alicia, Angelina and myself. The second letter is from Angelina's mother, she's getting divorced, again.
Angelina's father, Fred, wrote that this was THE ONE. I highly doubt it. Angelina has more stepparents than anyone I know. Her mother, Jill, is going out of her fifth and her father is going into his fifth.
Angelina's parents were the other's first husband and wife. They stayed together long enough for Angelina and her sister Allison to be born. The two split when Angelina was three and her sister one.
Slightly over a year later, Angelina's mother married Archie. They stayed together for two years before splitting. They had the first of Angelina's many half siblings, Alex.
Eight months after Angelina's mother married, Angelina's father married Molly. Out of all of Angelina's mothers, including her real one, I think Molly was her favorite. They too had a child, Andrea and divorced after two years. Molly later married Bob and they haven't split yet. They had two kids, Lila and Jack. Angelina calls them her 'stepsiblings' cause she doesn't know what their technical relationship is.
Angelina's mother and father married Richard and Jesse within a few months of each other when Angelina was seven. Neither couple had kids.
Archie, Angelina's mum's second husband, married Liza. They're kid is Jeanie.
Angelina's father and Jesse divorced when Angelina was nine and her mother divorced a few months later, just after Angelina's tenth birthday.
When Angelina was thirteen, her father married Zoe, they had 'the twins,' Alan and Alexandra.
Richard married Beth when Angelina was fourteen and thankfully they haven't split. They have two kids, Daisy and Jake.
Two months after this, Angelina's mum married Joe. They in turn had Angelina's youngest half sister, Annie.
Archie, Angelina's mum's second husband, divorced soon after this and married her father's third wife Jesse. They've been together ever since and had two sons, Charlie and Max.
When Angelina was 16, both parents divorced and her mum married Kevin a year later.
Now Angelina's mum is divorcing Kevin and her dad is marring Kat, who is THE ONE and is bringing three teenaged daughters into the marriage.
I'm writing a list of Angelina's siblings so I can remember. All of Angelina's half sister's and brother's have A names. As of Now
Name
Parents
Age
Hogwarts Year
Birthday
Angelina Johnson
Fred Johnson and Jill
19
Out for one year
9/20/77
Allison Johnson
Fred and Jill
17
6th year
11/30/79
Alexander Brown
Archie Brown and Jill
14
3rd year
11/15/82
Andrea Johnson
Fred Johnson and Molly
13
2nd
12/1/83
Lila Hill
Bob Hill and Molly
10
Next year
6/10/86
Jeannie Brown
Archie Brown and Liza
9
2 years till
8/12/87
Jack Hill
Bob Hill and Molly
8 (his b-day was yesterday)
3 years till
1/2/89
Alexandra Johnson
Fred Johnson and Zoe
4
7 years till
3/9/92
Alan Johnson
Fred Johnson and Zoe
4
7 years till
3/9/92
Daisy Stevens
Richard Stevens and Beth
3
8 years till
8/25/93
Annie Thatcher
Joe Thatcher and Jill
2 (turning three at the end of the month)
8 years till
1/26/94
Charlie Brown (we all laugh at this one)
Archie Brown and Jesse
2 (turning three soon)
8 years till
2/7/94
Jake Stevens
Richard Stevens and Beth
1
11 years (held back because of the cut off)
10/11/95
Max Brown
Archie Brown and Jesse
1
11 years
12/18/95
ENTER
ING
THE
FAM
IY
Jessica Luther
Kat
17
7th year
3/21/79
Emily Luther
Kat
15
5th year
7/17/81
Jamie Luther
Kat
14
4th year
4/8/82
You really don't have to read all that, jut makes it easier to understand.
Angelina has attended 11 marriages, this will be her 12th and 8 been through 8 divorces, this will be her 9th. She has one sister, 2 half brothers, 3 half sisters, 3 stepsisters and 4 stepbrothers.
Angelina and her sister Allison have always been at the center of a custody battle that will go down in record books for the most amount of people demanding time with them. Both her parents wanted the sister living with them and both sets of grandparents, unhappy with the ongoing divorces and marriages, wanted their granddaughters with them. Most former stepparents, Molly and Bob, Archie, Jesse, Richard and Beth, Joe, and Zoe all want visiting rights. Not to mention stepsiblings expect Angelina to visit.
Before Angelina went to Hogwarts, she was spending weekdays with her mum, weekends with her dad, half of summer with each set of grandparents, holiday vacation with Molly, winter vacation with Archie, Spring Vacation with Richard and Thanksgiving with Jesse. This was right before Hogwarts.
During Hogwarts, she and Allison spent Christmas with their mum's parents, Easter with their Dad's parents, first month of summer with their mum, second month with their dad and the last month visiting everyone else.
Now that Angelina is out of Hogwarts, she doesn't HAVE to visit everyone so her various parents call asking her to come over. She has used the excuse of work for not visiting. Angelina loves her family, but she likes to pretend it's a normal one every once in a while. This wedding is something she can't get out of.
The party afterwards is always at Molly's house and its easy to understand why. Molly's house has a huge yard. There's an open green half the size of a Quiddich field that's set up with chairs, food, music and a dance floor. This is wher the grownups stay. Running along side is a fenced off area about the same size and it's divided in half. One has a swing set,water guns, buddle guns, bubble blowing materials, a blacktop area for jump rope and box ball, a wall for red bud and lots of balls. There is an open gate leading to the other fenced off section. This section is the 'quiet' area. It has a food table, a stad of square meter paper which childre can take fro drawing. Around the whole yard is every kind of art supply a child could wish or, paint brushes in all shapes and sizes, markers, pencils, crayons, sponges, a garbage can full of clay, spoons, ink droppers an every color of non toxic paint ever invented. Every child is welcome to take whatever they want, there's always more.
That's actually how I met Angelina. Molly is my mum's sister and Angelina and I were going to be flower girls at Molly's wedding to Angelina's father. They were having a party a month before the wedding and Angelina and I met over a bowl of nontoxic green paint. We hit if off right away and sealed the friendship doing a finger painting together before starting a paint war. We had a flower fight down the aisle at the wedding as well.
We met Alicia when Angelina's mum married Richard when I was seven. Alicia is Richard's niece. Angelina's mum is friends with Molly so the party was once again at her house.
Angelina and I were having yet another paint war in 'the pen' as we called it when we saw Alicia. She was sitting in her pretty party dress drawing a neat pretty picture. Angelina claims it was me, but Angelina accidentally dropped the bowl of paint she was holding on Alicia's paper. Alicia got revenge and we all became friends. To this day we still argue who dropped the bowel.
I think Angelina gets on so well with all of us because we have crazy families as well. Fred and George are two of seven in a family always on the go. I'm part of Angelina's family plus I have a million cousins who are always over.
Alicia is part of Angelina's family as well, but she is adopted. She was adopted as a baby by Richard's brother and his wife. Alicia's parents had some fairy tale version of parenting stuck in their heads. They had a nanny who Alicia spent all day with while her mother had meetings with other "high class people" and her father worked.
They expected her to be invisible until they called her down at the end of the day and had dinner with her. Then she would be off to bed and being invisible again.
Alicia's father is a diplomat so they were always moving. They brought Alicia's nanny and tutors with them. She had private teachers until she went to Hogwarts. She never made friends with any kids since she was going to move soon anyway and they were always too 'low' is her parents opinion for her to play with. She was expected to go to parties and be a good smart little girl who charmed everyone and never got dirty.
When he met Angelina and me, she was startled that we went to public schools, went mudslidding, played Quidditch and generally did things she wasn't allowed to.
Oliver's parents were the ultimate foster parents. He lived next door to one set of Angelina's grandparents. I went with her to their house several times. The only other kid in the neighborhood was Oliver so we went over to his house a few times.
Everytime I went over there were new foster kids, yet another down and out salesman, stray dogs and cats and an old lady who was tired of the nursing home and wanted to get away for a while. I've never seen the same people or animals twice at their house.
Dinners at their house were also hectic. Mrs. Wood invited anyone who wanted to come to dinner so there were often fifty people eating dinner at their house in an evening.
I guess no one has a perfect family, we're all messed up. Oh well, the wedding is in March and we have to go to a party before the wedding in February, oh well.
Got all that? Well I wrote it and it's the longest chapter I've written. I know it's a lot of info and I'm REALLY sorry. Oh well, non HTML it's 6 pages. It's 15 HTML pages.
