A/N: Gah…so I've posted about three versions of this so far. But I can promise you now that this is the original! The one I've been working on at home anyway, but I've only just got a working floppy disk!
A/N: Most of the places in this story are real places, because I'm writing about an area I know. Least maybe not this chapter but later chapters. And I am from Cork so I kind of know everywhere around here.
Disclaimer: Sweep, yea, I created all those characters. I'm also the god and the goddess and my mother was princess Di. Oh come on…I've got to try to be original.
Chapter two: Decisions.
Dear Diary,
I'm so confused…I don't know what I'm going to do. I've spoken to mom and dad about going over to Ireland and they seem okay with that, but now Arewen thinks we're all going, or that at least she's coming too. and I can't bare to break her heart and tell her she's not coming and I don't want to bring her with me because I just want to get away from my family. I mean, I love them to bits, totally, but sometimes a girl just needs a bit of space. Goddess I feel so bad to be saying this about them. I'm grateful that I've had them with me all this time, because I know that both mom and dad weren't that lucky. I actually don't have any blood grandmothers, because both mom and dad's moms died before they even met each other. Which makes you think really, cause they were younger than me when they met. Match made in heaven mom always says! Yea, don't really know about that…just look at the way me and Shaun turned out and you start to wonder.
Descriptions, that'd be a good thing to put here. Okay…here goes. Shaun, who's my older brother, is twenty now. mad to think that really, a brother of mine in the big twos. He's tall, with deep brown eyes and dark hair which goes down to between his shoulders and ears. Everyone says he gets the dark from mom, and the length from all the people who he hangs out with and who think short hair is for nerds. Yea, well I can understand that…short hair doesn't really look that good on most lads. Shaun is into probably the most different music to me it's possible to be into. He listens to things like Marilyn Manson, Jimmy Eat World and Green Day. I suppose some of Green Day's songs are okay but most of it is just mindless blather. And I prefer my songs with a bit of meaning. Like they have to actually be saying something. I can't really think of many examples right now, I'm not in the mood. Anyway, on with us. I'm small, or petite as mom calls it. I look a lot like her too, Small, Dark hair and pale skin. And Arewen, my little baby, is red haired, tall and chubby…but it's in a sweet way. she's adorable, her freckles really set of her green eyes and she looks so Irish. Not that I can really understand where she got the Irish from, because as far as I know non of our family was Irish.
Mom and dad haven't changed at all in the past few years, they're still exactly the same. No changes at all.
Anyway…enough of the crappy rambling…back to my story.
I haven't got a clue what I'm going to do about Arewen, but I'm definitely going to Ireland. I've already rang Moira and I'm flying out from the airport next week. She's going to meet me in cork because she wants to go shopping. But she says she'll do that before I get there because she knows I'll be tired. She's going to come and get me with Morgan and Hunter, because even though she's eighteen she's only on her provisional licence and has to have someone with a drivers license beside her to drive still. I didn't realise that was the way they did it in Ireland, but apparently it's always been like that. You can get your first license when you're seventeen but until you take your test you have to have someone with their full licence in the car. But you can take the test any time after your seventeenth birthday. So I suppose in a way you could be driving properly when you're seventeen but from what I could get when I quizzed her she's been too busy to bother. There's been other things going on and her driving license was the last thing she was thinking about. She says it's not like any of the locals really care if she drives…they all know her and know she's responsible. I couldn't help laughing at that, because as far as I remembered Moira Riordan and Responsible never went in the same sentence, unless it was joined by some form of 'is not'. Yea, well I think we've all known that since forever.
I'll be so good to go over there again now though. Even though it's still only the beginning of June everyone's finishing school there. Except Moira, because she's got to go back for two more weeks and doing her leaving exams. I think she's scared because you need to do well in these to do anything in college but I'm sure she'll be fine. With a mother like Morgan how could she not be, that whole family has been amazingly clever, or so mom says anyway, but I wasn't even born when Morgan left for Ireland. Shaun was though, but he was only three or so at the time, so he doesn't remember much about them, except being babysat by Hunter and dad one day when Mom and Sky went out shopping. Sky is still here though, I don't know why I haven't mentioned her yet. I suppose it's just because we don't really see that much of her. She used to be so quiet, I think Mom was one of her only friends until I was about fourteen, but then something happened and she's gone to being out there again. only she's not really, because honestly, if you'd been living on your own in mourning for fourteen years then you would be a bit strange. She used to stay with us occasionally but she doesn't really anymore. I think it was when she got depressed that mom took over as coven leader, but she's come back to help out with leading now. I suppose it must have been strange for her to not be leading, even though she thought her favourite cousin had died. She's Moira's aunt, see, even though she still lives here. I didn't know until a few days ago when I was talking to Shaun, but Hunter Niall and Sky Eventide were the founders of Kithic, they were the first leaders and everything even though they were only sixteen at the time. Akasha says that's where the tradition of us having two coven leaders came from, because that was how it was right at the beginning.
Shaun is coming to Ireland with me, did I say that already? Well, when we were talking about me going he started going on about how Kate was getting too much for him when she wouldn't let him stay with his family for a week so now he's going to get away from her and go to another country. He seems to think that's a great way to break up with her, because then she can't come and haunt him like his last girlfriend did. I don't know where he finds these women but it's scary the type he picks up. I mean, you'd have thought he would have got it into his head by now…when they're lovely and sweet and beautiful and everything then you've got to be ready to have a hell if you split up with them. Because they can always turn into bitches. Not that men aren't just as bad…look at the-ex-we-shall-not-name. What an ASSHOLE! Hang on, I've just had a brilliant idea…I'll just ring and ask Shaun.
Okay…so Shaun says yes. So do you want to hear my oh-so-brilliant idea? Well, basically, I asked Shaun if he'd be able to mind Arewen if we took her with us but on the condition that he had to be prepared to fly her back home after a week. And naturally he was good about that, because he never really spends time with her, especially not on his own…and she's thirteen years younger than him so he's always treated her like his own little baby. I'm glad we're taking her with me anyway, because I really was not looking forward to telling her she couldn't come. Mom and dad won't mind, they wanted to come over too but mom can't leave the coven and dad's been told that if he misses any more work then he'll be in trouble. Like 'loose the job' trouble. He's been skipping work the past few weeks see, because Moms uncle Sam was down staying for a while from Gloucester and they hadn't seen each other for ages, and then Shaun was staying so he stayed at home then too.
Okay, going to go now…I've written loads and I must tell Arewen the good news about her coming... Love, Keira.
Okay…sorry about the abruptness of the ending. My mother has been sitting behind me hassling for the computer for the past ten minutes so I haven't been able to concentrate and it's just got too much. More reviews more chapters, you know how it works.
Love and peace (cause peace makes the world go round),
The One And Only,
Stargazing Maiden.