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I have a lot of this typed up, so the chapters will come fast for a while.
Disclaimer: since I didn't do one last chapter, this will go for the whole story. I do not own Grey's Anatomy. But I do own Jaicee, Aimee, Nate and Sadie. And the few others that will come later.
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After we ate our snacks in the car, I almost immediately fell asleep. I was exhausted. I hadn't slept once the whole time. It was dark out, about 8 o'clock.
When I woke up, we were stopped. I sit up and rub my eyes. The light from the early morning is far too bright for me. I lean over to look at the car clock. 7:48. ok so not that early. But man does it look early! I do the math in my head. We have been driving for over 24 hours! We didn't even stop at a hotel to sleep! I don't know how my mom did it. It probably goes along with being a surgeon. It looks earlier that 8. where the heak are we? I look around. It looks familiar. Vaguely though. We are parked in front of a two-story house. Mom is unlocking the door. Every one else is still asleep.
Wait, how is she opening the door?!? We wouldn't have bought this with house out me knowing! I'm Jaicee! I know all! And mom wouldn't have keys to a friends house who lives 24 hours away! Mom comes back and wakes Aimee up. I fallow her suit and wake Nate up before unbuckling Sadie so mom can carry her inside.
The house is huge and fully furnished, and becoming more familiar by the minute. I walk through the living room into the kitchen. I head upstairs. There are 5 doors. I push open the first one. It's a good sized room, the walls are painted blue. There is a queen sized bed with a blue and green plaid comforter. The only other furniture is a nightstand with a simple white lamp on it. I push open the next door. It looks like the first one; queen sized bed, 1 lamp and matching table. Only this one's walls are still white. The bed has a quilt with different shades of reds and pinks. The next door I open is a bathroom. The floor looks like it's blue wood. Wow this is fancy. There is a good sized shower/tub. The cabinets are nice too. I walk out of the bathroom and open the next and last door on the left. The room looks like the smallest of the three. The walls are a light pink. The twin bed up agents the wall is covered in a Strawberry short cake blanket. On the empty wall is a lone picture. I walk into the room a grab the picture off the wall.
I gasp, because in the picture is my family. Or my extended family. My mom doesn't have any siblings or cousins. And we don't ever see her parents. Every one is in the kitchen, it looks like a holiday. Mom is sitting at the kitchen table with me on her lap. Cristina is sitting to her left. She is glaring at the camera but I can tell she was having a blast. I look to be about 2 in the picture. That means- I feel my throat constrict. There smiling back at me from behind Mom and Aunt Cristina are George and Callie. Aimee's biological parents. God Aimee looks like George. But she defiantly has Callie's big brown eyes. Izzie is at the stove, her respectful place. Alex has his arms wrapped around her, and is kissing her cheek. Every one looks so happy. Well they are because this was before every thing changed.
I'm not saying that no ones happy any more, but this is just a different happy I haven't seen in a while.
Jenevieve Christine! Gent down here NOW!" Aimee yells, bringing me back from memory laine. She uses me full name knowing it will bug me. I changed my name to Jaicee in 1st grade cause no one could say Jenevieve and I just didn't like it. There were 3 other Jen's and Jenna's in my class and Jen G. sounded funny so I settled on Jaicee. "Jaicee!" Aimee yells again. I hold the picture tight and head down stairs.
I find mom in the kitchen and walk up to her.
"This is our old house isn't it? Were in Seattle." She nods and I show her the picture. "this is the house we shared with George and Callie and Izzie." I here my mom take in a big breath and look at the picture. "How come we don't see Izzie and Alex any more? We see Christina occasionally, but Burke never comes-" Burke! I look at the picture again.
"Burke was taking the picture. It was Thanksgiving." She says as if she can read my mind.
"You're STILL not helping!" Aimee pokes her head into the kitchen. There are some days I could strangle her. Mom puts her hand on my shoulder.
"I'll explain later Jaic."
"It better be one Hell of a conversation." I say under my breath as I go to help.
All the bags and boxes that were once in the back of our car are now in the living room. Since most of it goes to our rooms, which we have yet to pick out yet, we haven't done any real unpacking.
"So, what do we do now?" I ask mom.
"Well now you get to pick rooms." She said.
"But there are only 3 rooms and 4 kids. I know u can do math. That's not gonna work." I say and she gives me the look that I have seen several times a day. The 'smart alek' look.
"Well, some one is sharing. Sorry." She says as she scoops up Sadie.
"I call my own room!!" Nate yells. I jump into action too.
"I call the pink room!" I yell. Aimee looks at me.
"That's not fair! You already saw the whole house!" she wines.
"So? I get the pink room." I say like it's the end the discussion.
"Fine! I call my own room! YOU get to share with Sadie!" she sticks her tongue out at me.
"I cant share with Sadie!! My room only has a twin bed in it! I will barley fit in it!" I said.
"Well then take the other room." Mom said calmly.
"But I want MY room! And Aimee doesn't even like pink!" I wined.
"Oh well we'll paint it later." Mom said raising an eyebrow.
"But it's my room." I wined and stamped my feet.
"That's it Jaicee. Throw a fit, that's how we get our way in this house." Mom patted my back and headed towards the stairs.
"It was worth a try." I follow every one else up the stairs. Since I cant have MY room I get the other one. I run past every one and into the white room with the quilt on the bed. I jump onto the bed and get swallowed by a cloud of dust. I start coughing and run out of the room to get some fresh air. Every one is laughing, Aimee the hardest.
"That's really dusty!" I say in between coughs.
"Well why did u do that dummy? You of all people should know that no ones been in this house for 8 years." Mom says laughing.
"Thank you Dr. Obvious! Ok so I advise every one NOT to jump on the beds. They may be a little dusty." I laugh. Gross now I smell like dust. I wonder if the showers work. "Hey mom? Do the showers work?"
"I don't know. I wouldn't trust them. The sink downstairs works though." She grins at me.
"Ok well I'm going to take a shower." I start to head down stairs but stop and turn around. "That room," I point to the room I just ran into, "Is mine."
"And?" Aimee looks at me.
I sigh and roll my eyes. "And Sadie's."
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After I took a shower, I headed down stairs. I am soooo hungry! I'm wearing my black dance shorts with and pink tank top. I'm a fan of tank tops. Without brushing my hair, I threw it up in a pony tail. When I reached the bottom of the stairs, I could see into the living room. Mom was flipping through T.V. channels, and Nathan an Aimee were playing Harry Potter Uno. Sadie was watching quietly of to the side.
"I'm hungry!" I say. Every one looks at me.
"Well so are we but YOU took like an hour in the shower!" Mom accuses me.
"Well sor-ry" I put my hands on my hips. "I'm still hungry!"
"Fine where do you want to eat? It can be any where." She asks all of us.
"WENDYS!! BURGER KING!! CARLS JR!! SUBWAY!!" we all yell at once. Mom looks at us like we have grown 3 heads.
"Ok, pick ONE!" she says. We all immediately start bickering. "Ok! So letting u 4 decide was not my best idea. So I'LL decide. I say Subway cause its healthy." I roll my eyes. She is such a heal nut! She has been eating Muesli for as long as I can remember.
The rest of the day we spent cleaning and rearranging and unpacking. Nathan ended up w/ the blue room. Aimee ended up with the pink room. MY pink room. The pink room I lived in for 6 years! But I ended up with the plain room and sharing it with Sadie. We ate at different food places. It was nice. Like our own little new life. Maybe we can finally be a normal family.
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Kat.