DISCLAIMER: I do not own the OC. I do not own any of the characters in this story, but I did change their personality.
Please note that Chapter 2 will be more like the OC. This chapter is indeed very different from the usual OC fics. Enjoy.
Chapter One
It was an okay morning I guess, bright Monday morning. I took my shower and went downstairs for breakfast, the usual pancakes and orange juice. My parents were up early this morning giving the pay cheques to the farmers. My brother was playing the Wii, which he has been obsessed over the past week. My sister Kaitlyn was being the nerd she is and looking over her homework and notes, after all you can never be too sure as she says. But give it a rest.
"Mom, Dad I am off to school" I yelled, but I am pretty sure they didn't hear me. It's okay my parents pretty much let me do anything, so I am really wild you can say.
At School……….
I met up with Summer, Anna, and Taylor. They are just like everyone else in their weird personality changed selves. Okay let me clear things up for you. About 6 months back in September, things started to get weird, people started to change. And I know what you're thinking change sometimes happen, its normal. I thought that at first as well, but until I saw it was happening to everyone. I think I am the last one left in my school who still is me. My friends have become these robots like humans, they don't flirt, and well then again how can they when all the guys have gone robot-like as well, but point is they have changed. They are not their hyper-selves as they used to be. The geeks now have somehow started to act cool which is very scary considering they are geeks. As Summer would say Eww- much. My boyfriend Ryan has become somewhat subtle, like he is always in his own world, he ignores everyone else. And I am scared if I break-up with him now, I might just push him a little overboard and he might commit suicide or something. I mean the last thing I want around here is a death. He is always talking about things negatively which he never used to do, we were always cool with everything, we are young and restless. But now he completely went against that quote and is freaking me out. Everyone is just freaking me out at school. I know something is up but what, and why haven't I changed. I am a curious person and I am going to get to the bottom of this if it is the last thing I do.
Back at home……..
I had dinner with my family and then went up to my room to do some research on personality changes. The search told me it could be drugs, drinking, trauma etc. But it couldn't be any of those things because my friends and I do drugs and drink every now and then, why the side effects should show now. Plus it also said frequent use can in the future lead to mood changes, but that can't be it because I haven't changed. Only the people in my high school have these changes as well, not my brother or anyone else, so it can't be it. It can't be trauma as well because not everyone in my school got into some kind of mind blowing incident over the past 6 months which they simply couldn't get out of. The research did no good to me. It just left me puzzled. I went downstairs to get a drink, and sat next to my bro on the couch. I wanted to ask him about his high school life, which can help me see if it happened to him also, then it would just be a Harbor High School phase, and I somehow miraculously escaped it. But then I didn't want him to think I was a freak, and plus I was pretty sure it didn't happen to him. Then I did decide to ask him anyways because I had to know and I had no other choice.
"Hey Jordan mind if I ask you something" I said.
"Sure Marissa" he replied.
"When you were in high school did anything weird happen to you?" I asked hoping for a yes.
He paused a bit, and then said yes.
"Jonathan Brown asked Cindy Weil out on a date, could you believe that, I mean she was the ultimate dork" he said as he shook his head smiling.
"No way!" I exclaimed totally forgetting the fact about why I even asked the question in the first place. I mean Jonathan and Cindy wow Jordan; some things are just so creepy.
We both just sat front of the TV laughing.
Then I suddenly realized that Jordan hadn't experienced the weird creepy people changing phase. I was starting to get a migraine from all that thinking, and no the migraine wasn't from the talk about the Jonathan & Cindy, I was talking about what I am going to do to get everyone back to normal again. Life can be so tough at times.
I went into the kitchen to ask my dad if I can drive up to the city this weekend, and he said yes as usual. I hope the drive will take my mind off things for now. I took a Tylenol and went to bed.
I got up the next morning feeling a bit drowsy. I just really wasn't in the mood today to go to school and face all those mindless zombies. I asked my parents if I could just stay home today and they said it was alright as long as I catch up on the work missed at school. That really shouldn't be the problem considering I have Mr. Brian today, and he lets me get away with almost anything, lets just say we have a special understanding between us. That conversation with my parents went easier than I thought it would go, I mean my parents aren't the strictest parents in the world but they usually don't let me stay home without a valid reason and this time they didn't even ask for a reason. That's perfectly fine with me.
Kaitlyn left with my parents who were gonna drop her off at school then head to the council meeting in Town Square. Jordan was heading over to Olivia's place so that means I have the house to myself, which is great. I really do need some time for myself, and it would be fine just to be alone for once. I was tired and I decided to take a long bath in the Jacuzzi which should help me relax. I was reading the latest version of the Elle Girl magazine, when I suddenly came across an editorial which interested me.
The story was about a girl who was going through a hard time with her relationship with her boyfriend because he kept having mood swings. She decided she had to break up with him, but she couldn't because she was scared he might take it really badly and do something inappropriate. So she texted him from a friend's cell phone asking him whether he really was interested in his girlfriend, and he said not really, but baby I am free if you want me. That really shocked the girl on what a complete idiot she has been all along to realize that he was over her. She went the next day to break up with him, and he took it badly more badly than she thought he would. The next day he committed suicide. The girl couldn't believe it; he had another one of his mood swings when he decided to kill himself. She couldn't take the guilt of killing her ex-boyfriend; she killed her self as well.
The story disgusted me, it was so wrong. The girl didn't deserve to die yet she killed herself which makes her the cause of her own death. So it was okay to a certain extent, but I find the whole idea of people dying over bad relationships just plain stupid. This story also made me realize that it was best not to break up with Ryan for now.
I got out of the Jacuzzi after 2hours, and decided to go do some exercise. I was exhausted when I was done with the work-out, so I got a water bottle, and just went for a walk around the house. Walking should bring your pulse down so I figured it was a good idea, and my house has a lot of ground to walk on. While I was going upstairs, I accidentally knocked down one of the photo frames which were hanging on the wall, and it gave me a nasty cut. But before I could pay any attention to my cut the wall opened up and there was this room filled with books. It looked like an ancient library from the old black and white movies. It fascinated me, but before I could go in I had to get a band aid for my cut. I then went inside the room, this room would probably be Kaitlyn's dream come true or something, maybe mom and dad were building this room for her birthday coming up. If you want to know something about Kaitlyn, she loves to read and is crazy over Vintage things. This would be an ideal gift for her. But too bad so sad I got here first so I get to explore it first. )
The room was heated and nice and cozy. I jumped onto a couch and started to read one of the books, history really doesn't interest me much, but the book said New Shore on it, and I never read a book about our town before because it was too small for any type of history at least that's what my dad says. I was deep into the book on page 10, where the story started to talk about my great x3 grandmother. I finished the whole book in less than an hour which had about 100 pages to it, and was onto volume 2, when I heard the doorbell ring. The doorbell scared me half to death. I had to close this room door before anyone finds out I have been in here, or my parents will be really mad for ruining Kaitlyn's gift. I hurriedly shut the door behind me and put the frame back where it's supposed to be.
The bell kept on ringing. Ding Dong. Ding Dong.
It was Jordan at the door. "What took you so long to open the door?" he asked.
"I was in the shower" I replied trying my best not show the anxiety in my face.
"Okay well I just stopped by to pick up my surf board, and I am off to the beach" he said.
"Have fun" I said relieved he was leaving.
"Oh and if mom and dad come home tell them Ill be late and don't wait up for me for dinner" he said as he left.
"Okay bye" I yelled after him.
I was really excited to go back to the secret room and read on more about our Town.
So where was I …..? Uhh on page 67, there we go. I settled back on the couch and continued reading; I read all the volumes, except the last couple of pages in the 10th book because it seemed to be ripped out for some reason. I was shocked about New Shore's past; I couldn't believe Shino was just like our town back in 1906. Then both our towns had a war about which town should be the dominate ruler of both the towns, and lucky for me New Shore won. The deal was whichever town looses must surrender all their power onto the winning Town's hands, and little by little Shino lost everything.
I felt kinda bad for all those people in Shino, but I can never give up my lifestyle. I can never live a poor life, it's simply not me, and besides I don't think anyone in my town can give up their rich lifestyle and settle for anything less. I guess we are not the most helpful people in the world, but we do donate every now and then like every other rich community does. Anyways it doesn't matter anymore because the story was about the past that is why it's called history. It's a shame Shino lost the war, which means fair and square we won the battle. It's not our town's fault for Shino having a not so great an army to loose the war.
The thing I read in the books that freaked me out more than ever was the part about one heir from the Cooper family will break the curse. "The Curse?" I exclaimed to myself. I was flat out scared. I mean maybe I could be that heir?
It was night time, and I started thinking about what happened earlier this morning. The curse, what if it had to do something with the mood changes. All these questions started running through me head, if it does have something to do with it how do I get the people back to normal. I don't usually believe in the paranormal life, but I do believe in ghosts and curses. The books said nothing about reversing the curse, ohhhhhh maybe the answers were in the pages that were ripped out. Maybe…….. Just maybe …hmmmmmmmm.
Maybe a deep breathe will help, inhale and exhale. Okay now let me think over this very calmly, let's just say that the mood swings are somehow connected to the history of this town, wait no it just can't be because what would the reason be??? How can something be connected with something through mood swings, it's just so random. "Marissa just calm down and things will just be fine" I said to myself as I hugged my pink lip gloss pillow.
Maybe a good night's sleep will bring me back to my regular self.
I woke up with a fright; oh thank God it's just a dream. I totally forgot what the dream was even about, as I got ready for school. I wore my brand new Chanel pumps that my dad got from Paris 2 weeks ago with a matching Juicy Couture suit. It was a pink blazer with metallic magenta-colored pants, and the pumps were pink as well. I was feeling much better today after I took my shower. I think all that thinking really made me tired. It's so much easier to just chill and be hot.
"Hey Barbie, has the world blew-up Pepto-Bismol all over you" Kaitlyn said sarcastically.
"For your information nerdette I don't talk to nerds. Btw is my outfit hot or what?" I answered after her.
"Too hot for what, throwing up?" she said.
"Huh?!?" I said.
"Yeah figured you wouldn't get that, your just too dumb" she said.
I just ignored her. I am pretty smart when it comes to grades and even I don't get her at times.
Over at Winston High……
"Good Morning Class" Ms. Green said.
Summer quickly slipped me a note saying "Is he hot today or what?"
I was confused major because for the past couple of months she hasn't talked about "him", not once. Every time I brought it up with her she was clueless. We have this secret code thing between us on some things such as "him" and now she suddenly is talking about him, I was more clueless than ever.
I wrote "Damn he is finer than ever."
She smiled as she read it, and gave me a wink, and I winked back.
I was ecstatic for class to end to catch up on lost convos with Summer.
It was recess, and boy did we talk a lot. But funny thing is she doesn't remember her being a mindless zombie or anything. Anna came and joined us, and she too was back to normal. I then looked around and found everyone was back to themselves. The dorks were dorks again, the hotties were hotties again, and looks like the school is back to the way it was. I was just so happy to get my friends back, and my boyfriend too.