Courtney's P.O.V.
Stupid Stevie. Stupid Shayne. Stupid Family.
Why did they have to go and say that there were rumors about me in school? They don't scare me, but they scare my dad. Okay, not really scare, more like frustrate, provoke, words like that come to mind more than scare.
It's Heather's fault. I know she's the one who started the rumors. I was friendly to Duncan, and she wants him. She is a slut. Such a slut. Heather's the queen bee at school. Head cheerleader, on student council, A makes me sick. She goes round sleepig with every guy she see's. I won't be surprised if she's got an STD. She must haveslept with every guy in our year at least twice. And now she wants Duncan. Duncan looks like the sort of person who'd give it to her too. So here I am being friendly to the new kid, and it gets the school whore ticked. Oh well, it's not like she didn't hate me before anyway.
I can't wait for the weekend to come. It's a whole day away though. I love school. I'm an A+student, why wouldn't I love school? I have big plans for the future. After graduation in two years time, I am going onto Harvard Law School to become a lawyer. It's been a dream of mine since I was a kid. I am only 8 years off of achieving it. After I've been a lawyer for two years I planned to get married. My husband will also have the perfect job, I' not picky but it has to be good enough to support us, while my money can go towards luxuries. I don't want children. I've had to cope with my younger sibling's for too long to want children of my own. If my husband does then he'll have to change it to suit me. No kids. Period.
Dani wants kids. I don't get why. She's the oldest, she's had to put up with more younger siblings than I have, but it hasn't put her off. She plans on marrying her current boyfriend too. And apparently he's going to propose soon. They've already agreed they won't have kids until after their married. I don't believe in sex before marriage. It's not right. You have to be fully committed to a person before you give yourself to them, that's what I believe.
Sarah's P.O.V.
Yet again my husband is going off on a rant. He can't bring himself to believe the kids are growing up. Sure, Robin is still 5 and Kyle and Drake are 7, but Dani's 22 and Charlie's 20. He needs to understand the kids aren't going to be babies forever. Poor Courtney. She had the worst today. He went on about rumors after she left the table. He thinks we're a vulnerable family because there is so many of us, but we're not. We stick together at times of need. Courtney's got rumors being spread about her, but she's strong enough to let them hurt her. If she needs us she should know that we're always here for her.
Courtney's Dave's favorite child. He Deny's it, but we all know it's true. He picks her for everything. He says she's the only one who has her future planned out. That is true, the others are just going along with it, but Courtney knows what she wants in life. And knowing my girl she'll get it.
Courtney's P.O.V.
I ran down the stairs this morning. I never run down the stairs. I know getting to school faster won't mean the day will be over faster, but I just want to get it out of the way. I love school. But so far my Junior year hasn't been going to well. I'm 16. I should be having the time of my life. But no, I'm not. The reason this year hasn't been good is because of Duncan. He's the whole reason my year at school has been nothing but misery. His and Heather's, but Heather would have been on my case either way, but because of the new kid showing up she's made it worse for me.
"Come on, Robin." I called to my 5 year old sister. It was my turn to take the three youngest to school.
"Give me the keys." Stevie said and I tossed her my car keys. I have to take Stevie to school everyday too.
"Boys, get in the car." I yelled to my twin brothers who were running around the house. It was chaos. Everywhere you looked was someone trying to get ready. Since Dani moved out it has been one step easier. No older sister to bug me, just Charlie and Shayne. Damn. I forgot about Shayne. I ran back up the stairs straight to his bedroom and banged my fist onto his door. "Get your lazy ass out of bed!" I screamed through the wood before running down the hallway to Robin's room. "Robin, what's taking so long?" I asked.
"I can't do my hair." She cried, her bright blue eyes almost in tears. I gave out a grunt and rushed over to my youngest sister. I combed her perfect brown hair back and tied it up with her favorite pink bow.
"There. Now come on or we'll all be late." I grabbed her hand and pulled her own the stairs and out the door.
Stevie was sitting in the passenger seat and the twins were messing about in the back. I buckled Robin into her car seat and jumped into the drivers seat before speeding off towards the kids school.
I parked the car and dived out of the drivers seat. I helped Robin out of the car and Stevie helped the towns. We ran off in opposite directions to take the kids to class.
"Robin, daddy will pick you up, okay?" She nodded her head in approval and skipped into her cloakroom to hang up her bag. I watched her take a seat on the carpet in class before speeding off back to my car and buckling up my seat belt. Stevie was already there, so I drove off towards our school.
I re-adjusted my hair in the mirror before getting out of the car. Stevie was long gone, so I was alone. Or so I thought.
"Hey Courtney, where's lover boy?" Heather asked, her two minions snickering. I rolled my eyes and turned to face her. She pushed her long, black hair behind her ear and raised an eyebrow, waiting for me to answer her question.
"How should I know?" I told her and walked off towards homeroom. She was probably right behind me, considering we have the same homeroom, but I didn't take any notice of her. I took my assigned seat and waited for the bell to go to signal the beginning of homeroom.
"Hey gorgeous, where were you this morning?" I heard a husky voice breath down my neck, sending shivers down my spine. I turned around in my seat and came face-to-face with beautiful tealy-blue eyes. They had to be unique, they were the color of lake water. Clear but still misty.
"I don't think it's any of your business where I was." I snapped at him.
"Ouch. That hurt, babe."He said, placing a hand over his chest.
"Couldn't have hurt that much, your heart's on the other side." I told him, turning back to face the front of the class. He tapped my shoulder again a few minutes later.
"What Duncan?" I asked, about to scream.
"What you up to this weekend?" He inquired.
"Probably babysitting."
"Aww, again? I though me and you could do something." He informed me.
"Yes again." I turned to face him once more. "And I wouldn't want to do anything with you." I hissed at him. Before he could respond the bell rang and our teacher walked into class.