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Max's POV
"Mfggortoyjh,vnlsjhgkaglyoruto!" In other words, Pot hole, ouch my bum! I guess that this is the end of my long sleep. We were travelling from my Nan's house in Washington to Mesa, Arizona. The journey was a very long and boring one. We weren't allowed to get a plane so my Mom was driving us to Mesa which took about 37 hours by car. We had to have a break yesterday and go into a motel.
I can't believe my dad! If it wasn't for him cheating on my Mom four years ago, I wouldn't be in this car leaving all of my friends and my boyfriend behind. This is what happened:
Flashback
"RIIIIINNNNNGGGGG!" There goes the door bell. "MOM! DAD! DOOR!" When the door bell rang again I realised that I was home alone so I ran down the stairs holding my phone to my ear as I rushed down the humongous corridor and down three flights of stairs. Since we moved in I've go quicker at doing this. As I neared the front door the bell rang yet again. Holding my phone away from my ear I shouted at the top of my lungs. "I'M COMING! I'll call you back later Ali, Chow!" I put the phone down and yanked opened the door. I put on my killer glare at the person, well people, stood in the doorway.
I looked the woman up and down and when I reached her knee, I looked the little girl up and down without my glare. She was gorgeous. She had long, mousy curls and green eyes. Her hair wasn't much different from Jebs. I looked back up to her Momagain and noticed that she also had green eyes, but hers were red like she'd been crying. She had short, straight, blonde hair that was ragged and sticking out like a lions main. She had long black mascara lines running down her face to her chin.
A couple of seconds later she asked me where Jeb Batchelder lived. I told her that his was his house and I introduced myself as his daughter. She took a step back looking shocked and she began to cry again. I told her to come in and that Dad would be home in a couple of minutes.
We went into the kitchen and just stared at each other. I was about to say something when I heard the car in coming into the driveway.
I went to the door and hugged Nudge and Ella. Dad came to us then and I explained that there was someone her to see him. Me, Nudge and Ella left Dad and the woman, Chloe, to talk.
Mom cam home and to be honest I wish that she hadn't. Basically Dad had cheated with this Chloe person four years ago and now he had another kid, Holly, who I had to look after whilst the adults argued for hours. Finally they calmed down and Mom told me, Ella and Nudge (Monique) to pack because we were leaving. I was horrified at my Mom for making us leave but I couldn't say that I could blame her for it, Dad is such a... such a...Ugh! Then we went to Nan's house
END FLASHBACK
Now we on our way to hell. Again I was bored so I decided to pay my favourite most annoying game ever mad. It's called … Wait for it...
"MOM ARE WE NEARLY THERE YET?" I shouted from the back of the car waking Nudge and Ella up.
"No."
"What about now?"
"No."
"What abo-"
"NO MAX WE ARE NOT NEARLY THERE YET! WE HAVE TWO HOURS LEFT IN THIS CAR!"
"Oh, well, you could have just told me that earlier."
"UGH!"
Haha I love that game, it always cheers me up. So here we go. Two more hours of driving including traffic that we were obviously going to hit. The moving van was an hour behind us. They had stayed in the motel for an extra hour. They were going to hit even more traffic than us so probably two hours, so we didn't have to worry about getting there before them. So the traffic wasn't a problem apart from I was bored, my Nintendo DS had no charge left and my Ipod was the same. My PSP was with my stuff in the moving van.
Ugh, I'm bored. I opened my eyes to sweltering hot weather. Thank you Mom for making me wear shorts and t-shirt. I have to admit it is quite pretty in Mesa but it is also very, very hot. I kept guessing which house was ours. Half an hour later we were there. It was HUGE! Bigger than Jeb's house. It was a mansion. All of the houses around us were like this but ours was really pretty.
Outside it was clean white- grey bricks, a black roof and a black gravel drive way. We stepped out of the car and Mom went to open the door. I ran in past her and went through all of the rooms. On the third floor was the biggest room. "THIS IS MY ROOM! ANYONE WHO WANTS IT HAS TO GO THROUGH ME!" I shouted at the top of my lungs. Nudge and Ella came up two minutes later huffing and puffing. They had picked the two rooms that were identical and right next to each other on the second floor. Mom had taken the third room on the second floor so I was the only person who lived on the top floor.
"That is sooooo not fair. MOM! MAX TOOK THE BIGGEST ROOM!"
"Well someone had to have it and I'm the fastest and the oldest and I got hear first. So it's mine" I stuck my tongue out.
Mom came upstairs and took in my room. "Technically I'm the oldest but you're right, you were first her." I smiled and she went downstairs to search the house.
Nudge just watched Mom go and Ella just stared at me, well more like glared at me, but she isn't very good at it. Nudge is better so when she turned she looked like she could rip my head off. Which she probably could do. "What?" I asked.
"I want this room!"
"Well your not getting it." I said smiling at her. I was quite funny arguing with my sisters. They are so like each other apart from their looks. Nudge had dark skin, dark curly hair and hazelnut eyes. Whereas Ella was the same as my Mom, olive skin tone, brown- black slightly curling hair and brown eyes the same as my own.
Nudge growled at me, yes growled at me and launched herself at me. She really needs to learn who's stronger and more intelligent. She was nearly on top of me when I moved out of the way and she ended up hitting my wall with a loud thump. She got up and charged at me. I just put my hand out and grabbed her wrist. Flipping her over onto her back. "Say sorry!"
"Never."
"Fine by me. I'll just wreck your hair." I grabbed her hair and started messing it up with a smile on my face.
She screamed. "Okay, okay, okay. I'm sorry now leave my hair ALONE!"
I got off her and went and sat in the middle of my room. I got my bag and started to draw where all of my stuff would go in my room. They just stood there and watched me as I did it.
"Come on Max, let me have this room. Please?" I didn't look at her because I knew she would be doing her bambi eyes at me. Ella was the best at these.
"No!" I said. They stayed there so I turned the page in my sketchbook and drew them both with bad hair, make-up and wearing torn clothes. Then I drew them hanging. I must say, I am rather good at drawing.
"If you don't get out these are two ways that you could turn out." I turned the sketch book around on the page of them hanging. They stayed so I changed the page to them with their bad hair, clothes and make-up day. They glared at me and then ran down the stairs to their rooms.
I finished my picture of my room all coloured and perfect and left my room. I went to explore my floor and found that there was two more bedrooms about the same size as Nudge and Ella's. Every bedroom had a bathroom. I found out that I had my own Cinema up on this floor. I was definitely not telling the girls about this. This was mine. That was basically the whole of the top floor. There was another room that was probably meant for another bedroom but it was going to be my music room.
I went back to my room. There were three doors in my room. The first lead to the landing. The second lead into my bathroom. It was decorated with white walls and white floor, basically everything was white. It was big. It had a jacuzzi bath, a shower that was big enough to be a double shower and the toilet and sink. The whole bathroom was the size of our study in my old house. The third room was my closet. It opened to be a walk in closet but when I pushed a button on one of the shelves I found that it opened up to go into a stairwell. The stairs went up to a room on the top floor that was once probably the atik. Now someone had done it out and it was an extra room. I think that I might use this for my art and reading and maybe even as a little room for just lazing about with my laptop in.
"Max, where are you?" Nudge was calling me.
"Erm... I'm in the bathroom be out in a minute."
"Okay. The neighbours are here and Mom wants us all to meet them. Hurry up."
"I'll be down in a minute Nudge. Go meet them and I'll come when I'm out of here."
"Okay." I heard her retreat down the stairs.
I ran down to my closet. Shut the door to the stairs and went into my bathroom, flushed the toilet and slid down the banisters to get down the stairs. As I came to the second floor I hopped on the banister and slid down. When I was near the bottom I saw two guys around my age staring at me as I came down.
"Heyy. I'm Max." I said putting a smile on my face.
They were silent until the tall blonde one said, " Hi, I'm Jeff but everyone calls me Iggy and this," he pointed at the taller, darker one, "is my brother Nick."
Nick stomped on Iggy's foot and looked up at me again. "Hi I'm Fang, not Nick."
"Touchy and OW that hurt Fang." Iggy looked at Fang and then dropped his voice. "You're gonna die later."
"You just try." Fang said a smile lighting up his face, oh my god, he's gorgeous.
"Hey Dudes their pool is bigger than ours. Come look." A boy that looked a little like iggy but slightly darker with darker hair came through the door to the kitchen. "Whoa."
"What?" I asked kinda wondering what he was looking at.
"Erm... Hi... I'm Zephyr but everyone calls me Gazzy." He held out his hand for me to shake.
I shook and said, " Hi I'm Max, why did you say whoa? Is there something on my face?" I touched my cheek, nothing.
"Erm... Doesn't matter." He said with a smile. "Dude I thought you said that there were two girls and a boy?"
"Erm, well yeah that's what I heard." said Iggy
"Nope there are three girls. Ella, Monique, but she prefers Nudge and me Max. I'm guessing you thought I was a guy? Well no I'm not anyway I'll get Nudge and Ella for you now. One sec." I glared at Iggy and then smiled. "NUDGE, ELLA GET YOUR BUTTS DOWN HERE NOW! I DON'T CARE IF YOU HAVE LIONS HAIR AND YOU HAVE NO MAKE-UP ON THE NEIGHBOURS ARE HERE." I didn't hear a sound apart from a gasp from the three boys at the loudness of my shout. "NUDGE, ELLA I WILL COME UP THERE AND KICK YOUR BUTTS IF YOU DON'T GET HER IN 5 SECONDS 5... 4..." I heard a noise of walking steps above us. "3... 2... 1... I WASN'T JOKING GUYS." I ran up the stairs taking them two at a time. I found the girls doing their make-up. "Come on!" I grabbed Nudge and Ella by the hair and dragged them out of Nudges room with them streaking and squirming away from my shouting in the process. I took them down the stairs to where the boys were waiting for us. "Here you go. These are my sisters. This is Ella" pointing at Ella who was trying to flatten her hair and holding back tears and glaring at me. "And this... is Nudge. Ella, Nudge meet... Nick A.K.A Fang, Jeff A.K.A Iggy and Zephyr A.K.A Gazzy."
Nudge and Ella took in the guys and then looked at each other and then back. They kept staring. "Ugh Nudge, Ella earth to stupid predictable annoying little sister? You there, you give me no choice. Nudge I will cut all of your hair off and Ella I will steal all of your clothes and replace them with white frilly dresses!"
"What, What?" they said together. It's funny when they do that.
"You dare Max and I will make you wear your old cheerleader uniform and curl your hair and make you wear make-up!" Nudge said in all seriousness.
"You dare and I will kill you and eat the pieces! Anyway do you want us to show you around?" I asked the boys who were now looking a bit uncomfortable.
"Yeah, sure." said Gazzy with his eyes locked on Ella
"'Kay come one then, Nudge you do bottom floor, Ella your second floor and I'll show them third floor. Get it, got it, good." I smiled at them and off we went.
"WOW! We have a pool?" And a massive kitchen and a play room and a huge living room and a gym all on the ground floor? I never knew that." I said really shocked when we walked into the garden.
"Yes Max, surely you looked around before you got your room? Oh no you didn't because you went straight to the big room!" She said this glaring in my direction.
One of the boys just laughed. I turned around to see Iggy laughing at Nudge and my arguments. Trust me this is normal. I shut up after that and Ella took us onto the second floor.
It was mostly bedrooms and spare rooms that we would fill with junk and stuff they also had a movie room/ cinema that was slightly bigger than mine. I was told that I wasn't allowed to use it. Fine by me. Now was my turn. I didn't want to show them my floor because they would want to move upstairs but they couldn't now anyway. I had planned their rooms for them while they were exploring.
"Well this is my room. There's the bathroom and over there is my closet. Erm... so yeah."
"That's cool. My room's exactly opposite to this room over there." Said Fang. I looked out of the window and sure enough there was a black bedroom right the otherside of the fence. That was the most I had heard from this dude all day, Iggy and Gazzy never shut up.
"Cool. Okay, let's carry on going." we went out of my room into the landing and then walked to the other bedrooms, looked around quickly then we went into my cinema. "So Nudge, Ella as I'm not allowed in your movie room, you're not allowed in mine." I said this with a smile on my face. Their faces fell at this comment and they stalked out. We got to the last room and I said. "You two are not allowed in this room, okay? This is my music room. Do not come in. Do not touch my Piano, guitar, electric guitar, drums or keyboard ever! The rules from New York are still the same."
"You play all of them? Do you sing?" Iggy was looking at me interested, Gazzy was looking around, probably wondering how I would fit it all in and Fang was looking at me in the same way as Iggy was.
"Erm... Well yeah, but I suck. I can play quite well but I don't sing."
"Liar, she's an amazing singer and plays amazingly. She can sing anything. I love her voice. Ever since she was little she could sing. That's all I remember from my child hood. She always sings. She doesn't even realise it sometimes. Do you wanna hear her?" Nudge said all of this in one breath and wasn't even tired after that.
"NO NUDGE!" I said very coldly.
"Yeah we would love to." Iggy said.
"I won't. I will not sing in front of you. Ever!"
"Please Max? Please. I'll beg." I turned to say no but Nudge and Ella were doing Bambi eyes.
"No fair with the bambi eyes guys!"
"But will you?" Nudge is going to die.
"I can't. I don't have an instrument." I can't sing without an instrument.
"Fang can you please get your guitar? Bring it over." Iggy said curiously.
Fang left and came back a few minutes later. I already hate him. "Erm.. What should I sing?"
"Do Wah Do! Sing Do Wah Do!" Ella was literally jumping up and down in excitement.
"By Kate Nash?" Said Fang.
"Okay here goes." I started to play the tune on the guitar. It was hard because there isn't much guitar bits in it that you can notice. Oh well Here goes nothing.
La la la la la
La la la la la
La la la la la
Ha- Woo
Everybody thinks that girl's so fine
Everybody's like "I'll make her mine."
Everyone thinks she's a bit of alright
But I think that she's not so nice
Every guy's looking in her eyes
Every guy's checking out her thighs
Everyone thinks that girl's a lady
But I don't, I think that girl's shady.
But I'll just read a book instead
I don't care if we're just friends
I can hang out with myself
But I am off now to pretend
But I'll just read a book instead
But I know that you think she's first
I don't even think she cares
But don't know what you see
There's nothing that
Ba bom ba bom ba bom bom
Ba bom ba bom ba bom bom
Ba bom bom Ba bom bom
Ba bom ba bom ba bom bom
Well I think she's a b—-
I'll just read a book instead
I don't care if we're just friends
I can hang out with myself
But I am off now to pretend
But I'll just read a book instead
But I know that you think she's first
I don't even think she cares
Don't know what you see
There's nothing that
Ba bom ba bom ba bom bom
Ba bom ba bom ba bom bom
Ba bom bom Ba bom bom
Ba bom ba bom ba bom bom
Well I think she's a bitch
At the beginning I was nervous and wasn't really into the song but by the end I was singing my heart out.
"WOW" Said Fang, whilst Iggy was clapping and Gazzy just stared at me.
"Come on boys, Angels back from Georgia's house." That must have been there Mom. We raced downstairs on the way back. I won because I went down the banister.
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