thanks heres the first chapter(i just finished it.)
Chapter one
“I need to go shopping so badly.”
“Shut up Yvonne”
“Thanks mommy dearest, I have three more weeks till school and I am close to hyperventilating, I want a Luis Vuitton backpack this year!”
“Shut up with this Luis Vuitton, think of the people who don’t have any bags at all!”
“I hate you, why can’t you understand me already; you don’t think life is hard for me?”
“You already have everything!” added Nathan, Yvonne’s older brother who was a sophomore in high school.
* * *
“I hate my mom, she doesn’t understand me at all, and she is so not Audrey Hepburn-ish” Yvonne was saying to her best friend Tess on her cell phone.
“I gotta go, call me later?”
Before Yvonne could answer Tess hung up. Probably to hang out with her boyfriend Lewis who loved her. Yvonne had a boyfriend but didn’t like to call him that; she liked to say they were going out. It’s seemed more exclusive, more Audrey Hepburn-ish.
* * *
Yvonne went into her joined bathroom only to find her brother waiting for her with open arms. The joined bathroom brought them together. They were so close it wasn’t even funny. The bathroom was like their meeting place. They had chairs in there and everything.
“I heard you and mom fighting today”
“So, who didn’t?”
“I got you something” he said as he held out a box
“Oh you didn’t have too” she said as she opened it. Inside was the Luis vuitton backpack she always wanted. She never was so happy in her life!
“Oh my god!” she said as she scratched the handles “it’s real!”
“Also…’ he gave her an envelope hidden with money saving coupons for her trip with Tess to Maine.
“Thanks Nathan…., omigod. I have never been happier; you are the best brother in the whole entire world!”
“I know but don’t spend all your money.” He said with a grin
“I love you so much” Yvonne said as she rushed into her brothers arms as her mom called her down for dinner.
* * *
“so Yvonne are you exited about your trip to Maine with Tess?” her dad asked her obviously trying to start an conversation after sitting through dead quiet for almost half an hour.
“Yes dad” Yvonne replied like a perfect angel, just then, Yvonne’s cell phone rang. Before anyone could say anything else she ran to answer it. Dreading staying in the dreary silence of the dinner table.
Yvonne looked at the caller id on her cell phone and saw it was from Rip her boyfriend; obviously he was with Henley Yvonne’s best guy friend who has to drag Rip to call her. Rip wasn’t exactly a cool boyfriend; they were from different sides of the lunch room, which seemed like miles even though it was only tables. In the lunchroom you are separated, at one end the popular people sit which Yvonne sat at, she was so popular her and her friends sat at the very first table, and it planned to stay that was for a very long time, so after that first table you sit depending on how popular so Rip sat at the 3rd to last seat and Henley sat two or three tables away from Yvonne. Even though in her group it’s shunned upon to have a boyfriend not within the 5 table radius she didn’t care.
She let the call go to voice mail because she didn’t feel like dealing with Rip right at that moment, even though she loved him, he could be annoying but he called again, relieved he got her out of dinner she answered the phone and got greeted by
“I love you, I will miss you” with no Henley in the backround, he did this by himself!
“I love you too” was all she could say. How sweet was he! Nobody except Tess remembered or maybe Rita, one of Yvonne’s best friends who were sisters with Lucy, Nathan’s girlfriend, Rita was mad because like Tess and Yvonne she was a shopaholic too and her parents wouldn’t let her go. This was Yvonne’s back to school blast, she had most of her back to school shopping done but, no shopping was ever done with in Yvonne’s world.
“So you going to bring back something sexy” Rip said in a low voice
“Maybe” she said flirting right back.
“I am really going to miss you”
“Why don’t we meet at chasey’s for a last kiss before I leave on Wednesday?”
“It would be my honor”
“Bye”
* * *
“Yvonne hey!” Rip greeted Yvonne with a nice kiss.
“Hi Rip”
They shared chocolate lattes and then their song came on, they started dancing, a great goodbye present they kissed and this was it, a week in Maine with no Rip but a picture and text messages. She was going to miss him. The next thing she knew Tess entered with Lewis, no doubt their final kiss before Tess leaves. So outside Yvonne and Rip kissed again, a nice kiss where they rub noses throughout the kiss. She never wanted to let him go.
“I will call you as soon as I get home, that’s a promise!”
“You better” Rip said as they parted ways never to see each other again for a week.
* * *
That night, Yvonne packed all the essentials in the Luis vuitton. This was a lot. Just then her brother came in.
“Packing up the Luis vuitton” he asked
“Yep” she replied a little nervous to be without her brother.
“So..........”he was cut off. Yvonne hugged him so hard his brain almost popped out. It wouldn’t have made much of a difference anyways.
“I am going to miss you so much”
“Me too”
“You aren’t worried about me”
“Of course I am but you grew up in the city, what is there to be worried about, you’re still here aren’t you and if you can survive the city, I think you can survive everything else.”
“Really?”
“Really” he said in an assuring tone.
“I love you Nathan, you know that I do”
“I just wish you and mom could get along the way we do.”
“Then make her share a bathroom with me” Yvonne said with a giggle
* * *
In her bathroom Yvonne was packing her big Luis vuitton toiletry bag, a gift from her aunt Louise. She packed everything, her makeup, her hair color and a bottle of Advil and Midol with a couple of feminine hygiene products. While she was packing she looked in the mirror and right behind her was her mother. She screamed so loud that Nathan ran in, but quickly exited once he saw his mother in the bathroom after he took some earplugs, this might get loud.
“What the hell mom,”
“I just wanted to help you pack” surprised by her mom’s kindness she let her. She acted disgusted when Yvonne anounced she was using her coach bag.
“Mom, why do you want to help me?”
“Because you are my daughter and even though I think you can be so interested in stupid things you still are my blood and blood is thicker than water”
“Cut the crap why?”
“No reason, do you need anything ironed?”
“No mom, stop changing the subject”
“I am not changing the subject was just asking if you want anything ironed, jeez, I can’t be nice to you without the third degree, can I?”
“No you can’t”
“Well I love you” Yvonne almost choked
“What”
“I love you”
“I love you too, I guess”
“You guess”
“I don’t know”
“Who called you at dinner today?”
“Rip”
“Oh”
“Yea”
“I am going to miss you”
“Me too mom”
“I’ll buy you something”
“Oh I forgot they had the world largest mall there”
“Yea”
“Well I guess you will have a lot of fun then”
“Yea I guess I will”
“Give me a hug”
“Why”
“Because I love you”
“No you don’t”
“Yes I do”
“Whatever you say” they hugged briefly but Yvonne didn’t feel right she felt like it was all fake, did she really hate her mother of did she just say that in the moment, this was scaring her so she quickly excused herself to go to the bathroom where she knew Nathan was waiting for her, or probably listening by the door.
“Hey”
“How did it go?” Nathan asked as if she just took a big test or performed in a big show”
“Good but awkward”
“Ok that’s cool, so you packed your laptop, cell phone, palm pilot, ipod…”
“Yes”
“That’s cool”
“I can’t believe my little sis is going to be gone for a week, a whole week, a week without Yvonne, a perfectly good example of pros and cons.” Nathan said sarcastic
“Shut up” Yvonne said punching him in the arm.
“Ow!”
“Suck it up you wimp” she remarked with a smile.
“Do I smell something burning?”
“Nope, not a good time to use that, because the insult or the remark in this case was towards you and you totally ruined it” Yvonne said in her smarty pants tone
“You are too smart for me”
“I know.”
“Good night”
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