Pick Me. Choose Me. Love Me. Chapter 001.

Chapter one in the new story. (: Enjoy, mates. c: Haha, I'm not even British. Or Australian.

It was 10am in the Scranton-Davis house on a Saturday morning. Was I, Emily Scranton-Davis sleeping in like normal 17 year olds? Nope. I was packing for the big move across town(s).

Of course, we didn’t have much to pack seeing as our house is the size Genie’s lamp from Aladdin; itty bitty living space, minus the all cosmic powers. Well, Shay used to have the super-human ability to whine a person to death, but she grew out of that.

Back to the whole moving thing; unlike the typical teen, I was excited to be moving. I had no friends in Rocky Oaks, and it wasn’t exactly a beautiful landscape. It basically had a bunch of rocks, and, you guessed it, oak trees.

Where we were moving, though, was a four story house with a green back yard that had a pool and everything. That looked pretty freaking sweet compared to our one story, two bedroom, one bathroom house that had a leaky roof and a squeaky faucet.

How did we ever get so lucky, you ask? Well, mom met this guy named Rob on Match.com and they fell madly in love; and after three years of dating, they got married. Now we’re moving in with them. Rob’s a wealthy insurance man. He gets around.

Rob was really cool, unlike most step-parents. And the step-siblings, Jaylee and Cameron, were super nice and totally non-snobish as I thought they’d be.

So, overall, I was pretty happy.

“Hey, Em, will you tape this bod shut and put it in the van? My mom asked, ushering me over. “Sure, mom. Do you want me to label it?” She nodded. “Shay’s bedding.” I whipped out my handy dandy sharpie and wrote what I was told, then taped it down with super magical scotch tape. Perfection with a sticky side.

“And I think that’s the last box, girls. I’ll call Rob and tell him we’re coming!” My mom called from the Kitchen as Shay and I stood in our empty living room. “Good riddance.” She muttered, pushing her glasses up on her nose. She had her hair in braided pig tails, like always, but she wore her best dress for the occasion. She only had two dresses: one was for recitals, and the other was for “special occasions”. Shay had a lot of special occasions.

“Okay! Let’s head it up and move it out!” Mom said, emerging from the kitchen.

We hopped in the rented van and each gave a single, solemn wave to the old house. Then we backed out of the drive way and didn’t look back. The fact that the van we rented didn’t have a back window might have made a difference, though.

We pulled up to the humongous, white brick house to find Rob, Jaylee and Cameron waiting for us.

Mom, naturally, ran to hug Rob and talked excitedly while all the kids got stuff out of the van.

“Haha, thanks for helping guys. Mom gets caught up in all the excitement sometimes.” I said, picking up a box that had my name on it.

“No problem! I’m excited to finally have sisters to live with. Cameron smells sometimes.” Jaylee said, picking up another box with my name on it. Cameron shoved her playfully, and Shay giggled at her joke.

“Come on, I’ll show you to your rooms.” Jaylee said, motioning for us to follow.

She led us up two flights of stairs and walked down the hallway. There were three doors near the end.

“This first one is mine, and this middle is a bathroom, the one to the left is yours, Shay.” And she flew into the room so fast she could replace Dash from the Incredibles.

Jaylee continued up another flight of stairs and pointed to two doors. “This one on the right is yours, Emily. And that’s your bathroom. Across the hall is Cameron’s room and bathroom. Let me know if you need anything.” She said, smiling. She set my box down in front of the door and went back down the stairs.

Author's Note

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Reviews

[Christine McNead]

Great job, keep it up and I'm interested to find out what will happen to Emily!

[Confidential]

First off, I just have to say- the little comments at the beginning and end of this made chuckle a little bit haha, the thing about not being British/Australian, and then this Shakespearean thing coming out of nowhere? Hahaha! :)

Anyway, this was, like I had indeed hoped it would be, far more interesting than the already good introduction piece you have that precedes it. I like that I actually have a name for the main character now, and other characters to read which have suddenly been thrown in the mix. Considering the relatively short length of the chapter, the choices of words you used, the imagery, etc, all conveyed a feeling of a somewhat...hectic environment. And Lord knows moving anywhere, be it across the town or across the country (and I have actually done both of those, myself-many times!) is extremely hectic!

I really like the character of Jaylee. She seems like the kind of girl I would be friends with at school or something like that, hahaha. Funny, open to new people, even if ever so slightly resentful under the circumstances. I'm just hoping she doesn't turn out to be a surprise b***h or something. But it's your story, so do with it what you will! I really liked this little taste of what you have got going on so far, and I'm hoping you'll put up more in the (near? :) ) future----if it's just as good, or better, at least!


Respect,
-Confidential