A New Start

Ch 2: Malibu

The drive to Malibu was long and horrible. My mother wouldn't stop trying to make small talk. She wanted to get through to me how it was for the best that we were moving. So I sat and pretended to listen to her as she went on and on. When we finally did reach Malibu it was about sunset, and I knew tonight I wasn't going to get any sight seeing done because I needed to unpack. About ten minutes after passing the board walk we reached the new house. It looked like a rundown beach house with its faded light blue paint and wide windows. The inside thankfully looked so much better than the out. From the door way you could see the stairs leading to the second floor as well as the huge kitchen area. I slowly walked upstairs to find only one bedroom with attached bathroom, which meant the other room and bathroom were down stairs.

As I walked back down the stairs I saw my mom enter the house. I looked at her and said, "Mom there is a room upstairs and one down, which one do I get?"

"Well sweetheart you can have the one upstairs and I will take the down stairs," she said sweetly.

"Okay mom," I replied walking out side to grab my boxes.

Three hours later we had all the boxes and furniture in the house. Another two hours after that we had the downstairs all unpacked accepted for my mom's bedroom and bathroom. I was about to walk up the stairs to start setting up my room when I heard my mom call to me from the kitchen.

"Sage what do you want for dinne?" she asked.

"Umm how about pizza mom," I yelled back.

"Cheese, right sweetie?" she asked.

"Yes mom cheese like always," I replied, annoyed.

"Okay I will be back shortly," she stated walking out the door.

Once I heard the car drive away I made my way up to my room and started to unpack. When I was about half way unpacked I noticed that my mother had been gone for almost three hours, and of course I was starting to get worried. I was about to grab my coat and go looking for her when I heard the door open and then close again.

"Mom is that you?" I shouted down stairs.

"Yes sweetie it's me, who else would it be?" she replied, and in a fit of anger I ran down the stairs

"Where the hell have you been mom?? Its been three hours and last I checked it did not take three hours to get a pizza!" I yelled.

"First of all Sage I am the mother you are the daughter! You have no right to yell at me like that, and secondly I met a guy if you must know!" screamed my mother.

"You may be the mother but that doesn't give you the right to leave your under age daughter alone for three hours to flirt with a guy you just met," I screamed even louder.

"Sage you are sixteen years old and are more than capable of taking care of yourself for a couple hours," she replied back angrily.

"Okay than let me put it this way, dad has been gone all of three weeks and you are already throwing yourself at other guys, what do you think that says about you?" I stated.

She looked at me with her face bright red and eyes full of rage and yelled "What are you implying?"

"That you, my mother, are a no good rotten whore who can't even wait for her divorce to be final to jump into someone else's pants (i think?)," I yelled at her.

My mother just stood there holding her face as if I had hit her. I couldn't take it anymore so I ran past her out the door down the street to the board walk. The Malibu air was so unlike Vegas' hot air that it was surprising at first. The coolness of it made me shiver. It took me about twenty minutes to get used to the air. I slowly took in my surrounding, and what I saw amazed me. I saw a giant rollercoaster glowing in wonderful bright light. The next thing I saw was the carousel and it was amazing. With a mix of bright lights and wonderful sound you couldn't help but be sucked into it. While I was lost in the moment a dirty blonde Barbie doll look alike with her pack of followers walked into to me very rudely and continued to walk right by me.

"Hey Barbie doll! You and your pack of mindless zombies really should learn some manners and say sorry to people when you rudely run into them like that!" I yelled extremely loudly.

Before I knew it the Barbie doll turned and faced me with an ugly scowl on her face and looked at me. "Excuse me?" she replied.

I looked at her straight in the eyes and said, "What? Are you rude and deaf? I said you should learn some manners."

By this time there was a huge crowd of people looking on at the scene we were causing. "Listen here girl you have about three seconds to get out of here before I make you really sorry," she spat.

I looked her dead in the eyes and said, "No you listen here Barbie, you have about three seconds to apologize or else you won't like what happens to your pretty little face."

The Barbie walked up to me, and got straight in my face. I looked at her with a death glare, and she gave me one right back. I swear we were about to go to blows when a red hair girl with bright blue eyes, and a body of a model dressed in a tight skinny jeans with Bullet For My Valentine band tee stopped us.

She got in right in the middle of us and said, "Paige, calm down before the new girl here beats you down and does us all a favor."

"Freak, you get out of my way before I have to take you out as well," sneered Paige.

"Now Paige I wouldn't do that if I were you, unless you wanted mommy dreariest to find out what you have been up to as of late," said the girl making a smoking jester with her hands.

"Rebecca you wouldn't dare," said Paige.

"Oh why wouldn't I, I mean I am only a freak after all, but are you willing to make a bet on your freedom that I won't," said Rebecca clicking her tongue against her mouth.

Paige looked at Rebecca then at me then back to Rebecca and said, "Count your blessings new girl," as she walked away with her group of zombies following behind her.

I stood in shock staring at the girl who's name seemed to be Rebecca. Although I didn't need it, this girl had just helped someone who was a complete stranger to her. I looked at her and said, "Thanks for your help but I could have really handled that myself."

"Oh yeah if I would have let to handle it your way the board walk would have been covered in yours and Paige's blood," Rebecca laughed.

"That maybe true but you still put your own safety on the line for someone you don't even know," I stated.

"Well, I'm kind of hoping I get the chance to get to know you and even call you a friend; Oh by the way my name is Rebecca, but you already knew that. What's your name?" asked Rebecca.

"I guess I could give you a chance, and my name is Sage," I replied somewhat nicely.

"Well Sage it's a pleasure to meet you," she said taking me into a hug. For a moment I froze. I mean I wasn't used to people hugging me, let alone wanted to be my friend. Before I knew it Rebecca had me by the hand and was dragging me around the board walk. I couldn't help but have this feeling that someone was watching me, and I didn't know how right I was.

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