Loving Life After the Storm Hits

So, Here's what happened. My grandmother and grandfather, my great grandma, my two gay grandpa's, my other grandma and grandpa, my aunt and uncle, along with my cousins, and myother aunt. All on a plane to go visit my great great grandma who was about to die and a huge storm hits. It's one of the worst storms to ever hit the united states, raging across half of the continental united states. Hitting more then thirty states, so many people lost families and homes. Others think it's the end of the world. Me? I'm stunned. In shock. So amny emotions going through me, I just don't know what to think. I'm told I lost them all in one sudden crash and my great great grandma faded away an hour later, while on the phone with me. I was the only one to say good bye to her. What happens now? Well, that's what I want to tell you, since my life changed so dramitically.

My parents had just left. They had to leave for a couple of months to figure out what we were going to do with all the things that were now ours. Apperantly everyone had a soft spot for me because they left everything to me. Our family had the habit of being ready for anything, so when they knew they were going into one of the worst storms of the century, every single one of them wrote a will. Almost everything went to me. I don't know why, but apperantly in the few times I had ever met any of them, they had all taken a liking to me. I was now rich. I had been handed about twelve different cards that connected to bank accounts, and about twenty others that I could use, but that I should wait on using untill I was older, like for college or something. Each one was practically endless. The guy that I had adopted me as his little sister, Dale would be watching me while my parents were gone. My brother, Cris, and my two sisters, Sam and Alex had been handed five cards, all endless. Cris, since he was 18 as of a few weeks ago, had started moving out and into a house him and his friends had bought. I was moved into my brother's room after we had painted it black, and installed a midnight blue carpet in it, and put up new closet doors. I now had mymetal loft bed up against the right wall with a desk underneath, which had a brand new laptop sitting on it, and a freaking really comfortable computer chair in front of it. My dresser and dirty clothes hamper was shoved in between the wall and my bed. My bookcase was on the other side of the window, next to my closet, and I had two beanbags chairs, one green and one blue, sitting inbetween my door and my dresser. I now had all midnight blue silk bedding, along with my stuffed animals and three pillows. I had posters of Three Days Grace, Disturbed, Godsmack, BVB, ICP, and HIM. My closet is filled with all new clothes, my dresser filled with my old clothes and other new clothes and hanging in a shoe rack thingy on the back of my door was a bunch of skater shoes, Converse, Ed Hardy's, and a few other brands of shoes. My adopted aunt, Wendy, had gone crazy when she found out I had a bunch of money, and took me and my best friends, Zoey, Brittany, Angel, Taylor, Cheyanne, and Melissa shopping, and bought us all new wardrobes. Sitting on top of my dresser were a bunch of perfumes, lotions, body washes, and the rest from Bath & Body Works. On top of my desk was an assortment of chokers, studded bracelets, lanyards, earrings, belly button rins, lip rings, and there was a mirror hanging above my desk. I had just woken up and was thinking over everything that happened, and also was still trying to get over the pain of my newest peircing that was in my lip. Over the past few months since they had died I have gotten my belly button pierced, both my cartilages, and now the right side of my lip. My teeth used to be fucked up, but since I was able to get the best things to make my teeth perfect, it only had taken a few months. I now wore contacts and today I was going to get my hair cut for school, then go to a meeting at the school for our schedules, ID's, and the laptop's the school gave out. It would be the first time everyone would see me since last year, when I was just the poor goth-emo girl that went out with the school's bad boy and was probably the best person to hang out with, atleast that was what Alex, my sister, and all my friends said. I just thought of myself as any other girl, that was a little different from others, but had freinds from all walks of life. I was one of those few people that were friends with practically everyone and could tolerate all kinds of people. I knew I was different from last year. I acted different, dressed finally how I always wanted to. I wasn't shy anymore, and said what I thought, but was wise enough when to say somethin and when not to. I was still the person everyone went to for advice, now more then ever, and I still was friends with everyone, but now I spoke my mind about things, and didn't allow things to happen that I used to let happen. I also loved to mess with people with my different personalities. I had two sides to my closet. One half was all dark and goth, the other was total country, along with the cowgirl boots and cowgirl hat. Thats what happens when you live in Texas and your Charm. Oh, ya, did I tell you? Ya, my name is Charm. Well, it's actually Charynn, but everyone calls me Charm. The only ones who knew how much I had changed was my sisters, Dale, and my parents. They all chalked it down to the dramastic changes. Me? I just decided that I was going to hide anymore. I hadn't seen my boyfreind Chris, who by the way isn't that bad boy I had told you about earlier, in almost two months 'cause his dad had taken him on a cruise so that they could bond. Chris says that it was 'cause his dad was worried chris was too stressed out and that he might get another ulcer. Oh, and if you were wondering about that boy, Cole? Well, we had dated off and on the past two years, and every summer he would brake up with me because my parents didn't like him and we could never see each other. The last time he broke up with me I knew I would forever love him, but I wasn't putting up with that shit. How did I come to date chris? Well, Chris was the first guy I had ever dated, but things happened and we broke up. Sometimes whenever I wasn't dating Cole I would date Chris, but I had always gone back to Cole. This time I wasn't going to. Me and Chris had been together for about three months now, and my parents had always liked Chris, so I never had to worry about that. I looked around then finally decided to get up. I was wearing my Gir pajama pants, and my black lace undershirt. I got down off my bed, put my contacts in, and brushed my golden brown hair. I stared at myself, realizing how much I had changed. My green-hazel eyes sparkled at me, andmy baby soft face was clear. My dark brown eyebrows were cleaned up, my teeth perfect and my lips a pale pink and full. My eyelashes that framed my eyes were dark and thick. My skin tone wasn't pale, but then again, I wasn't tan in anyway. I smiled and walked out into the hallway to find Dale about to knock on my door. He smiled and said, "Good, I don't have to get you up for breakfast. I made bacon and it's sitting on the table, along with toast and eggs." My eyes lit up and I screamed. "BACON!" I shoved past Dale and ran toward the living room where two plates of food was set up. I knew Sam had gone with my parents because she didn't want to leave them for that long, and Alex was staying at a friends house untill my parents come back. Dale and Alex had gotten in a huge fight a few weeks back, which was why she was at a friends house. I knew I would see my brother and Alex at school, since my brother still had his senior year and Alex was in the same grade as me, but I knew I was going to miss being around them at home, and I was definently going to miss Sam, who was the youngest and I knew I spoiled her. I knew she was a brat sometimes, and that she was very annoying, but I loved her, and I knew I favored her alot. My grandparents who used to live with us, had moved to California, where most of my grandmother's family lived and where she had wanted to go back to. So, it was just me and Dale who would be living here for the next few months. After eating Dale told me to go get ready and that I had to be done in an hour so we would make it to Henderson on time. I nodded and then went to my room and grabbed clothes. It was still really hot outside, even though it was starting to cool off the closer we came to autumn, so I grabbed a pair of black jeans that were tight on me around my thighs, but loosed up the farther it went down. I grabbed my plaid blue button-down shirt and my black cotton undershirt. After taking my shower I went back to my room and shoved on a pair of my converse knee-length boots and changed out my earrings to my Harley Davidson ones. After making sure all my peircings were okay, I went back into the bathroom and blow dryed my hair. I didn't do much with my hair, except put a bandanna on most of the time, or just brushed it back and let it be. I was planning on getting my hair layered and I might put in red highlights. My hair already looked like it had red in it, but I thought it would look better with more in it. I tended to run my fingers through my hair alot, so I was mostly going to get my hair set to work with that. After I was ready to go, me and Dale got in his PT Cruiser and went on our way. I pushed in a CD that I had made with my favorite country songs on it. Dale wasn't one to talk much while driving, which was fine with me 'cause I didn't feel like talking. I laid my head back and just relaxed, smiling, for some reason knowing that everything was going to be okay. When we finally got there, I told the lady what I wanted and asked her opinion since she actually knew me, and knew if it would work with my personality or not. She told me it would be perfect and sat me down automatically to start on my hair. It took like three hours and Dale kept on teasing me by taking pictures of what was happening and posting it on facebook. I kept feeling my phone go off  'cause it was set up with internet and set to tell me whenever I had a notice on facebook. I finally got annoyed with the constant vibration and told Dale that if he didn't stop then I was going to post the pictures of him sleeping in his boxers  and his teddy bear, which made him shut up and stop. After that he just sat there and glared at me. I was smiling profusively and the lady doing my hair couldn't stop giggling. Finally my hair was done, and I freaking loved it! Dale kept taking pictures and posted them on facebook, which I was now okay with 'cause my hair looked great, and wasn't in the process of being fixed. After we left the hair salon, we had drive back to Gladewater to get everything done. When I stepped out of the Cruiser I automatically saw Blake, Cole's older brother. I smiled and called out to Blake causing him to turn around. When he saw me he frowned. I walked up to them and Cole's mouth dropped. "Charm? What the hell happened?" I busted out laughing as Dale walked up. I Just smiled and said, "Alot dude. Let's just say, I have an unlimited supply of money and can get whatever I want now, but if I could? I would go back to how it was before. Alex is living with her friend for the next few months, my brother moved out finally, my parents and Sam are sorting things out, and Dale here is going to be watching over me during that time." Blake just looked at me, then stepped up and wrapped me in a hug. I smiled and hugged him back. Blake was like an older brother and Cole was now one of my best friends. After Blake hugged me, Micheal walked up and he flipped out when he saw me. He ran over, picked me up and spun me around. "Girl, where the hell you been this summer?" Then he realized how much I looked different and added, "What the hell happened to you?" I just laughed and said, "Alot, dude." He just shook his head and we all headed in. When we got in Chris was standing near the entrance, looking for me. I walked up to him and planted a kiss on his cheek, claiming to all the girls that were staring at him that he was mine. He had black, curly hair, brown eyes, and was pale. He was tall and muscular, which he showed off with his muscle shirt. Even though he didn't have any abs, his arm muscle's were pretty big. He had broad shoulders and a slim waist, which he showed off with his black wrangler jeans and his black boots. "Wow. Jealous much Charm?" I just grinned at Zoey as she walked up and shook my head and said, "Nope just putting my claim on my boyfreind!" Everyone knew I was saying that to a particular junior that wouldn't stop staring at Chris. After sitting there talking for awhile, we finally went and got everything done. We ended up all planning on going to my house and them all spending the night there. So after finding Taylor and Melissa, we drove over to my house and everyone dumped there stuff in my room, which everyone flipped out over, 'cause my room is so freaking awesome. On the way home we had went and rented a bunch of movies and Dale ordered pizza for us. Zoey, Taylor, and Melissa grabbed my two beanbag chairs and set them up on the living room floor. Blake was sitting next to me, and Chris was on my other side, with Micheal sitting next to Blake. Cole was sitting on the chair and had Sadie, one of my dogs laying in front of him.