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" When you fall everyone stands
Another day and you've had your fill of sinking." Move Along- The All American Rejects

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I walked into a clearing. It smelt like spring and the trees were in full bloom. The clearing was beautiful. There was flowers and butterflies all around. It was hard to imagine that this beautiful place was behind my house. I guess that was the only upside to moving to this place. I really wasn't happy with moving. My dad got a new job and we had to move to a new town and I had to leave all my friends, not that I had many.
I walked deeper into the clearing. It was pretty big and open, very peaceful too. I went and sat in the middle of the clearing. I closed my eyes and took all the sounds in. I took everything in. The clearing was perfect inspiration for my drawings and stories. Unlike by twin brother Kody, I was very artistic, he was more of a jock. He loved sports and he loved dating girls, I wasn't into the whole dating thing, actually I wasn't into the whole social thing. Making friends wasn't easy for me, so I usually hung out with my brothers, they didn't mind most of the time.
I opened my eyes, the clearing was just as beautiful as it was inside my head. I sat down and opened my sketch book. I decided I was going to draw the field . I started with the trees first then with the open space. The picture was set up so that it looked like you just walked into the clearing. To be honest it wasn't the best picture I've done, but it was just the rough draft.

"Kessa!" My nickname from my older brother Kyle.He wasn't into art, but he like music so he understood me a bit, but if he was calling me, that mean everyone was home and I had return.
I sighed and got up I closed my notebook, I'd have to return to this place later. It'll probably look cool at night, but I don't think my mom would let me come out at night.
I started to walk back to my house, I took once last glance back then walked away. I went back to the old white Victorian house. It had three floors, an attic and a basement. There was only seven of us in the house, but each of us had two rooms. Kyle had a music room and I had an art room. Kody's and Tristan's sport things were outside in the back yard, Kory had his own kitchen for his cooking needs. We all had what we needed so we were mostly happy. Since I was the youngest I got to pick my room first, so I begged my parents to let me have the basement, and eventually they did.
I opened the door to the house.
"I'm home!" I yelled as shut the door. I took my shoes off and put them to the right side of the door. I counted four pairs of shoes, so only my brothers were home, I guess my parents were either late, or went out to dinner.
"Klaire, we're in the kitchen." Tristan yelled from the kitchen. I just nodded my head though they couldn't see it, and went to the kitchen. The boys were sitting in bar stools around the island. I walked over to the empty stool and put my notebook on the island. I sat on the stool and looked at the boys.There was school schedules on the island.
"I guess mom and dad registered us for school already." Kody said taking his schedule and reviewing it. "Awesome! I have gym first block." Of course Kody would be happy about that. The rest of my brother grabbed their schedules and Kyle handed me mine, knowing I didn't want to go to school. At our last house I went to an all girl art school and I loved it there, but sadly there wasn't any art schools here or an all girl school .
Klairessia Isis Tri'val
1. Art 3
2. Chorus
3.Creative Writing
4. Ap English
5. Gym
6. Forensic Science

Bleh, gym. I hated gym more then anything. I put my head down on the island and handed my schedule to Kody knowing I wouldn't have classes with him.
"Interesting classes you have Kare." All my brothers have different nicknames for me. Kody calls me Kare and I call him Kod or Ko, Kyle was Ky , Tristan well , he was Tristan and Kory was Roy to his friends and Kor to me. Tristan grabbed my schedule next and looked at my classes. He smiled.
"We have science together K, and minus Kody, we all have gym together." He knew I hated gym, but loved to tease me. I scooted my out of the bar stool and stood up. I grabbed my class list and looked over at Kyle's. We were in English together which made me happy. Actually I was extremely happy to have them in most of my classes. I wasn't really good with new environments and people. I yawned and gave Kyle a hug.
"I'm going to bed, I'm sure mom is going to make me try on tons of clothes tomorrow and I'm tired as hell from all of the unpacking." I hugged the rest of my brothers and went into the basement. I was so not looking forward to starting school on Wednesday, at least it was two days away.

Beep Beep. Beep Beep, Beep Beep.

Bleh! What was that wretched sound?
"K! Time to get up!" I heard Tristan walk down the basement stairs and start to pound on the door. "K! Get your a** up!" He pounded on my door one last time then opened it. I was laying on my bed cuddling with a pillow in Elmo shorts. He started laughing as I started to glare at him. He looked at me , then almost started to laugh again, but he caught his self before he did.
"Good Morning Klaire." He walked over and sat on my bed. He looked at me. "Look, I know you don't like new places and I know you don't like new people, but can you please try to be happy." He sighed, not really getting to the point he wanted. "What I mean is, have fun here and enjoy your high-school years, though I know you'd rather go to an all girl art school, but trying new things is always good, and me and Kody, Kyle and Kory are all here for you." Tristan just looked me, knowing I really wasn't listening. He sighed and gave me a hug. He knew I didn't want to go to school, and he knew most likely I'd come home all depressed about school. I didn't want that to happen, I didn't want him to know just how weak I really was. I gave him a hug back, but then pushed him off my bed.
"Leave so I can get dressed. I might love you and trust you with anything, but I am so not getting dressed in front of you." Tristan laughed then got up from the floor and left.
"You have 15 minutes." He called as he walked up the stairs. Wait? 15 minutes.... did he think I was a miracle worker or something?
I quickly jumped out of my bed and ran to my closet. I grabbed a pair of shredded black skinny jeans and my new skull and teddy bear crop top. I went over to my dresser and started to brush my hair while I put on my cloths. Once again I forgot to straighten my hair before I went to bed, so my hair fell wavy. I put on my new lace gloves and a whole bunch of bracelets. I went back to my closet and grabbed my backpack before running up stairs to eat breakfast. All of the boys were at the island eating some sort of breakfast food. I looked at Kody and he hand me a box of coco puffs. My face lit up with joy and I grabbed the box from him.
I stood up leaning against the island eating coco puffs. "I hope your wearing a jacket Klaire." Kyle said eyeing my outfit while eating shredded wheats, my least favorite cereal. I smiled while going to eat more coco puffs. "If it makes you feel better." I gave him an evil smile and walked off to the living room. I opened the living room closet and pulled out my leather vest and put it on then walked back to the kitchen.
"Better?" I asked Kyle as I sat down and ate more coco puffs. He nodded, then got up to put his bowl in the sink. I closed my box of coco puffs and handed it to him as he walked by. I gave him a sweet smile and he shook his head an grabbed the box. "Your so lazy Kessa."
I got up from the stool and went to the bathroom to go do my makeup. I don't wear much, I just put on some eyeliner and mascara.
"Come on Klaire time to go." I jumped at the voice. Kody was right at the door and started to laugh because he startled me. I glared at him. then turned off the bathroom light and left. Man this day was going to be hell.
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I rode in car with Tristan and Kody. Kyle rode in his own car, and Kory took his bike. He loved that thing. It only took us about 10 minutes to get to school. As soon as we were in the parking lot I started to get a little scared. I can't believe my parents thought that this was a good idea for me. My mom said this would be a good experience for me, really I just think she wanted me to get out of the house more.
I watched Kody and Tristan get out of the car. I sighed, I guess it's time to get out. I grabbed my bag and opened the door into my doom.

Kody was standing by my side of the car be the time I got out. He offered his hand, but I shook my head. I would get through this, I didn't need my brother to pull me through. He just nodded, understanding me. "We have the same lunch, so I'll see you then kay?" I just nodded at him and Kody left for gym. I watched him leave, then I walked off to my first class, Art 3. It wasn't that hard to find, but there was a lot of people crowding the hallways.
I got to my class early and chose a seat in the back. The teacher wasn't in the room, and neither was any students, so I opened my bag and grabbed my sketch book, I always kept it around.I turned to the meadow and started to finish the fine details until I heard foot steps walk into the class. I looked up to see a blonde with green eyes in a black dress with purple heels and blue rimmed glasses.
"Are you Klaire?" The woman asked. I just nodded , not really answering her. She smiled and hand out her hand. "I'm Miss Roger, your art teacher. It's a pleasure to have you in class, I've seen a lot of your work." I looked at her hand for a couple of seconds then shook it. She looked down and my book . "Is that your latest work? It's very pretty." She smiled again, then picked up the book to look at it more closely.
"The details are so good. It feels as if I'm actually there. A meadow right?" Miss Roger handed me back my book. "You've got some talent Klaire, I hope you put it to good use." With that, Miss Roger went to her desk to do some paper work, I just went back to my work.

The bell rang exactly ten minutes after I got to class. There wasn't a lot of kids in my class, ten at most. Miss Roger said she didn't assign silly art projects like other teachers. She liked to see what kids could come up with on their own, so really it was a free for all class, which I really liked.
I opened to a new page on my sketch book. I didn't know what to draw. Most of the time I drew outside and usually it was about nature, but we were inside and the windows didn't show much beauty. I sighed and started to sketch Kory and his bike. Though Miss Roger didn't give assignments, she did give words. The art today had to be inspirational, or something that inspired you. Kory inspired me a lot. He was everything I wish I was. He never cared what people thought of him and he always put others first. He even didn't care what my parents thought when he told them he bought a bike . They didn't take it so lightly, actually they kicked him out of the house for a week. They thought motorcycles were dangerous and harmful, and didn't want me and Kody near them.

I was so caught up in my drawing I didn't notice the bell ring. "Excuse me?" I looked up from my notebook. I realized that no one was in the class. There was a boy in front of me. He looked around my age with black hair and green-gold eyes. His hair was covering his left eye, and to be honest he was kinda cute. I stood up and put my book back in my bag."Sorry." I walked past him and walked out of the class to my next one. I should really start focusing on things more.

I was late to chorus, not that I minded I really didn't like it. It was a boring class ran by a round small man. He seemed mean to me and he was always glaring at people. Thankfully my next class was much better. The teacher was nice and the class was quite, despite how much people were in it. Though the class was very interesting and fun,I couldn't wait until the bell rang. After this period I had lunch, and thank god, all of my brothers had the same lunch as me.
The bell rang and all of the kids rushed out of the class. I took my time packing up my things and leaving the class. I didn't really eat public food much, so I had brought my own lunch. I also didn't really like being in closed places for long periods of time, so my brothers promised me we would eat outside today, but when I got out there all of my brother were separated. Kory was sitting with a group of guys that seemed to be just like him, Kody was sitting with some jocks, Tristan was with some popular kids and Kyle was sitting with a whole bunch of musicians. Out of all of those groups, I really didn't want to sit with any of them, so I found a table unoccupied and sat there.

I put my bag down then pulled out my sketch book again. I put it on the table, then pulled out my lunch. Really I just packed a whole bunch of cookies in it when my brothers weren't looking. I grabbed my pencil set and started to draw Kory again while I munched on a cookie.
"I swore we said no cookies." I looked up to see who was towering over me. Kyle took my bag of cookies then sat across from me and started eating them.
"Hey! Those are my cookies." I reached across the table to try to grab them, but Kyle just raised them out of my reach, until Kory came over and took them away from Kyle. "Thanks for the cookies you two." Kory smiled then walked over to his friend. I stuck my tongue out at him then went back to my notebook. "Now we both have no cookies, great." Kyle pouted and pretend to be a little kid. I started laughing and he smiled. "There's the Kess I love. You always look better with a smile." He leaned over and kissed me on my forehead. "I'm going back over to my friends, if you need me, just come over kay?" I looked up at him and nodded, then he went back to his friends.

Lunch was sure interesting, but English wasn't. I had Kyle in my class, which was the only good part, but the teacher was mean and kinda looked like the grouch from sesame street. He scared me.
Kyle sat by me in class, and introduced me to a couple of his friends from music, they seemed nice, but I'd probably never talk to them again.Even though I did not like this class, I wished it would last forever, I really didn't want to go to gym. But sadly my dream did not come real, and the class went by quickly, and I was on my way to gym.