Story of My Life (Characters)

"Sydney. Sydney." Tater was waking you up. You open your eyes and look at him. "Sydney, it's 12, I came to wake you up" He looked kind of scared "But if you want to go back to sleep you can, I was just telling you it's 12." You look at him and thank him. He knew you were not a morning person, and hated getting woke up. You sit up and put your glasses on. You weren't tired and you got up to get ready. You didn't have school anymore because yesterday was the last day. You get up and go to the living room, were your brother was sitting watching TV. "Tater, can you unload the dish washer." Your mom wanted the house to get picked up some today. "Ya" he replies. You go to the bathroom and put your contacts in. Then you head upstairs to get a shower. You can hear Tater unloading the dishwasher. You grab a towel from the cabinet and turn the shower on. You reach your hand and feel the water splash on your outstretched hand. It was to hot, so you turn the knob to the right.

Then after feeling that it was perfect, you got in. After you were finished you dried off and put the towel around you. You went downstairs and walked to Tater. "Hey start cleaning up the living room shorty." He nodded. You walk to your room and get dressed. I white tee-shirt with a butterfly colored with the US flag. You were in a parade today and the theme was America. In addition to your shirt you wore some blue jeans. You get your cloths on and laid down on your bed. You turned you computer on and started playing music. Then you head to the bathroom. You plug in your hair straightener and turn it all the way up. Your hair was wet and you needed all the heat it could give. You brush your teeth when the straightener beeps, signaling that it was hot.

You start to straighten your hair when the phone rings. "Tater answer it." you yell to him. The phone stops ringing and you continue. Then Tater comes in the bathroom. "Mom says to start walking, but I told her you weren't ready yet." "Thanks Tater." you reply. Your mom was pulling the float and she got the car washed. The lane you lived off of was rocky and dusty, and she didn't want the car to get dirty, so she wanted you and your brother walk to the end. "Tater if we run we should make it." you tell him. You finished the last bit of your hair and ran to your room. You grabbed your bag and put your laptop in it's case. You zipped up your bag and laptop case and went to the dryer to get some socks. You grab a pair and throw them on.

You go to your room and look down at the floor. Your black crocs were there but you never wore them. You slid them on, deciding that you could run faster in them then in your DCs. You pick up your bag and yell to Nate "Turn off all the lights!" You go to the bathroom and unplug your straightener. You run to the door and open it. Of corse Buddy was sitting there, "Come on Buddy." you say to him. He gets up and as slow as can be, walks in. You kiss him on the head (me: what I love my dog. you: *cough* crazy *cough* me: fine be that way) and run out Tater right behind you. "Crap" you yell, "I forgot my shoes!" You run in and grab your DCs. Buddy was already asleep on the floor.

You run back out and run to Tater who was ahead of you. You caught up to him and he looked at you. "I can carry your DCs" he said. Man, he was being sweet today. "Ok thanks" you reply. You hand him your shoes and put your laptop case on your shoulders more comfortably, then throw your bag over your other shoulder. You started running again and Nathan followed suit. You slowed down to a fast walk after awhile and looked straight forward at an empty cornfield. The lane curved allot and if you cut straight though it would save allot of time. "Tater think the field is muddy" you ask him. You had gotten allot of rain lately and you couldn't tell if it was still wet. "Doesn't look like it, maybe a few spots wh.." "Okay lets go" you cut him off as you start running though the field at top speed. Nate had a hard time keeping up, as your legs were really long.

You were sweating so much, it was almost 90 degrees outside and running wearing jeans didn't help much. You turn around the last bend and see your mom waiting. You start to walk as Tater speeds up. As you reach the car your mom tells you "Don't get dirt anywhere." It was weird how self conscious she was about the stupidest things, the car for one. You step into the car (shotgun of corse) and put your stuff on the floor as your brother gets in behind you. Your mom gets in and talks about how tired and hot you both looked. "It wasn't a long walk, just really hot" you reply. "Well lets get the air on for you two" she said. She turns the air conditioning on full blast, the cool air was so reliving.

You start to drive off and you open your laptop case to get your laptop out. You open it and start to play music, using ITunes. You start to type your story (the one I'm writing now lol). You get the first five paragraphs done and you decide to take a break. You close your story and change the song you were listening to. You look out the window, you were almost to Springfield (not really where it was but I really don't want to give where it was since it's close to me ya understand right?)

You turn into Susie's driveway. (Susie is a woman who is involved with an organization I'm in called Job's Daughters, short reddish hair , she is short also. The float was at her house.) You could see the float, and honestly it needed work. The other girls didn't do much, you could tell. (o ya the float was for Job's Daughters, and Job's is not pronounced like Job (what you work at) it's Job from the Bible, Google if you want to know more info about it.) Susie comes outside and greets you all.

The heat was unbearable, there was no wind, and no clouds. No relief. You get out as Susie, Tater, and your mom started working the float. You get out and look it over. There was an Uncle Sam standing toward the back, a plywood bell, fake giant firecrackers, and fringe all around the outside. The bell was painted a light gold, that could barley be seen. The firecrackers didn't look good at all. All in all the float was incomplete, and didn't look good.

Your mom started to put a banner around the float, it looked like the American flag. You looked in the back of your car, your mom had gotten allot of decorations from the nursing home she works at. You saw some mulit-colored fringe with stars coming off of it. You grab it and place it on the edge of the bell. "Wow, Sydney that’s a great idea!!" your mom exclaims. "What?" Tater ask as he turns around. "Putting that fringe around the bell" you mom tells him. Susie looks around "Ya that makes it look allot better" she tells you. "You can use the staple gun." "Okay" you reply. You grab the stable gun and start to outline the bell. Tater comes over to you, "I want to staple it" he tells you. "No it's to hard for you Tater Mater" you tell him. "But..." he retorts "I'm strong". "Tater I know it will just be faster and easier if I do it."

He continues trying to get you to let him staple it until your mom tells him that he can't. He sighs and continues helping you with the bell. You step back admiring your work, the bell looked allot better now. Everyone else tells you how good your idea was and then continue their work. You help finish the float, adding stuff here and there. About half an hour later you were done, you all step back and look. It defiantly looked better, not great but defiantly better. You get in the car as your mom gets in to back up the car to get the float on it. When the float is on you pull out going slow, you had both blinkers on signaling that you were driving slow.

You drive about three miles and pull into a parking lot, especially for floats. You were the only ones there, except for Susie in her silver convertible. You park and she tells you "I'm going to go home and get myself and the car ready I'll be back in about 45 minutes." She pulls out and your mom turns the car off. You didn't really want her to because that meant that the air conditioning would be off. You though why Susie's car had to be ready then you remembered that she was going to be taking Clair and Kendra the Jr. Miss Job's Daughter IL and the Miss Job's Daughter IL. Claire was your honored queen in your bethel. (If you don't know what Job's Daughters is then I suggest you Google it. It is in short, a Masonic Relationship Order.)

You sit in the car, windows rolled down and sweat pouring down you. You turn your computer on and listen to music. You sat there for about 25 minutes. Then Katie started to walk toward you. She was in your bethel and was really nice. Her shoulder length blonde hair was flowing around as a result of a short burst of wind. Your mom greets her and she comes to your side of the car. "Hey" she says. "Hey Katie" you reply. She starts to tell you about something her sister said, but you weren't really listening. You were to hot and all you wanted to do was sit there, waiting for a breeze. When she is done telling you the story she walks to the float. Then Christine and her little sister Nina comes over. They are both, like their brothers and sisters adopted. Nina was quiet and just joined, Christine had once been sweet, and nice but she had recently changed, she was different and you didn't really like the new her.

The get in the back of the car, out of the sun. You take your headphones out of your laptop and turn the volume up so they could hear. "O I love this song" Christine tells you referring to Rockstar by Nickelback. You turn up the volume a bit more as she starts to sing, which she wasn't good at, at ALL. "Christine" Katie calls to her. Christine turns as Katie continues, "Wanna sit on me so we are both in the car?" "Sure but I'm heavy" Christine replies. You laugh Christine was far from heavy. She gets out as Katie gets in and then sits on her lap.

About 20 minutes later Susie comes back, the car covered in purple and white signs (purple and white are the Order's colors). She puts the cover on the hood for the girls to sit on. Then like a flood more girls come. Aunt Donna came with Shelby. (we call all the adults Aunt/Uncle even though we aren't related to them kk). Then Cameron and Trini came. Then Melissa, Melissa was new but she was such a sweetheart. You really liked her, you had known her for less than 3 days and you to were already friends.

By this time the back of your car was open and everyone was in it. Aunt Donna passed out these really stupid looking uncle Sam hats, that no one wanted to wear, along with red white and blue leas. You decide not to wear the ugly hat and put the top half of your hair up leaving the bottom half hanging. Then you put the lea around your head like a headband taking the extra and tying it around the top half of your hair. you looked in the mirror, you looked like a hippie. With your butterfly tee shirt, to your long hair, to the lea in your hair. You looked kind of stupid, but it was better than wearing one of those stupid hats.

You go to the back of the car, were Melissa and Jessica were sitting. Melissa looks at your hair, "Wow you look like a hippie" she laughed. "Ya well it's better than those hats" you state. "That’s true" she said looking up at the stupid plastic hat she was wearing. "Can you do my hair like that?" she ask. "Corse come with me" You lead her to the car, where you could see her reflection in the tinted windows. You put her hair up, tying the lea was hard, as her hair was so short. When you were done you felt allot less stupid, now that you both looked hippeish.

You both sat back down in the back of the car. You were so hot, you reached behind you into one of the coolers and grab a Diet Dr. Pepper. You chug it down, you didn't realize how thirsty you were. The sun was starting to set, a relief. The parade started at 7:30 pm. It was about 7. You got up, tired of sitting down and Melissa followed you. You go to the back of the float and grab some necklaces. Red, White, and Blue stars. Another thing your mom had gotten from the nursing home.

You get the necklaces and pass them out. Then you see Nina with a bag of red and blue balloons with white stars. You ask her for the bag and she hands it to you. You blow up a red and then a blue balloon. You tape them to one of the wheels of the float, making sure they would stay. Then you blow up two more and stick them on the other side. Then you looked at your phone 7:45 pm. The parade had already started, but you were #47 so you had some time.

8:02. You look at your phone, it was a few minutes after two and you were starting. The sun and almost completely gone down and it was much cooler now. You could hear Aunt Donna and Aunt Michelle telling the girls what to do. Stay behind the wheels, don't throw the candy hand it out, scream the chant loud, things like that.

You finally get out in the street, you run up to your mom and tell her to start playing the music. You had patriotic music, the National Anthem stuff like that. She turns on the music, and blast it up. You run back to the rest of the girls and adults, and of corse your brother. The girls, and your brother had candy and the adults had flyers, telling about Job's Daughters.

About 2 hours later the parade was over. Your feet were a bit tired and you jumped into the float. Everyone was going to Aunt Michelle's for a pizza party. You ride for about 2 minutes and arrive at Aunt Michelle's house. You had been there before, twice. Once after the parade last year, another during a yard sale. You run inside and sit on the couch. You took off your shoes and laid back, it was really hot even inside. You hear Aunt Michelle tell her roommate "I'm going to go pick up the pizza." Just then you heard and felt your stomach growl. You hadn't eaten anything and you were hungry.

After half an hour of talking, fighting over chairs, and listening to music Michelle came back. It was like a riot, everyone was rushing to the kitchen to get the food. You stayed behind, knowing fair well that it would be Hell in the kitchen, plus you had to save Melissa's seat. Christine came in and sat on the other side of the couch, leaving Melissa's spot between you two. Shelby comes in and stand in front of the empty spot. "Is anyone sitting there?" she ask. "Ya" you say as you place your feet on the empty seat, "My feet they are SOO tired, and they're special, they get their own seat." Everyone started laughing at your comment. She fake-glares at you and sits down at the other seat. Finally Melissa comes in and you turn to Shelby and say "O my feet aren't tired anymore" and you put them on the floor as Melissa laughs and sits down. Shelby looks at you saying, fakely of corse "I hate you Sydney" "Aww" you reply "I love you to Shelby."

You turn to Melissa and ask in a sarcastic like voice "Melissa, are your feet tired?" "Why yes they are!" she replies in an equally sarcastic voice. You get up as she places her feet in your now vacant seat. You get up and walk into the kitchen. It was nearly empty, just Aunt Michelle and her roommate talking. You grab a plate and a piece of pepperoni pizza, and a bread stick. The pizza was Little Ceacer's you notice as you fill a cup with water.

You walk back into the living room with your food and Melissa looks up and in a dramatic voice says "O, my feet aren't tired anymore!" you both laugh as Shelby once says "you two are horrible, ya know" "Why thank you for the compliment Shelby" you say in a fake happy voice. She rolls her eyes and looks down at Tater, who is on the floor with a big ball.

You all sit for awhile when your mom comes in and tells you it's time to go. You say goodbye to everyone and walk outside. It had started lighting and thundering. you loved storms, but you didn't fancy being outside surrounded by cars while lighting was striking right above your head. You ran to the car and tried to open the door, it was locked of corse. You go around to the other side to put in the code to unlock it. you were running and keeping low, storms never frightened you, but you didn't like the lighting flashing right above you while surrounded by metal. You hurry and put in the code and run to the other side again. You felt a breeze as the lighting flashed and hit the backyard of Aunt Michelle's house, not even 50 feet from you. (I'm not kidding I was FREAKED out I bet you would have to!!!!)

You scream and freeze up. After about 30 seconds you calm down and breath in the air. You knew it was going to rain in less than 10 seconds, you were good at sensing things. You jump in the care, still breathing hard and loud. Sure enough about 10 seconds later, as your mom and Tater were coming outside, it started POURING!!! Your mom and brother get in the care sopping wet. Your mom cursed the rain and suddenly hail bigger than paintballs started falling. (Not kidding about that either it was HUGE.)

You all sit in the car for a few minutes and then pull out. You were still breathing hard and your mom ask you what’s wrong. "DID YOU SEE THAT LIGHTNING!!!!" you nearly scream. "What lightning?" she ask. "The one that hit the backyard of Aunt Michelle's house!!!!" you scream. "No it hit the backyard?" "YA and I wasn't in the car!" She looked a bit scared "Are you ok?" she ask "Ya" you reply a bit calmer "just a bit freaked out, that’s all."

After about 3 minutes of driving your breathing returned to normal and you reached a road that was blocked off by a police man. (me: ha ha po-po you: what?!? me: po-po, police men lol you: w/e) There was a huge tree that fell in the middle of the road. "Wow" you all exclaim. Your mom cursed, the town you were in was a bit confusing, especially when you can't see well. This was the only way she knew how to get out. Another car pulled up on the other side and a guy came out and waved you to go on. Your mom didn't move because this was the only was she knew how to get out. The guy went and talked to the police man for about 20 seconds then ran to your car.

"I'm not from around here and this is the only way I know how to get out" Your mom told him.
"Ok I'm ganna get you out of here" he said "make a right here" he said pointing toward the road his own car had come from "then go to the stop sign and turn right and make your way around the block" "Thanks" your mom replied as she waved and the guy ran off to the police man again.