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It's Complicated
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It's Complicated
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 Chapter 4
 

I grudgingly went out of the restaurant, after Marissa's spawn. I found her outside, a cigarette dangling from her mouth.
I leant up against the bin with my back to her. 'I'm guessing your mom doesn't know.'
'I thought I told you not to talk to me.' she spat. I swear, this kid seems to have anger as her only emotion.
'Oh okay. I guess I'll just go ask her if she wants one.' I turned round to face her with my eyebrows raised, and by her expression could tell she knew I'd won. I stared at her, daring her to repeat what she'd just said.
She exhaled and the smoke spiralled upwards into the sky. 'I don't want to have anything to do with you. I don't want Mom to get married.'
'Neither do I, kiddo,' I said, perching on the bin. 'Neither do I. But there's nothing we can do to stop them so we may aswell make the most of it.'
I heard a sharp intake of breath. 'But there is something we can do!'
I turned to her and raised my eyebrows in disbelief. 'What, split them up, parent-trap style?' I asked sarcasrtically. She obviously didn't notice my sarcasm and nodded earnestly. 'Listen, I know you're just a kid, but you should really know that stuff doesn't actually work.'
'But it might!' she exclaimed indignantly.
I thought for a second, considering how to play it. 'Okay,' I said slowly. 'We'll give it a try.' I swear, as I said that, her whole face lit up. Maybe she does have an emotion except anger after all. 'But if it doesn't work, we'll leave them alone.' She nodded. 'So if nothing's happened in a week, that's it. We're never talking about this again.'
Her face fell. 'A week is no where near long enough!'
I sighed. 'Fine, two weeks. Not that it'll make any difference..' I added under my breath.
'So we have a deal?' she asked. 'You give me two weeks then we do it your way.'
I nodded with a smile. I never thought she could be this civil. 'Deal,' I agreed. 'What's your name anyways?' I hopped off the bin and she followed, putting out her cigarette on it.
'Charline, but call me that and die,' she glared at me again.
'Okay,' I paused. 'Charlie.' She grinned at me as we walked back inside.

~Chapter by: gempearl

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It's Complicated
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 Chapter 3

I sat back in my chair and sighed, pretending to listen to Marissa’s "great new idea" for a "family vacation" this summer.
It’s not that I don’t like her or anything, she’s just too…peppy.
Always coming up with activites for us to do.
"Ha, good luck getting Mason to do that" I muttered under my breath when Marissa mentioned something about "trust exercises" and "family bonding".
The waiter came, and gave us our menus.
Whoa, that’s more than I make from three months of babysitting! I thought when I looked at the price of the food I wanted to order. Now I know why this restaurant is so fancy!
I felt weird ordering something so expensive, so when the waiter came around the second time to take our orders, I just ordered the $20 salad.
As I was waiting for our food to arrive, I amused myself by surveying the people around the room.
Too old, too old, too young- Yuck! Too ugly… and that’s when I saw him.
The boy sitting 2 tables away from me.
With his sandy-brown hair that fell over his face in the perfect style bangs, and his crystal-clear blue eyes that just seemed to go on, and on forever…
"What are you looking at?" snapped Marissa’s youngest daughter, who I had yet to learn her name of.
I realized that the boy I was looking at was in the little "window" that was the space between the girl’s head and the wall. I guess she thought that I was staring at her.
"Oh, nothing. See I was just looking-" I started.
"Look, I do NOT want to be here. I do NOT want my mom to get married to your dad, and I do NOT want to be part of this ‘picture perfect family!" She cut me off.
"Got it? So don’t talk to me, don’t look at me, don’t include me in any of your ‘perfect family bonding times’. Okay?" She snapped.
"Look, I wasn’t trying to st-" She cut me off again.
"What part of do NOT talk to me don’t you understand?!" She yelled at me.
"Now, honey, calm down…" Said Marissa.
"NO! Okay? Look, this stupid ‘super lovey-dovey’ family of yours? It is NOT going to work!" She screamed at her mother, while standing up so abruptly that she knocked her plate and silverware to the floor.
"Oh dear…" muttered Marissa as she bent down to pick up the fallen dinnerware.
Her daughter looked around at the shocked faces of the other diners all staring at her, then began to cry and stormed out of the dining area.
"Krystal!" My dad ‘yell-whispered’ at me. "You go and talk to her."
"But dad…" I began.
"But nothing! We are going to be a family, and you need to learn how to help each other out!" He snapped at me.
I sighed and slowly stood up.
Things certainly weren’t going as easily as I hoped they would.

~Chapter by: Shamaii37 

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It's Complicated
Chapter 2
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After a long car ride in silence, we arrived at the fancy resteraunt. I was glad I had dressed up for this dinner.
"Okay, you three, can you at least try to make conversation with Marissa and her daughters?"

"Why? I don't want to get to know them." My brother mumbled. My dad shot him a look and continued.

"Her daughter, Scarlett is your age, Krystal, and Marissa's other daughter is 13. So, Lauren, talk to her about Barbies or something."

"Dad! I stopped playing with Barbies like, two years ago!" Lauren said.

"Well then talk to her about whatever, just try to be nice!" My dad looked desperate at this point. "Oh, there they are, let's go!"

We all got out of the car, and faced this new family we were supposed to embrace. Marissa was a shorter woman, but still skinny. She had copper colored curly hair, and I thought it looked nice with her pale skin. I wasn't quite sure it was natural though. Her oldest daughter, Scarlett, had long blonde hair. It wasn't quite as long as my own, but she was getting there. She was taller than her mother, but skinny as well. Her younger sister, who I hadn't learned her name yet, had blonde hair like her sister. Except her eyes were more green then her sister's blue.

"Hi, I'm Scarlett," she said, waving. The two families had stopped about two feet away from each other, while my father and Marisa embraced.

"I'm Krystal," I said, waving back. "This is Lauren," I said, pointing to my sister who had always been shy. "And Mason," I nodded towards my brother, who had hung back looking uninterested. "Don't mind him, his girlfriend just dumped him," I said, laughing. She joined in and smirked at my brother.

"Poor thing! He must be heart broken to be in such a bad mood."

My brother glared at me and I laughed again. Scarlett seemed like a really nice person, but I hadn't heard a peep from her younger sister. "And who are you?" I asked her, but she ignored me.

"I'm sorry, I don't know where her manners are," Scarlett said apologetically.

"It's fine, it's a little bit of an uncomfortable situation for us all," I shrugged.

"Kids, this is Marissa." My dad said, joining our conversation.

"Hi girls!" She said, giving Lauren and me a hug. "Hi Mason," she said, waving at my brother. "I won't hug you, but it's nice to meet you all." She stood there smiling like a goofball. This lady was kinda off.

"Well, let's go eat," my dad said, herding us into the doors. We all fell into an awkward line, with Marissa and my dad leading the way. My dad wrapped his arm around her waist and whispered in her ear, and she giggled. I almost threw up on the floor right there.

"Get a room," I heard Mason grumble, and I laughed. When we sat down, we were again divided. Lauren to my left, Mason to my right, and Dad at one end. The three girls sat opposite us. The younger daughter was still not talking, but Lauren was trying to coax her into conversation. Scarlett was trying to get Mason to respond to her useless chatter, then Marissa turned towards me.

"So, Krystal, tell me about yourself."

"Well I'm a sophmore, and I love to draw."

"Oh, how nice! Do you like to draw anything in particular?"

I shrugged and took a sip of water. "Really whatever comes to mind. I like to read too, mostly fantasy."

She nodded, "I like to read too, I was reading something the other day..." I tuned her out when I saw my dad trying to talk to Scarlett's sister. She pointedly ignored him, and I could tell my dad was trying to make an effort.

"Excuse me, he's trying to talk to you," I said to her, and she looked at me.

"I don't care," she said.

"Well I do if you're ignoring him. You could at least pretend to talk," I had learned that in the early stages of my parent's divorce. If you pretend to talk long enough, they will leave you alone.

"I said, I.don't.care!" she yelled at me, and I was stunned. This was going to be a long dinner.


Chapter by: TheSunSetsInTheNight
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It's Complicated
Chapter 1
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I stare into the mirror at my crystal blue eyes, with so many thoughts spinning in my head. I continue to straighten my waist length long black hair when there’s a knock on my door. "Come in," I say without turning away from the mirror.
"Krystal, mom said dad will be here in fifteen minutes, are you ready?" my little sister said. My sisters name was Lauren. She was so pretty, she’s only twelve years old and has long brown hair and brown eyes, with naturally tanned skin. She loves sports and isn’t your typical girly girl. But tonight, she looked different. She was wearing makeup for the first time, just a little to highlight her eyes. She was wearing a black ruffle skirt that came right above her knee and a yellow, pink, and black flowing shirt.
"Yeah, just a minute," I answered as I turned off my straightener. Lauren was already on her way downstairs. I turned to take on last look in the mirror at my black skinny jeans and blue tank top with black pumps.
When I got downstairs I found my older brother, Mason, and Lauren sitting in the kitchen talking to my mom.
"Mom, I don’t want to go. I’m almost eighteen years old, I shouldn’t have to go meet dad’s new girlfriend, my brother snapped.
"Mason, your father wants you there, and I think it’s best that you meet this woman and her children at least once before the wedding next month."
"Whatever," Mason shot back as he rolled his eyes and walked in the other room.
My big brother Mason is 17, only two years older than me. With the same blue eyes and jet black hair as me. He used to be the sweetest guy I knew. Sure we had our arguments, but most of the time he was always nice, to everyone. He’s always been popular in school, and the football quarter back, but that never changed his charming attitude towards everyone. But that big brother I once loved, was gone. After our parents got divorced a year ago, he was a different person. Always fighting with me and Lauren, his perfect grades dropped, and he broke all of our moms rules.
"Dad’s outside," Mason called from the family room. Lauren, my mom, and I headed for the door. Us three kids left while my mom stood by the door and waved.
We began to drive to a fancy restaurant right out of town, near my dad’s new apartment. He told us that his fiancée Marissa is meeting us there with her two daughters
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chapter 1 by
forever611 (felicia)
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