Chapter 1
It was another boring day in DC. She just could not believe that she was going to be stuck in this terrible, boring city for the next three years. Her dad had been stationed all over the world, even in places she couldn't spell, but this town had to be the worst.
"This sucks!" She screamed at the wall.
Her dad had just been reassigned after working for three years in Hong Kong. Three awesome years. She couldn't even describe how much she loved living in such an exciting city.
While they were there, she'd been able to do whatever she wanted. She could go into the city and hang out with her friends, even go to clubs, though she was only fourteen.
It was great and she already missed it so much. Now she was stuck in a city that she hated, and she would be there for what seemed like forever. By the time they were ready to move again, she would be heading off to college, and she knew there was no fun after that anyway.
Her family had lived in DC before one time. It had been all right, but there was just nothing to do, not that was fun. I mean they had all that boring historical junk, but nothing for a teenager to do. Whatever, she has stuck here now with eternity ahead of her.
Suzie's dad had a cool job at least; he was some bigwig in the U.S. government. His official job title was the special assistant to the assistant to the special assistant to the director. That meant he had all kinds of say when it came to big-time decision-making.
He had everyone listening to him, or at least that's what he said. Suzie pretty much always tuned out her parents when they started talking about business and unimportant stuff. I mean it had nothing to do with real day-to-day issues. She had to talk to her friends about that. Well, at least her one friend, Suzie wasn't having much luck with finding cool people to hang out with since they moved.
The first week of school is always the hardest. She didn't know where she was going in the building. She never even found one of the classes that she was scheduled to take. Then when she made it to her classes, each teacher insisted on making her get up and introduce herself. Suzie had gotten so sick of the little spiel that she had memorized and spit back out in every single class.
"Hi, my name is Suzie. My dad works for the government, so we just moved here. I've lived all over the place, but I'll be here for the next couple of years. I'm excited about meeting everyone."
She tried to sound happy and excited, but it came out like more of a monotone, boring noise. Suzie had done this so many times in all the new schools that they had blended in over the years and also throughout the day.
During the last class, though, something happened that made the first day better than normal. During that class, she met Gwen.
Gwen was the only person at her new school that understood Suzie. Her parents moved her all over the place too. They had talked and bonded on Suzie's first day at the new school as only frequent movers could. No one understood being the new girl at school better than Suzie and Gwen, they had done it twenty times between the two of them. But that didn't make it any easier for either, and they clung to each other tightly.
But during the school break, Gwen couldn't help Suzie anymore than anyone else could. It was going to be a long and painfully dull summer.
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Suzie Coltrane Saves the Day
AdventureThis is a close friend of mine who told me I could write this :D Suzie Coltrane is a teenager trying to adjust to another move to another city. As she attempts to begin her life again in a new school with new friends, her father is killed in what s...
