Beyond The Golden Gate

Chapter 1.

Annabelle's POV

*Beep*

*Beep*

*Beep*

"Ugh," I roll over and hit my floor with a thump, my alarm clock still blaring with it's annoying beeping. I reached for the life support of it and tug it out of the socket. I got up from the floor and trudged to my bathroom, took my clothes off and got in the shower. I did what I do and got out, I went in my closet and got blue jeans, a black shirt that said "I'm sexy and i know it," pairing it with my jean jacket, and finally, my black converse.

I looked in my mirror and saw my face. I have wavy blond hair that reaches to my mid back, dark blue eyes, a button nose, and full lips.

I left my hair and face natural and walked down the stairs of the orphanage , and into the kitchen to see the devil's spawn that's my brother, Allen, and the other orphans.

"Hi ugly, ready for school," Allen says, eating his cereal while the others laugh. My brother is 15-years old with straight, dark brown hair and light brown eyes.

I'm not really ugly, but in fact I'm actually quite pretty with my heart shaped face, and skinny figure. I'm shy when it comes to meeting new people, so I barely talk.

"Yeah, I am," I say, walking out. He gets up and grabs his backpack, while I grab my school books. Allen is in 9th grade and I'm in 10th grade.

Sarah, our guardian of the orphanage, looks up at us, "have a good day you two, Allen don't get in trouble where I have to come in the school and pick you up," She says. Sarah has curly greying black hair, green eyes, and is 55-years old. I can see that she was beautiful in her younger years. Sarah is a nice old woman who cares about me, she's like a second mother to me and my only friend.

you see my brother and I's mom and dad died in a car crash, when I was 8 and my brother was 9. What I remember of my mom and dad is that my mom had straight, dark brown hair and light brown eyes so I know where Allen got his looks, and my dad had black hair and greenish-blue eyes. I don't know where I got my looks from I looked nothing like my parents when they were alive.

We walked out of the orphanage and started walking to school it was a ten minute walk to the school from the orphanage.

We didn't talk the whole walk to the school as you can tell we don't get along like at all we fight all the time. There's a meadow that has wildflowers in it and it's the most beautiful place to be.

*at school*

After ten minutes, we made it to the school and went to our class rooms. Allen went to his classroom, while I went to my classroom. I went to my locker, put on the combination and got what I needed for my classes. All of a sudden, my locker was slammed shut but I was able to pull my hand back before it was shut in yeah i have fast reflexes, I turned around and there was the most popular girl in school, Maddy Benson, standing in front of me.

Maddy is a cheerleader and she is mean, but a lot worse then my brother, she has super blond hair, forest green eyes, and her clothes barely cover her body.

"Hey fatty, have you been eating again, I could've sworn I told you to stop eating like a piggy," she says, smiling like a manic.

I roll my eyes, big mistake, I feel a sting on my right cheek and my head snaps to the left. Maddy just slapped me.

"Don't ever roll your eyes at me again, you fat cow, you got that!" She screams at me, glaring at me with her mascara filled eyes.

I nodded and start walking away, again big mistake, Maddy grabs me and slams me into the red lockers of the middle school.

"Don't walk away when I'm not done talking, God you are so stupid." She yells in my face. I could tell she was furious and I was not leaving until I got a punishment for trying to escape from her.

I nodded again, and she let go pushing me on the ground and kicked me in the side. Maddy finally walked away going to her quarterback boyfriend, Josh Riley, and kissed him, he kissed her back and they left.

I got up seeing that I was late for class once again, I fast-walked to my first period and went in. Everybody turned to me and Mrs. Clewell paused what she was talking about and turned to me. Mrs. Clewell has blond hair that's in a pixie hair cut, gray eyes, and is 34-years old.

"You better have a very good excuse why you are late yet again, miss Johnson," she says, crossing her arms over her chest.

I sighed, "I slept in."

She nods, "get in your seat." Mrs. Clewell says. Turning back to the class and talking again.

I take my seat and I start drawing an angel in my notebook, making sure Mrs. Clewell is not looking. I was sitting by the window and I saw something in the corner of my eye, I looked over to my left and saw a guy with...