Forever Mine.........The Browning Pack!

Chapter 1

Weird, yeah that’s it, I feel weird. My whole world has been tipped on its head, you see my parents died four months ago.  I’ve been shipped away from everything and everybody I know and love to move halfway across the world, to live with an aunt and uncle I have met maybe once in my 17 years. America, I can’t believe I have to leave England and move thousands of miles.

My parents were my world.  I had everything a girl could want, a loving family a nice home and more friends than I knew what to do with. I looked just like my mum but I had my dad’s height. I stood at 5ft 6in around 6in taller than my poor mum, but I had her soft features, long blonde wavy hair and her big full red lips, which I hated.  I got so many comments throughout middle school that I started to despise them. 

My friends would tell me that they loved them that I was so lucky to have such a beautiful face, but I never believed them.

Until High school when I found my looks had most boys falling at my feet, making rude comments and thinking because of the way I looked I was easy, well let me tell you that’s so not the case. I hated looking the way I did.  I hated the fact that everywhere I went people would stare, so I started to dress down wearing baggy clothes and no makeup but still it never helped. My parents had given me everything I could want; we were all each other had.

My parents had moved from the states when they were teenager’s, they had fallen in love at first sight and that love grew more every day, they just could not stand to be apart. That’s why they started their company so they were always together.  I never understood it to be honest, but they were happy and when I came along everything was perfect…..yeah WAS perfect.

I had been at my best friend Casey’s house when the police had shown up at her door, they told us that my parents had been driving home from a party and were involved in a head on collision, they had died instantly…..together, leaving me with nobody. I had known about my Aunt Sharon and Uncle Sam, but I had not seen them since I was five.  So now after saying my goodbyes and boarding the plane I was about to land in California…..my new home.

I made my way through arrivals having picked up my cases and looked around for some signal of who would be taking me home, I almost lost myself when I came face to face with a man who looked more like my father than I ever remembered.  It hurt to see that face looking back at me, but I held it together as two sets of arms wrapped me into a warm embrace.  I crumbled, with everything that had gone on in the last few weeks this was just too much. My aunt took my face between her hands and brought it up to look at hers

“Oh my beautiful girl I’m so sorry for everything, so sorry” She soothed “Come on girls let’s get you home,” a strong male voice said.

  My uncle guided us out through the doors to his car, the whole time my aunt never broke her embrace. I felt comforted something I hadn’t felt since before…..No I can’t think it. I feel myself being put into the back of the car and my aunt sliding in next to me instead of taking the front seat.  I just leaned into her taking the comfort she was offering, my uncle loaded the cases into the trunk and we were off. off to my new home, my new life…….oh god.

We travelled for about an hour.  When we stopped outside the most beautiful house I had ever seen, it was huge but I knew my Aunt and Uncle had never been able to have kids so this was all for them.  At least I wouldn’t get under their feet too much, and besides I was 18 in less than a week. Then I would become an adult in the eyes of the law, and then I was gone. My body was beginning to feel strange again. 

“Aunt Sharon I feel strange,” I blurted out.  I don’t even know why, but the woman was being so nice to me. 

I saw her look quickly towards my Uncle who raised his eyebrow back at her it was like they were having a whole conversation without actually talking…..and I thought I felt weird, they were just acting plain weird. My aunt took me by the hand and led me into their beautiful house.