Imperfection

Chapter 2 - "New Beginnings"

(Imperfection - by @datingethan on Twitter)

The day had finally come for my family and I to move out to Los Angeles.

I'm not going to lie I was extremely nervous.

But I was also excited.

I knew the Dolan Twins lived there, and hoped maybe I'd run into them.

But the chances of that were low, and I'd only be a fan in their eyes.

However what I was most excited for was the opportunities I was going to be exposed to.

TV filming, singing, theatre, you name it!

I loved it all and hoped one day I could start a career as an actress.

And well on Long Island, community theatre was nice, but I really aspired to become a movie actress.

That was my dream.

And LA seemed to be the best place for dreamers.

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After selling our house in Long Island, we had to have several moving vans bring our furniture over to Cali.

As I'm sure you're aware, the trip from New York to California is not even close to short.

But, being that we weren't a wealthy enough family to just start over at a new house with all new furniture, we had to bring our most expensive furniture with us.

So, while my family of 5 took a plane over to LA, it wasn't until about a week later that the trucks arrived with our furniture — including our beds.

Oh, and we also hired drivers to take our cars to LA.

So here we were: sleeping in sleeping bags for a week in a new house that was much bigger than our Long Island home.

See, we had lived in the suburbs of LI, and in our town maintaining a house was extremely expensive.

LA had a somewhat cheaper price to the land, and that was another reason my parents were set on moving to LA, and not some closer state like Vermont or Georgia or something.

We just had to move all the way out to Cali.

I think my parents just wanted what was best for me.

They wanted me to succeed in life, and be happy in what I choose to succeed in.

And acting is what I had my heart set on.

That was the main reason we moved out there.

For my future.

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Present Day

Today is my first day of school at my new high school.

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Narrator's POV

It was a public school, but you had several auditions for performing arts high schools in LA throughout the next few weeks.

And while your new school was supposedly not as terrible as your old school, you were really hoping to get accepted into one of the schools you had auditioned for.

You knew that if you got in, you'd be set to get into UCLA when you graduate next year.

So, fingers crossed.

But until then, you had to stick it out for about a month at the local public school until you got your results.

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Tori's POV

I picked out an outfit that I legitimately liked, because I wanted to really start showing who I was through my clothing choices.

Now, don't think I'm some "emo" or "goth" girl.

I love American Eagle and Forever 21 as much as the next girl, but I decided that I wanted to try out some new things, to take some risks.

I had always been the type to dress like everyone else, and to be honest I wanted to be looked at differently.

And you'd think dressing like everyone else would get you into a crowd of sorts.

Yeah well, not in my case.

You know it's the worst feeling when you feel like you can't speak your mind to anyone.

It gets trapped up inside you like a boiler, bursting with steam and blows as soon as you let out that little bit of steam.

Being an extrovert makes it even worse, because I feel like I need to tell someone, anyone about my frustrations.

But back home, well, New York home, I felt like I had no one on my side.

And that is truly heartbreaking.

So I drove my brother and I to school.

"Here we go." I said to JT.

"Yep, here we go." he said.

I walked to my first period class, English, and sat down next to a girl with dark red hair and a bunch of ear piercings.

"Hey." I said.

She turned to me and said, "Hey, you must be new here. I'm Jaymi."

"Tori." I said. "And yeah, it's my first day here."

"Well Tori, I hope you enjoy your time here. I know I won't." she laughs and then takes out her phone.

"Here, add yourself in. Ya know, if you ever need anything just lemme know." she said with a smile and I said, "Thanks!" and then handed her my phone so she could do the same.

Then, as I was turning to face the front of the board, a tall boy sat down in front of me, blocking my entire view.

He began talking with the boy sitting next to him, and as I squirmed around trying to possibly see the board, I decided it was hopeless and gave up trying.

What I didn't realize was that I let out a small but audible groan in my frustration.

The boy then turned around and said, "Uh, excuse me?"

I said, "What?"

"You just sounded annoyed, I dunno." he said shrugging, and turned around again.

In that few seconds of conversation, well, less than conversation, I examined the boy's face to the max.

In my mind I made a list of all of his features: hazel eyes, light brown hair, some stubble, glasses, somewhat strong build, and as mentioned before, tall.

He was attractive, not going to lie.

But not as attractive as the Dolan twins.

I knew it was hopeless to even think about meeting them, let alone dating one of them.

But I don't know.

I guess you could say I had high hopes.

End of Chapter Two.

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