Chilly and radiant Vancouver, Canada is where I'm located with my rather large family. My Memere is from France, but my father is from Alaska. All I've ever known growing up was playing in the snow. My father, Andrew John Starling, was a pro. snowboarder himself before he broke his hip twenty-nine years ago, three years before I was born.
Nineteen eighty-eight was the year I came into this world as Courtney Ray Starling. The third oldest child, but the younger one to my twin sister Maisey Kate which makes myself techincally the fourth oldest. Maisey Kate is the exact opposite of me. Figure skater, girly-girl, likes pink and sparkles, cat person, and the list goes on. The both of us have chocolate brown hair that cascades down to the small of our backs. You can tell us apart by our eyes: I have mint green eyes that sparkle with inticipation while she has crystal blue eyes that change instantly from blue to gray when sadden or angered.
She and I have grown up in a hectic household where everyone has to share everything and I mean everything. Only three children out of fourteen have managed to escape, meaning they no longer have to share their belongings amongsts the others. I would be more than happy..no love to move out and live on my own, but my poor Memere needs someone, like myself, to manage the other ten kids still in the house. Memere, I feel has done so much for each and every one of us for as long as I can remember, so why not do the right thing and at least be some help to her. Papa would, but he is still holding on to his job by a thread at the winery up in Toronto. Our life isn't as glamorous as any other famous athlete. My siblings, as well as myself, compete in all different types of sports competitions that pays a lot of money to work off any debts, go on vacations, for food, and anything else we wanted to do.
My family is everything to me. I would put them before anything else including snowboarding and skateboarding. We all stick together in any situation no matter what, 'cause that's how close we are. Love is everything in the Starling family, but there are times in our life that we have to jump over obsticales together as one. If I could change the way that we live, I would do that in a heartbeat so I finally have found my chance to do that. And that is to make it to the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics.
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Hey everyone. I know these chapters are short, but I'm trying to get the intro out of the way so I can really kick-off into the real story! I hope you guys enjoy my story. I will try and update as much as I can (: Thanks so much
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Snow Angel
Fanfiction"There's really no reasoning, it's all just to show that there is so much more to a girl than just whinning and complaining about losing something like a softball game. I feel like a snow angel. " ~Courtney Ray {Shaun White Fan Fiction}
