My Luck Is So Awesome It Hurts

Part 1 - I learn what a bad hair day is like

Hi there. This is my first story so if you guys find any flaws tell me; kays?

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“Kyra! Selene! Watch out!” a paled blonde screeched out as a pair of diamond chandelier earrings slipped from her fingers, on to the boutique’s floor.

I turned, and my eyes widened , the tall gorgeous woman beside me never saw it coming.

A Black Jeep.Heading towards us.

Something sharp hit me and then the numbness came after.

Everyone was screaming and screaming me and mommy’s name, but we were floating above them. We both wore confused expressions because for an instant, I saw me and mommy, hurt, lying below me, shopping bags scattered all around us , scarves, shoes, spilled out every where, so how come we were up here as well?

And then it all went blank.

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I woke up screaming on a bathroom floor wondering where I was. And the screamed some more when I saw the girl in the mirror. This woman came running to me.

“Penny! Oh mon, êtes-vous bien ?” Then she started shrieking.

“There…. there is a gecko in hair and… and… chips, and gummy worms and daises!”

Then when I turned around, I couldn’t find the girl-with-a-gecko-system-on-her-head/ Penny anywhere that’s when I realized. THAT WAS ME.THAT GIRL WITH A FLABBERGESTED LOOKING GECKO (if Geckos can look flabbergasted) ON HER uh… HAIR(!) WAS ME! But It didn’t look like me at all. Selene Knightly never had bad hair day, and why was that woman calling me Penny?

And then shrieked some more.

I guess our shrieking was pretty loud because the next thing I knew was a family of four behind me inspecting me very closely like I was and alien from Pluto. This dark haired boy popped a bubblegum balloon and smirked at me .

“ Yo, nice hairdo. You have like a total geckosystem up there, its got food, water and nice bedding huh?”

The girl about my age stared at me just like her mommy and daddy.

The woman seemed to regain her senses and stated to shake me(!!!) and this is what happened in next half-an-hour while i trying to figure out how on earth had i ended up in a French children’s home's bathroom.

Gecko: *digging into hair*

Me: screaming

The family excluding Mr Bubblegum: Staring

Woman: Me will take de gecko out of your hair

Me: Mommy!

Gecko : *hanging on for dear life*

Bubblegum boy: aw come on, it’s a gecko, seesh * removes gecko*

Gecko : Now in his hands dangling upside down***

Bubblegum boy: Gecko system just ain’t right without the Gecko (that was when I first felt like killing him)

Me: Mommy!

Little girl’s mommy: Is it possible Mrs Caron that we could perhaps we could bring home this girl?

***And at that moment I knew just exactly how the gecko felt. Like my whole life was upside down, like I wasn’t where I was meant to be .

And about a week later Mr and Mrs Cruz adopted under the name Penny Cruz. No matter how many times I tried to convince everyone that I was really Selena Knightly, the five year old daughter of supermodel Kyra Knightly. No one believed me, they kept calling me Penny and told me I was the only survivor in my family on a holiday cruise.

Only Bubblegum boy tried to help by showing me an article title titled “ Supermodel Karen Knightly dead , daughter Selene survives car crash , Tragedy at West Hollywood. Selena may have lost her memory.” I couldn't read most of it then, so he read it out for me.

I was shocked and didn’t know what to do, I cried, of course, because he said mommy was dead. Mr and Mrs Cruz tried to help and so did Luke (Bubblegum boy) and Poshina (Little girl) when I moved in with them.

But nothing seemed right until mommy appeared on my new room’s window-sill and explained everything to me. Mommy told me that because of a strange accident, my soul had been swapped with that of an orphaned girl named Penny. She said that since my body had left my body and I actually remembered what happened, I could now see and talk to ghosts. The real Penny couldn’t do that because she lost all of her memory .

At first when I told Mrs Cruz (now I call her Jen ) about mommy, she just laughed at me telling me not to play pretend. So I stopped telling anyone about it because they said I was crazy. Like for example, Poshina; “My new sister is cute but she had an accident with her head when we first met her and keeps seeing people in Halloween Costumes1.Mommy says she has too many nuts in her head”

And that is how I ended up as Penny Cruz, the adopted daughter of Jennifer Jacqueline Cruz and Randy Cruz. Jen was an ex- TV talk show hostess and Randy is theatre star and a freelance writer. They owned a hotel business that Jen and Luke mostly managed and I pitched in whenever I could. Together with Penny’s body I inherited her extreme clumsiness.Which was useful, if you wanted to break a few odd things a day.

1 Incase you are wondering, she still thinks ghosts are actually people in Haloween costumes.