Jazz and Rain in the Square ((Rewrite))

Chapter 1

"You’re going to love it here Sicily" James said as he chatted away about how her life will be so grand. So much better than it was in St. Luca and speed down I5 to get to Wes Isle a small town near Seattle Washington. Sicily had spent the past 5 hours on a plane from Miami to Seattle and before that 3 hours from St. Luca to Miami on a small plane. Sicily was very happy in St. Luca she lived with her aunt Tiffany. Tiffany was the best though she was only 23 and had a few parenting skills and was still a teen at heart she took of Sicily well. 5 years ago Sicily’s mom was murdered and still worse Sicily saw it happen. Tiffany took in scared 13 year old niece. Her thoughts were interrupted when
James Black Lexus came to a stop in front of a 3 story house. What doses a person do with 3 stories? Sicily thought to her self
"Welcome to your new home" James said beaming with joy and excitement. Sicily gave him a fake smile and grabbed her backpack out of the back seat then got out of the car and looked at the sky. Where’s the sun? "Oh look there’s Dorian my son and your step brother" James said and waved Dorian over to the car. Dorian didn’t pay any kind of attention to Sicily until James told him that she would be living here and that she was his new sister. Dorian stared harshly at Sicily then waved her over. Sicily didn’t say anything to Dorian and Dorian said nothing to her. Eventually they ended up at a park where a bunch of teens where playing and one little girl in pink
"DORIAN!!!" One girl with pigtails and short yellow dress on yelled and ran to give him a kiss
"Hey babe" Dorian said and kissed the girl back by now all the teens had dropped what they where doing and came over to Dorian and the Yellow girl. The little girl in pink tugged on a boy in a gray shirt and signed who is this? Sicily bent down and signed to the girl Hi I’m Sicily what’s your name? The girl was surprised at first the signed back that her name was Melody. Sicily smiled at the girl then stood back up and was greeted by the boy who was holding Melody’s hand
"Where did you learn to sign?"
"I had a boyfriend who was deaf" Sicily said quietly
"Who is she" The yellow girl said
"Oh her?" Dorian asked shocked
"Yea who is she? I’ve never met anyone else who can sign with Melody" The boy with the gray shirt
Dorian gave Sicily a sideways glare then said "This is my step sister Sicily Sinclair she just moved in today" Dorian said
"Sicily? Like that place in Italy" the yellow girl asked. Sicily rolled her eyes she’s a dumb as she looks
"Yea."
"Where are you from?" The boy in the gray shirt asked
"St. Luca" Sicily said and smiled at the boy then wrapped herself in her arms a cold breeze. Sicily was wearing a green mini skirt wrap and a cami top that showed most of her chest. She didn’t have any warmer clothes. She didn’t even own a pair of jeans or capris any whether below 85 degrees F. James tried to buy her some warmer clothes but she was most comfy in her outfit that she left St. Luca in. Dorian laughed
"Cold there sis?" Dorian asked. Sicily stated at him so harshly that he stopped laughing. Sicily walked away from the park and went back to James house. It was nice and warm on the inside. She pulled her long black and brown hair into a ponytail and looked around the first floor. Then a lady with blond hair came up to her
"Where have you been? You’re late!! I need these to be cooked in the next two hours or you won’t get paid you hear me" The lady said and handed Sicily a piece of paper. Sicily looked down at the paper and it something called beef stew and jambalaya on it. Sicily handed the paper back to the woman.
"I don’t know how to cook that stuff. I’ve never even heard of beef stew. Beside I’m no cook I’m Sicily James daughter" Sicily said and handed the woman back the slip of paper and brushed past her to get to the stairs leaving the woman burning hole’s in Sicily’s back. Sicily had only half way listened to James as he chatted away in the car but she did remember him saying her room was one of 2 rooms on the 3rd floor. She opened the room and saw James standing on a ladder putting up green and blue curtains.
"Hi James" Sicily said as she looked around the huge room that now belonged to her
"Oh hello Sicily. I thought you were at the park with Dorian. Oh that doesn’t matter. Do you like your room I choose these colors I hope it reminds you of the ocean." James said his words all running together
"Yes James I like it. Thank You" Sicily said touching the pearly white wood table that had a green table lamp on it
"What’s wrong you seem upset" James said. Sicily started at him How this man is my father I will never know
"No I’m fine just a little tired…from that thing…oh what’s it called" Sicily said trying to remember
"Oh you mean Jet lag "James said "we’ll I will leave you alone to get some rest and unpack your things and I’m very happy you’re here" James said giving Sicily a smile then left the room shutting the door behind him
"That makes one of you" Sicily said locating her backpack that held 2 of her most prized possessions. Her teddy bear her aunt gave to her when she was born and a quilt that her mom gave to her on her first birthday. Sicily pulled these two objects out of her bag then crawled on to the queen sized canopy bed and feel asleep with Mr. Bear and he quilt covering her. Some hours later Sicily woke to noise coming from the next room. Sicily rubbed the sleep out of her eyes and climbed out of her bed and wrapped herself in her quilt then went to the next room but didn’t enter right away when she heard the yellow girl’s voice
"Dorian who is this island girl" The yellow girl said
"Yea why is she living with you?" The boy with the gray shirt asked
"Dunno my dad just took her in probably some charity case or something" Dorian said. Sicily pushed open the door and all heads turned towards her. Sicily’s long hair clung to her tear stained face at Dorian’s Hurtful words
"I’m NO charity case Dorian" Sicily said trying to hold herself tighter
"You weren’t-"Dorian started to say
"Does it matter? What comes from the mouth speaks the heart." Sicily said pointing to her chest "and that really hurt" Sicily said in her thick accent making her speech slurred She then turned and went back to her room and cried until it was out of her system. Sicily’s stomach begged for food the only thing she had eaten was a mango for breakfast and that was several hours ago. Sicily again wrapped herself in the quilt and then went downstairs to the kitchen. She looked in the fridge that was bear and had only some fresh fruit juice and water. She didn’t even look in the freezer she desired nothing cold or frozen and she most definitely wasn’t in the mood to cook in thing. Sicily walked over to the stove where a tall silver pot sat on the stove. She lifted the lid and her nose was immediately hit by a heavenly sent of a soup. Sicily searched for a bowl and spoon and found one then landed herself a bowl of the soup. She had no idea that it was beef stew but it was delicious and one bowl turned in to two and then three and before she knew it she had downed four bowls of the hot stuff. For how many bowls she ate she never failed to pick out the green beans and lima beans she didn’t like them very much.
"Hungry there"
Sicily looked up from her dinner and looked at the boy with the gray shirt. She turned her back to him and finished her last spoonful’s of her soup then put the bowl in the sink and turned to go to her room
"My name is Mike by the way" Mike said
Sicily stopped just as she reached the forth stair and turned around and looked at Mike
"Why are you talking to me? Here’s a better question what do you want?"
"I umm well…"
"Can’t even make up a good excuse. Your just a guilty as Dorian and that chick in the yellow is…so until you come up with an apology don’t talk to me" Sicily said leaving Mike staring at her as she walked back upstairs to her room using the back stairs. Sicily walked over to her bed and turned on the T.V. well actually it turned on her fire place she then pressed another button and it turned on her T.V. and watched Goofy Movie. She reached in her back pack and pulled out her journal that she wrote in everyday

July 3, 2009

I cannot believe this today was the worst day of my life. It all started off like a normal I put on my yellow bikini and a pair of cut off shorts ate a piece of fruit then grabbed my board and went to the beach with Jared like I always do and we meet up with everyone around 10 we came in and it was Lisa’s day to bring lunch she brought her mom’s famous shrimp and steak salad for us to eat. Then Jared pointed and said that Sue was coming I stood up and went to her she had a man in shiny black shoes and a crisp white suit following her. What a strange outfit to wear to the beach
"Hey Tiff what’s wrong" I asked as I brushed sand off of the back of my shorts. Tiffany explained to me who the man in the white was and that I had to go with him and that the topic was not up for discussion "Well can I go say bye?"
"Make it quick" Tiffany said "10 minutes I’ll go home and pack your things for you"
Everyone looked at me with concern then I told them that I had to leave and I didn’t know if I would ever be back. We had a tearful goodbye then Jared walked me home. He was deaf but we talked o each other through sign language He asked me if I would ever come back to him I told him I didn’t know. Nether one of us had ever been to America. Well I went to Miami when I was 5 but mom and I where there for the airport then we went to London. He told me that I would always have his heart then he gave me his shell necklace and I gave him my blue and black rock and shell necklace then we kissed and I went inside to help Tiffany pack my things. I put Mr. Bear; mom’s quilt my camera and my journal in the back pack that James gave to me. Now fast forward I have a step brother he’s 18 named Dorian and as far as I can see he’s a Jerk, I’ve met my step mom? She’s not better than Dorian and I’ve met a boy named Mike (he’s ok I guess) and he has a little sister her name is Melody she deaf and can sign as well. Other than that the only one person has been nice to me and that’s Mr. Bear he’s always nice to well I’ll tell what my day is like tomorrow Night