The beginning…. 

This was it, I had arrived and left everything behind me in order to find myself I guess.  Let me introduce myself, my name is Spencer Carlin a born and bread native from Ohio who has just landed in the alien world of the city of angels, L.A.  Clay who’s my adoptive brother, decided to come with me.  He said something about him not wanting his lil’ sis to get up to anything that Glen would, Glen being the annoying, popular and overly sexed other brother.  Sadly though, he decided he wanted to make sure I did get up to something so tagged along…. but I think it was mainly coz he exhausted his hunting ground back in Ohio.

I think though, that my bothers really came to take care of their little sister and to get away from our mother.  It was hard leaving our dad, Arthur, but he is the old fashioned type and decided to stay to try and sort things out with Paula rather than file for a divorce.  I used to think that we had the quintessential family, Glen was the basketball star, Clay the academic on his way to Harvard or Yale and me…. Well I was just me. My mum was the brilliant doctor and my dad the understanding psychologist.  It seemed too good to be true, and it was.

But enough of the back-story and my inner monologue, I have to find a way to stop this internal narrative I’ve got going on…. Aarrgghh I’m doing it again!!

“Clay, how long do think it’ll take us to get settled in?”

Conversation, that’ll get me to stop….

“Huh?”

“I asked how long you think it’ll take for us to settle in?  It’s certainly different from home isn’t it?”

“Yeah, I was just thinking that”

“Guys, it’ll be great!  Give it a few weeks and I’ll be starting point guard, Clay will be the brilliant genius and Spencer, we’ll be having to beat all the guys of you”  Glen said with his usual self-confidence…. Or arrogance, I haven’t quite figured it out yet.

“It’ll be fine sis, after all how different can one school be from another?”  Clay said as he wrapped a comforting arm around me.