Chapter 21 – In Australia **19 hours later … {OH MY GOD LONG TIME lol}** (Jacquie’s POV)

We get off the plane and walk to get our bags, We look around for Mark, We find him.
“OH MY GOD Jacquie there he is,” she says.
She leaves me with the bags and runs up to him and hugs him.
I roll my eyes and pull her bags and my bags over to him.
“Hey Jacquie” he says and tries to hug me. I pull away from him and glare at him.
“What’s up with her?” he asks mum.
“Oh she likes some guy who’s a freak and I said he was and now she pissy” she replies.
OH MY GOD why is my mum talking about me like that.
“Stupid bitch” I say under my breath.
He obviously hears me and looks at me and then takes Mums bags and leaves me with mine to carry to his car. Well I hope it’s a car I don’t wanna be stuck in like a truck or something. We walk to a really nice car that turns out to be his. He opens the boot and puts our bags in. Then closes it and opens the door for me.
“What a gentleman” mum says to me.
I roll my eyes as he does the same for her, I get in the car and close the door, Mum and him get in the car too. I put my seatbelt on and so do they and we drive away, I look at the building as we go by them.
“So where exactly do you live?” my mum asks.
“You’ll see,” he says.
“Picked out a school for Jac?” she asks.
“Well there’s a nice Performing Arts school really close to where I live,” he says.
I roll my eyes. ‘Great a posh school just what I need’ I think to myself.
“By the way in Australia we have primary school and high school you're in high school cause high school is years 7-12” he says to me.
“I don’t care I perfer New Jersey” I say.
“Jacquie stop it” mum yells at me.
I go back to looking out the window. We begin to drive up a driveway.
“Whoa is that your house?” mum asks.
“Yeah” he replies.
I look out the house. It was big and one of the most beautiful houses I had ever seen. OH MY GOD is this guy rich?
“Umm Mark are you … Rich?” I ask.
“Not rich, but I do have a lot of money” he says.
“So you're rich?” I ask again.
“Fine rich, but not really” he says.
He pushes a button and the garage door opens. And he parks the car inside. We all get out and he opens the boot and carries a couple of bags as do mum and I. We go through a door into a hallway, which leads to the living room. I look around this place was so modern.
“Okay Jacquie your room is the last room on the left” Mark says.
“Okay” I reply and walk to the door of my new room.
I slowly open the door and look inside. The room was way bigger than the one in New Jersey and this time it was black! The colour I always wanted my room to be.
“OH MY GOD” I yell putting my bags on the ground.
“I’m guessing you like your room” Mark says standing in the doorway.
“Yes, Is this like the only black room in the house?” I ask him.
“Yeah, I got this room painted when I got back since I know you always wanted a black room” he says to me.
“Oh my god thanks” I say and then hug him.
I quickly stop and back a fair bit off.
‘Did I just hug him?’ I ask myself.
He turns and walks away.
‘Why the hell did I hug him?’ I ask myself over and over.
“Oh well” I say aloud.
I start unpacking. And then a thought of Gerard pops into my head. I run out to mum.
“Can I call Gerard?” I ask.
“It’s too late” she tells me.
“Damn” I say.

I go back into my room and look for my phone in my bag. I find it and turn it on. (3 new messages) I begin to read them.

Matt: Hey Jac, We found Gee and he told us everything, Now he won’t shut up about ya look what you have started jokes.

Ray: So you in Aus yet?

Gerard: I miss you, did you get my surprise yet, call me when you can, Luv Gee gee.
‘Gee gee’ I say to myself with a laugh ‘Aww that’s so cute, but what does he mean surprise?’
I try to txt back but it won’t let me.
“Umm why isn’t my phone working?” I ask.
“You need to get a new phone when you’re here, We can go shopping tomorrow and I will get you and your mum and new one” Mark replies.
“But I want to txt Gerard” I say to him.
“You're gonna have to wait” he says.
‘Damn another set back’ I say to myself.
I walk back into my room and continue unpacking. I go back into my bag and find a piece of paper. I open it up. OH MY GOD IT’S A DRAWING OF GERARD’S IT SO AWESOME. I turn it over to see some writing: Dear Jacquie, I’m gonna miss you heaps, and I know I will see you again sometime and I will still love you as much as I do now I promise, Love Gerard.
‘Awww I wanna see Gerard right now’ I think to myself.
“Do you have a photo frame that would fit a A4 piece of paper?” I yell out to Mark.“Yeah” he says.
I walk out and go up to him.
“Can I please have it?” I ask really nicely.
“Sure” he says and walks into a room and comes back with a frame.
“Here ya go,” he says. I take it from him.
“Thanks” I say and quickly go back in my room and put the picture in the frame and set it on the table in my room.
Yet again I start unpacking. I swear if I have to stop again I’m just gonna stop and not start for like an hour. I laugh to myself. I find my skateboard yay, BUT no not gonna stop. I put it next to my door. I start pulling my clothes out and put them into the closet and drawers. When I finish its just other stuff I’ve brought such as my drawing pads and art stuff. I place it on the table and in the other drawers. That’s it I can’t be bothered doing anymore.

I walk out and find Mark cooking.
“Watchya cooking?” I ask.
“Steak and chips” he replies.
“Right” I say, “So do you have a TV?”
“Yeah it’s over there,” he says pointing to another room.
“You mean this isn’t the living room?” I ask.
“Nope more like a family/dining room” he says.
“Umm okay” I say and walk into the other room supposedly the living room.
“Do you need help working it?” he asks.
I look at the TV it was massive.
“Umm yeah I think,” I say.
He comes in and pushes a couple of random buttons and the TV turns on.
“Okay this button changes the channels this one changes the volume and that’s about all you need,” he says. Passing me the remote.

A while later…
Mum had finished unpacking and was watching TV with me.
“Dinner's ready” Mark tells us.
We walk out and sit in the dining room. Mark comes around with our food.
“Thanks” I say as he gives me mine.
I begin eating and so does mum, Mark gets his and joins us. It’s quiet until mum breaks the silence.
“So when do you wanna start school?” he asks me.
“Never” I reply
“Jacquie” mum says a little annoyed by my answer.
I shrug at her.
“Well we have to enroll you sooner or later” Mark says.
“Sooner definately, really soon” my mum says.
“Well at the moment I believe that everyone’s on holidays” Mark says.
“Okay good” I say.
“Well okay anyway you girls probably need some stuff so we are definately going shopping tomorrow right?” Mark says.
“Right” I say. ‘Let’s see if Australia likes Goths’ I think to myself.
“Okay then” Mark says.
Then it goes silent yet again.

We all finish dinner and I go and watch TV again but get bored and go in my room.
I start drawing some random stuff. First the buildings of the city, then I tried drawing a plane but that stuffed up, then I tried drawing this house but stuffed up and got angry and then I tried drawing Gerard. I tried so hard but no matter how hard I tried the drawing just didn’t look like him. It looked imperfect and I wanted a picture of him that actually looked like him. I gave up and decided to go to bed I was tired cause I couldn’t fall asleep on the plane. So it was easy to fall asleep.