Ch.1

Arriving Home

Pandora was an eighteen year old girl with tan skin, black curly hair, chocolate brown eyes, pink cheeks and small lips. She was driving her purple Chrysler 300 to the San Antonio, Texas International Airport,finally deciding to go back to her homeplace. As she got in the airport, she made an arangement for her car to be sent to her a day later, and climbing the plane, she said goodbye to the U.S. Once on the plane there was no turning back, she was going back to Paris, France; to get distracted from all that she had lived in Texas, she started reading The DaVinci Code. Seconds later a guy older than her sat besides her with a book, too, the plane took off and Pandora stiffen her back, Paris was now her future.

After a long flight, the girl had taken a taxi cab to the location where she would be staying, Le Pavillon Jaures Apartments. During her ride, she could see all kinds of buidings that she barely remembered now. The Bois de Boulogne Park, the Church of Saint-Sulpice, the Eiffel Tower, and many more monuments. Seeing all these monuments, Pandora could see happy moments of her life passing by her eyes, and all the friends that she so desperately needed. About two hours later, the taxi stopped at the apartments. As she got out, she was surprised to find the weather colder than the airport.

"Merci." she said to the taxi man and paid him in Euros. She realesed a heavy sigh, and looking around, she went up to the room where she would be leaving.

The fast cars and the ring of a phone, startle the sleeping girl. "Halo?" she answerd still half-asleep.

"Mrs. Heewitt, your car will be arriving to Paris in an hour or so. It will be infront of your recindence." said the man that had made the arrangement for the car's arrival.

"If it's no problem, I would like to go pick it up," she said.

" That's perfectly fine," said the man and hungged up.

Up you go, Dora, she thaught and fifteen minutes later she was dressed and on her way to get a taxi.

Pandora was staring through the glass window when the driver said, "Pretty, isn't it?"

"Huh?" replied pandora confused.

"La Villete Park, it's pretty, right?"

"Oh, yes," she said, "Very pretty indeed."

When Pandora arrived to the airport, her pruple Chrysler received her with arms wide open. "Thanks," she said to the taxi man, paid him and drove back home. Five minutes before arriving to the apartments, she stopped to contemplate the beauty of La Villete Park and longged to walk to it, but it was getting late and she needes to buy her school supplies, and to rest her mind after such a horrid dream was also something she wanted to do.

"Next time, La Villete, next time," and continued her ride home.

As she arrived, right at the foot of her reserved parking spot, were a group of girls, who moved with a groan. One of the girls looked at Pandora like she recognized a niddle between many, and a swing of hatred hit her. As Pandora got out her car, she ignored the girls and walked towards the main entrance.

"Hey, you!" scremed one of the girls. She turned back to see who had screamed at her, and noticed that it was the one that had looked at her with hate in the eyes. "So, you are back, Pandora Heewitt," she said sarcasticaly.

Pandora tried to remember who this girl was but just couldn't. "Sorry, don't know you," she said and walked away. retriving the key to her room when she accidentaly bumped into someone. "I'm sorr... Taniah?" she said recognizing the girl before her.

The girl was short, black hair and eyes, with freckles. She looked at her and studied her for a moment. "Pan! You're back!" she exclaimed. they hugged each other, "You look the same, ecxept for your eyes. There's something foggy 'bout them. Did something happened?" she asked. Like back when they studied together, she was right. "You should come to my room tonight. We can talk there calmly," she offered. "I bet your problem has something to do with a guy."

Why did she had to bring up my problem? Pandora asked herself. "Thanks Taniah, but i can't today. May be some other day?" she offered hiding the pain in her voice.

"Sure! Well, got to fly, bye," she said hugging Pandora one last time. As soon as Taniah left, she ran to her room to release all the bad and painful memories Taniah's question had revived. Soon enough, she was taking her shoes off and laid down on bed, crying and eating the screams she wanted to let out. She was suffering so much, that she didn't feel when she collapsed unconsious. She was was having a dream, or better said, she was releaving one of her most outrageous anecdote.

She was packing her things to take a plane to Paris when there was a strong, hard knock on the door, she opend it. She was surprised to find Anna standing on the opposite side of the door. Anna was short, thin, blonde, blue eyed, and she was Kevin's sister.

"So you ARE fleeing!" she exclaimed. "Of course, now that Kevin's gone, you go! You sick jerk!"

Tears started forming in Pandora's eyes, and her voice cracked when she said, "Anna, please! There's nothing I can do now. Believe me, I'm leaving 'cause I don't want people like you judging me any longer!" They stared at each other for a long moment, tension finally arrising.

"You sick BASTARD! You made my beloved brother go because he didn't like you! WHO WOULD!" Anna screamed.

"Please go, I need to rest, " she said, Calmly pushing Anna out. I didn't make your brother leave... I loved him more than anything on Earth nad Heaven, she thought to herself.

But she was home now, her real home, and there was nothing she could do to go back in time. All her mistakes would banish once she started school and begin to study once more. School was only two days away and she needed to get ready for all the new experiences that a new school would present to her, and she still needed to find out where her cousin was, what kind of uniform the school used, and she needed to find out about her classes. The only thing she didn't need to do now was to just look back, she needed to look ahead and nowhere else; her arrival home had been tough, complicated and the last thing she needed was to keep on thinking about Kevin and The Atrocity they had both lived.