A/N: I know I still haven't finished 'A New Beginning' yet but I had this idea for a new story and I started on it today and I already have two and a half chapters done for it because I had a big spark of insperiation today. :) Anyways, I hope you like the new Idea I have. I know this story line has been done before serveral times but I just had the idea of having Amy go to a boarding school and rooming with a guy was a good idea. Only I decided to put in my own twist. So Anyways I hope you like this chapter and the whole story from what I have so far because I really like this idea and so far I'm really into writing this story and I WILL NOT forget about ANB, I'll take turns updating between the two stories. I know it might be alot to take on but I'm really excited about this new story and I just had to post it up and see what you guys thought. I hope you all like it! So please Read and REVIEW because I LOVE reviews!
Story Summery: (PLEASE READ) Sixteen year old Amy Fleming's foster parents send her to a prestigious boarding school in Virginia called Eastern Bay Academy or EBA for short. Amy never asked to be sent, she didn't want to go to a stupid, fancy boarding school but her wealthy foster parents thought it would be best for her education if she went. What Amy doesn't know is that previously EBA was an all boys school but this year the board was making an exception. Five lucky girls had gotten accepted and Amy is one of the 'lucky' five. That meant there was going to be Five girls living with Four Hundred and Ninety-Five boys. Amy was the latest one to be accepted and all the other rooms are full so the school makes a crucial decision. They decide that Amy will be paired with a male roommate. It just so happens that her roommate is the Dean Of Admission's grandson. Will romance develop between Amy and her roommate or will they develop an undying hatred towards each other? Will Amy make new friends or will she rebel and become the most hated person at her boarding school?
Disclaimer: I do not own Heartland or any of it's characters. This fanfic is based losely on the books 'Heartland' by Lauren Brooke. So far I only own the plot, Nick and Sarah and I made the Academy and the Dean up. Please don't sue, lol, kidding. Actually not really, getting sued would be horrible. :(
Prologue – Leaving Home
"Amy!" a voice called out in the darkness.
16 year old Amy Fleming ignored the voice and pulled her blankets around tighter around her and turned over on her side. She cracked open one eye to look at her alarm clock and almost jumped out of her bed in shock when she noticed the time. It was Seven o'clock. Who in the right mind would wake up a teenager at 7 o'clock on a freaking Friday morning when she had off?
"Amy!" this time the voice was more firm.
Amy mumbled a string of curses at whoever would be so stupid as to wake her up at this ungodly hour in the morning. She then proceeded to pull a pillow over her head only to have it yanked off of her as soon as she was starting to get comfortable again. Would this person ever give up!?
"Amy honey, you have to wake up. You know what today is." The voice warned her.
Amy groaned again but this time from the thought of what was planned for that day. Today was the day she was being sent to Eastern Bay Academy, her own personal hell. She didn't want to go to a boarding school. Boarding schools were filled with a whole bunch of stuck up preps or full of nerds from what she had heard from her friends. She pouted slightly and then sat up in her bed and turned on the light on her bedside table. The light from the lamp illuminated her previously dark room and she saw her foster mother standing before her with a grin plastered on her face.
Amy's foster mother was slender and tall with long blonde hair and bright green eyes. Today she was wearing a white v-neck blouse with a sky blue undershirt underneath it and a midnight black pencil lined skirt that came to her knees and a pair of strappy black high heels. She wore a diamond silver chain necklace that Nick had gotten her for Christmas the year before and a matching silver diamond bracelet.
Amy had been in foster care ever since her biological parents, Tim and Marion Fleming, had died in a plane crash three years before. For the first year after her parent's death she had been sent from foster home to foster home never staying anywhere for very long but now she was living with Nick and Sarah Stone, a wealthy high-class couple in their thirties that had no idea how to deal with an angst-y teenager, for about two years now.
"Sarah!" Amy groaned and threw her second pillow at her foster mother.
"Amy!" Sarah retorted and smiled at Amy who just glared back at her. How could she be so cheery in the mornings? "You know what today is!" she squealed slightly.
Amy cocked her eyebrow and frowned, "Today is the day I'm going to that stupid boarding school."
Amy almost smirked at the look on Sarah's face when she called the boarding school stupid. Now it was Sarah's turn to frown, "Now Amy this school is very important. You will get everything you want there and maybe you will meet some good friends. This is best for your education. Nick and I have pulled a lot of strings to get you accepted here and you should be thankful. Eastern Bay Academy is one of the best schools in the country. Why can't you be happy about it?" Sarah asked sadly.
Amy felt a little bad. Sarah and Nick were only thinking about what was best for her. Nick and Sarah weren't the worst people in the world, in fact Amy had actually grown to like them in a way but they still weren't her parents. Nobody could ever replace her parents. The least that Amy could do for Sarah and Nick was act like she cared.
"I'm sorry Sarah I'm just really tired this morning. I didn't mean what I said about the school. I'm actually looking forward to going although I'll miss you guys." Amy said with fake innocence. The last part was true but everything else was completely a lie. She didn't want to go, she wasn't looking forward to it and she meant everything she had ever said about the school.
A grin was on Sarah's face again in no time after Amy had spoken, "Really?" she asked.
Amy nodded, "Of course." She lied.
Sarah sat down on the bed next to Amy and put her hand on Amy's shoulder. "You'll do great Amy and we'll defiantly miss you around here too." She said sincerely.
After Sarah said those words she got up off the bed and straightened her skirt and put on a prompt smile. "We will be leaving in about two hours so I suggest you shower and get dressed and then make sure you have everything you need before we get ready to go." She suggested.
Amy laughed a little, "Sarah you know I have everything I need, you have made me check through my things at least fifty times in the past week. I'm not forgetting anything." Amy reassured her.
Sarah nodded. "Okay, well I'll see you downstairs when you get ready." She said and then left the room, shutting the door behind her with a soft click.
Amy sighed and ran a hand through her long light brown hair. She then glanced around her room that she had been living in for about two years now. Her room was very large in size and had a large mahogany door in the eastern side of the room. Her queen sized canopy bed was placed in the center on the northern wall with a mahogany bedside table on both sides of the gigantic bed. Two other large mahogany doors on the southern wall lead to her double sized walk in closet and her own bathroom.
Amy pulled her knees closer to her chest and wrapped her arms around herself and looked out the bay window on the western wall. She could see her backyard from the bay window. She saw her black Labrador retriever, Lucky, running around in the backyard with Nick.
She smiled. She was going to miss Lucky almost as much as Nick and Sarah. She almost couldn't believe she was leaving already. She had to go to another new place and make new friends. At least she would still be in contact with Sarah and Nick though. All of her other foster parents hadn't even tried to talk to her after they had given her up but Nick and Sarah were different. Nick and Sarah liked her and were only sending her to the boarding school for a better education.
Even though she knew her foster parents had good intentions she still knew that this was going to be hard.
-x-x-x-
Amy decided that she should get ready so she slowly got up from her bed and walked over to her dresser by her bay window and grabbed a pair of tight hip hugger faded jeans and a lacy red tank top from her drawers and then walked into her bathroom.
After taking a shower she threw on her clothes and then blow dried her hair with her extra blow drier that she wasn't going to take with her. Amy had left a few things behind that she could use when she came home from her boarding school on breaks or if she just wanted to visit home.
After her hair was blow dried Amy straightened her long light brown hair and then slipped on a red headband that matched her red tank top. She put on her black eyeliner and mascara and then put some cherry flavored lip gloss on her lips and then looked at her appearance in the mirror. She thought she looked decent and then left the bathroom and went back into her room.
She pulled on a black jacket and then slipped on a pair of her favorite converse and then grabbed her toiletries bag from where she had put it on her bed after she had left the bathroom. She then checked her room for anything else she was missing, books, cds, movies, excreta that she didn't have packed yet. She didn't find anything so she started to make her way to her door. She turned and took one last glance at her room before shutting her heavy door behind her and making her way down the elegant hallway in her three story Victorian house and down the grand staircase and to the dining room where she knew Sarah and Nick would be waiting for her.
-x-x-x-
When she got to the dining room she saw Nick and Sarah waiting for her, just like she had thought. Sarah had a few tears in her eyes and Nick looked a little teary eyed himself.
Nick was a tall, muscular but thin man with short midnight black hair and piercing green eyes. He had on a plain dark blue button down shirt and a pair of black slacks on and a matching black jacket on over the dark blue shirt. He had on a pair of shiny black shoes. Amy knew that he was dressed up because he was going to be going with her to the academy and was dressed up to see the Dean of Admissions. She knew that Nick and the Dean were pretty good friends but Nick still dressed up whenever they had a meeting or something.
Amy was a little disappointed that Sarah wasn't going to be coming with her and Nick to the Academy but Sarah had an important business meeting that she couldn't get out of no matter what and she was forced to go instead of coming with Amy and Nick to EBA.
Sarah smiled through her tears and reached forward to hug Amy, "You looked beautiful Amy."
Amy smiled, "Thanks Sarah."
Nick cleared his throat, "I hate to break this up but if we are going to get to the Academy by 11 o'clock we better get leaving." Nick said sadly.
Sarah nodded through her tears and released Amy from her death grasp. "I'm going to miss you so much Amy." Sarah said.
"I know, I'm going to miss you both so much." Amy said softly.
"Call often and you know you can visit us anytime." Nick said.
"I know." Amy replied.
"Do you have all of your things ready?" Sarah asked.
Amy nodded, "Yeah I left the things down in the parlor like Nick said to last night."
"Georgiou took all of your bags out to the limo this morning. Everything is set and waiting for you out in the limo." Nick told her.
Amy reached forward and gave Sarah one last hug before she and Nick left. Sarah waved as Amy and Nick got into the limo waiting for them in their circular driveway and was still waving as they drove off towards the Academy.
"Are you nervous?" Nick asked.
Amy thought a moment, "A little bit." She said truthfully, "I've never been to a boarding school before so this is defiantly something new for me."
Nick chuckled lightly, "It defiantly is but you will do fine Amy, I know you will. And you will like it at Eastern Bay too, the campus is wonderful and the students are really friendly, or so I've heard." He told her happily.
"Well that's good to hear." Amy said and then she and Nick fell into a comfortable silence for the rest of the drive there.
-x-x-x-
A few hours later the limo pulled up to a large sandstone four story castle like building. There were big arched windows all along the bottom level of the school and at the center was a large bell tower with a big brass bell at the top with a gigantic clock face above the bell. Below the bell and clock tower was a pair of huge oak doors with the letters EBA carved into them.
The school reminded Amy of a cross between an old fashioned college, an old English Catholic Church, the Big Ben clock tower in London and a medieval castle. There was a light tan brick circular driveway that led the bell tower and the large carved doors. The limo stopped right in front and Amy stepped out of the limo as Georgiou opened it.
Amy gasped at the beauty of it all.
Nick chuckled again, "It's amazing, isn't it?" He said.
Amy nodded, "It's so…" she searched for the right words. "I can't even begin to describe it."
"Yeah, this place is gorgeous. It's been around for centuries they think it was made in the early 1600 or 1700's and it has been in perfect condition ever since." Nick explained.
"Wow." was all Amy could say at that point. After a few moments of taking everything in she then added, "I can't believe I'm actually going to live here." She said.
"I know, it's defiantly a real treat." Nick said.
There were a few students out in the courtyard, from what Amy noticed there were all boys, Amy didn't see any girls but Amy was sure that maybe the girls didn't like to go outside in the sticky and sweaty August heat. Amy took a deep breath and waited until Nick was at her side before they made their way into the school.
Nick led her through the hallways and up a large staircase. As Amy had walked through the halls she noticed that the hallways were littered with boys, she had yet to see a single girl in the whole school so far. Though she had to admit that most of the boys she had seen so far were really hott. She wondered why she hadn't seen any girls so far, they had all stared at her with wide eyes and had pointed and whispered and looked her up and down as she had walked by.
'It's like they had never seen a girl on campus before. ' She thought to herself.
Amy just ignored them and continued to follow Nick until they reached another large oak door with a golden plaque that said, 'Dean of Admissions' on it. Amy gulped and then held her breath as Nick knocked on the door. She wasn't sure why she was so nervous but she had a feeling in the pit of her stomach that whatever she was going to find out while she was in that office was going to be horrible.
So that was the Prologue for the story and if you guys like it and I get some awesome reviews I will post the next chapter up Monday or Tuesday (Jan. 14th or 15th) but if not...it might be a little bit before you get a new chapter... :(
NEXT CHAPTER: Amy and Nick talk to the Dean, Amy finds out some really suprising news that will totally shock her. Nick and Amy check out Amy's new dorm and Amy meets her new roommate.
Anyways, I really hope you guys like this. So please make me extra duper happy by reviewing my new story! ;) I'll love you forever if you do. lol Just kidding!