Prologue
I was five years old when it happened. They broke down the door and stormed in, there were five of them. I looked into their dark crimson eyes filled with hatred and I knew who they wanted. I heard low growls coming from their throats as they cornered my parents. My mom looked at me and I knew she wasn't scared to die; she mouthed "I love you Adrianna" and then they attacked. I stood there for a second longer and then I turned around and ran for it.
The New Beginning
It was a beautiful and sunny March Sunday, in the land of make believe, but her in Duels Ville Kansas it was a hot and very dry day. I've been living with my grandparents but after 12 years of housing a child and then a teenager my grandparents need to get away. They decided to move to Florida so they are shipping me off to my Dad's best friend's house, his name is Henry.
I am now 17 years old and a junior in high school. I have long, wavy, dark brown hair and bright green eyes. Everyone tells me I have my mom's beauty. Even though everyone tells me I'm pretty I don't always feel pretty, most of the time I feel ordinary. I am 5 ft 4in tall, I'm not one of those skinny girls who starve them selves, but I don't have love handles.
As I was driving around the town with the hood down to my pink convertible I thought of a new name for this town "Dulls Ville." There was one main road that went straight through the town. The roads leading to people's houses weren't even paved. On the main street, which was named "Main Street", there were small little stores owned by people in the town. Most of the stores sold goods that were produced on their farm, but there were a few hardware stores and candy/soda Shoppes. There was one gas station in the whole town; I let out a sigh of relief when I read the name. It was a Mobile thank the lord.
I looked at my GPS and pulled onto the street at the end of "Main Street." I was surprised when I looked to my left and found the High School. It was the biggest building in the whole town. It looked to be about 2 floors and about 12 acres wide. I was expecting the High School to be a one roomed building that held only 25 students.
Not to far from the High School I found Henry's house. I sat in my car and starred, I never could get over how beautiful the house looked. It has a wrap around porch and balcony's at every bedroom. The house was mostly white, but it had sunshine yellow shutters on each window. I stepped at out the car still staring at the house. I was snapped out of my trance by a dog parking. I looked down and there was killer standing at my feet wagging his tail and nudging my hand so I would pet him. Killer is Henry's miniature pet poodle. I heard a door slam and looked up to see Michael running down the driveway, in his boxers, calling Killer's name. Killer ran over to him and jumped into his arms.
"Hi Michael" I called from my car. I popped the trunk and took out my only piece of luggage. Michael was one of Henry's kids. He was the same age as me. He has dirty blonde hair and blue eyes. He is kind of good looking but if he got ride of all the pimples on his face he would look cuter. He is taller then me but not a lot taller. He is 5ft 10in tall. He is the co-captain of the soccer team so he is very muscular and very tan. He is very outgoing, from what Emily tells me he is part of the popular group.
Emily is Henry's other child. She has dirty blonde hair like her brother but her eyes are a hazel/blue color. She has an ordinary body build she isn't stick skinny but she isn't normal skinny either she is just average. She is very pretty but she hides her eyes with her bangs and she always wears her hair in a ponytail. She is usually dressed in baggy clothes. She is a very outgoing person but only when she's with someone she knows very well. If she is with a stranger she is very shy and doesn't say much.
"Hi Adrianna, do you need help with that." Michael ran over to help me with my luggage. I looked down and he was wearing ducky boxers. I laughed and pointed.
"Nice boxers." I laughed again and started heading toward the house. It was 9pm so I wasn't surprised that he was already ready for bed. We walked towards the porch, I admired their porch it was so beautiful. It was painted white and had beautiful designs on the pillars. In the back of the house there was a swing on the porch which you could sit on and look out over the lake. Michael opened the door for me and I stepped in. Their house was beautiful on the inside too. They had wooden spiral stairs leading up to each floor of the house. All through out their house they had wooden floors. In the room that the front door leads into there is a lot of pictures of pretty flowers hanging up and there is a huge rug that has WELCOME written across it.
As soon as the front door closed Emily, Henry, and Henry's wife Lauren walked over to us and gave me hugs. Henry offered to bring my luggage and me to my new room. My room was on the third floor. We arrived at a bedroom door that was painted pink and had my name in fancy letters on it. I looked down the hall and noticed that every door had some kind of label on it and then I noticed that Michael's room was also this floor but Emily's was not.
Henry opened the door and I was stunned. There were posters of all the famous boy bands and actresses and actors all over the room. The walls were painted a light bubblegum pink. The floor had a white rug with pink polka dots everywhere. The bed was a king sized bed with a pink bedspread and a whole bunch of pink pillows on it. Right next to my bed there was a bed side table with a touch lamp and a picture of my parents on it. The bed was located at the far left with one side of the bed right up against the wall. My closet which is a walk in closet was right across from the bed. There was a huge space in the middle of the room and then on the right there was a huge bookshelf, I love to read, and a huge stereo system that holds up to 5 CDs. Right next to the stereo there was a desk with my own laptop and phone on it. Dead center in the middle of the room there was a door leading to my own balcony. I gave Henry a huge hug.
"I love it Henry, it's my dream room." He smiled and put my luggage on my bed.
"We need to do something about your clothes supply. I mean after all you have a walk in closet to fill. We already had dinner if you get hungry there are leftovers in the fridge. Lauren and I are going to be going to bed soon because we have to get up at 4 in the morning to go to work. I will talk to you tomorrow about everything I promise. I hope you get settled in all right." He went to go close the door when he stopped and pointed.
"That phone over there is a separate line from the house." He smiled and left. I didn't know what I wanted to do first. I decided to walk out on to my balcony and check out the view. I walked out and on my right there was my own swing. The balcony was located at the back of the house so I had a clear view of the lake. I walked back inside and decided to unpack. I took out my CD holder and took out my Shania Twain CD. I placed it in the stereo. I didn't blast it but I put it loud enough so I could sing with out risking anyone hearing me.
By the time I was done unpacking the clock that was also on my bedside table read 9:30. I heard a loud thud outside my door. I shut off my stereo and opened my door. I found a guy I had never seen before sitting down laughing in front of my door. Michael was across from him only he was lying on the floor laughing.
"Umm boys what are you doing?" I asked curiously. They both scrambled up to their feet and tried to stop laughing but it was no good.
"Sorry… we…were…just…rough housing." Michael said still laughing. I looked at the guy next to Michael. He was gorgeous, he had pale skin and bright red lips that would have looked ridiculous on any one else but him. He had dark brown hair with blonde tips; his eyes were this greenish yellowish color. I have never seen eyes his color before. He was very muscular and was about 6ft 2in tall. I couldn't take my eyes off of him.
"Adrianna…This is Hayden. He's captain of the soccer team." I shook my head and snapped out of my trance. I held out my hand.
"Hi nice to meet you." He didn't stick out his hand he just nodded and walked away. Michael just stared after him. He waved to me and followed Hayden into his room. I walked back into my room and grabbed my drawing book. I walked out onto the balcony and sat down on the swing and started drawing.
I looked at my picture. Oops I thought to my self I didn't mean to draw him. I had drawn a picture of Hayden only he wasn't in the hallway I drew him at the beach with me next to him. Only I was yelling at him and he was just standing there looking at me. When I start drawing I kind of zone out and don't know what I'm drawing until it's done.
I looked at the clock it was 11 o'clock already. I hadn't even realized that the sun went down. I looked up and there was this huge bright light shining above me. I shrugged my shoulders and walked into my new bedroom. I found Emily on my bed sitting there like she had been waiting for me. I walked over and sat down next to her.
"Hi Emily How are you?" she looked at me and then smiled.
"Well I am fantastic and I was wondering if you could help improve my image because I really like one of Michael's friends and I want him to notice me because he is so so so so so so cute." She took a deep breath and continued. "So I'm asking you for help because I saw the way that Michael and Hayden looked at you. You are really really really pretty and I want to look pretty too." She spoke this so fast that I heard every other word. Then we both burst out laughing. We were laughing so hard that we were crying. The last time I saw Emily I was very hyper and I spoke really fast about my life and who I liked and how I wanted to change my image. I told Emily she should try opening up more but she refused to.
"That was good Emily. Very funny. Did I actually sound like that?" She turned to look at me and shock her head yes very fast. All of a sudden Michael came bursting into the room with Hayden walking behind him. I jumped up and closed my drawing book. The last thing I needed was Hayden to think I was some kind of freak.
"What's all the noise about? We were trying to play Halo very quietly and all of a sound we hear you guys laughing hysterically." Michael looked around to see what was so funny. Emily and I looked at each other and started laughing hysterically again. Michael ran over to my mirror to check and make sure there was nothing on his face.
"Oh I was just telling Emily how sexy you were in your rubber ducky boxers." Michael walked over to me.
"Oh really and why is that funny?" I looked to Emily and it was like she read my mind. At the same time we both grabbed his blue swishy pants and pulled them down.
"Because we wanted to do this." We said at the same time as we were pulling them down. He quickly bent over and picked his shorts back up. He walked out of the room like he was storming away from a huge fight with his best friend. Emily and I were laughing. I looked over at Hayden and he was on the floor laughing too. I smiled at him and he returned it.
"Hayden when I storm out you storm out." Michael screamed from down the hallway. Hayden stood up and tried to stop laughing but he couldn't. He winked at me and then walked out of the room still laughing. We could hear Michael saying something to Hayden but we couldn't make out what it is. All we could hear was Hayden still laughing.
"Bye Adrianna, see you bright and early in the morning. Remember we have school tomorrow." She got up to walk out of the room but then she turned around.
"I was serious when I said I liked one of Michael's friends and I wanted to change my image. So will you help me tomorrow?" She looked at me and for the first time I could see her pretty bluish, greenish eyes.
"Of course I will help you. Oh and before I forget we are taking my car tomorrow. I like to arrive in style."
"Oh My God like totally." Emily said in a cheerleader voice. She shut the door and I bust out laughing. I shock my head. What am I going to do with her, I thought to myself.
