Lovely
Prologue
My name is Julia. But everyone calls me Julie or Jules. Either one is fine with me. I'm only sixteen years old. My parents are newly divorced and I'm conflicted on who I should live with. I mean it's nice that my dad is offering to take me in with his girlfriend (who he cheated on my mom with). But I don't want to live with someone who broke our family apart. I just want to live with someone who cares about how I feel about everything. So I am going to live with my mom. Hopefully this won't be a mistake.
Chapter 1
It was one year ago today that my parents got divorced. It's been hectic, but they lived through it. Me? Not so much. I don't like this divorced thing; they still talk to each other which is so weird for me. But here's the real weird thing. My mom is going to ship me off to a boarding school off the coast of California. She said that it would benefit me if I got away for a whole school year. I didn't disagree, but I was going somewhere I didn't know.
"Julia! Come down here and visit with your father and Amanda" my mother called. Amanda was my dad's fiancée. But this is just so weird that my mother would want to hang out with her...she was the reason my parents were divorced.
"I'll be right down!" I called back to my mother. I didn't want to see Amanda.
I walked out of my room with a sigh and went down the stairs at a slow pace. I didn't want Amanda to know how much she annoyed me. She probably already knew it.
"Sweetie!" My father called to me. He got up from the couch and came over to me and gave me a big hug. I smiled and hugged him back. He probably already felt my disgust with Amanda being here.
"Hey daddy" I smiled. I didn't know what else to do. It was instinct. "Do you know about this school year?" I asked in a bright voice.
"What about this school year?" My father asked.
"Now John, you don't want to make a fuss with this... but I'm sending Julia to a boarding school off the coast of California. I said that it'd benefit her if she got away from all this chaos that's been going on for this past year" Her mom said.
"May, this is bigger than just a divorce. I don't want her across the country just because she needs to get away."
"Dad, I'm going to be fine. I'll call you guys every night so you know I'm doing okay. Okay?" I asked crossing my fingers behind my back.
"Fine. But this doesn't mean I like it. Have fun pumpkin" her dad said.
"EEK!" I screeched and ran into my dad's arms. "Thank you so much daddy!"
Her dad hugged her back smiling. "So are you going to meet any guys? And if you do remember what we told you before..."
"Eww! Dad I think I know about safe sex. I am a 17 year old you know." But I was smiling all the same.
Amanda spoke up then "Have fun Julia" I looked at her and smiled. "Thanks Amanda"
"May..." Amanda said looking towards the kitchen. My mom screamed and said "The stove is on fire!" and she ran into the kitchen right where the fire was. I screamed for her to get back. But she never listened.
My dad let go of me and ran towards the kitchen with Amanda in tow. "MOMMY... DADDY!" I screamed. I didn't want them to get burned or die. I ran towards the kitchen, but it felt like something was pulling me back. I looked back and saw no one. I gasped and tried to go into the kitchen, but it felt like some kind of spell was cast upon me just to keep me from going into the kitchen. I screamed.
I heard the firetrucks. The fire men came in and grabbed my taking me out while I was hacking and crying for my parents. I was outside when something hit my face. I looked up to find it was raining. So water was hitting my face along with tears. I watched my house burn in the rain. I finally was so tired I fell back onto the soaked ground and passed out.
Chapter 2
I woke up in the hospital, an oxygen mask covering half of my face. I lifted my hand to yank it off when a nurse tsked me, and pulled my hand away from it.
I looked up at her and asked "Where are my parents and Amanda?"the nurse looked at me. She looked pale and didn't want to answer.
"Answer me please" I whispered.
"Julia... your parents are dead along with Amanda. Amanda died in the house fire and your parents are no where to be seen so we're thinking they were so burned we can't find a trace of them"
I gasped and put a hand to my mouth, even though the oxygen mask was in the way of my hand. I didn't care. Tears came to my eyes. My parents were no where to be found and Amanda was dead. I never really liked her, but she was still a part of my dad's life and was a part of mine too. I felt so guilty for being mean to her while she was alive.
I leaned back and closed my eyes. I didn't want to think anymore about my family being dead. I was still going to that boarding school, except I was going to go early. About a semester early. I didn't want to go, but since my parents and Amanda were gone I had to.
This last semester is going to be the hardest considering I'm only a junior.
Why did my parents have to leave me at a time like this?
Chapter 3
I'm out of the hospital now. But I'm going to my new school in a few hours. The hospital called an orphanage and told them where I was going, so they had one of their workers a nice woman named Luisa.
"Thanks again Luisa for helping me buy new things for my new boarding school. I'm going to be there for a while." I said smiling through tears.
"You're welcome darling, I'm just happy to help you after what had happened" Luisa said.
I just nodded; it was too painful to even think about the fire that occurred over a week ago. I didn't want to have people feel sorry for me either. I mean, I can handle this situation on my own, I don't need people to feel sorry for me or anything. I wasn't a charity case.
Luisa smiled and said "Well since you're done packing, let's get your things into the car so we can get you on your way"
I sighed, Luisa was nice and all but I really didn't like her over cheeriness. It was sickening. "Okay, thanks for everything Luisa"
Once my things were in the car and I was situated in the front seat of the minivan, Luisa leaned in and kissed my cheek and said "You're welcome sweetie, always remember that you're a strong girl and no one can change that about you." Then she turned and walked away from the car.
I smiled slightly to myself as we took off, once we reached the highway I took out my journal and started to write about my days since the accident, I was thinking if I wrote these down maybe sometime in the future I could read this again and see how depressed I was back when my parents disappeared and my dad's soon to be wife was dead.
The driver looked over at me, he saw me writing in my journal and said "I see you like to write down your thoughts?"
"Yeah, it helps me get things off my chest" I said smiling.
"That's good. So I never got around to saying my name, I'm Mikey"
I smiled slightly and said "Hi Mikey, I'm Julia... but you can call me Julie"
"Hello Julie" Mikey said.
He was a cute driver, I thought to myself. I don't know why I thought so. Maybe it's because he has shaggy brown hair with dreamy brown eyes that you could just drown in if you ever got the chance to look into them long enough.
Mikey broke the silence by saying, "I'm a student at the boarding school you're going to. It's a bitch trying to please a lot of the teachers, but be warned... they bite."
I gasped at that, I really hoped he was joking when he said that.
"I hope you're joking" I said smiling weakly.
"I'm afraid not... wait... you don't know what kind of school your parents are sending you to?" He asked his eyes getting wide.
"A boarding school off the coast of California..."I said slowly looking at his face as he drove on the highway.
He started to shake his head "Yes it's off the coast of California... but do you know what kind of boarding school it is?"
I shook my head; I was shocked at what he was trying to say. I didn't even know what he was trying to say.
"You Julie are going to a school for supernatural teenagers who have problems controlling their powers."
I gaped at him, not believing a word he was saying because they were riduclous.
