I rolled over, knocking down my Breaking Dawn. It hit the something-or someone-and made a bang sound.

'Gah!' Jenna suddenly yelled. I bounced up in my bed, shocked by her high-pitched voice.

'Jennie! What have I warned you about thinking before you shout? You nearly gave me a heart attack!' I said.

'It's because you-'she picked up Breaking Dawn. 'knock this book over and it hit my head!'

'Oh, I'm sorry. I'm just used to sleeping alone so much that I wouldn't give a damn if I knocked something over.' I wrinkled my nose at a… disturbing smell coming from outside.

'What is that torturing smell? Eww, I can't believe I'm feeling disgusted first thing in the morning, for crying out loud. What a day today is going to be. And guess what, I'm thrilled already.' Jen complained.

Jenna Teng is my best friend since I was… well, little. And, as if we're destined to be with each other, we went to the same middle school and now we're in the same high school.

I ignored her dramatic, yet meaningless problems and leaped out of bed to go outside. I twisted the doorknob and something horrible came radiating through air into my room and filled the room with a terribly smell.

Both of us slapped our hands onto our nose and mouth in an instant. 'Austin!' I shouted and ran down the stairs to see my 17 years old brother, Austin Teo pouring some purple substance into another beaker which was already giving out smoke.

'What exactly do you think you are doing, you empty minded freak?' I muffled furiously under my hand. I could feel the moisture of my breathe coming out of my mouth against my palm.

'Whoever gave you the permission to call me an empty minded freak- which I'm absolutely not.' he mixed some jelly-like blue powder into the already smelly beaker.

'Okay, fine. Genius, what are you doing?' Brainless freak. He's dumb enough already that he could be compared to a true dumb blonde.

'I'm simply yet genuinely mixing random substances I saw at this chemical shop.' In fact, I think he's the dumber one if compared to another make dumb blonde, which is impossibly impossible since I've never met a dumb blonde male before. Yet have I met a female dumb blonde.

I sighed to myself. I'm not a racist. I'm an ultra sweet girl who's just curious about if dumb blondes were fact or fiction but I think they're only exist in movies.

Most blondes in my school, as far as I know, are all smart like the second being of Einstein. At least they're all a thousand times smarter than Austin.

Aus suddenly laughed to himself. 'John and I are planning to prank on Lisa, since she threw water balloons at us.'

'Why don't you just use water guns to shoot her just like what the HSM3 crew did to Zac Efron?' I recalled how I laughed like a mad girl when I saw them prank Zac like that. It was a genius idea, well, better than whatever nonsense Austin and Johnny are planning, anyway.

Oh right, I should clear things out for you. First, me, Jen, Austin and my same age sister, Alexis study in this International school in KL. And various activities and events are planned for the year end. Yes, all of us had finish with examinations for the year, thank God. A variety of fun and awesome events that we'd never ever thought the teachers would plan. The event for this week is called Girl Rulers which involves all the girls on school campus. We would do whatever dumb stuffs we could think of to the boys-even teachers, incredibly hot teachers- and they must not act in return. It was heaven, for this week only. Next week will be called Boy Strength where the boys will do almost every freaky idea they could come up with to revenge the females. And you know boys, once they're crazy, they'll go wild. Lisa Lee, a girl from my class with her father as Chinese and her mother as Mexican, threw water balloons at Austin and Johnny and their friends.

'I thought Boy Strength is not started yet until next week.' Jenna sat onto the counter of our kitchen and took a gulp of her coffee.

Austin stopped then and stared at her like she was some crazy person just said something crazy. 'I know that.' He finally spoke. 'This is just an experiment. I could just see the image of her face when I make something up and put it under her chair so that everyone in your class thinks she farted.' Then Aus started laughing historically, in a way which he thinks it sounds evil.

Before I could crush his plans, Maria, our maid appeared in front of the door, repeating, 'I'm late, I'm late, I'm late… and what on earth is that smell?' she paused by the counter, looking at Austin.

'You are not late, Maria. We just woke up; awaken by Austin's ridiculous experiment.' I narrowed my eyes at him at him and he glared back.

'It wasn't my fault that you slept so late last night. I heard you playing Guitar Hero. You'll never beat my high score, Alana.'

I stuck out my tongue at him. 'Whatever. But the least I can do is beat you in common sense. Have you any idea what are you creating? It could lead to a massive explosion and we're all going to blame you if the house got burned down. No wait, if this whole block got burned down.'

My Mom gave birth, Chinese American, to the three of us and apparently, Austin was the luckiest to get blonde hair from my mom- no, my mom is not a dumb blonde- while I got brown and Adrienne got strawberry blonde. We don't look alike aside from our blue eyes which we inherited from our mother who had, surprisingly, green eyes. My dad's- Malaysian Christian- eyes are pitched black in color but his hair is brown in color.

Since my parents travel a lot, related to work, the three of us were left behind, taken care of from Maria. She's my maternal grandmother's maid which traveled with Mom back to Malaysia to be our maid.

We live in this penthouse at some condo near our school. Sometimes, we walk but sometimes we take the car. Drove by a driver, of course. Austin couldn't get his driver's license until he's eighteen. And that's just another year to go.

'Ha ha, that's a good one. But if I really were to burn down this house, your hair will be the cost of it.' He smirked at me.

I knew what he meant. It's ALL over his face screaming, 'I'll set your hair on fire and it'll burn the whole block down then you'll be bald!'

'I'm really enjoying this fight but aren't we late for something, Al?' Jenna said as she jumped down from the counter.

'Oh my God. We're late for school!' I ran for the stairs but paused. 'Wait, where is Alex?' I glanced around the living room but there were no sign of her.

Maria shrugged. 'Probably still sleeping. You girls change and I'll wake her up.'

I can't believe Alexis wasn't shocked to death with Austin's "experiment". 'I'll go wake her up. Why don't you make us breakfast, Maria? Please and thanks.' I smiled at her and skipped up the stairs. Confusing but I was in a bizarrely good mood today. I walked down the hallway and finally reached the last room at the end. I knocked on the door twice before going in. 'Hey, time to wake up. We're going to be late for school.' I popped my head in and glanced around her room. It sure didn't smell like Austin's shit but it smelled like… rose? That's the reason why she couldn't smell something that would make her scream until our ears go deaf. Alexis has a habit of screaming whenever something disturbs her very much. I went near her bed in her pink room. Yes, my sister is a psychotic lover of pink while I prefer purple and Austin preferably chose black but then went for blue when my mom went mad about black.

'Black meant bad aura and bad aura is not allowed in our house.' She said though she doesn't really return home that much. Actually, to be honest, I like black, too. I think it has this emotional feeling – not black aura – that suits me when I'm having mood swings. In fact, a quarter of my closet is filled with black.

'Black makes you look slimmer.' Jen had to say. She was, obviously, obsessed with how we look. Well, I do, too. Just not that much as her.

'Mm…' Alexis muttered into her pillow. 'Just wake up and get ready before we abandon you and you'll be left out when we destroy the boys' day today.' I reached for the door but something caught my eye on Alex's table. I smiled at the book.

Unfortunately, I hadn't been able to go out to search for a new storybook – did I mention I have this maniacally obsessing obsession with storybooks? - I've been reading Breaking Dawn repeatedly. The last sentence on the last page was just so sweet it made me cry every time I read it. I, Alana Teo have this awkward attitude and interest in things which most girls won't be interested in like video games, prefer reading stories than going out to party AND I don't dislike but I don't like the colors pink and yellow. I just think yellow is too bright and pink is everywhere.

If you'd ask me, I'll probably go for purple, black, blue and green. But I'm not that weird, of course.

One of the normal things about me is that I hate watching horror movies. I mean, which girl doesn't? Unless those "strong" women with bravery I look up to.

Speaking of books, maybe I'll stop by the mall to buy some more books to read. I admit my room has shelves full of romance storybooks. What a girl's got to do?

You couldn't help but get that thing you want, right?

'I don't get why you people LOVE to go school so early in the morning but go to the café there instead. Don't you think it's boring that café I mean.' Alexis suddenly groaned, which made me jumped a little when she broke the silence.

'We only go every day this week because we need to discuss with the others what to do for the prank of the day.' I turned to her, holding her book.

'Right. Oh yeah, come with me to the mall after school will you? I want to buy some-'

'New books? Me, too.' I interrupted. She nodded and stood up.

Walking into my room, I could hear Maria singing in the kitchen downstairs.

'You are the dancing queen, young and sweet, only seventeen. Dancing queen, feel the beat from the tambourine.' She has been singing that song A LOT since watching Mama Mia! with Alexis and I.

I got into my room and fished out a pair of denim shorts and a black tank top and was about to change into it when Jenna took it away from me.

'Will you please wear something much more attractive? You don't have to be over the top but something much catchier.'

She scanned through my closet and took out a pair of denim capris and a ribbed tank top then put into my hands.

'Like this. Now change into it.' She pushed me into the toilet. 'Sometimes, Al, you've got to be more fashionable. Especially when our school actually allows us to wear daily wear to school. We're considered very, very lucky that we don't need to wear those uniforms. You have to, you know, strut your stuff when it comes to chances like these.'

I sighed as I closed the door behind me. I do love shopping but I love dressing simple to school. To be more comfortable during classes. But I quickly changed into that outfit – which was quite comfortable – and walked out.

'You should wear heels with it. It makes you look more feminine.' Jenna declared, twirling her hair.

I frowned at her. 'I can't run in heels. I'll trip and fall flat on my face.' I scoffed.

But unfortunately, Jenny finds it stupid. 'I'm serious, Alana. Can't you see my face?' she gestured at her face, her black eyes narrowing.

'If you really want to catch Eric's attention, you should dress more… sexy.' She breathed out the last word and I nearly dropped burst out laughing.

'Referring to Seventeen Magazine, boys like girls who are original not fake. Furthermore, I'm not sure if I really like him, like him yet.' I turned around to hide my face which was currently burning.

Yes, it was true that I have some sort of interest in Eric Lee, an extremely talented football player in our school and is one of the top students in my class. He's kind, talented, hot, sexy, smart and hot.

I've only started noticing him early this year and well, to be honest, I'm not very sure if I like him as a friend or as a crush.

Eric is my best friend and he doesn't really know that I've took notice of him recently. But I doubt highly that in his world, I'm just his girl friend who plays sports with him and does other things other girls wouldn't do. Maybe he treats me as his buddy-to-fill-up-his-boredom. I've seen Eric talking to other girls before and other girls talk to him.

'Uh huh. Whatever it is, you have to catch boys' attention for one moment in your 16 years of life! Be sexy yet real, get it?'

Before I could answer, Austin slammed open the door.

'Hey, that's MY FRIKIN' DOOR NOT YOURS!' I cried and shoved him back. He rolled his eyes, 'I thought you care more about being sexy –' he did an air quote '- and be attractive than caring about your door.'

I glared at him. 'No. It was Jenna who wants me to be sexily confident.'

Austin was my brother so there's absolutely no point keeping the secret from him. Yes, he knew I'm interested in E and luckily, he doesn't tell because Austin likes to keep people's business to himself.

'Sure, sure. Breakfast is ready.' He waved and disappeared.

Jen and I went down and started eating when Maria sang again.

'Dancing Queen, la, la, la, da, da, da…'

'Will you stop singing that already, Maria?' Austin begged. 'It's so annoying; it's playing over and over again in my head. What About Now should be playing in my mind music player.'

I laughed. 'Since when you have a mind music player and what's it for? Replacing your brain so you can be brainless?'

He narrowed his eyes. 'Wait till' next Monday. You'll be the first to taste my, OUR, evil plans. We'll make you girls regret doing stupid tricks on us.'

'As if your tricks aren't stupid. Tricks are supposed to be fun and dumb. But maybe for someone like you, Austin, I guess it'll be dumber.' Jenna guffawed.

Austin did nothing but popped his earphone into his ears and turned the volume on so loud we could hear what song he was listening to. I nodded along with the song;

They said all teenagers scare the living shit out of me,

They could care less as long as someone will bleed,

So darken your clothes or strike a violent pose,

Maybe they'll leave you alone but not me.

'The boys and girls in the clique, the awful names that they stick, you'll never gonna fit in much, kid.' Jenna sang out loud, disturbing Austin with his nodding and foot tapping.

'Dude, you're like totally crushing my rhythm with your horrible singing. If you wanna get famous, go audition for American Idol.'

Jenna opened her mouth to fight back but Alexis who was surfing the net next to me – we have a computer on the kitchen counter for convenient use – suddenly screamed, 'OH MY GOD!'

'What?' I asked, pushing her lightly for scaring me earlier.

'Watch this! There's a fabulous new scene for Twilight the movie!'

Jen and I looked at each other and screamed, too, making Austin jumped now.

We got behind Alex and she clicked play on the screen. 'Why you girls obsessed so much about Twilight anyway? And that whatever Edward is just a fictional character.'

'Don't you dare to call Edward Cullen whatever Edward. I bet you're just jealous because most girls in our school dream about him more than they dream about you, am I right?' Alexis defended.

'Oh, please. How could you possibly think that a fictional vampire is better than me?' Aus snorted.

'Hmm. Let's see… because he's hot, he's graceful, he's beautiful, he's smart, he's caring, he's understanding, he's a vampire – a very disciplined vampire -, he's everything you're not and he's way, way hot. Now remind me again why is he not better than you?'

'Yeah, and even Robert Pattinson is way better than you, Aus. No kidding. Maybe you should take up some lessons on how to be more like Edward Cullen and less like Austin Teo.' I butt in, making everyone – except Maria – laughed.

'You know, it wouldn't hurt, really, to give your BROTHER some support like the support I gave you two as my SISTERS.'

'Rightt. Like you gave us any support at all. Remember that time when Alana had her first basketball match and –'

'Hey, I showed up.' Austin interrupted.

'Yes, you showed up. But you didn't show some support to Alana. You supported the other team instead!' Alexis frowned and threw her hands up in the air.

'Oh… that. Well, because it was my current girlfriend you were playing against. And Alana knew that I'd support her no matter what side I'm on.' he smiled sheepishly at me.

'Yeah, you supported me. Except you supported the other team more.' I declared.

Aus put his hands up and was going to say something when Maria put her hand in the middle.

'No fighting in the morning. Now less talk and eat more.' She gestured to our bowls of cereals.

'Why don't we take it to the field, then?' I raised my eyebrow at him.

'Field?' he meant to say but he was too busy chugging down his cereal that it sounded more like, 'File?'

'It means that I'll trick you later and you'll trick me next week.' I rolled my eyes.

Austin just nodded and continued digging into his bowl of cereal.

'We're finished, Maria.' Alex pushed her bowl away from her, leaving nearly half of the unfinished bowl of cereal on the counter and hopped off the stool chair. 'The three of us are taking caffeine later so better keep some space for it.'

Wait, what does she meant by "We're" and "The three of us"?

'Come on, Alana.' she nearly dragged me by pulling my shirt. I took my bag from the table and slung it onto my shoulder.

'Ugh. You've gotta learn to take handbags soon.' Jenny said in a disgusted tone as if my bag made her skin crawl.

I rolled my eyes. 'Chill, dude. You've got to learn to fit in with the cool and chill crowd.'

Alexis raised her eyebrows and something about her expression made us all laughed.