Chapter 1: The Music In Me
My favorite movie of all time had to be The Music in Me. It was of course a musical, and who in the world doesn't love musicals?
Well honestly in my "perfect world", everyone loved musicals. My parents and Delilah my nanny, they were the only people who existed in my world. Weird huh? But that's how my "perfect world" has always been.
Ever since I turned 6, my parents had always kept me coped up in my house. Ever since that one sad day, I can only really remember going outside of the perfect world at least three times.
The first memory was icecream, my parents had taken me and my sister Amy out for some, and it was one of my best memories ever. It was also the same day my parents had bought me and Amy our first musical movie which was West Side Story, and I loved it, but honestly not as much as The Music in Me.
The second memory was when me and Amy went to the park, we loved to go on the swings and compete for who would go higher than the other. She was honestly my first best friend, I know at the age of 5 you don't truly understand that much but she was amazing.
Even though she was only 4 years older than me, she took care of me and actually found time to make me laugh. She told me how exciting school was, and I honestly couldn't wait to start. When that summer would end I would be starting kindergarden and I was nothing but excited.
And then the last memory, which was going to Amy's funeral. I didn't quite understand that the day before that when she went to practice would be our last time together, I still thought she would be coming back. I didn't understand that a happy, smart and pretty 10 year old like Amy would go to practice and would help out a small boy who was in the street and get hit by a car. She was a hero, but I still didn't understand that.
My parents were devasted, and I was confused. Although at the funeral when I saw her in the casket, I did start to cry and my parents and Delilah had hugged me. We all cried even harder together, and my Aunt June joined and after that day everything changed.
My parents decided I wouldn't be going to real school, they actually asked Delilah to be my new teacher, because they knew she had a past in teaching education, and bam she was my first and only teacher. My Aunt June one day visited and even invited us to go to the beach for a trip to get out, but my parents didn't like the idea and they soon got into an argument about how keeping me away from the real world wasn't going to always keep me safe and that's the last time I saw her.
It's been 13 years, and I am finally turning 18 tomorrow. Tomorrow would be the day that I become a young adult and I was excited. A couple weeks ago, I had already finished my schooling with Delilah who went to the school district to get my diploma. I was happy that school was over, although I do enjoy learning new things, especially music class.
I was lucky to have Delilah who knew how to play the piano, though she admits she didn't have such a nice voice but was happy when she heard me sing and admitted I had a beautiful voice and all I had to do was keep practicing and it could take me places. I wanted to believe her, but I knew that the only place I would be going was where I was at, and that was home.
Home for me, was the mansion, that was a nice neighborhood that was gated and away from the city. It was beautiful, I would look out the window and see the beautiful horizon of hills and trees, and even the sunset. But my favorite thing about the outside world was when it rained, it was my favorite sight ever.
Especially as I watch The Music in Me at the moment, it was the scene where they danced in the rain. I always wish I could do that, although I knew I wasn't much of a dancer, well I honestly never tried. My eyes wouldn't leave the screen of the rain dance scene, and they all sang "Let the rain fall, but let us never stop from dancing... dancing our hearts away." I sang along with a smile on my face.
"This really is your favorite scene huh?" Delilah laughed, as she folded some of my laundry. I smiled and nodded my head, I grabbed ahold of my faded red baby blanket, and continued to watch and sing out the scene and then it ended with the main characters Lena and Ron kissing in the rain and the movie ended with the music still playing and the black screen with the cast names and other stuff that I didn't pay much attention to.
"I swear I can never get tired of that movie." I sighed, I turned to look at Delilah who was standing a few feet away from me, she had her arms behind her back. "Everything okay Delilah?" I asked, curious of what she was hiding. She only grinned, "I know I should wait til tomorrow, but I can't. I'm just happy that your finally turning 18 Ally, I remember when you were just only 3 years old and I changed you and Amy's diapers and-" I interrupted her before she would continue to ramble.
"Thank you Delilah, I'm so happy you've become my friend. Your honestly like an older sister to me!" I smiled.
She smiled, and handed me two wrapped boxes, one was as big as a basketball and the other was as small as two of my hands. I slowly grabbed them, "I think I should wait til tomorrow to open them, I mean it doesn't seem right to open them yet." I admitted, looking at them.
Delilah giggled, her light brown eyes shining as she pointed to the clock. I laughed and saw that it was 12:05, already the next day. It was officially my birthday! Delilah tied up her long brown hair and put it up in a ponytail and sat down next to me, as I sat down on the couch and slowly teared away the wrapper of the huge pink covered box.
It was filled with two things, the first thing I pulled out was a brown bag that had long straps. "Your old bags are getting you know old, so I decided to get you this. It seems more sophisticated than the pink and white bags that your mom usually buys for you." she admitted, I laughed. "It's not my fault those are my mom's favorite colors." I said, smiling. And then I pulled out the next gift in the huge box, it was a dress.
It was a satin sweetheart shaped red dress, with flower straps that stopped at my knees just my usual style.
"It's perfect. Thank you Delilah! I love them!" I said, already hugging her, but she didn't hug back yet. "Not yet Ally, you still have one more gift. It's sort of a gift that me and your parents decided to get for you together." she admitted as I unwrapped the small blue box, and I smiled when I saw it was a new phone. "Finally!" I said, with a huge smile. My current phone was a flip phone that was in black and white,
and I was happy to see that I had finally gotten a smart phone. "Tell mom and dad I said Thank you!" I smiled.
"Don't worry, you'll see them tomorrow." she said, "But I thought they'd still be on their trip?" I questioned.
She smiled, "That was supposed to be a secret, but-" and she was interrupted. "It doesn't matter, because we're here!" a manly voice said. We both turned to see my parents, tired but smiling at me. I carefully put my gifts down and ran to hug them. "I've missed you guys!" I said, and they laughed.
"Thank you for the gifts, I really appreciate and love them." I said, and we all hugged. My world does seem pretty perfect huh? No worries, and I'm finally an adult, that means I can maybe actually go out to face the other world. "As long as your safe in your perfect little world, then that's all that matters to us." my mom said, with a small smile and I smiled back at her, "I love you guys." I said, and they said they loved me back. They really did their best to make my home a perfect world though, so I couldn't deny that it wasn't bad, but It honestly wasn't perfect for me. I wanted a change, and a change was what I would recieve the next day, at least I was hoping.
So I'm new here, I definitely love Auslly so don't worry they will happen. I like to have my stories take time, so it's more realistic in my oppinion. Hope you enjoy, Review please and thank you for those who read, it means a lot to me that you're giving my story a chance. :D