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Author's Note: Hey ppl! Welcome to chapter two and in the previous chapter I forgot to mention that Jennifer's room has got a lot more, so sorry about that!
Disclaimer: I don't own anything
Jennifer awoke to the sound of birds
She looked at her clock, 5 AM
"Geez" she thought as she got up "Not again, the same time!"
She opened the door and tip toed out onto the green velvety carpet
Everything was silent and no one was up
She smiled to herself and went to the bathroom humming because it was her seventeenth birthday
She then returned to her room after she had showered and got dressed into a pair of black jeans, a black striped full length sleeve top with `Wot R U Lukin ?` written in white across it and she also put on her favourite pair of black knee high heeled boots with spikes on the heels on
She checked her reflection in the mirror and did a twirl
Perfect, the only problem was her hair; it was bone straight and refused to curl no matter how hard she tried
She brushed her midnight black locks out before until it was sleeker than a Panther's coat after she'd blow dried it
She never put her hair up unless there was a reason so it hung to her waist in its lustrous locks, girls would literally kill for the rich life she led
She ran her fingers through it as she sat in her spinning chair thinking about her dream
It had been about magic, it was rather odd and everything was distorted
She went to her dresser and opened the first drawer, hair stuff
She took out two hair grips and pinned her fringe out of her face so her line of sight was clear
She closed that one and opened the second one
Make- up, she didn't bother with that stuff but her friends forced it on her as a gift and she was meeting up with them later so she put on clear lip gloss and saw the eye-shadow set that her best friend Janine had bought her
She reluctantly got out the box and opened it; the shades were all neutral colours so she decided on a soft grey and applied it along with the silvery eye liner that came in the set
She closed the box when she was done and put it back and then caught sight of another box of make- up that her other best friend Vanessa had bought her
She got it out and opened it; this box contained various colours of mascara and nail varnish
She took out a black bottle of nail varnish and applied it waiting for it to dry and when it had she applied a coat of black mascara
She put that box back after she'd closed it and closed the drawer
She didn't bother opening the 3rd one for it contained her diary and a number of photo albums from her childhood
She stood up and stretched checking the clock on her wall
It was 6 AM
She tuned on her TV and checked the channels, nothing was on and she had seen her favourite DVDs and Blu- Ray films countless times
They still wouldn't be awake at this time but her friends were
She picked up her cell phone from her dresser sitting on her chair and dialled Janine's number
Janine picked up
Split Screen
"Hey" Janine said
"Wassup J?" Jennifer asked
"Oh nothing just the usual" Janine said
"How was the Caribbean?" Jennifer asked
"It's really hot there and I'm glad I'm back in Hong Kong, so how's your hols been?" Janine said
"One word: BORING" Jennifer said
"It was the same for us, I mean we only did a handful of cool things like surfing and snorkelling" Janine said
"Really? How was surfing?" Jennifer asked
"A little hard really but still cool" Janine said
"I still prefer figure skating even after that comment" Jennifer said
"You can say that again sista!" Janine agreed
"Yeah" Jennifer said
"So, I'll meet up with you and Vanessa at the mall, about oneish, I'll tell her okay because she's probably still asleep" Janine said
"Okay, I'll see you then" Jennifer said
"Bye"
"Bye"
End of Split Screen
She sighed happily checking the time
It was five past
"Dammit!" she muttered to herself and then caught sight of the blue sky out side
It would rain later, she could just tell
She shivered as the wind swirled around her
She closed the window and locked it and went to the fire place at the front and sat down in front of it ob the Persian rug shivering a little
She rubbed her arms as she crossed them
An idea came to her mind as she caught sight of the logs in the fire place
Summoning up her courage she breathed a fire ball at it
There was a roaring fire instantly glowing in the darkness
The warmth washed over her and she smiled to herself because the fire alarm hadn't gone off and nothing had caught fire
She got up and got a book off of the shelf, she knew where they all were because she'd gotten used to it over the past few years and walked over to her wardrobe
It towered over her and was in good condition considering it was at least a few centuries old
She opened it and took out a little lamp and lit it walking back to the rug she sat down and set the lamp on the floor and opened the book
It was written in ancient Chinese but she could read and understand it and read until it was 9 AM and the fiery embers in the fire had died down
She closed the book and turned off the lamp returning them both to their respectful spaces
She opened the door and stepped out closing it after her
She passed the Jade's room and all was silent so she was awake
She smiled to herself and went past to the stairs and went down into the kitchen were their mother Catherine was cooking Fried Eggs, Their father, Dave, was reading the newspaper in his seat and Jade was playing a video game
"Morning Sunshine" Dave said
"Good morning dear" Catherine said
"Mornin' sis!" Jade said
"Good morning people" Jennifer said closing the door and sat down at the counter with others
"Sleep well?" Dave asked
"Nope, still waking up at five" Jennifer said
"Sleepy head over here needs to take some lessons from you" Dave said ruffling Jade's hair
"Dad!" she protested "I wake up at 8 and it's totally fine"
"I agree with dad though" Jennifer said "Because you were almost late on the last day of school before the summer holidays started, remember?"
"Almost" Jade pointed out
"Still" Jennifer said
"Jen, are you Goth or an Emo?" Jade asked
"Whatever gave you that idea?" Jennifer asked surprised
"You always wear black" Jade said
Jennifer shook her head saying
"Honestly, Jade, the things you think of" Jennifer sighed and then turned to her mother "Mom, I'm going out with Janine and Vanessa, is that OK with you?"
"Yes, it's fine with me" Catherine answered and then placed down the plates in front of them and the food and after breakfast Catherine said
"I think you'll find a surprise in the front room for you"
"Okay" Jennifer said and walked into the front room and her jaw metaphorically hit the floor as she saw it
"I told you dad, she'll be surprised" Jade said in a sing song voice as she came
The room was full of wrapped presents from all of her relatives from all corners of the globe
There was knocking at the door and Jennifer said
"I'll get it"
She went over and opened the door and there was a delivery man with a huge truck behind him
"Are you Miss Jennifer Chan?" he asked
"Yes that's me" she said
The man then called over his shoulder
"Yo Joe! This is the place; bring 'em in"
There were several other delivery men who came with present of all shapes and sizes
They deposited them in the living room and then left after she'd signed for them
"Are you going to open them or what?" Jade asked tossing her a parcel that was wrapped in blue wrapping paper and pink ribbon
"Okay" Jennifer said opening it after they'd all sat down
It was from her Spanish cousin Raphael who lived in Spain
It turned out to be a set of Chinese books on spells
"Oh my god he remembered!" she said setting them aside after taking a look at them and passing it round for the entire family to see
Jennifer opened another present that was box shaped and wrapped in purple wrapping paper and yellow ribbon
"It's from Tessanee" She said excitedly remembering her dark haired Texas born cousin
It turned out to be a collection of videos on Vampires including Van Helsing, Dracula 2000, Dracula: Dead and loving it, Underworld: Awakening, Umbrage, Prowl and Ninjas VS. Vampires
"You are totally obsessed" Jade told her sister flatly as she passed them round
"I am not!" Jennifer countered
"Whatever" Jade muttered as Jennifer opened her presents, marvelled at them and passed them around
"OK, how are we gonna get this upstairs and that in the bin?" Jade asked "It's impossible"
"With Magic" Jennifer said
"I gotta see that" Jade said
"Yes, I wonder how good you're doing at the banishing and teleporting spells" Dave said
Jennifer concentrated and summoned the magic within her and the present began to shimmer going white before disappearing upstairs where they were put in good places and the rubbish was squashed into the bin outside
"Excellent" Catherine said giving her a hug
"Thank you Mom" she replied blushing
"Time for my present" Jade said handing her a red box about the size of a DVD case
"Aww, Jade you didn't need to" Jennifer said giving Jade a hug
Jade went red
"Well I sorta wanted to" she said after Jennifer released her
Her eyes widened as she saw Jade's present
"Jade thank you!" she said giving her little sister another hug for the beautiful necklace she'd got
It was silver and had an opal set in the heart shaped pendant
"Okay Jade, the blindfold" Catherine said as Jade handed her a blindfold
After she'd explained what was going to happen when they put it on Jennifer allowed her mother to tie it on tight
They then led her out to the garage and Dave opened it
"Alright you can take it off Sunshine!" he said beaming
Jenifer took it off and gaped at the Toyota Hybrid Sports car
"Here you go Sunshine" Dave said giving Jennifer a box that was scarlet and roughly the same size as a box for a ring
She opened it after thanking them and hugging them
It was a pair of car keys
"Oh my god thank you ssssssssoooooooooo much!" she after she'd clicked the button and the car lights lit up
She hugged them and thanked them a million times
"Okay, I'm going to the mall, see you later!" Jennifer sang as she drove out of the gravelly drive to meet her friends
She drove up to the mall and parked the car and waited leaning on the bumper until her friends noticed her
"Oh my god happy birthday Jenny!" they squealed hugging her
"Thank you" she said after they'd released her
"This is what my Mom and Dad got me" she said indicating to the car
"It's awesome!" Vanessa said admiring the silver car
"Hey, where'd you get that necklace from?" Janine asked
"My sister, Jade, she got it for me" she said and proceeded to tell them about what her other gifts were and where'd she got them from and got her purse out ready for some extreme shopping after she'd put Vanessa's and Janine's gifts away and thanking them for them