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Chapter One

"Would you stop sending me those chain letters?" I shouted at my laptop exasperated. Actually, I meant to shout at Patrick, who was the one sending me thousands and thousands of chain letters. I HATE chain letters, I really don't know why, but I do. I hate them very much. And I'm starting to hate Patrick too with his stupid chain letters.

I typed him an Instant Message:

Kelly Johnson: Stop it! Stop it this instant!

Patrick Cooper: What? What now?

Kelly Johnson: u know what! Stopitstopitstopit!!!

Patrick Cooper: What the heck are u talking about now? Ur already leaving and u start to pick a fight, how nice.

Kelly Johnson: shut up! I'm already in a BAD mood for leaving, I ask u guys for just one last tym to hang out 2gether but you turned me down bcoz there will be tests tomorrow and the day after. U told me that ul juz talk to me online...

Patrick Cooper: So? I'm talking to u online ryt now aren't I?

Kelly Johnson: oh yeah tnx for talking to me thru those chain letters!!!

Patrick Cooper: Ur welcome, so what's ur problem awhile ago?

Kelly Johnson: oh, I don't know, maybe the fact that Ur so stupid to realize that someone's being SARCASTIC, and that Ur 4getting hu I am and what I HATE!

Patrick Cooper: Whatever, I have another one for you...

Before I could reply, I received another chain letter from him. I clenched my fists and gritted my teeth. I just can't stand it anymore! I replied to him:

Kelly Johnson: that is it! The last straw! God, Patrick u just don't listen

Patrick Cooper: what now?

I rolled my eyes and didn't reply. Instead, I just appeared offline to him. That's when I heard my dad calling me. Actually, shouting to me. I got so absorbed to chatting with my friends online before I moved that I didn't hear my father was calling me already.

"Kelly! Kelly! Were all set. Let's go!" My dad shouted every word.

I imagined him looking red and every vein in his head jutting out. I tried to giggle but I couldn't. I did not what the reason was until I looked around me. I was inside my room but it was empty. All my things were packed up and inside the truck for moving. I looked at the bare walls of my room, which was once covered with lots of my pictures posted there with designs and a big painting by my cousin beside my bed.

"What are you still doing up there Kelly? You know we need to go." Dad shouted again.

I was a little bit teary-eyed when I got my laptop and headed downstairs.

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"So you see we still need to go and check the other houses in our choices." Dad said as he turned to a corner and out of Palms View.

Palms View; my home sweet home since I was a kid. And we were leaving it behind, all of my memories there, left behind. We were going to move a place where my parents and I will make new memories. But I did not want to; I wanted to stay here, together with my old memories.

"I'm tired." I said to my dad. I really was but not that much. I just didn't want to go see the other houses, it will just remind me that were not going to be living in our house now.

Dad stopped as the stoplight turned red, we were already in the city roads. "We are both tired Kelly, but we still need to do a lot of things. Unpacking, fixing-but we really need to see the other houses." Dad smiled at me. "Your mom's not with us today because she needed to go to a business trip and just told us to go on without her and she will just follow. So now we should help each other, okay?"

I nodded and rolled my eyes. The truth was Mom planned it all. She scheduled our move when she was on a business trip so she won't be there while the house is still not set. Just like me, she did not want to move from perfect Palms View to not-so-perfect Shadow Hills. Actually, it should have been like not-so-perfect-hometown Shadow Hills.

Yeah, that not so perfect place is my hometown. I should be happy going back there but no, I'm not. Even if it was my hometown, I never really seen it. When I was born, just days after, my mother wanted to move out there and so we moved to Palms View, where I grew up and since then, I thought it was there where I was born.

The stoplight turned green and we were on the go again. Dad was trying not to lose the truck behind us but he wanted to get to Shadow Hills as soon as possible, so he was rather too slow or too fast and the cars near us were getting impatient and were tooting their horn madly.

"Dad, you gave the truck directions to Shadow Hills and the house, you can lose them already. We have no choice, were on a busy road. Look at all the cars near us! Rather, hear what they have to say." I said, sitting up. I started to look at the pictures of two houses that my dad gave me to choose from.

"Alright, then., I'm just making sure everything's fine." Dad said as he sped up. A few minutes later, we lost the van.

"Thanks, Dad." I sighed. "By the way, I think I'll just choose this." I showed him the picture of a three-storey house with blue-gray shutters and creamy white bricks on the walls. It had a front porch with a swinging chair in it and there were some flowers by the house.

Dad looked at the photo quickly and nodded. He looked back on the road and said, "Yes, that's a nice house. Your mother said you would like it too seeing that it looks a bit the same to our old house, but, don't you want to try a new look? See the other house, it's good too."

I looked at the other picture of the other house. It was also a three-storey house, had a beige front gate, orange-red shutters and very light yellow walls. It had a big garage and a small front porch.

"It's nice." I said as I looked at other pictures that was showing the different sides of that that house.

"You like it?" Dad turned to another corner on the road. "Well first, let's just go to the house that we will settle in for awhile, it's also a good one you'll see."

Dad and Mom already chose a house that we will settle in for a while when we moved because someone bought our house for sale already and he was moving the day after tomorrow that's why we needed to move as soon as possible.

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"Well, were here." Dad said, "I'll just park the car there." He pointed a vacant place beside a huge tree. The house had no garage and had just a small porch.

I closed my laptop after saying to my friends that I already arrived in Shadow Hills. I got out of the car and looked at the house. It was smaller than our old house with green shutters and whitish-beige brick walls.

I sighed. I am so tired today, or maybe I'm just so sad that we moved. The mailbox suddenly came to my attention. It signaled that it had something inside, so I went over and looked inside of it. It had only one letter. The letter was in a dark gray envelope enclosed with a skull sticker with red heart.

Not thinking, I opened it and started to read fast, I really did not understand it well and as I was reading, my heart was beating faster than ever but I just shrugged it off.

Dad was just fixing the car's parking; I started to head inside when I felt someone behind me. Then, all of a sudden, a jolt of pain suddenly spread to my body.

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So how was it?

R&R!!!

I know that you guys were a little confused with my prologue. Some of you wanted me to put what was in the letter. Well, let me tell you that for me, as a writer, Prologues are supposed to be mysterious.

Don't worry; the following chaps will make it clear for you...so please understand. Ü♥Ü