Hey guys! This is the first chapter of my story. I hope you guys like it. Please R&R. Constructive criticism would be appreciated.

Disclaimer: I do not own any characters in this story other than my own.

'...' – thoughts

"..." – speaking

- Flashbacks

Chapter 1

Paree sighed in boredom. She and her cousin Aaliyah were on there way to there grandparents house. No, not house, mansion.

Paree and Aaliyah's family was one of the richest in all of Japan. This didn't really affect Aaliyah or Paree's attitude towards things though.

Paree and Aaliyah's father's were brother's. They ran the family business in different parts of Japan while their Grandfather handled the main branch of Bikonai Industries.

Paree's mother had died when Paree was only five. So she didn't have many memories of her. Fortunately she still had her brother and father. But just a few weeks ago, her father along with Aaliyah's parents went missing while on a business meeting in Russia. And they hadn't been heard or seen from since then. Which was the whole reason Aaliyah and Paree were moving in with their grandparents.

Paree was snapped of her thoughts when Aaliyah suddenly stopped the car.

"Why did you stop?" Paree asked in annoyance.

"It's your turn to drive." Aaliyah simple answered.

Paree took the wheel and off they went.


An hour later Paree stopped their car in front of a pair of large, iron gates. Aaliyah got out and went to the intercom system to get the people inside to open the gates.

When the gates opened they drove slowly up the driveway.

There was a large fountain with cupid in the middle spouting water from the tip of its arrow. The driveway went around the fountain then leaded to a parking lot. Behind the fountain was a magnificent, white mansion with red brick outlining here and there. All around the mansion was grass, flower bushes, trees, and other landscaping.

"Wow! Grandfather sure renovated a lot." Paree said looking around her surroundings.

"Mm hmm...." Was all that came in reply from Aaliyah.

They parked their car in the private parking lot that the driveway led to.

Aaliyah took one look at the Mercedes Benz, Range Rover, and Ferrari that were also parked there and knew that they probably belonged to her brother and Rohin.

"Well, those two haven't changed a bit." She said shaking her head with a shadow of a smile on her lips.

"I know. Let's go inside I'm getting hungry!" Paree said while getting her small, rolling suitcase out of the back of their mustang.


They walked up to the front door and rang the doorbell. A strange scrambling noise could be heard from inside. Aaliyah gave Paree a quizzical look which Paree returned. They turned their attention back to the door to see their brothers standing their, with identical grins on their faces.

"Paree!!" "Aaliyah!!" they shouted at the same time and the next minute Paree and Aaliyah were being crushed in bear hugs.

"Help! Ech!......Rohin.... I...can't...ack.....breathe..!" Paree choked out.

"Oops! Sorry sis!" Rohin said sheepishly, putting her back down and hugging Aaliyah.

"No problem, Hey, where's nana?" Paree asked eagerly.

"She's in there." Aryan said pointing towards the sitting room.

All Rohin and Aryan could do was look on in amazement at there sisters as they zoomed past them into the sitting room.

"Nana!! I missed you so much!" Paree said while she and Aaliyah took it in turns to hug their grandmother.

"I missed you two as well. We were getting so worried when you didn't show up last night. Where were you? Why didn't you call?" their grandmother asked.

"Well, Paree here started whining about being tired and hungry so we stopped by a restaurant and stayed the night at a hotel." Aaliyah explained giving Paree an exasperated look. Paree grinned sheepishly and then blushed when her stomach growled.

"Well you two should go freshen up and rest. You'll be staying in your old rooms there still as they were when you left. Your luggage had arrived and I'll have someone come up with something to eat" their grandmother said smiling.

"Thanks Nana!" Paree said hugging the fragile old woman again.

"Your welcome dear!" grandmother Bikonai said warmly.


Paree's P.O.V

Paree entered a fair sized room with walls painted a crème color. There was a four poster bed with dark red colored coverings, to one side of the room. The rest of the furniture in the room was also dark red. There was a bedside table on each side of the bed. There was also a dresser with a mirror and a computer desk. On the wall opposite the bed there were two dark red doors, one led to a walk-in-closet, while the other led to a private bathroom.

'It's nice to be back.' Paree thought when she walked into her room Her grandmother was right; Paree's room was still as she had left it four years ago. The only difference was that now it was cleaner than when she had left.

She grabbed her towel, shampoo, conditioner, body wash and some new clothes out of her hand bag and headed towards the private bathroom. She took a nice long shower. When she was done she changed into a loose fitting t-shirt and a pair of comfortable sweatpants.

She unpacked everything and put all her clothes and accessories away and set up her white and red apple laptop.

'Hmm... I think I should ask grandfather to buy me a new computer. Yeah, maybe I will.' These were her last thoughts before drifting off to sleep.


Aaliyah's P.O.V

'What the hell!' was the first thing that came to her mind when she heard music blasting through her slightly open bedroom door.

Squinting her eyes Aaliyah looked around her bedroom and let her eyes adjust. Aaliyah's room was a lot like Paree's except for the fact that instead of dark red doors and furnishings; Aaliyah's were a dark blue color.

"Err....." she groaned as she got up and closed the door to block out the music coming from Paree's room. Well at least she had gotten a little sleep.

She went to one of the boxes that were lying all over her room and started unpacking her clothes, accessories, and putting up posters and stuff. Once she had set up her white and silver apple laptop she started to download some songs onto her iPod.

'What are those?' she thought to herself as she noticed some dust covered books on her small bookshelf.

She went over and took one of the books off the shelf. It looked like a scrapbook. She blew it dust off of it coughing a little as she did so. She opened it up and a smile came to her lips as she realized what it was.

On the inside of the cover, in the best writing and spelling a small child of age four or five could do, it said:

"This scrapbook balongs to Paree and Aaliyah Bikonai."

Aaliyah looked up when she heard the door to her room open, as Paree came in.

"Hey, Paree look what I found." She said while showing the book to Paree.

Paree took the book and went to go sit on one of the beanie bag chairs in the room.

"Cool! I don't know what we were thinking when we put these things in here." She said as she looked at some leaves and cut out pictures that were pasted on the first few pages."

As Paree flipped the third page, they found that it was full of pictures. There was some of Paree, Aaliyah and there family but the rest were of Paree, Aaliyah and two other girls.

"Do you remember them?" Paree asked Aaliyah.

"Sort of. Hey, look at that picture." she said pointing to a picture of them standing with some other people. The picture fell out of the book and Aaliyah picked it up.

In the picture there was Paree, Aaliyah, two other girls and four boys, all eight of the children looked around age five. Aaliyah turned over the picture and saw something written on the back.

"There's something written on the back!" she exclaimed. Paree looked at the back of the photo to see some more writing by the hand of a five year old.

"This foto is only haff cool becase the boys made it ugly! These are the names of the peaple in this foto.

The girls: Paree, Aaliyah, Mariah and Miriam

The meanie boys: Kai, Tala, Rei and Ozuma

Aaliyah, Mariah, Miriam and me are gonna be friends forever." She took one look at Aaliyah and they burst out laughing.

"I can't believe you wrote like that!" Aaliyah choked out while laughing.

"Hey! At least it wasn't that bad!" Paree exclaimed, tears now coming out of her eyes from laughing so hard.

"Now, I remember! Mariah and Miriam were those girls we used to play with in pre-school. And I think those boys were the ones who used to pull our hair and stuff." Aaliyah explained once they had calmed down.

Paree was about to reply but she was cut off by a male's voice.


Normal P.O.V

"They were and it's a good thing you remembered because you'll be starting school with them soon." Said a familiar voice

The two 16 year-olds looked up at the man who had just spoken.

"Papa!" they shouted at the sight of their grandfather. They had always addressed there grandfather as Papa.

He smiled and embraced his granddaughters.

"It's good to see you as well. My, you've grown a lot! You barely reached up to my waist, when you visited last. When was that four years ago?" he said

"Yes, it was. But now we're here to stay." Paree said.

Her grandfather chuckled.

"Yes, I know. Now as I was saying I have already enrolled you at Takachi High School. And I think you'll be happy to know you'll find your childhood friends there as well."

Their grandfather noticed the worried looks Aaliyah and Paree had.

"Now, there's no need to worry, I'm sure everything will be fine. In the meanwhile, I bought you two a present I thought you might need." He said motioning towards the corridor.

The three of them walked out into the corridor to see two identical computers outside their doors.

"Thank you, Papa!" They both said. Just then Rohin and Aryan came up the stairs and noticed the packages on the floor.

"Hey, grandfather why do they get new computers and we don't?" Rohin asked in a childish manner.

"Have you ever thought of the fact that you two already have these things?" Paree said to him with an exasperated sigh.

"Whatever. Let's go." He said motioning for Aryan to follow.

"Well, have fun you two. I have some work to do." Their grandfather said.

Paree and Aaliyah gave him one last hug before retreating to their rooms with their new computers.


Aaliyah had decided to go out roller blading for a bit before dinner. Paree didn't bother coming because she still hadn't set up her computer yet.

Aaliyah noticed that all the houses in that area were mansions; so they probably all belonged to rich families.

'I wonder if Mariah and Miriam will recognize us?" she thought.

'I hope Tala and the others don't." not realizing that the person she was thinking of was closer than she thought.

As Aaliyah turned the corner she bumped into someone and they both fell on their backs.

"Ouch!"

"Oof!"

"Why don't you watch where going, bitch!"

"Excuse me! You're the one who bumped into me!" Aaliyah yelled. Usually she would've just apologized and gone on her way, but not when someone insulted her.

She got up and looked at the person she had bumped into. He had blood red hair and turquoise eyes.

'He looks so familiar.' She thought and she watched him get up.

She had to look up to see his face, since he was at least three inches taller. He looked at her with hard eyes that seemed to soften a bit.

'She is beautiful, and she looks so familiar.' He thought

"Do I know you from somewhere?" he asked her.

"I don't think so." Aaliyah replied.

"Oh well, next time watch where your going." He said walking away.

"I will if you do." She yelled at his back, only to see him turn around and smirk.

'That was odd.' She thought and she started her way back home.

There you go. Sorry I couldn't make it any longer. If you review, I'll have another chapter out soon. Byez!

Next time:

She was about to throw her bag down but noticed something lying on that part of the floor. She picked it up and noticed it was a picture from the scrapbook. She turned it around and gasped.

'I knew it!' she thought.

So that was just a little sneak peek of what the next chapter will have. Please R&R! Thanks