Hey I am back from my break! Sorry it took so long. First I was procrastinating, and then I was busy. I finally got it done and I made sure it was a little longer then the rest of the chapters. I want to thank the people who reviewed. I really appreciate it. I wish more people did. If they did I might post up faster, hint, hint. Well onward with the story!

I love having the house to myself. I went upstairs and started blasting my music like I usually do. I set my backpack down and started to get my home work out but then I noticed the magazine that supposedly had my future boyfriend in it. My curiosity had got the better of me and I got it out. I then went and sprawled on my twin bed and started leafing through the pages till I found the ad.

'Ahh here it is,' I thought, noticing the picture from earlier.

Hey looking for a boyfriend? Well how about our son? We are looking for a pretty, smart, girl to be our son's girlfriend. Are you up to it? Please send picture, name, phone number, house address and a little about yourself to the address below.

'Huh,' I thought 'Who would do that.' I paused for a moment. Yeah my friends and other loser girls at school. I then notice some small print at the bottom, below the given address in smaller print then the above.'What the heck is this?'

The lucky girl that meets our approval will them be married three weeks later and come and live with us.

"What!?" Get married? 'Oh no.'

Chapter 4: Conversations and Phone calls

"This can not be happening!" I shouted. I flipped over the bed and landed hard on the ground. "Ouch," I muttered searching the messy floor of my bedroom for my lost cell phone. If I haven't mentioned it, I am really disorganized, or so says my mom. I mean I can usually find things, but when I clean my room… I can't find anything!! I then spotted my phone a couple feet from me and pounced on it

I flipped the phone open and scrolled down my phonebook. Finally finding the name I was looking for I dialed. 'Brring, brrring. Come on answer!' I thought. "Hello this is Cam the magnificent what can I do for you!"

"Cam did you read the small print in the magazine thing that you set me up for?!" I shouted in to the phone. I hurried some breathing and talking on the other end of the phone.

"What did you just say," I heard Cam say on the phone. She sounded kind of confused.

"Did you read the small print in the magazine where you set me up with that guy?" I said very slowly, like I was talking to a child.

"There was small print?" she asked, dumbly.

"YES!" I shouted angrily. "Go get the magazine and read it!" I was freaking out about this whole marriage deal. I wanted to wait about ten years before that was even a possibility.

"Umm, dude you have my magazine," she said like I was the stupid one. One the other side I heard Adalina ask what was going on.

"She wants me to read the magazine that she had right now. Something about small print," There were some more words exchanged when Adalina came on to the phone.

"What did the small print say?" she asked quietly. That is the thing about Adalina, she knew when not to yell and argue with me.

"It said that the 'winner' would be married to the guy within three weeks after being informed and would have to stay with them!!!" I shouted breathing hard now. I think I was hyperventilating.

I heard a 'What!' in the background. "Okay, calm down. Breathe. In and out, in and out," she kept saying till I was calm enough to talk again.

"You have to call them and tell them that I will not be participating in this whole ordeal thing they have set up," I said breathing normal again.

"Alright we will try and call but we need to hang up now, the movie is about to begin," she said even more quietly so that I barely heard her.

"Okay, but don't forget to call. Bye!" I said closing my phone and stared at it for a while. 'They are going to forget aren't they,' I thought to myself.

I sighed and set my phone done and started on my homework. Not that I liked it but it's my last year in high school and had to keep up the good grades. I was already planning on going to a college that I got accepted to, so that was all set.

I worked on the normal subjects for a while till I heard a door slam down stairs. I rushed down to see my cousin setting her books on the coffee table in our living room. Description time. She had dark brown hair, blue eyes. She was also around my height, maybe a little shorter. She wore glass as well. We were both blind, which seems to be a family gene. She also had similar features as me, just a darker skin tone. She wore just a tee-shirt and jeans.

"Hey!" she greeted giving me a bear hug. I lightly hugged her back and asked how her day went, yada, yada, yada, and all that good stuff. I then told her what I had found out today with my friends.

"NO way!" said Netha, shaking her head before laughing her head off.

"It is not funny!" I shouted back my face going red.

"Yes it is!" she gasped. "This so would happen to you Stella. You have the worst luck."

"You don't have the best of luck either Netha," I said haughtily back, glaring at her. She just laughed again and walked into the kitchen. Now I am not going to tell you about my past experiences with my lovely cousin here but, just to tell you put us together and we have the worst luck in the world. I am not even kidding. Some of the strangest stuff happens to us that I can not even explain. I also consider her my best friend. I know that is kind of weird but I can tell her anything. We plan to go to Japan together some day too!

I followed her into the kitchen, watching her get a bowl of grapes out. I walked over to grab some as she turned and gave me a playful glare. I smiled and walked out into the family room. I promptly plotted down on the couch and turned on the TV. Netha followed with the bowl of grapes and sat down next to me.

"Don't have anything to do right now?" she asked grapes in her mouth, eyes focus on the TV.

"Not really," I answered back watching the TV intently. Nothing was really on at this time. Just then my phone rang. I lifted it up and saw who was calling. I sighed and flip my phone up while Netha asked, "Who is it?"

"Hi Dar," I greeted him and answered Netha at the same time. She nodded her head and looked back at the TV. "What's up?"

"I have nothing to do!" He wined. "Come hang out with me!"

I rolled my eyes "Alright come on over." I heard a 'yes!' in the back ground. "Hey where is Kael?" I asked. They usually hung out together after school.

"He has an appointment to go to this afternoon," He answered sullenly, "A Dentist appointment."

"Alright, see you soon," I replied and hung up.

"He's coming over," said Netha as a statement.

"Yep."

"Hide the cookies," She said seriously.

I laughed and got up to do that. As I got back from the kitchen the door bell rang. I went and opened the door and got mobbed.

"I am so bored!!" Dar yelled. He is kind of active after school; you know the whole sleep in school and play afterwards. He picked me up while I was yelling at him to put me down and walked into the family room.

He dropped me on the couch and sat between Netha and me. "Hey Netha! How you doin'"

"Fine, Dar," was the reply.

Eyeing our guitar hero 2 he jumped up and grabbed on of the guitars. "Let's play so I can whop you!" he said challenging me.

I sighed. "Oh alright," I said getting up and grabbing the other one. We started up the game was playing a little while when Dar asked, "Hey."

"Yeah?" I asked when he paused, trying to get through a hard spot on the game.

"Did you get the whole boyfriend figured out? I mean like I said I could totally help you on that. I know a lot of guys for instance--," he left off when I hit him on the head with the guitar before picking back up where I was at.

"NO! I don't need to be set up with a guy!" I shouted angrily, taking it out on the game. It's a good stress reliever. "Why does everybody think that?!"

"Well because you haven't got one," he answered back.

"So, you don't have a girlfriend," I accused.

"But a least I had some in the past!" he shouted back. "Ever since I've known you, you haven't even had a boyfriend!"

"Children," sang Netha. "Just because she doesn't have one now, doesn't mean she won't have one later," she said pointing a finger at Dar. I could have clapped. Netha is always on my side.

"She's too shy around guys to ever get one! She needs help!" He turned on Netha.

"Your friends with her aren't you? And so is Kael," she countered "She's not shy around you guys."

"Whoa. You guys I am right here," I said annoyed. "Anyways, when one of my friends want to help--,"

"That's the point we are friends, not a romantic couple!" Dar said totally ignoring me.

I sucked in a breath of air. "BE QUIET!!" I shouted at the top of my lungs. Both of them stopped talking and looked at me with surprise.

"As I was saying, when one of my friends wants to help, it ends up going way wrong," I finished in the silence.

Dar broke it first. "Wait what was wrong with the plan that they have know?" he questioned, confused.

"Well whoever wins this so called 'contest'," I said using my fingers to quote the word. "They will end up marring the guy and live with his family."

Dar stared at me for a moment, the game entirely forgotten by the argument, and then started laughing his head off.

"This so not funny," I growled, while he tried to hug me.

"I'm sorry," he said still laughing. "What are you going to do about it?" he questioned once he was done laughing at me. What great friends that I have. They always laugh at me when something bad happens.

"Well I called Cam and told her to call the people of magazine or whatever and tell them to take me off the list." My face felt red from shouting.

Dar nodded his head. He then glanced at the clock and got up. "Hey, I have to go know but we'll find another way to get you a boyfriend, 'Kay?" he winked and walked towards the door.

"No we won't," I called back hearing the door close. I shook my head and looked at Netha.

"You are never going to get out of this you know that don't you?" she asked smiling at me.

I groaned. "I have a feeling your right."

The rest of the day went on as usual. My brother, Philip, came home and went to his bedroom to play on his computer. My mother came home asked the usual questions like 'How was school' and 'Do you have any homework' yada yada yada, which was replied with one word answers. Dad came home, and we had dinner. I didn't tell them about he article or the boyfriend thing though. Otherwise I hung out and then went to bed.

That night I had the strangest dream. I was talking to my friends and then Dar came up and kidnapped me and made me sit through all these blind dates. Worst of all, they were all ugly except for the guy in the magazine. He got up and played the guitar and then forced me into marrying him. We grew old and then went on a cruise. There was this awful beeping noise so I jumped ship. I then woke up to find that the beeping hadn't stopped and it ended up being my alarm clock.

I leaned over and turned it off about to go to sleep again till my mom yelled at me to get up. I groaned and went into my daily routine again. After showering I went down stairs for breakfast. "I will be so glad when school is over," I said going to the fridge and getting some apple cider to drink. Netha just grunted. She was still in her PJ's.

I then drove to school and did the normal routine with added threats to Cam when she said she still hadn't called them.

"If you stop bugging me, I'll do it," She yelled at lunch when I wouldn't let up.

"Okay," I gave in. "But you better or I am so going to torture you." She just grinned and nodded her head.

That went on for two days. Normal boring stuff. I mean I could tell you step by step what was going on but it wouldn't move my story along would it? Nope it wouldn't, though something major did happened in the evening at the end of the second day. I was in my room doing my homework. My mom and dad were gone for the night, wanting to get away from us teenagers. Philip was down stairs watching the TV and Netha had a late class that day.

In the middle of History, it is so boring, my phone went off. I rummaged around my room till I found it and flipped it opened.

"'ello?" I asked assuming it was one of my friends. Well that's what you get for assuming…

"Hello am I speaking to Miss Stella Waldon," said a female voice on the other end. It was one I didn't recognized. I paused thinking who it could be. 'It could be a sales person,' I thought. 'They wouldn't call my phone and if they did they would ask for my parents.'

"So what if I am?" I questioned warily.

"I am Aloria Serrano," said the voice on the phone. "I am here to tell you that your time has come."

"….What?" I asked stupidly. What the heck was this lady saying?

"I am here to interview you for my son," Aloria or I guess that was her name not a fake one.

"Whoa you mean for that magazine?" Cam was supposed to cancel it! I was so going to kill her!

"I will be by in a few minutes," She sounded like she was on the road.

"Sorry not necessary," I apologized. "My friend entered me as a joke, so just kindly take me off the list." I smiled into the phone.

I was about to hang up until she spoke again "Sorry, I can't do that."

"Why the heck not?!" I shouted in the phone. This could not be happening.

"We read your info and are very interested in you," she replied smoothly, apparently not offended be me yelling in the phone. "You are one of the most likely candidates for our son, Thane."

'Oh no,' I thought. 'Think of something Stella! You have to stop her from coming her here!' I shouted at myself. The door bell rang from down stairs. I covered the phone and yelled for my brother to get it. Suddenly I got a plan.

"Wait, are you coming to my house?" I questioned. She said yes. "Oh well, sorry to disappoint you but my family moved. We now longer have that address." Yes take that!!

"Really?" she said mockingly. "I don't seem to believe you." There was some talking on the other side of the phone.

"Why not? It's the truth," I said back warily. What was going on?

"Well that's not what your brother says."

'Oh no!'

"PHILP!!"

Hey what do you think of this chapter. We are about to get to the fun part of this story. I really hoped you liked it and please R&R. Thanks!