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Danielle Hadley character by DI9571 I hope I do everything you want in this chapter correctly!

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Many people call me bubbly or 'she's the girl that is friends with everyone' type. Yes, I do call myself bubbly and nice and sometimes it can be over bearing, but that's how I cope with my life hurdles. To give you a little history lesson of my life I was born into a loving and caring family with a strong Dad that could protect me and a Mother beautiful and sweet like a Rose, that could help me with all my problems. I have an older sister named Carolina, she is everything you expect in an older sibling, and she is rotten and can be very nice to me at times. Well, I expected my Mother to be there forever, helping when troubles got too high for me to handle, or when I grew up and needed help with my decisions of who to marry or how to raise my kids. Then I never had the chance to see what she would have done for me, she sadly died when I was 10, I remember that day all too well. I was at school and I was about to present my report about our country's alliance with New Asia when I was asked by the Teacher to leave immediately and go straight home, I got scared. I was crying even before I knew what would be at the end of my walk.

When I got home, all I could see was my Uncle, Aunt, my Father crying. I've never at that point in my life had ever seen him cry, it broke my heart into a million different pieces, and that's how I knew it was bad. She had died of a natural cause, but I have always thought it could have been something more.

I sit down in front of my worn down desk that I always write all my homework or just random thoughts on seventeen years later with the same thoughts going through my head when I'd became a different person. I sigh and direct my vision to the corner of the desk, a book I have been trying to read for days now lies helplessly by itself on the far corner. One day when I became part of the world fully I will be able to enjoy the little gifts life offers, especially the Selection. I really can't wait for it; it will be my break of the viscous cycle that I have called my life for the past seven years. I imagine myself in a flowy dress, having champagne with my fellow lady friends. We would all laugh about each other's jokes and make faces behind the other girl's backs when they would win a little attention from the Prince.

Just thinking less than a week from the date I will be on the edge of my toes waiting for my name to slide across that screen with the picture of my smiling face. I will be screaming with joy if I saw that.

"Danielle, can you come out and shut up Sean he is going nuts about you." My Father yells from the bottom floor, my friend.

"Coming, don't kill him before I get there." I say while I look into my mirror fixing the wisps of hair that have managed to get loose from my bun.

I hear my Father let out a jolly laugh. Then I hear them exchange a few words together as I make my way down the narrow hall. When I finally make it to the scene, I see Sean and smile.

"Hey, I was thinking we would go study for the exams coming up." He asks while he gets up.

"Yeah, that would be perfect since I need a break anyways."

"Okay, then shall we go?" He asks putting an arm out for me to take.

As we walk out the door, we run into my sister Carolina she looks like she just got done with teaching her class. She has pencil markings on her face and a number of loose strings of hair escaping her usually neat bun. She gives us a brief hello and a warm smile.

We walk down the long pathway that leads to the hard pact road that connects to the small town I call home.

"So what are we going to study, Math or English?" I ask trying to bring up a conversation.

"Ah, actually I have to tell you something that's why I asked you to come with me." He says while we make the last turn and then he guides me to an old storage shed.

"What is it Sean?"

"It's, to be honest I don't want you to leave I-."

"You what?" I ask shaking my head trying to understand.

Then before I can comprehend what he is about to do, he brings me in and gives me a passionate kiss. I can't breathe this is my best friend and he is showing me his feelings towards me, it comes as a huge shock. The surprise takes me a while to respond back, I pull away.

He closes his eyes and steps back into the shadows,

"I know, what you are thinking, it's just that I love you Danielle. I love everything about you."

I clear my throat and reply, "It's so difficult now why do you have to do this to me, I may be picked for the Selection and now that leaves me with the confused and difficult place because now I have the chance to leave you." Tears threaten to flow over my eyes.

I run away,

"Danielle!" I hear his voice and his feet start to chase after me.

"Leave me alone!"

Then I am on the ground because I tripped over my own feet. He is right there in the next second, I refuse to make eye contact,

"Dani, listen to me, please." He begs in a whispering tone.

"Why. Why would you show me how you felt now?" I say keeping my head bowed.

"I-I don't know."

"Then I d-don't know if we can be friends anymore." This time I leave walking, showing him I don't want to talk about the subject anymore.

"Dan-." He tries to stop me.

"No, just leave me alone."

With that said I begin to run home with tears finally breaking the barrier and they slide down my cheeks. Why would he do this to me?

When I see the road to my house I stop, I decide to go on the left road which would lead me to my grandmother's old house.

I see the crumbled piece of a house that used to hold my Grandma's lively spirit, I smile thinking about her warm cookies. She died before my Mother did, but she was as much part of my life as my Mother. I walk up to the door that could wither away with the wind, but I just push it lightly and it opens. I take one step and then another into the old house and I see my memories covered in dust and cobwebs, pictures of my Mother when she was my age, the grand stair case that at one point used to be mahogany, and then in the Kitchen there is a glass pitcher that used to be filled with her famous tea.

This place has always been my safe haven when life got too out of control I used to hide here and write my stories. My Mother used to come out here, to get away. I guess that's why I come out here whenever I need some space, my Mother taught me.

I make my way up the cobwebbed staircase and I investigate the old hallway I used to run up and down all day when I was little, there was never a creak in the wood, but now every spot I walk on there is one. I walk to my Grandma's room where she would spend all day in it just fixing her hair or watching the beat up TV she had. The room is in the exact layout as she left it, I smile on how everything in this house aged but this is the only room that didn't. Her vanity and her writing desk is the same, I open her drawers and there pops something that has a wax seal and a note poking out of the side. I gently remove it and read:

Dear Danielle,

I knew one day you would find this, I had no doubt. This is a necklace that has been in our family's heritage all the way back to the beginning of the 1900's. I want you to have it, to continue on the tradition of the Hadley's family. By now I am probably gone, and I am sorry for it. I just had a mission that I had to fulfill and it had to do with saving this country. I want you to know you have a special role in this life Dani, and it has something to do with you in the Selection.

I will always and forever love you,

Grandmother Elizabeth

I stare at the paper and reread it over fifty times before I can properly think. I quickly open the rest of the package, inside there is a necklace with a ruby red heart and in the middle is swirls made up of all the colors that move. I find the clasp and look into the vanity's mirror, the necklace is shining. I finger it and stare at it long and hard, my Grandma said I would have a special role and that's in the Selection.

What would she mean by that?

I have had multiple things I've had to get down this whole week :P I promise someday I will be a true writer that publishes daily! :D