Chapter2
15 years later
Lizzies POV
"Beep Beep Beep", made my alarm. I growled and punched the snooze button maybe a little too hard as it fell on the ground. I got up and threw on some clothes, blue jeans a green shirt with a cardigan and a pair of sneakers. I could already hear Sofia call for me out of our kitchen. "I'm coming…" , actually she wanted me to call her mom, but somehow it didn't seem right to me, though she was only my adoptive mother.
I had been laid in a baby hatch in Munich, as a very early preemie I didn't have such a good surviving chance, but somehow I got it. The strange thing about this had been that I had already gotten medical care and treatment by then. Nobody knew why I had been laid in this hatch, when my parents were obviously rich enough to give this to me, why couldn't they keep me?
Nearly directly I had gotten adopted by Sofia and her husband Josef together with Finn and Eva. They were my elder adoptive siblings.
I looked in my mirror, as always after getting up my hair was tousled and the bronze curls dangled around my face. I looked tired and unhealthy since I've always had pale skin and slight eye circles, they were growing more intense lately. Concealer didn't do its job anymore. My eyes were wide and green with golden sparkles all over the iris, and my lashes were long and dark. I didn't have to use that much mascara as over girls of my age but anyway I had to get downstairs for breakfast now. I was late just as every other morning before school, and there was no time left to think about make up.
I only could shovel some cornflakes in my mouth, before Finn and Eva urged me out so we would get our bus to school in time. We all went to the same school, I was in tenth grade, and Finn and Eva in twelth. They were both 17 and going to get their A levels this year.
"I heard there is going to be a new family at our school", told Eva us. "Eh?", I asked "How can a whole family go to one school? Only children visit schools". "This is what I meant", replied Eva annoyed "But there are nine kids, so I said family, you get it?". Yes, I got it, but this was really crazy. Nine children in one family, I was stunned. As if Eva saw my expression she tried to explain "They are adopted just as we are, seven of them are in our grade and two in yours." Okay adopted, this was way more logical. Well, I was as excited.
As fate willed, the two new were in my class. They were two boys actually who introduced themselves as Anthony and Jacob II. Anthony had red curls and strange golden eyes, just like his brother with the only exception that his hair was black and rather tousled than curled.
A bunch of girls couldn't resist and asked JacobII, why there was a II and he explained that this was because his Mom had been best friends with a great indian chief who helped her during birth. I guess this was a joke and nobody believed him but though I could see nearly every girl in class getting a crush on one of them or maybe even both and I couldn't blame them because they were really attractive and handsome.
But there was something else about them, I couldn't tell by now what exactly. They were a little bizarre and I felt attracted to them in a way. Not romantic, not at all, but perhaps familiar. And this was absolutely not logical, because I had never met them and I didn't know them!
Luckily and unfortunately at the same time the only two free seats were next to me. Luckily because I desperately wanted to get to know them better and unfortunately because every girl in class was now jealous on me now, and this made me bullying victim number one and I'd be right in the middle of all the attention, and this is what I really really hate. So this was going to become an indeed interesting forenoon…