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Chapter 2 Scarlett's POV
I look out the passenger window, and there it stood, a magnificent castle towering over me. My new life. My mums past life. I've been living in a small town, hardly put on any maps with my mum, Willow Jenks, for as long as I can remember. She adopted me at nine months old, I went to the only school in town for a few years, then she hired a governess to come and teach me at our old mansion, the governess had a granddaughter, Maryanne, who became my only friend my age. I don't know how my Mum had all this money for a mansion, horses, and a staff, she had no job, claimed I was more important, I reckoned she just inherited a whole bunch of money from a dead family member, though I don't remember having any family.
This last week had been so hectic, Lance, the butler, had spent it in the kitchen, making a list of all the food I could eat and couldn't so my eating habits wouldn't be messed up and I would still enjoy the same things I have growing up. Mark, our horse worker tried to keep me on my horse as much as possible, I sadly couldn't take her with me, like I could take Madame, my cat, with me, and plus, I really don't mind it, I love my horse, and Marks 20-year-old face doesn't subtract any points either. Lady, our maid, that sweet woman, she was in her forties, but she did so much, helped me pack and shop with me and Maryanne, she's helped put up with crying baby me, bratty five year old me, incredibly annoying tween me, I cannot ask for a better maid. My governess, Ms Wright had always been a good woman, teaching various things, from manners to schooling. I was taught along side Maryanne. But, I always felt a bit bad for the Wrights. Mr Wright had died a few months before Mum hired her. I'm sure Mum will let them stay still, even if I'm not there.
Mum had been trying to get me to go to Anubis all Summer, I was considering Delphian, one of the top schools in America, but she wanted me to stay in England. My Mum is, and always will be quiet the inspirational person, with some kind of daily quote or life lesson. But, from what I've seen and heard, from the yearbooks and the very rare visits from her past Schoolmates, she was quite the flower child, she's become more levelheaded and mellow since, but I am a bit different, I've got the same straw-berry, ginger hair, i am adopted, so I am still unaware of how that happened... I guess I act like my mum in high school, a bit mellower, a bit more... Reserved. You can tell it in our eyes, her is more an exotic green, and gold flakes, like her personality, but my eyes, were a grey, with hints of blue, here and there.
I continue to look out the car window, our speed slowly decreasing...
"Are you okay, Scar?" Mum asks me
"I'm just a bit nervous, and please, when we get there, call me Scarlett." I plead
"Okay, Miss Grown-Up Scarlett..." Mum laughs
"Willow Jenks." I ask
"Ooh, my full name... This must be serious." She jokes
"It is!" I demand and Madame, my cat jumps on my lap "What did it feel like when your parents dropped you off at Anubis?"
"Well, I was originally at Isis, and then persisted into Anubis," She nods I knew there was obviously a story behind it that I didn't want to get into to "But, I was never really nervous, I wasn't that type of person, I was... Anxious... You could say." Mum stops the car in front a beautiful house, "We're here!"
I was sitting in the living room, Mum went to the "Alumni-Parent sign in" and I was introduced to Trudy, my Senior HouseMother, and Piper, my Junior HouseMother. That's when four people entered, they seemed to be a family, I stood up
"Oh, Hello." The oldest woman, the Mother, steps for and offers a hand "Who might you be? I'm Nina, Nina Rutter."
I take it "Nice to meet you, I am Scarlett. Scarlett Jenks."
The man grins "Willow Jenks daughter?" He asks, I nod "I'm Fabian Rutter, Nina's husband, as I'm sure you have gather, I am an old SchoolMate of your mothers. Nina and Willow missed each other, unfortunately."
"You seemed familiar, probably from old photo books, I presume..." I smile and nod
"Your quite the little lady, and please call us Nina and Fabian, better yet, Aunt and Uncle!" Nina beams
"Thank you, Nina, it's quite the compliment, I really do try... But for the Aunt/Uncle situation, I'm afraid I'm going to have to shy from that, I only just met you..." I look down
"Of course, Scarlett." Fabian says "How's your mother these days, out in the country? I understand you have quite the education out there... I see why Willow raised you the way she did, she seems successful. Last time I saw you were one, right after the adoption, a little squirt."
I felt heat raise to my cheeks "you should visit more often, you know, we have plenty of rooms and hardly any visitors..."
"Would you kids enjoy that? A summer in the country? I'll have to talk to Willow bout that..." Fabian thinks out loud
Then the girl, who by know, I guess is the boys sister, coughs.
"Oh, and these our the twins, Sarah and Robert." Nina says and I shake both of there hands
"I like your style, Preppy-Chic." Sarah nods
"Thank you, I guess, I don't have many friends that judge style back home, I actually only have one my age, and we just listen to '00 and '01 music on the even older record player, and read, talk between chapters, then switch books." I explain
"Then meet my brother Robert, TOTALLY GEEK." Sarah says
"Thanks for that flattery intro, sis!" Robert glares at his Sister
"Well, if it makes you feel any better, I don't have anything against geeks, I know what they are, I just never have met one, not really. Unless you count me or Maryanne, and I don't like to out labels on myself or my close friends." I say shyly
That's when a "CRASH", louder than almost any I've hear before, comes from the hallway, like luggage falling to the ground,
"That must be a Lewis!" Fabian laughs and turns to leave room.