Chapter One.

I set the camera, so it was facing me directly, tear stains could be seen on my face.

"Hello…this is probably the last video I'll do around here for a long time because I've been discarded BY my MUM. Well, I'll like to make it formal.

"I'm Priscilla, I go by Pris and I'm 13 years old, born on the 21st of February and what else? Nothing. Well, my mum says she's tired of my poor grades, and so she wants to send me off to my aunt's place, so she can teach me how to study because her children are brilliant wackos.

" And then the worst thing about it all is that I get to spend my last year at middle school away from all my friends!

"They're all going to enjoy it because the last year of middle school is special because the next year after it is high school.

"The magical year of boyfriends and love which I can't wait to get into and P. S Sheena and Jean don't even seem sad that I'm leaving, and we've been friends since elementary school.

Just imagine!

Well, I think I'm going to go off for a while. I'm getting hungry" I said and turned off the camera…

I just introduced you to Cam…

She's my best friend, the only prob is she's a camera, she records my saddest and happiest moments.

I guess I'm not entirely sad at the prospect of attending a new school because I love anything that could give me hopes of a love life because the closest to a romantic experience I've gotten is a very handsome guy giving me the pen his mum gave him because I lost mine and my friends all have boyfriends except me, but this year, I'm going to get one.

I just hope he's sweet and romantic. Aaaaaaah!

" Pris! Come downstairs and have some toast!" My little sis Jimmy called and then Jane, my elder sis, opened the door.

" Speaking with Cam again?" She asked

" Yeah, I don't think I'm taking her with me." I said sadly.

" Seriously, why on earth don't you pay attention in class?"

" Because… I don't just get anything"

That was a lie.

I was always looking around in case I spotted a guy staring at me, so I could tick off number one in my book of signs a guy is secretly crushing on you.

That's me.

I'm obsessed with love.

I love and want to be in love.

"Want to grab some toast with me?" I asked.

" Only if you promise you won't change"

" Ah, no I won't. It's just so sad I'll be celebrating none of my birthdays here again… Till I'm out of school"

" Don't date anyone, okay? Because guys are going to change you."

" I'll be a nun all the way. Don't you worry." That was the biggest lie I'd ever told.

I'm a teen now, so I'm free to date a guy. Sheesh!

She laughed and we went down the stairs together.

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I packed my trunk into the car and waved my sisters goodbye for the 100th time.

I sighed as the car zoomed out of sight.

The next time I was going to see them would be for Christmas and I knew my cousins were no longer kids and the thought of Cinderella floated into my mind, but it was brushed apart as I took out my pencil and began to draw.

I drew a lady in a garden thinking of love while perceiving the inviting scent of a flower, and I wrote a short poem on it.

Furthermore, I packed my brown hair with a hair tie, but it wasn't tight, so I removed it, and it tumbled down in waves, my dad caught my eye in the mirror.

" Why don't you leave it that way? It makes you look more mature. Jeez, you're going to be 14 soon. You're growing fast."

I smiled.

" Don't you think a ponytail would make me look like Ariana Grande?" I said, and my Dad laughed.

" Why? Are you trying to say." I started to say, but he interrupted me.

" You would look stunning. Now why do you think so?" he asked me

" Well we both have dimples" I said, smiling to show off my dimples.

I had light-brown eyes just like my hair, and I thought I might look like Ariana Grande a bit if I made a high ponytail.

" You have different faces. What if I say …you're prettier than Ariana with your hair down?" He said, and I turned scarlet, blushing madly.

" Don't say stuff like that." I said, blushing, and he laughed.

By the time we got there, my whole body was aching.

I had sat for too long and I had used my hands for writing, my voice for singing and my back was aching a lot.

My cousins came out eagerly to check obviously what I looked like after so many years.

My cousins and I didn't stay in touch after we moved far away, but the parents met on different occasions.

Jeez, Chris was tall…

If he wasn't my cousin, I'd have fallen for him straightaway. He had wavy blond hair and killer gray eyes.

Mera had silky straight blonde hair and the same killer gray eyes.

While Val had brown hair like mine but the same eyes.

They all looked tall and pretty and handsome. I wondered if I looked pretty.

Their mum came out to welcome us.

" Oh my gosh! You're here! I was starting to get scared dinner might get cold." she said, " You haven't even cooked it yet." Val said and Arielle gave her head a little push with her finger.

" We were supposed to arrive probably in the early hours in the morning, but the road was traffic-free so if it wasn't, dinner would have been cold." my dad said, explaining to Val.

" Now you get it, don't you? You most likely don't know how far Jetaly is from here." Chris said with a light gentle voice and then he added.

" Come Priscilla. Let me show you to your room." he said, looking at me.

" Oh." I was so shocked to hear him speaking to me and I instantly opened the boot to get my trunk out, and he came over to help.

" Don't worry, I'll do it. Val, Mera.. Don't just stand there. Take her inside. It might rain soon." he said, and Val and Mera came towards me.

" Can you still remember me? We always played hide and seek in your mum's cupboard" Mera said.

" Sure I do. How have you been" I asked with a cat's voice.

" Excellent." she replied.

Mera and Val were twins. Probably the most daring twins ever. While, Chris was their older brother who gave them crazy missions to accomplish.

I didn't know if they still did stuff like that.

Mera stayed on my left while Val stayed on my right and held my hand, and they steered me into the house.

The hall was dark, and the girls were whispering and giggling.

"So let's be like the best cousins, okay? We'll open up to you, and you'll open up to us. Deal?" Mera asked.

I nodded in the dark, even though I wasn't sure they could see me.

Then as the end of the hall approached, light spread into the room and wow … A lovely chandelier stood on the ceiling with little lights surrounding it.

The chairs were white with a glass table and a silver duck sitting on the glass table.

The wide Television was sitting on a little Mahogany shelf with drawers decorated with flowers.

A long staircase led the way to a mezzanine (landing or interior balcony) and heck it was spacious, a wide but narrow passage with golden lights showed the way to the numerous rooms.

In front of me was a door and inside it was the kitchen and I looked for the dining and found it to the far left of the spacious living room.

A desk and a computer also stayed in another corner.

This house was large, way larger than my house. I looked at Mera and Val.

" So, what do you think about it?"

" It's… it is beautiful"

" Oh, that's the word." Mera said.

" Let's put her in the room next to ours" Val said.

" Nope, let's put her in the empty room between ours and Chris's, so we can sneak in and out" Mera said and Val nodded like its-a-great-idea!

I walked into my to be room.

It was huge, there was a desk and a laptop on it, then some books and a box of pencils and pens.

Some sharpeners and erasers were arranged neatly to the side, and the table and the chair screamed expensive! Expensive!

I looked around at the massive wardrobe and saw the full-length mirror and then the massive bed that could take three just for me…

Val plopped on it and the way it bounced showed how soft it was.

The room smelled clean and then the toilet…

It had a massive bathtub and a shower and a tap and new toothbrushes with a full-sized toothpaste.

The door into the room opened and I retreated.

I saw Chris, and he settled my trunk on the bed.

" So where do I put this?" He asked.

" Um. in a corner! I'll unpack tomorrow"

"Okay"

" So be available for an all-night girl chat" Mera said and Chris made a face then Val corrected "You mean all night girls and guy chat"

" That's better" Chris said and walked out.

It is unclear to me why I blushed, but there was something about the way he walked out.

" So, what are you guys like?" I asked gingerly.

" We're the trio besties" Val said.

" Chris is only older than us for a year, so we're really close, like, super close… he tells us all about his life and crushes. Numerous girlfriends and we exchange information" Mera explained.

" Sometimes he's secretive, though. That's when he's got a new crush though, or maybe he just broke up, or, perhaps he's having some problems," Val added.

" Yeah, sure you'd know. Only you would know. You understand what I'm saying, Val?" Mera said in a teasing voice with her mouth curved in a half smile, and Val turned red.

" What does that mean?" I asked lightly.

" Oh, you want to know? Val once…"

" Oh Mera..."

" Val once had a big crush on her brother!"

" What?" I said and Val ran out.

" She'll never admit it, but I know, and it's all Chris's fault, he got a dare in school to make his sister think he was in love with her and Instead of Val thinking he was in love with her, She fell in a crush with him instead." she said and laughed.

" Seriously? Is he that romantic or what?"

" Romantic is an understatement. He's the freaking god of ladies." she said and we laughed.

"Wow" I said.

My cousin is the freaking god of ladies.

" If she saw him coming down the stairs, she'd head for the kitchen and whenever he passed her something on the dining, she always turned red, and then she always asked if something was wrong with Chris with this expression on her face like as if she had always been expecting him to realize she was his soulmate, well, at first, it was awkward, but he got into her head."

" Why didn't he choose you?"

" Because he knew my emotional state wasn't as weak as Val's and I don't take sh*t , so what can I say, he broke into her system by hacking it and after the whole deal, he told us it was a dare and Val blushed in embarrassment nonstop for days."

" Mera stop troubling your sister! Stop spilling her secrets!" Their mum shouted from below.

" I'm not spilling her secrets! I'm sharing my life experiences." Mera said, and we giggled, and she went downstairs, and I collapsed on the bed and sighed.

If you asked me, I thought my life just started to feel interesting. It had just taken a new turn and jeez Chris was my cousin, but wait … Is thinking of your cousin this way illegal?

Because I think I'm going to be doing something illegal.