Listen to "Ciao Adios" by Anne Marie

"She didn't just walk on the wild side, she lived there, dancing in the streets and setting fire to the sky." - J.Iron Word

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Ring ... ring ... ring ...

"Argh, that damn clock!" I smashed the phone on the wall angrily and yelled "Oh god, Zachhh! Turn the f***ing alarm off!"

"Wake up, sis. You'll be driving me to school! Do you remember what's the date today? WAKE UP!" He sounded like a 5-year-old boy waiting to buy an ice-cream. Seriously, how could my 16-year-old brother still act like a kindergartener ?

A few minutes later, as I thought the hell-whole sound of alarm had ended, that shitty thing started ringing again. God save me please.

Ring ... ring ... ring ...

Can someone turn that thing off ? I'm trying to get some more sleep. Rough day.

Last night, I suddenly became addicted to "The Shadowhunters" series, so I ended up staying up all night and watched it. Yeah, and five cups of coffee, too.

Ring ... ring ... ring ...

That horrible alarm again ? I'm actually pissed off by now. "Holly mother f***er! Zach, turn that shit off or I'll kick your ass!" I screamed.

"Language, kiddo. And my name's not Zach, he's already in the kitchen eating breakfast. You'd better wake up soon. Can't blame your brother, you're clearly not a morning person."

Opps, that's my mother. Bad-timing. "Sorry mom. I'll be down in a sec." She sighed and smiled at me, and then disappeared behind the door.

How come every time I say "bad words" my mom appears right there ? What a coincidence ?! Haizz, today'd be a long long day ...

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I tried to go through my daily routine as fast as possible. And then the daily dressing - up process.

I opened the wardrobe, taking out some leather pieces, as if there's nothing else beside them.

Black croptop with a black leather skirt might do me just fine. In case the autumn weather would be breezy, I'll bring a black leather jacket and a pair of Chelsea boots for certain. At last, I wore some accesories : a pair of black - roses earings and some rings. I didn't want to be stand - out too much.

I let my wavy dirty blonde hair down in order to cover the tatoo behind my neck. Neither of my parents would be happy if they knew their 'liltle princess' was having a tatoo.

Yeah, that's me, Katherine Gilbert - the princess of the Gilbert Industry, one of the biggest industry in Australia. Everyone saw me as a perfect girl - beautiful, wealthy family, good grades, friendly, sociable, famous, fashionable and a bright future. But no one knew the REAL me, except from my gay - best friend, Elliot. He's a really handsome and nice guy, though.

I'm actually not a bad girl, but I always make people picture me as a bad one. It's just a way to cover up my true self - a fragile little girl, who was left behind by an f***ing arsehole. Never mind, that's just the story of the past. We all need to move on.

Today's my first day at school. The last year of high school, my senior year. God bless me, one more year and I'll be free. I flipped a coin, it's a habit of mine every first day of the school year.

3 ... 2 ... 1 ...

Faced - down. God, that's really bad luck. I hope nothing's gonna happen. I just want to graduate in peace, not in a drama way like freshman year. Finger crossed.

"Kate the ugly cat, are you done ?" Zach yelled from outside.

"Shut up, don you dare to call me that again!" I'm not ugly, am I ?

"Katherine, please hurry up and get in the car or I'll go first."

"Jesus Christ, I'm trying to grab all the thing I need. Just keep the little mouth of yours shut or you'll be pain in the ass." Now, he shut up. "And my dear brother, don't ever TRY to get me in the DRIVER SEAT again!" I yelled.

I remembered the last time being in the driver seat, I ended up involving in an accident. It was the only and the last time I was drunk and wasted. Luckily, no-one was in the car except for me. That's a really bad experience. After that event, I'm not allowed to get in the driver seat ever again.

As I walked downstairs, I waved at   Jack. "Morning, Jack!" He smiled back at me.
"Morning, beautiful. How are you feeling ?". Jack had been my driver for over 10 years. He's very caring and he's always been like a second father to me.

I headed to the kitchen to grab some sandwiches as there's not enough time for breakfast, and then headed to the car.

"Finally! My dear turtle, where have you been? " My brother said with a mocking voice. Jack laughed lightly. I rolled my eyes at him. "In your ass".

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It turned out that my first day of school was not that bad. I'm not in the popular class of the school, but I am known as the badass. Not so famous but sassy enough to make others look at me with sparkling eyes and some rumors like "Never-ever-make-her-hate-you-or-you-will-be-dead-soon". A princess is also an outsider, too.

The worst thing of the day is just two first period with Mr Daimler in Math class. Damn it, my worst subject too. Though, he's a nice person, sometimes become bitchy to the students but that's okay.

Ah, just thinking about Math made me tired already.

Walking into the class and to my usual seat near the window, I put on headphones and listened to "Mad world" by Adam Lambert as the class hadn't started yet.

When the bell rang, Mr Daimler shouted "Get back to your seats, you naughty monkeys" as he always said. Suddenly, a boy with chocolate brown hair rushed into the room.

He has eyes with the colour of ocean blue that you could drown in it. The tall figure that makes you feel suffocated, and most importantly, all on the whole, you could probably describe him as the Sex Greek God you've always thought about. He was gorgeous, and I can feel that everyone's eyes are on him, including me. INCLUDING ME. God, terrible thoughts.

Mr Daimler looked through some porfolios, "Okay class, listen up! He's a new student in our class, behave well. So please introduce yourself to these monkeys first." He raised his voice.

"Hi guys, I'm William Savaltore and I'm from New York. My dad moved to Australia for business, so I come here with my dad. Nice to meet all of you." He talked in a really smooth way and tried to smile. But everyone seemed to be in no mood of listening to him.

Mr Daimler broke the tension. "Well Mr Savaltore, welcome to this boring Math class. In case you don't know, I'm a very nice teacher. So unless you don't make noise in class and pass the exams, you'll have nothing to do with me. Are you clear, new Prince ?"

The class was chuckling.

"Yes, sir." He smiled slightly. His smile in some way makes me want to smile too. What a contagious smile.

"Right, no more chit chat kids! Let's get the new Prince his seat so we can continue our lesson." He said and pointed to the only seat left. Is he pointing at me? Nahhh, it's just the empty chair but it's ... right behind me. Holly shit.

He slid into his seat as the teacher started talking nonstoppedly.

"Hi, I'm Will" I feel he's tapping on my back. Is he talking to me ?

I turned around "Do I have this honor ?" He nodded. "Why?" I asked.

He shrugged "Just making friends. I'm Will." He smiled again.

"Yeahh, everyone knows, you have just introduced yourself." I smiled "I'm Kate."

"Oh, Katty. It's my pleasure to meet a drop dead gorgeous princess in this boring Math class. Math has always been my worst subject." He sighed.

"Hey, don't worry. It's my worst subject too." I cracked up laughing as it's the first time I've met a person like me. Actually, it's his smile that made me smile too.

"Oh, so we have something in common now." His smile is like sunshine.

"We are." Why is he smiling so much ?

"And Willy, I'm so lucky to have this charming prince in this class with me, right ?" I just want to flirt with him a little bit.

"So you assumed that I'm charming ?" He flirted back.

"I'm not denying anything." I smiled at him, and undoubtedly, he did that too.

"It seems like somebody has clicked immediately, I believe?" Mr. Daimler spoke up, and glared heavily at me and William. Soon, everybody in the class followed suit, as I could hear the murmur in front of us. The rumors would have it ...

"There must have been a mistake, Mr. Daimler, there's no way this beautiful girl would 'click' with me ..."

Will answered, and everyone started giggling. I'm sure that my cheeks turned heatedly red that moment. This Willy guy would definitely, be the death of me.

Time flied, and the lesson soon ended.

"Heyy, Kate." Will called.

"Oh, Will." I smiled "How can I help you?"

"Uhh ... I was thinking ... uhh ... can you show me around ? Cause I'm a new student ?" Is he blushing ?

I cracked up laughing "Oh, of course. It's my honor to be your tour guide, my Prince."

He bursted out laughing too. "Yeah, Prince ? I like you, talking to you was fun."

"Thank you so much. So hope you like my accompany." I acted like a lady. And we cracked up laughing. "So ... I was thinking ... would you like to join me for lunch ?"

He seemed surprised "Just you ? What about your friends ?"

"Friends ? Ohh there's a guy, too."

"A guy ... " Ahha I think I have got on his nerves.

As we were walking down the hallway, an unexpected thing turned up. The most horrible thing in the world.

Patrick Jefferson

Oh hello, my dearest ex-boyfriend. Wellcome to hell !

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Hi guys! This is my first chapter of my first book, actually. I didn't have much experience in writing. But I have tried my best to write. Hope you guys like it!
P/s: thanks to janetical for always being my bestfriend and my editor 💌 ilysm ❣️

Amanda xx