Hell is Other People

Prologue

Ella's POV

'Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole' he said. Plato always talked about a story that had to do with the human kind. Originally he said we, humans, where created with two pair of legs, two pair of hands and a head with two faces. That creature, androgynous as he called it, was bound with one body and could do amazing things, but that led to it to be arrogant. The Gods furious with the arrogance that humans showed, decided to punish them by cutting them in half. So after, since their natural form had been cut in two, each one longed for its own other half and searched each other until they were one again. So either that was true or at least that was how Ancient Greeks explained the need of searching your "soulmate"...

Of course it's a myth and I don't actually believe in soulmates but I do believe that people long to be with someone so as not to be alone... Definitely that can lead to very bad results and let me tell you why.

Sometimes longing to be with anyone can lead to a bad combination so you try again and again until you get the perfect fit, right? There is no such thing as great match or soulmates or whatever... what exists are human attraction, understanding, companionship and trust. That's what I call 'love'.

Of course in my experience I never found that or at least I've never seen it. So I lived my life with that in mind and keeping away everyone and everything that could lead to, what I told you earlier, "bad combination" until this summer...

All I ever wanted was to get through this summer as quick as possible without any problems and be back to where I belonged. School, my degree and back to my own life...

As far as I knew nothing could have prepared me for what I was about to live.

I did things and mostly created situations that I never knew I would have been in because this summer was something I could never imagine. And yes... to the bad combinations I told you earlier.

Believe me when I say this. Nothing could have prepared me for it, not even when I was living those things.
I know I am not the only one who has to say her opinion on this but I think the seven of us and more can agree with me. You see there are always many sides of every story and one is never enough. None of us was searching for our "soulmates"!
Not even close to that and I don't think any of us was actually looking for something or to be with someone... We just wanted to have fun, pass the time but that had the result of being tangled with everything and everyone. And I think I created some of them on my own without even realising them.

All started when I got a job at a four-star-hotel called 'Longbeach' and do you know what is funny? I wasn't even supposed to be working there. Everything changed in a matter of minutes by a phone call and the next thing I knew, I was on a boat from Melbourne to Tasmania. For three months my life was bound to be a rollercoaster every single day and get tangled with mostly other seven people's lives...or maybe more.

So listen carefully to what I'm about to tell you and what the others are going to say later because stories are made to be told and this story is something that you would want to hear. Every each of us has a different story to tell about this summer but the main road is the same for us all, right?

For me, all it needed, for this domino of events to start or how I remembered I got into the game, was one question.

Only one damn question.

"Want to have some fun?"

And that's when the problems started...

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Hey Guys! I hope you liked the Prologue of "Hell is Other People". I will start uploading chapters by next week and I will announce a standard day of the week for new updates! As for "Orion's Last Descendant", I put that on hold for now and I will come back to it when I have the change.

That's all for now

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