Chapter -1- Not the best start

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Florence's sleep was disturbed by the soft glow of the sun through the tiniest crack in her closed curtains. She opened the curtains to see it was a pretty nice morning. Too bad her mood wasn't matching the day. Insomnia can be a pain in the butt sometimes am I right or am I right.

She got up from her comfy bed just to trip over the book she had been reading the night before. "Ugh, what a great fall, first thing in the morning", she whispered annoyed.

Immediately the door swung open it was her brother, Bentley. He looked around and saw her on the floor.

With a disappointed look, he asks, "what are you doing?".

She was quite embarrassed, "umm I was looking for something I dropped. Anyway..", she got up in a hurry. "What are you doing here and why is it that you can't knock before entering?".

He just shrugged, "I just came to tell you that Ms. Rune can't drive you to school".

"Wait then who will take me to school?", She called out as her brother was leaving the room.

He turned back and shrugged," I don't know".

Saying that he tried to leave the room once again, but she stopped him and asked quite anxiously, "Can you drive me? please".

He burst out laughing, "nope" and he left the room.

She expected no better. She and Bentley don't really have the best relationship. In actuality, Florence garden doesn't really have the best relationship with her family either.

She is quite the black sheep in the Garden family. The Garden family is quite popular here in the town of Dalry. Her father is a famous businessman and her mother his assistant.

They work in some company that she doesn't really know of, because of this they are pretty busy and go on business trips here and there.

But they like keeping their so-called "reputation" so they are often at home not to spend time with their family but to show that they spend time with their family. Her parents are so obsessed with looking good in front of others that they act like they only have a son.

Unlike Bentley who is considered a genius and a god blessed kid with no flaws, Flo is the third in class, an ok kid who has little to no talents(that is, in their eyes).

So you can understand she is not the pride and joy of the family. But does she care? Not really because if she has the option to escape those boring parties or events just to be considered nonexistent it's worth it.

She looks at the clock on her bedside table it's 6:57 AM. She woke up before her alarm rang that's unfortunate. She regretted not taking those extra minutes of sweet sleep.

Regrets aside she decided it's best to get ready earlier if she wanted to catch a bus. Too bad her ride was gone.

Ms. Rune or Tina (she lets Flo call her that saying Ms rune makes her feel old) is an employee of her parents' company and she gets paid to drive Flo to school and pick her up. She is a sweet person being the only person who acknowledges Flo's existence. She sometimes will stop by at a cafe on their way back home calling it their secret tea time. She is 24yrs old so she and Flo got along pretty well.

So her not coming to drive Flo sucks a lot. After having breakfast Flo heads towards the bus stop. She checked her phone and she sees a message from Tina saying-

"Sorry bud can't drop you at school today 😭. Your parents called me in early 🙄. But I'll make it up to you tomorrow."

She smiled. "Tina is such a sweetheart", Flo thought. Flo replied with a message reassuring her that she'll be fine. She also notices that her best friend Rai sent a message too. Not shocking

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