Prologue

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Emiliana

Dear diary,
it's been a while... Where should I start? My boyfriend, Nate used me to get a popular life. How pathetic was I to think that he really wanted me? He stole my friends. I might be a little thankful for that, but still, it stinks.
I feel so ashamed, he humiliated me. He made me feel like I was this good girl he fell in love with. Well, everything's fucked up right now. My mother found out I lost my virginity because he fucking told her. His mother is my mother's best friend, so she knows him. She didn't think anything was going on since he's been coming here a lot and we've never really been friends or at least friendly. He didn't tell her he fucked me, though. He still wanted, wants to look like the good guy.
Now, I'm grounded. I can't get out of the house, which is good considering I was humiliated two days ago. Really, thanks, mom.
Maria, this girl I met online has been really supportive of my situation, she helped a lot. She lives in California while I live in Texas. We've fonded a friendship over our love for cooking. She makes a lot of baking cookies and cakes, but I am more into making actual meals. She said it's not really her thing. She asked me to teach her so I do while we video chat.
Vik and Dom have totally let me down since they learned I slept with the "Weird kid". I never did like them, anyway. So, this situation is kind of helping.
It sucks that the guy I fell in love with, my first love, screwed me over. I really did like him, he is a great guy. Was.

I close my diary and try to get back to my homework. It's been three years, but it feels like it was yesterday. I was totally stunned that I wrote about it. I wasn't in the best mood when I got my heart broken. I was 15 but it still hurt as hell.

"Honey! Pizza's here!"

She ordered pizza three times this week, this time being the third. I'm starting to wonder if she's okay. She never wants to order pizza, let alone order it more than once. My mother is the healthy, coach mom. I've loved that my whole life, but lately I hate it. She's been more than clingy lately. She's been asking me about where I'll go to college next year, if I met boys while I was in California. Yes, I've been to California to visit Maria, it's not the first time. I've been going there during the holidays. Her father's amazing. Her mom's in jail. We've never really talked about that because she doesn't want to.

"Coming!"

I close my laptop and get down. I think she forgot to mention we had guests. I can hear her talking to someone that's not my dad because he's in Florida for a work trip. A familiar voice starts to be heard. Oh, fuck no. She invited the Jorlikan's over.

"Hi, Emiliana. How are you?"

Claudia hugs me. I've always loved that she's a hugger, my mom is not a fan.

"I'm good."

"Hey, Lia."

I look over to the dining table. Why does he keep getting hotter? That's what's annoying me. He seems to be calm about saying hi to me. You broke my heart and haven't spoken to me in years and the first words you say to me are those?
"Lia" I fucking hate that nickname. No one calls me "Lia", only him, which he loves.

"Nathaniel."

I sit down in my assigned seat. I understand why my mother ordered pizza, now. Did my mom really have to sit him in front of me? I have to see this annoying guy while I'm eating? Thanks for that. I take two slices of two different pizzas and start to eat while the parents talk to each other.

"How was California?"

How the hell does he know I went to California? Why is he being so casual? Once again, we haven't spoken in years, but now he wants to look like the good guy in front of our parents? Screw that. I'm not playing his game.

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