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Prologue

Hey my little angels!

Welcome to the re-write of HB!

Hope you like the Prologue!

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(Raquel POV)

I'm Raquel Matthews and I'm 24, happily living in Geelong, Australia.

Let's see.... Where to start...

My parents divorced when I turned 8. I stayed with dad while mum moved out and went to America and I lost all connection with her.

3 years later my dad legit "runs" into a woman, Stephanie. A few days later they go on a lunch date, and after that started dating for 5 years before I finally knocked some sense into my otherwise scaredy cat of a father and they got married.

It makes me undeniably happy when I see him so in love with Steph. And I love her just as much. She's more of a mother than my biological mother ever was. Steph was the one I went to for all the personal girly stuff, and she was there for me. I could rely on Steph for anything.

One of those things being, going through horrific break ups.

Oh the amount of break ups I've suffered in my life time.

My first ever boyfriend was actually my best friend.

While Dad was dating Steph, we decided to move houses, keeping the memory of mum in that old house. We didn't move far, just on the other side of Werribee.

And so when we moved into our new house, it turned out that there was a boy who was also 11, living in the house next door. When his mum came out to welcome us and introduce us she had brought out her two children Bianca, and Antonio.

Me being an only child, instantly made me excited to see someone my age that I could hang out and play with.

Antonio and I immediately became friends. He was mischievous and conniving while I was funny and sweet. So when Antonio had a cheeky idea, we would fulfil it and I made jokes about it.. Which lead to us getting in trouble by our parents and teachers at school a lot... Did I forget to mention that I ended up going to the same school as Antonio?

For 4 years we'd been inseparable and the bestest of friends, but at some point I grew a bit of a crush for my Italian best friend... Then I found out that Antonio did as well, and so we started dating.

We'd been dating for more than one year when the unbelievable happened...

1) Dad got a promotion which meant having to move 40 minutes away from Antonio.
2) And when I was about to tell Antonio, I find out that he'd been cheating on me with the popular girl.

I bet you can guess what I did next. I confronted him and broke up with him, and moved away without telling him.

I was broken. My best friend for 4 years, and boyfriend for 1 year had cheated on me. I felt so useless. I had lost my best friend forever and there was nothing I could do about it.

I don't know what would've happened to me if Steph wasn't there... And if I never meet Lilly and Felix.

We got settled into our new home in Bacchus Marsh, and I went to my first day of Year 10 in a new high school the next day.

I was kind of aimlessly walking around not knowing what to do, until a flawless female and gorgeous male that looked to be 17 years old came over to me.

Lilly and Felix were so nice to me, and accepted me into their little group of two with open arms and I was finally happy again.

I remember asking if they were dating, cause they looked like a couple, and were cute together, but as soon as I did they burst into laughter, falling on the ground losing their sanity.

"Oh my god!! You really think I'd date this idiot?!" Lilly laughed.

"Hey! You're not much more of an idiot than I am!" Felix accused.

Lilly just poked her tongue out at him before turning back to me. "But no. I don't think I'd want to date my gay cousin," Lilly explained with a smile.

I immediately felt embarrassed. "Oh my god! I had no idea! I'm so sorry!" I apologised with a blush.

I'll never forget that day. Highlight of my life.

So after that, we became the closest of friends. No secrets were between us, sleepovers happened at least once every week (houses alternating between the three of us), watching chick flicks, and eyeing the hot guys (Magic Mike will forever be our favourite movie).

They're the best things that have happened to me.

And when I'd go through a harsh break up, they'd instantly come over to my house with my favourite pizza, Ben & Jerry's, Magic Mike, a fluffy blanket and they're warm embraces and comforting words.

I could count on them for anything. I love them so much, and they love me back. They'll always be my lesbian lover and fake boyfriend.

It's funny. Cause when I think about it now, Felix mainly got his nickname because if I tried flirting with someone and it didn't work out, all I had to do was scratch my head and Felix would come over and pretend to be my boyfriend so I had no reason to talk to the guy ever again.

So when I turned 19 I moved out, saying bye to Dad and Steph and moved into the cute apartment next door to Lilly and Felix.

I'm such a 12 year old, because for my 10th birthday Steph gave me a diary, and I still write in it and keep it to this day. So if you wanted to know a bit more about my previous boyfriends, it's all in there. It also holds my most horrible relationship... Or maybe it was more than a relationship.

The diary helps relieve my stress and somewhat helps me forget about the voice in my head.

You're probably wondering what I'm talking about. Well, ever since my 15th birthday I've had this strange voice in my head. Almost like my conscience decided to have a voice randomly. She's mainly helpful and points out random facts when something happens, but mainly she's probably the reason why I'm not as happy with myself as I was before I turned 15.

Then my whole world flipped around when Antonio decided to come back into my life, completely different to what I was used to.

And that's where this twisted love story begins.

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So, what do you guys think so far?

Sorry that it took me FOREVER to post this, but with having problems with writing my main book, and having to re-write the prologue and other stories because you decide to do something stupid to lose all your work, it gets hard to write.

But don't worry, I'm already a quarter way into writing the first chapter.

Until then.

See you later my little angels!