Chapter 1
I started during my senior year. I had just turned fifteen the summer before and i was so excited to be a senior that year.
Ha! I didn't know what was coming.
I walked up to the stairs so i could enter the high school building in my school, Saint Xavier International High School, London, England. To be honest i was so nervous that my palms became damp because clearly my sweat glands were in overdrive.
On the way up the stairs into my new classroom my steps slowed as i was lost in thought over who my new classmates would be.
Now that wasn't to say that i wasn't thrilled to see my best friends and my other old classmates because i was. I was just curious.
First of all who am i? I am Katherine Melissa Smith, stupid name right? I'm a Taurus born on April 23rd 1998. My birthstone is diamond. I was fifteen and i high school senior because in London where i obviously live people i was a smarty pants so yeah....
I was five feet four and while some diplomatic people would describe my body as 'plus-sized' or 'healthy' or even 'chubby' instead of being real with me and just calling me fat. Not like The Biggest Loser kind of fat but like baby fat kind of fat. A girl weighing sixty-five kilograms at age fifteen is definitely obese to me.
I am half-English from my father's side and half-French from my moms and i have been 'blessed' with two older twin sisters. Please note the sarcasm.
My family life is... unhappily complicated. My father used to call me a frog because i was so fat and belt me when i made the smallest mistake. I compare him to the devil sometimes because of how he acts. He always wants what i can't give, always has high expectations for me. I get he wants the best for me but he's smothering me. He had an affair on my mummy when i was six or seven and it nearly tore my family apart.. He nearly tore my family apart.
My mom was going to leave and go back to the France. I remember that day because it was the day i grew up. In my old school they had to send me home because i was crying too hard. Life as i knew it began at that very moment, maybe it's why i'm such a bitch. In the end my mom didn't leave because she knew what would happen to my sisters and i. She gave up her personal happiness just so we wouldn't suffer i think that's part of why i love her so much.
I found out when i was eight or nine that my dad wasn't my biological father. My dad was actually just my stepfather and my mom was my real mom as she cheated on 'Daddy dearest' with some guy. I have deep issues because my birth father who Mummy says is very much alive that chose to abandon me for whatever worthy cause meant more to him than his family. Chose not to get married to my mum though given she was already married i guess it was complicated but still he chose to have me born practically a bastard. I don't know the whole story but i feel rejected, abandoned and betrayed. I'm just grateful she didn't have me aborted but it gets harder and harder to remember that as the years go by.
As soon as i walked through my new classrooms door my bestfriends Jacqueline Summers and Danielle Tezio rushed over and gave me gigantic hugs.
"We've missed you so so much, Kathy", they squealed at exactly the same time.
I gave them my signature smirk and said, "I would miss me too"
Hear Hear! Queen Bitch has returned to the building.
Jacqueline or Jackie as i called her is also chubby with light brown eyes and long black hair with occasional strands of chestnut and red. She has a great voice and she likes Evanescence like me well i kind of like some of their songs but not their demonic ones. I probably should have mentioned earlier but i'm an amateur songwriter with dreams of making that a career.
Danielle or Dani as i call her is fat like me. She has long dirty blonde hair and aquamarine eyes and also the most adorable dimples i've ever seen. She's great at braiding hair and though most of the time i feel like murdering her and selling her body parts i love Dani and i wouldn't change a thing about her.
Me, Dani and Jackie have been inseperable since two years ago when we realized we were kindred spirits.. Well in a way.
I sat between Dani and Jackie at the last row of seats in class as our Math and Spanish teacher and not to mention adviser introduced herself to all of us.
I looked at all the girls there and felt a prick of jealousy because their hair was long and straight and silky not to mention shiny while mine was also long and shiny but frizzy, curly and unmanageable ninety percent of the time plus it's golden blonde color made me feel like such a blonde even though i'm kind of smart.
I can truthfully state that in my eyes the only things i find in myself that i think are pretty as well as my lips which were a light pink color and my deep dark sapphire colored eyes. I am definitely not a narcissist.
Miss Santiago called all my new classmates to introduce themselves infront of class and i got a few names, namely: Matt Ferrago, Christine Terrance, Ally Paragon, Krizzia Derunetta, Gem Clare Sapphire, Marinelle Terrance and Nadine Evangelistene.
They were all polite but somehow distant at the same time when talking to me probably because they were shy to interact with new people. Damn shy newbies.
Since today was the first day of school we just read the rulebook and hung with each other. The rest of the day just flew and as i was walking downstairs i accidentally bumped into this guy. I looked up to say sorry very grateful for the fact that i was 'shameless' and didn't easily blush. He laughed it off and winked at me before he left.
He told me his name though.. Carlo.. Carlo Devin. I had never met a more gorgeous boy and when i slept that night i met him in my dreams.
A/N:
Hi guys do you like?
BTW this book has some real people but it's not real. It is fiction. Inspired by my friend whose life was like that.
xoxo Anny
P.S. Can you guess why i chose the name 'Carlo' and if this person is real who he is to me?
