Keys and Strings

Chapter One

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I woke up with the sun lighting up every corner of my room. It's a brand new day, I told myself and as always, I stood up and took a shower and wore a flannel over my black cropped top, black ruffled skirt, and black ankle boots. I checked myself at my vanity mirror one last time and let my long, loose-curled brown hair loose, and applied simple eye shadow and dark violet lipstick.

I stared at the girl with long, wavy hair, round, apple-green orbs and pale complexion before I flung my bag onto my left shoulder and walked out my room, with my dog, Cookie trailing behind me. Papa bought me a puppy the day when we were about to go back to America, four years ago. Papa said that Cookie will watch over me, like the way my brother will, and so far, she's doing her job pretty well. I picked her up and carried her with me down the grand staircase.

"Good morning, Al, how was your sleep?" My brother greeted as I entered the dining room, I smiled at him as I placed Cookie in her doggie bed. Alexander Garnet Valentine was my older brother, older by a year; he's the total opposite of me, unlike me, he's patient, generous and really, really cheery; while me? I had this uncontrollable putty-mouth and bored demeanor, unlike him I'm a lot more trusting. It takes more than a year for anyone to earn Xander's trust. He has a girlfriend named Bellerose Lefrançois who's from France. It's not that I don't like her, I love her, really, but the thought of him married to someone who was as rich as us, and that her family owns this really huge company in France, plus, they don't need to be arranged to merge our companies, they're in love.

See, the plan is that as soon as they got married, they will live in Scotland and I never liked that country, and they have to stay there for at least five years, especially when Xander's going to be the next CEO, he has to train, but they had a possibility not to come back, I don't want him to go.

"Morning," I said as I sat on my usual spot across him, then I noticed mom's place was empty where could she be this time?

I wondered. "Xander, where's mama?" I asked.

"Probably with her husband again," he said, not taking his eyes off his waffles.

The thing is, our parents divorced when we were six, papa found out that mama's been cheating on him for 2 years with her personal assistant, but what's worse, she was pregnant. Papa took us with him to Paris and we grew up there, but we still have communication with mama, after all, she is our mother, and it would seem harsh if papa kept us from her. A year after that, she gave birth to our step sister, Cassandra Pearl. I don't have any harsh thoughts towards Cassandra, I swear. Then when I turned fourteen, summer before school starts for high school, that day I saw Cassandra, the first time I saw her, she was only seven years old. And I can see the way how mama treats her, it was exactly the way she used to treat me. Then from that day on, I felt a little bit of hate towards the little girl. Where are they now? With David, our step dad, and yes, mama remarried, but papa never did. He believes that their marriage was sacred in the eyes of God, and he still love her. So much. I don't know why, but I was somewhat mad at my mom and Cassandra herself. But you can't blame someone for being mad at her mother who was the reason why her family was broken in the first place. Papa loved her, and she wasted that love and had an affair and got pregnant. Who won't get mad? But I kept on on telling myself: I am Alexandria Ruby valentine, I am better than this.