Six Degrees of Separation (Harry/Marcel Fanfic)

Chapter 1

18 years.

18 years this secret was kept from me.

Do you know how that feels to be lied to? I have been living a lie for eighteen years of my life. And to tell you the truth I want to know how different my life would be. I want to know how much change my life would’ve went through if I were told this secret. This secret could change my life. Change who I am as an individual. Why must people keep secrets? Why do they insist on keeping them? Do they think that keeping this secret is going to make everything seem alright? Well it doesn’t make everything alright. It makes it worse than it was before.

Was this supposed to just be a tiny piece of information that wasn’t going to change my life in any way? Well, it did. And now I’m trying to find ways fix this. To find the answers to my problems. And sometimes we get answers that we aren’t searching for. I guess you got to hear the story. My story.

My six degrees of separation.

I graduated high school a year before I was supposed to. My parents weren’t too happy about it but I wanted to start college early. And to tell you the truth I was done with the high school drama that lingered the halls. I was done with the rumors about me. And to tell you the truth they were all fake. They were all false. None of them were true but people believe what they want to hear. They don’t take my word for it and it sucks. And that’s why I finished high school early. And I could’ve picked a better time to end my high school career and focus on what I wanted to do. I couldn’t be bothered with football games or proms. I rather be sitting on my computer studying marketing. And that’s what I did most of my high school time.

After all my high school work was done I took a few classes at the local community college and I started working on my degree in marketing. My mom worked for some big movie business. Oh, I guess I should mention where I live. I live in Los Angeles. You know the place with all the movie stars and celebrities. No my parents are not movie stars. My mom works for a marketing agency in Hollywood. My dad well he is an agent for some celebrities. You could say that my family is pretty busy.

I’m an only child. My parents have been married for about twenty years now. So they were together before I was born. My parents call me their pride and joy. I’m the greatest son ever. I give them everything they want. I’m everything they expected. And part of me thinks that I’m not good enough for them.

My name is Marcel. And I’m trying to get my marketing degree. I always loved trying figuring out how to make business work and how to make it boom. I’m always one for new and interesting ideas. Sometimes they just come to me and they have been some of my best ideas yet. This summer I’m going to be working with my mom and her friends. I just can’t wait. This has been my dream.

Ever since I was little and I went to work with my mom I always had a good time. I would play around with the other employees coming up with insane ideas. My mom’s bosses used to get angry but my mom told them that I was just having a little fun. But do they really understand what fun is? All they care about is money? And if the money making got off track then they would have to make up for lost time. And they want to make the most money possible not just the average amount of money. And that’s when I got banned from going to work for my mom.  Well, that’s how I got banned from both of my parents’ jobs and then I started pretending I had my own business. So yeah, my dreams started becoming a reality.

Today was my eighteenth birthday. And I just couldn’t wait to go out with my best friend, Jenna. Her and I have been friends since I could remember. She is probably the only person who understands me and that’s why I love her. That’s why I trust her with everything. She was taking me out for dinner since my parents are never home. And today wasn’t going to be one of those special days.