A childhood Promise

"ROSE AUSTIN! What's making you late to sleep? Go to bed right now". Mother said as she saw me operating the laptop.

Meet my mother. Julia Austin. She is always so concerned about our routines that she in fact places an everyday to-do-list, that's basically our schedule with a time, beneath our pillow while we are asleep. I turned around, approaching her on the room entrance.

"Mom, today I got an assignment on Life after Death and Guardians. It won't take much time I promise. Just twenty minutes. Please". I pleaded taking a peck on her cheek.

She glanced over the clock. "After twenty minutes, I am going to pay a check on your room. I hope you wouldn't be awake." And she left.

I Thanked God she didn't start another of her lecture. PHEWW!!!

Our Family had been a very rich one. My Father was an Engineer, while mother used to be a house wife. Father alone used to earn enough that finance never became a problem. I remember we were a happy family, before he left us for a blonde woman, 4 years ago. Mother was expecting her third child at that time. He was my hero, at least that's what I believed in my innocent childhood. I remember how he was always there taking my side, when mother and her so called house rules used to chase me. What happened then and how did it happen, no one knows!

My second sibling, Alice, happened to take birth 8 years after me. My parents had already given up as mother was not expecting a child for so long. Then one day, Alice existence in mothers belly was confirmed and we welcomed her after 9 months, in our happy family. I can never forget the smile on mom's face as she lifted Alice up. The baby just looked like a doll. Her green eyes just like our father & brown curly hair like mom.

However, things were a lot different when Janet was born. Mother never informed Father that she was expecting, recalling that period I can only see the ongoing non stops fights in the house. Those were the abandoned nights when instead of mother reading me bed-time stories all I could hear was her weeping. He never looked back & moved on before Janet was even born. His face is blurry in my memories, but his pictures make it stay recognizable. We only received his some mails, once in a blue moon, asking about my and Alice growth and how much he regrets leaving mother. Mother never took his apology but deep down I know she still loves him.

I looked at the bunk in my room to see if Alice and Janet were sleeping. Oh poor angels, they slept without listening to their bedtime stories. I had been so busy and kept them waiting. Tomorrow they deserve to listen two stories instead, I decided. Assignment was done finally; I disconnected my old Samsung S2 from the charger to check if there's a message to me from someone. And yes there were 3 new messages from my best friend Lucy, again Lucy and again Lucy. I immediately opened it.

"Rosy, this topic is so damn boring. Hey, are you even planning to do this? xxx"

"Liam broke up with up me" :O

"Fine see you in the morning at school. xxxx"

Lucy is so beautiful, her slightly tanned skin with glossy dark brown wavy hair looked just perfect. She owns beautiful hazel eyes and she could make a guy fall in love at first sight. She is very figure conscious and every time she eats something sweet she heads off to the gym. She has a long list of boyfriends and none of her relationships had stayed more than 3 weeks. Oh no, She's not a heart breaker, she's the most loveliest person I've known but the guys she spent time seeing were absolutely not worth it, eventually leading to break up more than often she would have thought.

I neglected to reply her or she would definitely call and tell me all about her break up stories, I guess I can spare time for this tomorrow. Without wasting anytime I tried drifting to sleep. Hoping, that this time I don't come across him in my dreams.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hey everyone! This is the first time I have written a story. I am a frequent novel reader so decided to make a cute romantic love story. And when I say romantic, It's gonna be real romantic at some point. Trust me. ;) Friends, this is only the intro chapter and it may seem boring but definitely another chapter will reveal more of the story. I am planning to take this story slowly and in details so you could appreciate every moment. As you all have heard ' Falling in love should be slow, to enjoy and value every moment' ;-) I promise chapter 1 will be interesting. This was just an intro. LOVE. xxxxx