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Chapter-2 Arrival

''Good Morning. Wake up , beautiful!''', a cold gorgeous voice chimes. The familiar sound of waves crashing at the sea shore always made my day positive. You would be wondering as to where a sea shore is in N.Y. Well it isn't. It's just my alarm clock.

It was 5:45am . I lie there for a couple of minutes listening to the ecstatic waves thrashing, a beautiful melody.

I press the buzzer and get up to take a cool shower. We came back home late yesterday night. Sleep came over only at 2am. The few hours of sleep was insufficient. The shower might help so.

After the shower, I put on a white shirt and black jeans. I dry my dark hair and pull it into a high pony.

As I open my bedroom door, the Smell of pancakes sail up to me.
Yumm..... Good heavens. It smell wonderful and my stomach growls to show its agreement.

I reach the kitchen and see Cara cooking pancakes. ''Good Morning'',I say and she smiles at me and replies,'' Good Morning silver! ''.

I get a Diet Coke from the fridge and sit at the kitchen table. Perhaps the drink will help jump start a few brain cells. I felt basically brain dead right now due to the lack of sleep.

'' Good Morning guys!'', Kate sails into the room and gets a coke from the fridge too and settles next to me.

She was wearing a black and white striped top with a puffed up and tight bun. Cara was wearing a simple floral white top.

'' Here you go!'', Cara gives us the pancakes.

''It's delicious ,Cara !'', Kate and I breath together.

We three have our breakfast and Cara takes an occasional fruit drink.

'' I'll be back.!'', Cara whispers through the room and after a couple of minutes she comes in with an intricate side braid and winked eyeliner with glossy pink lips.

''What's the occasion, girl? '', I ask.

She blushes a deep red,'' what?'', she probes.

''What's with the intricate hair style and winked eyeliner? I know for a fact that you don't put much make-up unless something's up!'', I say.

''Yeah whatever!'', she waves it away.

''No,no. Come on, why don't you tell me who it is?''', Kate smirks.

''Nothing. Now do you wanna be late for school?'', she points out.

I give up for now and wait for a better time to catch hold of her.
I fetch the car keys and tell Kate to drive this time for sleep hasn't left me yet. It will only when chemistry or physics comes in. Maths will help by making me brain dead again. Sure, life is very pleasant.

We reach school within 15 mins.
The hallway was very crowded and I meet Kelly Canisters, my very good friend since the beginning of high school.

''Hey! How ya doing?'', Kelly smiles, her face a dark rouge.

'' Something's up? You look pretty excited! '', I comment.

''Of course, didn't you hear 'the Gales' are back hear at New York! '', Kelly muses.

' The Gales'? I wonder. The name itself settles a cold uncomfortable feeling in my stomach.

'' The Gales?'', I ask confused.
''Why, don't you know? Oh Of course, you were on vacations at L.A. They came here and as soon as you were returning back to N.Y., they left. I think it was some business matter that they had come for then but, now since they are attending school, they are gonna be here for a long time!'', Kelly explains.

Wait, does this explain Cara's unusual excitement?

And who knew that the 'long time' was going to be a confusing and continuous struggle for the already messed up life of mine. Well, it isn't actually 'messed up' but what I mean is 'it' is gonna be messed up.

Picture- Kate Rodriguez