Chapter 1- What's In A Name???

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"Dad, do I need a uniform?" I asked as my dad adjusted his tie in front of the mirror. He stops and turns to look at me, "you're still thinking of leaving Oakling Academy for some average American ... Public school???" He says the last two words with disgust.

"Dad please, I really want to be normal like people on TV" I say.

"So Caden and I aren't normal" he asks quietly.

"No, not that. I mean I want to see and be how they are even if just for a while. It's not like I plan to be there forever. Dad please." I beg.

He sighs "Chase Olivia Turner (uh-oh, whenever he says my full name, he means business) do you think you can survive it?"

"Daddy, I can do this. Yes, I'm not used to 'that' kinda life but I've got all-american spirit. You just have to trust me. Besides, I need a break from this life of the rich and famous." I say as I look into his brown eyes.

"Fine! But, you will keep to your schedule and you can join any club you want and go for parties but none on weekdays, okay?" He instructs. I bob my head up and down with a cheesy grin, that spreads from ear to ear, on my face.

"Dad thanks! You're the best" I squealed and I gave him a kiss on the cheek and buttoned his suit jacket. "Darn it C. How do you get me to agree to all your crazy ideas?" Dad groaned.

"Because you wuv me." I sigh.

He picks up his briefcase and makes for the door before he turns back. " And before I forget, I'll be placing you under the care of Tara."

"WHAT???!!" I scream indignantly and Dad leaves his room. I follow him and close the door behind me. Tara is a crazy paralegal from the firm that Dad owns. She comes over a lot because she's Dad's social-PA and one of his mentees.

He goes to Caden's room. "Caden, I'm off." He says as he pokes his head into his room.

"Yeah Dad, bye" Caden says without taking his eyes of his laptop #3. Caden is tech-savvy and he mostly works on his tech stuff when he's not disturbing me or at his friend Adam's house. Several times Dad's caught him hacking into websites (I don't get why he does that) and the next time, dad said he's gonna have strict penalties. In his room he's got four laptops, three desktops and like, two tablets and his own internet router.

"Caden what are you doing?" Dad asks as he opens Caden's door fully and enters his room.

"Uh- n-n-nothing." He stammers and pulls a huge duvet over the desk that has everything on it.

Dad steps over the cables and wires lining the floor of his room and walks up to the desk and flings the duvet away. "Caden!" He booms and before he can continue, Caden interrupts him and raises his hands in defeat.

"I know, I know. This time, stricter penalties. But there was this annoying video of a kid singing the gummy bear song on YouTube and I couldn't resist hacking into the website and deleting it." He says.

"Hey! I liked that video. I even downloaded it!" I shout in fake anger.

"Well Dad, are you going to take away my computers? Ground me for a month? Or cut my allowance?" Caden asked with a grim look on his face, completely ignoring me.

"Nope." Dad grinned, "I'll do none of that."

"Huh???" We both asked in unison, with dumbfounded looks on our faces because normally Dad would have gotten really mad and start giving him what we nicknamed the "corrective speech". His calm demeanor was frightening us.

"In fact, Chase, you're right, you BOTH need a life away from fame and fortune. So minor change of plans. You BOTH are going to ordinary school." And he walks out of the room but not before he closes both our mouthes which were hanging open out of shock.

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"And then he agreed. But then he punished Caden to go too because the air head hacked into YouTube to delete that video I sent you of the gummy bear song." I whined. I was at my friend Alexis's house and I was lying on her bed, wallowing in despair while she was busy adding finishing touches to her autumn fashion line.

"No! Not our gummy bear video!" She wailed. Alexis and I have been friends since 4th grade but she's not my best friend. I don't have one. Neither does she. But we are as close as two Oreo cookies in a pack can be.

"Well C, I've been wondering...why do you want to leave Oakling???" She asks.

"Because I want to just be like other people even if just for a little while and also," my voice lowers a bit, " to prove Blaire wrong."

At Oakling, I have an archenemy known as Blaire- Taylor Willison. Her dad and mine are real good friends and my Dad's firm uses her father's accounting firm for all transactions and stuff. But it doesn't stop us from hating each other.

Once upon a time back in kindergarten, Blaire and I were really close and sorta misfits amongst the others. But somewhere between 2nd and 3rd grade, she got swept into the crowd of rich and cool kids, leaving me by myself and turning against me as my archenemy. Somewhere in the 4th grade, I found Alexis and now we're misfits together.

Before we went on summer holiday, Blaire called me a stuck-up prig and said I couldn't survive outside of my comfort zone in front of everyone in the tea room
"That's a lie!"  I'd shouted angrily.
"Oh yeah, prove it then." She'd sneered.
"I won't come back for a while. I'll go to a commoner school and I'll prove you wrong." I had replied.
"Oh I'll like to see you try and fail then fall on your sorry,little ass!" She smirked and began to make her way out of the tea room before hesitating and turning back to me "And hon, I hope you know I'm NEVER wrong."

I lifted my chin defiantly " Thank god there's a first time for everything." But I was sorta scared because she actually never is wrong. She'd glared at me, her nostrils flaring before giving her best snooty laugh and leaving.

I'm snapped out of my day dream by Alexis calling "Earth to C,
Earth to C. Snap out of it."

"Huh???"

"I said don't get yourself into a fix because of that she-demon. You should instead be worrying about how people will react to your abnormal name."

"There is nothing abnormal about the name Chase."

"Yeah," she retorts "when it's a boys name."

Oh fudge, I hadn't thought about that.

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Hello peeps. Wassup how y'all doing???
I dunno what's wrong with wattpad but I can't input any characters so here some of them are:

Zendaya as Chase Turner
Jamie Foxx as Michael Turner
Brec Bassinger as Alexis Davidson
Ashley Tisdale as Blaire-Taylor Willison

So as each character appears, I'll try put them at the end of the chapter. Okay???

I'm new to this so please vote. Comment and yeah anything else okay???
Love y'all!!!

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