Beautiful Stars

Chapter One - Clara

I woke felt something shaking me awake, Iopened my eyes and saw August's face above me. I was lying on the sofa, I must have fallen asleep while reading.

'Why'd you wake me?' I groaned.

'Get dressed into something fancy, I'm taking you out', he said with the cute teethy smile he always does. I walked up to the bedroom and opened the wardrobe, I found a pink dress with flowers covering the strap and along the bottom. I slipped it on and walked over to the dressing table. I sat down and picked up my makeup bag, I put on mascara and eyeliner, I gave myself smokey eyes and painted my lips with a deep pink lipstick. I tied my hair in a high ponytail and wrapped a plait around the front of my head. I slipped on silver heeled sandals and went downstairs.

August was waiting at the bottom of the stairs wearing a black tuxedo, he held out his arm for me to hook mine into. He escorted me to the car and opened the door to the driver's side for me. He had broken his wrist last month so I had to drive while he gave me directions.

We came to the edge of a cliff and I stopped. 'What now?' I asked him.

'Keep driving', he told me.

'I am not driving of a cliff! Are you crazy?!' I said stubbornly.

'Trust me, it's fine, just drive', he said.

'No it's not fine, it's a cliff!' I yelled. He ignored me and pressed his foot against the accelerator. The car speed off the cliff. I started crying, why would he do this, I thought he loved me, was he just pretending. I braced myself for the splash but it never came. Then I noticed we were going down a ramp, an invisible ramp! We reached the water and drove across it, there was a clear glass road going across the river!

We arrived on an island, the only thing on it was a large building which resembled a castle.

'Why are we at a castle?' I asked.

He ignored me and got out of the car. I followed him to the front entrance. A bouncer opened the door to reveal a small hallway with a staircase going down. The staircase lead to another hallway which lead to different rooms. There was also a balcony overlooking the main area. We went down the staircase to the main lounge, there was hardly anyone there. August toke me to an empty room. There were windows looking into another room. I quickly realised it wasn't another room, the windows were looking into a swimming pool upstairs. 'You coming?' He asked. I followed him upstairs. He reached into his bag and pulled out one of my bikinis. Just as I was about to jump in, my stomach made a noise.

The next thing I know I was kneeling over the toilet throwing up.

I heard someone knocking on the stall door fifteen minutes later and August walked in, he saw me kneeling against the toilet and looked worried.

'I feel faint', I said weakly. He pickd me up and carried me to the car.