Living As The Lost Daughter

Chapter 10

Shakira's P.O.V

It's been a dream of mine to travel the world with my best friend, Amelia, and here we are 6 or 8 hours away from home. This is a start. I never thought me and Amelia would find the perfect guys for ourselves. No one's perfect but they are perfect for us. I love these three people and I could never let them go.

Amelia is a great girl. She's been through a lot in the past, that when she met Jc, he made her smile a lot more than she used to. That's only what I've been told as I only met them in year 7, apart from Jace. Jc and I walk out of the airport before Jace and Amelia, they were having a movie moment, and luckily I was holding Jc's hand or I would've walked into a push-chair that was strolling by with the family.

I looked around to find a taxi but there was none. I guess America is different from the UK. What I did see though was a limo that had a man standing with a sign that said, 'Amelia's Friends!' So I just walked over to the man in complete and utter shock. "Are you Amelia Taylor's friends?" The man asked I just nodded. "I'm Edward, Amelia's driver." He walks over to the car door, presuming to open it, before Amelia came.

"Edward you know you don't have to open the doors. I don't like you doing that!" Amelia shouts from the entrance of the airport.

"It's part of my job Amelia." She just mumbled under her breath. She is walking pretty quickly. We get in the car and drive off. Amelia kept laughing at me. Only because I was daydreaming about the view of LA. We pull up at a freaking mansion. Seriously, how loaded is this family?

"Guys I'll show you around first but I want you to meet someone." I gazed at Jace and he was frozen but Amelia clearly saw. "Don't worry Jace it's only someone who works here but she is very nice." She emphasised the 'she'. I laugh. We walk in, I'm gobsmacked and so are the boys. We walk into what looks like a movie-room, but I guess it's the living-room. There is a boy sitting on one of the couches. Amelia walks over to him and says something to him and he goes into another room.

"Jace please stop worrying. It was only my brother." Amelia says, hoping to make Jace relax. "You'll meet him at lunch." We walk through another door. It looks like a laundry room with 2 machines that are probably the washer and dryer. There is a young lady doing the ironing. She has long dark hair and a small figure. She is probably in her mid-twenties.

"Oh hello. Sorry I was just ironing." She says. "I'm Charlie, if you have any dirty laundry put it in the basket that's in the bathroom or outside your room."

"Do you want me to show you to your rooms first?" We all shrug at Amelia. So she takes that as her cue to show us to our rooms. We walk up a flight of stairs. "So this is the hall of all the bedrooms apart from my parents' room. There is my brother's, sister's and half-sister's and then there is a bedroom, I don't know who's, then the guest rooms next to mine." She pointed at every door. We follow Amelia to all the guest rooms. I find a room that had a double bed with a single bed and decide that I would stay in this room. Jc will probably stay in here as well. I know Jace is going to share with Amelia. I walk out, after putting my luggage on the bed, to find Amelia's room. It wasn't that hard to find as it had Amelia's name on it. I knock to make sure I don't walk on anything I don't want to see and I'm stunned at how the room looks. Her tomboy side clearly shows.

Amelia's P.O.V

I saw Shakira's expression when she walked into my room. It was funny but I didn't laugh. "Yes Shakira?" I say still amused. Jace was messing around in my closet putting his clothes somewhere.

"Oh yeah. Do you know where Jace or Jc is?" I nod.

"Jace is in my closet and Jc is in one of the guest rooms, probably the one with the Xbox in." I walk over to the intercom. I press the guest room buttons. "Jc. Come to my room now." I say. I hear heavy footsteps come from down the hall. Jc then appears at my door but it's already open and he was about to knock. His face softened when it landed on Shakira. You could tell they were in love with each other but they've been going out for 3 years and Jack and I have only been dating for a month. It's been the best month with him.

"Your girlfriend was looking for you J." I use the nickname me and Shakira called him. "Jojo?" Another nickname I call him.

"Yes Lilo." Okay we have a lot of nicknames for each other. What can you say we have been best friends for eight years you come up with a lot?

"Can I speak with you? Alone." He nods and Shakira leaves. "Jace! Can you leave for ten minutes and then you can finish unpacking!" I call. He comes out with rosy cheeks telling me he was looking at my clothes instead. Cheeky bastard. He walks out the door as fast as he could. "Jojo I know I've been through a lot and placed it all on you and I'm really sorry for that. I'm always the one telling you my problems but I never let you tell me yours. So if you want to tell me anything you know where I am or a phone call away."

"I know Lilo but don't worry how much you place on me. I'm your boy best friend aren't I?" I nod. "A sexy one with a gorgeous best friend and girlfriend and a best friend that is head over heels for you." I smile and laugh. "You've been through so much crap in high school and you still manage to smile when you see us. I see the way you look at Jace and the way he looks at you, it's the same way I look at Shakira."

"You love her don't you?" My voice cracks.

"Yeah I love her with everything I have." He says truthfully. You can tell by the way his eyes sparkle every time he thinks of Shakira. "Please don't cry." He envelopes me in a hug and kisses my forehead, in a big brother manner.

"I love you Jojo." I look up at him.

"I love you too Lilo." I hug him tighter.