Chapter 1
“Sapphire Mae Lovejoy. You better get your ass down here and eat breakfast before I rip your head off! This is the last time I’m calling before I chuck the whole thing in the bin!” My eldest sister Paola yells up the stairs and I let my feet drag me down them. I count every patter my feet make on the carpet, before I land with a big thud on the floor at the bottom of the stairs. I manage to make it into the kitchen, squeezing in somewhere on the island bench crowded by my five sisters and somehow get to my now soggy cornflakes.
“I bet Sapphire makes no friends!” my little sister Ivy points out before shoveling another spoonful of cereal into her mouth.
“No need to state the obvious Ivy,” my twin sister Harmony retorts back. Always remember you have your family to rely on. Ha.
“Girls stop being so rude to your sister. Just because she doesn’t fit in as well as the five of you do, there’s no need to make Sapphire feel worse. Now go get ready!” I give my mum a thankful look and she smiles at me. Every since my dad passed away I’ve slowly become closer to mum. My dad was the only one who understood me, ad I was the only one that understood him more than my mum. Once someone that close and special to you, like he was to me, goes away so quickly, you do have trust issues. Trust issues that my sisters wouldn’t understand because they never knew what it was like to be so close to my dad.
I place my empty bowl in the sink and fix up my pajama pants, which seem to be falling down. I trudge my way back up the stairs and decide on my outfit. Oh well, I’m a little shy around new people but I’m going to change that this year. I am determined to get friends and to be out going.
I decide on an outfit which consists of a white v-neck t-shirt, a high wasted red, white, and yellow floral skirt, a yellow cardigan, and my red low top converse. Once everything is in the right position, I dig around in my dresser until I find a pair of perfectly clean white socks.
I walk into my bathroom and pull out my curling iron. I curl my bright red hair into perfect ringlets, takes about thirty minutes in total. I bobby pin a dark blue beanie onto my head and start my makeup. I line my eyes in a thin layer of black and wing out the top to make perfect cat eyes. I try really hard to look as good as I can, I would really like to make a good first impression at this school.
“Time to leave girls!” my mother calls up the stairs, and I quickly grab my book filled bag and hurl it onto my back before running down the stairs, my curls bouncing along as I do so.
I open up the doors of our minivan and get to my usual seat up the back right corner.
When we pull up I start to panic. "Don’t worry everything is going to go just fine. Just open up and be yourself." Harmony says as I get out of the car. I help out my 8 year old sister and Harmony helps the 10 year old. We all walk into the main office together and I wave my mum off.
Mum drives away quickly as she has to get to her new office. She’s the whole reason we moved to England, because our dad’s design company has become more popular, expanding out into Europe.
I walk in alongside my identical sister. We are very alike, besides the fact that her hair is brown and mine’s red. We both have the same sparkling green eyes though; they're some of the brightest eyes I’ve ever seen. Harmony’s always been able to make friends and fit in better, a lot better, than I have, and it’s something I despise her for.
"Hello we're the Lovejoys. We just moved from America. This is our first day." I tell the lady at the counter.
"Oh okay what are your first names? And I’ll get you your schedules."
Harmony speaks up this time. "I'm Harmony, that's Ivy, this one is Anna, and that one is Sapphire." she gestures towards us and we get our schedules and a map.
When we're done I notice we have no classes together so I head off to my first hour and they all head to theirs. When I enter everyone turns to look at me because I’m 15 minutes late. The teacher looks up from her papers when everyone fell silent. I walk over to her and hand the necessary papers.
"Hello..."
"Sapphire" I answer when she pauses.
"Class this is Sapphire she's from America... Louis come up here please." an attractive boy walks up and smiles nervously at the teacher.
"Did I do something wrong again?" he asks and the teacher laughs. "No, sweetie, I need you to show Sapphire here around. Can you do that?" his smile grows and he nods. He grabs my hand and pulls me out of the room without any other words.
"Hi, I’m Louis, I’m 15 and I love your hair." I blush and look down. Then remember that I’ve promised myself to be confident. "Hey, I’m Sapphire, I’m 14 and I love your accent." he smiles and laughs.
"Thanks, have you seen your locker yet?" I shake my head and he grabs my hand pulling me to it. He really is a hand holder.
"What’s your combination?" he asks grabbing the dial.
"Um... aren’t you like not supposed to tell?" I ask scrunching my eyebrows at him.
He shrugs "So want to know mine? Locker 232 and the combination is 25-7-10. Now will you tell me yours?" I laugh.
"Locker 131 combination is 10-27-13" he rolls the dial around and mumbles the numbers. Eventually he pulls it open.
"Needs decoration! You need pictures with friends!"
I look down; "I don't have any...." he looks at me with a questioning expression.
“No pictures?"
I shake my head "No friends."
He hushes me "well now you have me so... picture time!" man this kid is random and really open. I’m glad he’s like this, because it’s just like me and I can relate to him. He pulls out his phone and we take a few random pictures together. "Can I see your schedule?" I nod and hand him the paper.
"Obviously we have English together, oh and next hour, music. Then photography." his eyes scroll the page and he look at me. "We have all the same classes! Its fate!" we giggle and walk back to our class.
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Hi Guys
I am really excited to take on this book and write the lives of Sapphire and Louis. I will be posting all the previous chapters up here and eventually be writing on from were Rosie dropped off . I really want to get your opinions on my writing and the storyline so comment and reply as much as you can.
