Ch.1.

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"I want these walls to be painted" - My mother said to my father pointing towards the dirty walls of our new house as we all sit down around the breakfast table. " Okay!" - My dad replied casually not paying any attention towards the cribbing behaviour of my mother.
"Mother, we'll get it done. We've just shifted it will take time to adjust everything. Don't complain!"- My intelligent brother decides to speak as he feels the tension increasing.
"I am not complaining! I am telling your father that things need to be done. It wasn't me who decided to move and now I don't get any stand to even talk about what needs to be done?"- My mother burst out at all of us.
Great! Well this isn't new to us so we all chose to ignore it. This happens everyday, every morning, everytime!
My mother loses her temper because dad don't pay enough attention, my brother always speaking in between them leading my mother to burst out in anger on everyone. And I just sit there thinking what possibly wrong could have I done to even be here.

Anyways, I am Elizabeth Grace. I am a junior in high school. We've just moved to Washington from Manhattan because my dad started a business in here. My brother, Justin, is in college and will be leaving in a week, so it will be just me, my dad and my mother. Not that my presence will affect them much, but I just wish if I too could live in hostel and someplace far from my parents. Because I can't stand them fighting over everything. My brother was the one who always saved me from them but now with him gone I have no clue what I am supposed to do.

"ELIZABETH!" - My mother calls me from the room upstairs. I groan as I get up from the chair and climb up the stairs hastily.
"Yes mother?"- I say as I see her standing in a room. I enter the dirty room, on the left is a large painting and beside it is a wardrobe. I walk towards my mother. I noticed she was standing on an old carpet which looked more dirty as the sunlight fell on it.
"This is going to be your room Elizabeth!"- She tells me in a high pitched voice that made me almost bite down on my tongue. I know why she is doing this. This probably be the most smallest room in the house and she is making me take it so that she could tell her friends how she made her stepdaughter live in a servants chamber. But I am not gonna let her to that.
Oh, If I have not mentioned, yes my mother, Felicia Grace, is my step mother. And that's why we call her "Mother" because she thinks its disrespectful to call her "Mom" or "Felicia". Anyways, like we were gonna call her "Mom". She hates me and my brother and we know it. She is with my dad just for his money, we know that too but my dad is too much in love to see it. My biological mother died when I was 4. So I don't remember her much but my brother do. He had told me stories about her so I can make it out that she must have been pretty. 
Atleast prettier than this Felicia.
"You heard me?" - Felicia says snapping me out of my thoughts.
"Yes, and I am not going to take this room!"- I confront her.
"I am not asking you, I am telling you!"- She says raising her eyebrows.
"And my answer is still no!"- I say to her maintaining our eye contact. I don't want to look weak infront of her.
"Then sleep in the hall, because you aren't getting any other room!" - She says as she she walks past me brushing our shoulders and out the door.
I let out a breath I didn't even know I was holding.
I pick my only bag of clothes from the floor and get out of the room to go on a hunt for another room. I walk past the lobby of master bedroom. This house is pretty big, it have around 5-6 rooms. I skip the master bedroom because I am not a big room person and of course, master bedroom should only belong to dad. I look for the second largest room in the house and I find it next to stairs I open the door and enter the room. It is less dirty than the previous one and ofcourse bigger. I settle my only bag on the counter and go to the blinds to let the light and fresh air come in.
"You want to take this room?"- I hear my dad from behind.
"Yes dad, I do!" - I say as I look at him and behind him I see Felicia. That bitch bought my father.
"Okay honey!"- He smiles as he pulls me into a hug and places a kiss on my forehead.
"Felicia, If she wants to take this room then let her." - He tells her and walk out my room.
I give a smile to my mother as she follows my dad out.

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"When will your school start?"- Justin asks me as I lay on my bed staring at the ceiling of my new room.
"I dunno, I won't be going anyways!"- I reply.
"Hey, El! Its a new town, I know it will take time to adjust without me. But don't give mother a reason to do what she wants to do. Do you understand?"- Justin says.
"Yeah"- I sigh at his words. I know he is right. He is going away for college and after him Felicia will want me to go away too. And we can't leave dad to her.
"So, you're going school tomorrow?"- He says.
"Okay."- I don't have any other option other than to agree to Justin.
"Okay, now sleep!"- He says turning the lights off before leaving my room.

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Hey guys,
Okay so, This is the first chapter! Comment what do you think of it and vote for it too please!!! I am working on this super hard and hope that you'll like this. I know I haven't introduced Harry until now but chill, he's gonna be here super soon!

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